Show HARTON BARTON OBSERVES by am M A barton i occasionally I 1 see seme people who luss and fume and fret and worry i I 1 themselves into an extreme intoner in toler ance because of the oher fellow s irreligious 1 religious convictions his conception concepti cn of god his belief in the past present 1 and future together with his participation in certain rivals riu als when 1 I feel it my duty to express my religious views to someone and that someone is not of my iny faith but is willing to listen we may for the moment find ourselves co engaged but if latter he be allows my I 1 I 1 theological concepts to irk him into a heat beat of intolerance he doing me injury but is placing i hini himself self in line for a psychopath clog ical oper operation tion religiously speaking what comfort and consolation I 1 can conic come to the person in this day I 1 and time who unwittingly is perpetuating I 1 the religious intolerance into lerace ce of the century of the same kind and quality which impelled that hand band of people whorl we call the pilgrims ito to seek a haven of resi a new land where they could worship gos according to the dictates of their own conscience the very moment religious I 1 intal lerance comes into ants soul whether exhibited or not he symptoms I 1 of ansine insincere ercito ity soon become no without technical scrutiny 1 we could eliminate a whole lot of mental indigestion and our social contact would be more wholesome if we never worry about the other fellow not believing religiously as we do when I 1 in inquire ir int into the other fellows religion I 1 do so with a spirit I 1 0 of f investigation ion and not argumentation argument puts boti sides on 1 the defensive and both become blind I 1 with intolerance if we want vant toi to prove all things and hold fast tol 0 o that which i is s good we do so I 1 with pure investigative calmness without derision malice or ri it atred any other course places our would be Chris Christa tanily under the shade of suspicion I 1 A lady front from moab was telling me not long ago of her deep concern about her boy the most natural paren ena al attitude altitude of any mother this boy had bad always been in the hait of going to church with his mother as well as to other functions where it was permissible for both to attend finally one time she elie nol rl iced a decided shyness on trie sons part as they walked up the street on their way to chur church cli it was th the n i that lie aie boy confided that sonic some of the other boys beys of the town han haa been I 1 calling hini him a sissy because of this accustomed practice it is not astounding toun ding A 0 find some conle boys who g get et to 0 feeling that they are lie he masses of masculine accumulation independent separate anti and apart from the woman I 1 who placed herself upon the alter of sacrifice 0 o give them birth they feel humiliated by offers of parental protection they are blinded to the tinie time when hey would give the whole world if their in mothers others silenced voice could answer when they called it doesn doean matter whether r it is iri moab monticello new york or ir any other largo large city the boy who is is g ashamed to walk lip p the street wit with mother go to church with hgr bet love love 1 her ber and wai i on oil her is is ech exhibiting a desecration a although perhaps unintentionally ally aly of the most precious gift god ever gave him I 1 lie le is he one I 1 who is being shorn of his fictions self defined heman beman he be man independence to the contrary the boy who attends his mother with proper respect ct no matter who calls him sissy is the boy who is developing that cultured henian heman he nian man so much admired by every mother and which god is pleased sed to have him possess I 1 ba have ve four ecung pe peach mch trees I 1 one of which has borne the choicest fruit for the past two beart last year when I 1 wen to pick the peaches pe athes I 1 found someone else had been keeping track of the time of mellow ripening with a more coveted eye than I 1 had bad and the fru t disappeared during the night before and a short time ago one nigh 1 sor someone neone failed to gather gathe all their cows bows off the streets the next morning just as it was getting light enough to see I 1 noticed a 9 ga c smashed open and then I 1 bearda heard ra brunts arants standing in the hei middle of that young tree with he limbs mashed almost to the around I 1 was a hornless brindle caw she had just nipped off the next to he last peach flipping flip pine the stones of her newly found from the earners 0 of was streaming amine cl 10 puddles from aroln bac eacle he be calell aled intake wha lt milk one rf cf her four of an over extended udder so this year tlc alc only consolation I 1 could geto get out ut of ray iny peach crop was the humorous U 5 thought that soi e ceone one would have peaches and cream for supper that night if they ever milked that cow 1 any man who will look into his heart and hancs aly write bilat he sees there will find plenty of readers ed howe |