Show IF y about howe howe russia begging big business men dell bell syndicate M vlee fe BB by ED HOWE feltl are actually a good many Tsen sensible sible features in the alio present soviet go eminent in russia the idea that no public official should receive more than 1 0 a month Is sound so is the habit of promptly punishing officials when they are dishonest or ne negligent but the determination at on to live by communist principles will wreck communism is so palpably weak in so many respects it cannot succeed the objection to the teaching of karl marx Is it will not fit human needs the poor man is entitled to justice but so is tile the man who refuses to remain poor and in the human bunian experiment there has never been found a tribe of men wherein the majority were willing to remain in perpetual poverty nature provided means for all to become well todo to do and the better specimens of men will iu not consent to forever reina remaining inin uncomfortable when comfort abounds and way may be easily attained by not unreasonable effort I 1 may not be here to see the end of the russian experiment but let younger men remember the prediction that communism must be given up there like whisky it is a fool it will not stand practical trial negroes are very disagreeable in bothering whites for gifts I 1 have spent the present winter in an apartment house in miami fla and have found everything satisfactory except my failure to satisfy the negro servants an old fellow elivd living nearby is so much annoyed that lie he will not let a negro maid come in lie he does his own cleaning up and I 1 often go over to enjoy his indignation I 1 have been whipped into submission but admire a man brave elou enough ii to rebel in a good cause the poor whites are as bad as the negroes in begging about t the only real vigor shown in the unit k ed states during the past winter has Q been displayed in beg begging aging campaigns everyone is apt to be a little prejudiced when discussing his own ease case and it really seems to me I 1 do my share in proper giving but the american system of begging seems to me disgraceful much of it is racketeering the selfish business of boss beggars who hide behind the scenes and browbeat timid citi citizens ens into engaging in charity campaigns they do not themselves believe in ask any amerlean american what he Is most disgusted with and he will probably tell i ou it is committee begging the smart french do none of it the germans and english very little it is an american weakness one of many we all disapprove of but do not quit instead of quitting tin the nuisance is becoming worse every lay day leaders in it are trained as others are trained to become stenographers doctors lawyers machinists i to pull teeth and receive raceine large in comes from the dishonest business q there is more than the usual com plaint lately about big business men A new charge is they do not manage their wives and children with reason able effi efficiency clency no american yi does specially foolish women and chil yel oren dren are as common among g the poor 00 as among the well to do the manner tin in which american women muss up I 1 their mn men has been the wonder of tory fory tori fori 1 I 1 signers eigners 1 since the foundation of the re public americans no more assert themselves in their homes than they do to n politics and look at what the politicians itic ians have done to them americans need a lot of reform in a lot of ways i 1 I find I 1 cant stand good times my greatest mistakes have been made during 1129 good times and I 1 cannot f appreciate now that times were very jerod good when we agree they were at their best times are always hard we 0 must constantly save and be careful I 1 0 0 i lai i A traveler says that N when lien an amer 1 ni lean picture play is presented in ger ta c joany any the lingering kisses the bravi s ery ry of tile western heroes tile noble aless of the heroines attract whistling irom froin those in the audience the germans are making fun of us n have we not readied reached an a age ae e when we ave jel iv should recover from some of of the con I 1 G follies which attract con ja it ern criticisms in older countries S ithe the great goethe had 14 great worries borries Vor ries in his life and was often in complete despair but at last left much 0 his credit all the great have sta stag ered along in the same way so worried by women they had little limit wt ft tor for anything else As it is always I 1 has been and always ays will be there have been some ite remarkable men perhaps it la Is I 1 lule dle to speculate upon what greater esix ing s they y might accomplish if less amperes with love |