Show I I 1 WATTERSON'S WA WARNING NING I HY solemn warning warn Il E 11 ing to tu his uk fellow-citizens fellow w cannot be dismissed 1 in whom of aged man in r as ns maundering nu an J approaching senility has uc l querulous querulous- I ness Although h past the allotted three score years cHrs Ii mid nd ten hi his bruin brain is as ns active c and keen as RS in in the hey hey- manhood His criticism day Clay of hi Ith vigorous and useful cism i m of th the prevailing ailing cry of the tho ago ngo for law tow and I tilt till moro more law coupled couple with his admonition that there must be he reform emanates from a ripe e peri- peri I vision of th the tent tenI ten- ten 4 I i ence in public a affairs fl rs and a clear dear t I deney of the times the remaining re re- ra- ra I I I This greatest editor of his generation SUl survivor Or of the tho breed of forceful Journalistic journalistic journal journal- thinkers that were long the tho mainstay of tho the thet t J republic has drunk deeply of tho the spring heI he I combines rare wisdom and md knowledge e with a gift of convincing cou picturesque expression that enchants and ond entertains cs os well as instructs His Bis last hist public adI address ad- ad I dress s. s delivered at nt the opening of the celebration of I the Perry centennial is most niost happily an outpouring I of tho the J lessons k ho lie deduces from the march of public of the tho rocks and shoals that f events c and a n charting charting- I menace th the ship of state Fortunate may maj this great I. I count itself if it avoid them I n. n of tho immortal Mon Mon- r F Following F the observation 1 Colonel devotes himself to RI aI ft R increasing ever multiplicity t of I I philippic against tho the statutes that thac breeds contempt for all nIl law aw through an ant anI t I inordinate familiarity with it I am further of opinion I t. t ion that it would be better for us to have hao no laws at atAll atI J I All iii than to have lUl them in so 30 prodigious ious numbers as we have wrote the brilliant French essayist and coun- coun I It s who recognized over ver three hundred years ago t I that an f excess of laws hinders binders tho the enforcement of nn an v 1 Kentucky's s 's great editor about this central thought 0 I hRs an on inspiring last address to tho the people he het them test carcI carefully carefully care care- t has loved Jo and served counselling to fully fuRy each advancing st step p along tho the road ere cro it is I taken His Bis counsel should fall with an added force I upon the perceptions Q f this generation because it cp epitomizes the convictions of Mr fr Watterson's conI contemporaries con con- I temporaries who ho havo bavo ob observed er cd with him the growth i and md development dc of American government go I Mr Watterson's 1 r. r announcement that this was as his f last public address s falls pathetically upon unwilling I II cars albeit smilingly delivered deli It presages the nearing nearing near near- I ing n departure of this towering figure figuro from the unI unofficial unofficial un un- un- un I. I I official counsels of the American people If Tf his I voice can can be spared if there are other tongues as silver and other wisdom as golden it is at least certain tain thin that his virile charming pen cannot fall faU from I his nerveless ner hand without a n pang in the hearts of I his There Then are perhaps many who can enn canI canby I If I f b by their contributions of spoken wit and wisdom I I soften the blow of his absence from lecture platform I from convention rostrum from the list of after dinI dinner din din- I I 1 ner toasts but a survey sur of the field of contemporary f jo journalism discerns none who can take his place as I editor f I In Mr Watterson's da days 5 of summer the editors I of the nation were strong men who led lcd its thought l and public opinion now that his winter vinter is upon upon him it is mayhap as well that the men men of his hisS J er craft ft have become followers of public sentiment and I S r that they so often follow the trail of thought broken to their footsteps by the people as they march beI be be- I t lore fore |