Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1916 — MISSOURI MOTTO WORLDWIDE [ARTICLE]

MISSOURI MOTTO WORLDWIDE

All Persons Want to Be Bhown, Thus Proving Themselves Human Beings.

The Connecticut youth who bit into* a golf ball displayed a thoroughly human curiosity. He wished to prove fop himself whether what he had heard about the deadliness of the core wa» true. From the time manufacturers* began making the present style of ball they have warned people against it* danger. A boy begins his experiments when against the admonitions of his parent* he burns his fingers on a hot plate; He continues them when he takes hi* first watch to pieces to see how the wheels go round. A Californian, who declared that snake venom could nob possibly be fatal to a man, recently! permitted himself to be bitten by & newly discovered serpent scientists declared was deadly. He succeeded in proving that the snake expert was right. Many folks have always mistrusted sea stories about the man-eat-ing proclivities of the shark. Before another year has passed there will be< those who will insist on more proof than has just -been furnished on that Jersey coast. The motto of Missouri is the mottfli not of a state, but of humanity. All want to be shown. Men undertake adventures in political, social and business life, risk their lives in scientific! experiments in unknown, dangerous lands because they believe that they can succeed where others have failedIf they did otherwise they would not be human. —New York Sun.