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 B. R. Stanfill Plastering & Stucco Contractor GUARANTEED Buxton, Oregon ALL WORK Star Route 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- NEW HERE’S THE MORE GOLDEN SHELL POWERFUL MOTOR OIL . . . to go with today’s more powerful gasoline. It makes good sense to pro­ tect your engine with this improved oil. Geo. Johnson Vernonia Serv. 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Y. 17, N Y. 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 Parents Told of GI's Travels Pfc. Harold Fowler writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Fowler, that he has been on the move for the past month and that he is now stationed at Erding, Germany, waiting for his mail to catch up with him. Harold is in good health and enjoying his trav­ els. Thomas Ernest, an ex-seabee who was stationed on Guam for many months, was discharged at Bremerton last week and is now with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ernest here. He plans to take advantage of the U.S. bill of rights educational ruling, during the coming months. 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