e THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1946 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
Mea Culpa
BONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
If eating one’s own words could
make a person fat I would be,
without doubt, the "Mrs. Five-by-
ffive” in this county. If I have
judged a person to be less worthy
than he really is and am foolish
enough to say ao, I eat my words
with delight, requiring no. effort
to swallow them down with gusto,
but when I have praised some
one and find T have been mis
taken, then I have to be backed
into a comer, my mouth pried
open with a stout thumb under
my jaw and the words I have
broadcasted must be forced down
my throat, just as one sometimes
has to do with a dog who refuses
to take his pills like a nice little
man. Now, since I really “blew
my top” in last week’s article
concerning a woman and a little
black dog, only to find that she
was not nearly so dreadful as I
had been led to believe, I hasten
to swallow at least some portion ’
of my own words.
Yes, I did drive down to her
place with rage in my heart and
a whip-lash sting all ready on
my tongue, but, fortunately, with
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sufficient self-control to resolve
to investigate for myself before
I made my final judgment, for I
have found that often things are
exaggerated. I am inclined to be
lieve that they had been so in this
case to a great extent, hence my
haste to apologize. I did not tell
her the things I had promised
myself to say, first, because I did
not feiel them to be entirely de
served, and second, because I
would have had to deliver my
oration at the top of my voice,
since the woman was quite deaf,
and I never let my mad loose at
the top of my voice, if you un
derstand what I mean. She doesn't
love dogs; she really doesn’t un
derstand nice little black dogs
that are hungry for affection, and
I think quite likely that she
treats it like an unwanted dog,
But I do not question if she is
really cruel to the affectionate
little thing. I base this assertion
on the fact that the dog didn’t
seem to fear her, and I know
cockers too well to believe that
one would be as friendly with a
person who had been really cruel.
However, I didn’t get the dog in
spite of her eagerness to get rid
of it, for she was expecting a
man the next day who had said
he wanted to have it—if it suited
Kim.
So I merely sat on my heels,
petted the eager love-hungry little
black lady and talked for awhile
with her mistress, probing with
all the tact and ability I possess
to discover the true state of af-
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fairs, and finally left her with
the belief that, while the woman
was not a person who should have
the privilege of owning a dog, my
mind could be more at ease. Yes
terday I had a phone call from a
man whom I am very sure I
would' trust with a dog. Perhaps
he will become the owner of the
little black girl if she has not al-
ready been taken. I hope the
other person, unknown to me, de-
cided not to have her, for if I
cannot have her myself, I want
to feel sure that she is with
someone who will give her the af
fection her eager longing needs.
Dogs must be loved; they are
like folks in that, as in many
ways. If they do not have love,
their life is devoid of so much
that the full fineness of their na
tures never has a chance to de
velop, and I truly believe that we,
the human race, are responsible
for their training, for on the long
path of evolution we are their
“elder brothers.”
I thought, as I drove away
from seeing the little dog, how
we, too often, judge people by
what we hear. I had been sure
that woman was bad, or at least,
thoughtless bad, and had been
filled with anger toward her, an
ger based solely on what I had
heard, not what I knew. I judged
her without knowing. I wonder
how often we do that, and never
have the desire nor the tolerance
to investigate for ourselves before
we speak hot words of condemna
tion. We can always condemn the
sin, but we should not call a man
a sinner unless we are very sure
of our facts—and maybe not even
then for how can we be absolute
ly sure of even our own observa
tions? •
We judge everything, naturally,
from our own viewpoint. I am a
screaming fanatic about cruelty
toward animals and other help
less things, and I am liable to
judge human beings along that
line, regarding the other so-
called “sins” as relatively un
important. So I am quite willing
to concede that other folks with
their own particular viewpoint of
judgment may deem me a sinner
of deep-purple blackness — and
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they are probably entirely cor
rect in their assumptions.
We all learn something from
every experience, or we should,
and perhaps when I am a hundred
and ten, or thereabouts, I may
learn to withhold my judgment
and words. (But I still hope that
little black dog will find a place
where she is loved, either with me
or with another person whom I
can trust. I keep feeling her
eager head against my knee and
the touch of her warm little
tongue on my cares Jng hand.)
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