DECEMBER 1925
Page Nineteen
THE UNITED AMERICAN
under bond they are to be set free and enjoy all the rights
and privileges of free men, but each slave is to work out the
purchase of his freedom by making easy monthly and yearly
payments. Just what is going to happen if a fellow fails to
meet the instalment, for any reason, is probably something
yet to be worked out. As the instalment plan probably is
new in Haukawng, they might hire a clever American instal­
ment-house manager to boss the liberty redemption plan, in
order to keep the poor Indians free.
tioned him that a repetition of the offense would place him in
contempt of court. The repetition occured soon afterward,
and the judge immediately fined the lawyer $20. Before pro­
ceeding with the case the lawyer approached the judge and
whispered earnestly to him for several minutes. The court
made no answer, but, turning to the clerk said:
“Mr. Clerk, you will please remit that fine against counsel;
he is up here trying to borrow the money from me, and I
guess the government can better afford to lose twenty than
I can.”
The Synonym for a Nordic Man, as presented
in a comic section of a national monthly, is “Simplicissimus.”
There was a time when a Nordic man was given a far higher
rating, but that was before he became so hoity-toity that
he felt called upon to advertise himself as the most supreme
racial article in the world of human beings. If he actually
looks to all others as the cartoonist has sketched him, he cuts
a sorry figure in the hall of human measurements. There
may not be anything wrong with the blood that flows in
their veins, but judging by their conduct there are a number
of Nordic descendants who are suffering from softening of
the brain.
Strange that we still have people who think that
an ignorant citizen is better than an intelligent one, people who
believe somewhat in schools for children, but are utterly
opposed to one single dollar being spent for adult education,
even though it be limited to the most elementary principles
of citizenship. Such people are always in favor of naturalizing
the aliens but they turn a deaf ear to the plea that the alien’s
education in the principles of citizenship should always precede
his naturalization. They don’t seem to realize that his naturali­
zation will otherwise constitute the weapon by which America
might go to her doom.
Maybe we are mistaken about it, but the Amer­
ican school-books convey the impression that this country was
settled by Pilgrims who were chased out of England by a crowd
of religious zealots of the old order, the Fundamentalists of
that day and age. Somehow we don’t like the way our English
counsins are laughing at America for the way Fundamentalists
are stirring up things over here. Though it isn’t the same kind
of Fundamentalism, some of our fundamentalists have too
much in common with the tribe that chased the Pilgrims to
make us relish the exuberancy of the mirth they have over
there at our expense.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
By Thomas Dreier
HE SECRET of success is not a secret. Nor is it some­
thing hard to secure.
To become more successful, become more efficient. Do
the little things better. So work that you will require less
supervision. The least supervision is needed by the person
who makes the fewest mistakes.
Do what you can do and what you should do for the insti­
tution for which you are working, and do it in the right way,
and the size of your income will take care of itself.
Let your aim ever be to better the work you are doing
without bettering yourself.
The thoughts that you think, the words that you speak,
and the deeds you perform are making you either better or
worse. Realize with Henley that you are the master of your
fate and the captain of your soul. You can be what you will be.
Forget yourself in rendering service to others. If an
employee, strive to make yourself of greater value to your
employer. Look upon yourself as being in business for your­
self. Regard yourself as a maker and seller of service, and
ever bend your thought and your energies toward the improve­
ment of your product.
The wise manufacturer never injures his machinery wil­
fully. Your body, your mind, your soul serve as your plant.
Eat and drink only that which will nourish your body, enter­
tain only those thoughts that will enrich your mind, and if
you feed your body with the physical food and your mind
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Liberty
STAGE STRUCK
Gloria Swanson
The Chinese may have some queer customs but
the one that decrees that only the old women and not the
young shall receive homage and adulation is one that might
be an asset to occidental people if they emulated this splendid
Chinese custom.
Detroit has ruled that women have the right to
smoke in street cars. Well, wherever a man has a right to
smoke a woman is entitled to as much consideration. Whether
or not to smoke and where to smoke might better be left to
the women themselves to decide.
ALMOST FINED HIMSELF
SOUTHERN lawyer says that in the old days in that part
of the country the presiding judge of the United States
district court and the lawyers interested in the litigation
traveled the circuit together and of course in the years of such
association became somewhat informal with one another. One
particular judge, though he took his share of the badinage
when off duty, stood for no omission of the proper respect due
his office when court was in session.
At one session of the court a lawyer with whom the. judge
had slept the previous night in the crowded local hotel, became
rather reckless in his conduct of the case, and the judge cau­
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IRISH LUCK
Thomas Meighan
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OLD CLOTHES
Jackie Coogan
Majestic
CHARLES CHAPLIN’S
A Woman of Paris
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN in
A DOG’S LIFE
LIBERTY THEATRE—ASTORIA
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