Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — The Middle Course. [ARTICLE]

The Middle Course.

Senator Root at a reception was discussing the Mexican situation. “Steer a middle course,” he said to an extremist "These extreme ideas are always wrong. * “Thus at tea, one young girl asked another: " ‘And where are you going this summer, dear?* “‘From the way mother talks,' tfas the reply, ‘you’d think we were going to Newport From the way father talks you’d think we were going to starve. But I suppose we’ll steer a middle course, as usual, and put in a fortnight at a sl2 Atlantic City boarding house.' ”