Show howe about loafers reign of terror owning your home 0 boll bell by ED HOWE ebors pue UR loafer who looks to his neigh bora for more help than he is entitled to has been troublesome throughout the long history of the human buman race the social plan of the earliest family groups and tribes was communism but certain ones were idle and troublesome and refused to do their share so the plan pim after many trials was in every case given up from that day to this loafers have demonstrated that communism will not do communists themselves are to lame blame for the long rejection of their plan in olden days the history books say all knew they must care for themselves so the idle were not very numerous and the indus industrious arious and worthy were able to regulate them if a man was especially annoying it was permissible tor for anyone to kill him with consent of the elders A troublesome woman was whipped by other women As late as the fine civilization in athens a man who would not earn his own way was placed in charge of a more efficient and worthy citizen and taught better manners loafers were looked down upon and not allowed to vote the more persistent were made slaves and forced to at least earn their own keep on public farms there has been a great change in modern times the idle have become so numerous and powerful that a part of every penny the industrious earn goes to the support of the shiftless when one looks over old history life seems a continuing reign of terror of nearly all the famous ancient cities it Is 13 said they were destroyed many times the story runs something like this in a tar far distant time men discovered say on the river nile a favorable site tor for a town and made it into it a prosperous city this prosperity attracted the envy of rival tribes and the city was utterly destroyed st in connection with much butchery A long time after another city was built on the favorable site and destroyed this process of destruction st kept up until the present ruins represent the ninth such catas batas the same story comes from the euphrates the tiber the aaglan islands and wherever men have been most active but tor for this love of 0 destruction st we of 0 today would be much more comfortable and advanced than we are one reign of terror plunged the world into darkness for centuries and men learned nothing new of value to pass on to their successors I 1 recall a time when every man had an ambition to own his home in these strange days men are letting their homes go on the mortgage or paying rent or demanding that the landlord give them more time 1 I read of one landlord who succeeded in putting a tenant out after the renter had paid nothing in twelve months and this cruelty made the neighbors so go mad they burned the house men will again have an ambition to own their homes fix them up and care tor for them men who cant rent houses somehow get rid of them or the houses will fall down and no new ones will be built there Is always finally an end to the fiercest battle the drunkard sobers up to meet the realities of life again men are noisily tattling rattling around now and refusing to pay their debts as they expect a change which will render it unnecessary but there will be no change in the old fundamentals men must have a root roof over their beads pay their debts make a living and these things are easiest accomplished by sober steady men I 1 have long been very proud of a common plug of a fellow named walter williams lie he was a reasonably good boy around home and sent to school for a while but never got his lessons very well he have much school education when he graduated from the grades into the world of work lie he became a good workman and was promoted to foreman in due course the neighbors liked him every year a little better and in time people in neighboring counties heard nice things about him he never went to college or high school but took considerable advantage of the education offered in the school of experience the last 1 I heard of him be was addressing an enormous audience of celebrities in berlin lie ile never went to a university but Is now president of the state university of missouri im glad that an ordinary plug of a fellow Is able to do that well in my country it if he be will half try 0 0 0 they tell of an old man who when reading looked so uncomfortable and dissatisfied that some one finally asked him it if lie he were ill no he be replied but I 1 am so tired of literature a 0 0 what do I 1 call truth what I 1 have found true all my life what I 1 have fully tested tes tedi experienced I 1 have traveled many roads and always found some kindly disposed person ahead of roe me has left a sign clearly andl indicating eating the shortest and easiest way such information has never failed we me and I 1 call it truth |