Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — LOOEY IS SO EASILY PEEVED [ARTICLE]

LOOEY IS SO EASILY PEEVED

Boils Over With Wrath on the Slightest Provocation. Out heavy editorial friend Looey of the Republican gets peeved so easily that it is really amusing. Our jocular reference in Saturday’s Democrat to the well known policy of the various editors of that sheet of side-stepping or “passing the buck,” brought forth a real angry reply, one which Looey knows to be absolutely false and which he would not have made, no doubt, had he stopped to count hwhile. But Looey is naturally vindictive and'his temper often gets the better of his judgment —what little he has —and we recall one time at a session of the County Council of Defense, during the late unpleasantness with Germany, when he boiled over with wrath and made a public spectacle of this trait that was pathetic. That a great man —in his own estimation —like Looey should so often let his temper get away with him is perhaps surprising to those who do not know him intimately. The Democrat commends to him the words of wisdom of that old philosopher who said: “When angry count ten; if very angry count one hundred.” We would suppllment this advice in Looey’s case and make it two hundred at least.