Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1910 — The Uplift Movement. [ARTICLE]

The Uplift Movement.

When he left the house Saturday morning Burton yanked at the door as if he would pull it off its hinges. When he couldn’t open It he started to grumble Until his wife came to his assistance. “What’n blueblazes is the matter with this door?” he grumbled, giving It another powerful yank without being able to open it. "The trouble with you, John dear,” the wife ventured, "Is that you are always down on, everything—down In the mouth, down on the world. Let me try it."* „ ’ With a ‘gentle tug upward on the knob she easily opened the door. John was about to sputter out a sar?astlc remark when the force of his wife’s logic sank in his thick skull. “I get it!" he exclaimed. “I get the lesson.” ■ . r That afternoon when his wife viaited his office she saw over his desk a little motto with the words, "M® so» the Uplift.’