Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE HOUR. [ARTICLE]

THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE HOUR.

Some people use their brains in getting ahead' in the world. Others merely use their mouths, and that is the reason death finds them still whittling chunks from the same old box. A few use their brains for the advancement of their own material interests and the elevation of their fellow men—and themselves. Many use them in an overpowering effort to strangle competition, to hog everything in si ? ht > t 0 make of the world a plaything for them and theirs. But if all brains and mouths coujd unite in an effort to safeguard honor, to protect virtue," and civilize our. vaunted civilization, what a world it would be! But.’tis only a dream—and dreams seldom come true.

There are but two places suitable for the man in this country who seeks to stir up racial strife over the European ' conflict. The one is hell—the other is the battle front.