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CHAIRMAN GREEN'S DEFECTION
Chairman Green of the House ways
and means committee h^s definitely com-
mitted himself against the surtax pro-
visions of the Mellon -bill. So in the
eyes of those who apply none but the
economic test to questions of taxation
this Republican must be afflicted with
either ignorance or fear. Possibly he
is suffering from both.
In his recent letter to Dr. S. Adams
professor of political economy at Tale
University Chairman Green made sev-
eral assertions indicative of both fear
and ignorance. Dr. Adams had said
according to Mr. Green that the extreme-
ly wealthy defy the government. In re-
ply. the Republican representative wrote:
"It is unnecessary to say that the
political party which proclaims such a
doctrine will seal its doom with the an-
nouncement.”
What doctrine? Simply the economic
fact that when the government imposes
such heavy taxes that investments in
taxable enterprises become unprofitable
the wealthy will put their money into
non-taxable enterprises.
; Mr. Green is afraid for the Republi-
can party to give recognition to that
fact; the people might think that the
Republican party was not only conniv-
ing at tax evasion on the part of the
extremely wealthy hut actually provid-
: ing a means for such evasion.
I As a matter of common sense as xvell
. as of economic principle. Secretary Mel-
• lon’s proposal to reduce the surtax rate
was designed to prevent evasion by giv-
ing the avealthy an incentive for divid-
ing their profits with the government
instead of seeking investments beneficial
to themselves alone. Or. irrespective of
Mr. Mellon’s design his plan would
dearly have that effect. But Mr. Green
seems to be more deeply concerned with
adverse political consequences to his
party than with the achievement of the
. double feat of liberating capital for in-
dustrial. commercial and other prosper-
ity-making pursuits and of gaining for
i the government revenue from sources
that are now closed to its collectors.
Mr. Green displays bis ignorance par-
ticularly in two statements. "I say”
he wrote “that the man with immense
wealth who will.evade taxes at 35 per
.cent will do so at 25 per cent. In
neither case has he any need for the
money which he keeps from the gov-
ernment.”
• He places an oblique construction
upon the word “evasion.” It is not
unlawful for anybody to choose the most
profitable legitimate investments. Peo-
ple who put their money into tax-exempt
securities out of consideration for their
own welfare are not beating the govern-
juent cut of anything to which it is
.entitled. The government beats itself
aout of revenue when it makes invest-
“jnents in taxable enterprises unprofitable
to the wealthy. The government has only
itself to blame if its tax rates are so
diigh as to discourage productive enter-
prise.
-I Then consider Mr. Green's reference
to taxes in England. There be says
the wealthy have to pay “a higher tax
.-than any which is now proposed by the
bill so far as I know.”
Yes—and behold England's industrial
plight: Two million men out of em-
ployment. Of. course high taxes do not
constitute the sole cause of conditions
in England; but they do constitute a
MONDAY.
American laws and consequently
American courts attach too much impor-
tance to the kind and nature of the wea-
pon alleged to have been used by a per-
son accused of murder. The term “dead-
ly weapon” appears many times in the
penal codes which govern the legal
process of protecting society against its
vicious members. Of course there is an
easy explanation; if not a warrant- in
reason for such meticulous legal dis-
tinctions. For much depends upon a
person's intent. And if it is shown that
he started out with a pistol his subse-
quent killing of somebody with that
weapon might the more logically be as-
cribed to deliberate intent or malice
aforethought than if he had started out
with say a hoe and ended up by using
it with no less deadly effect.
But oftentimes the ends of justice .are
defeated through the very medium cle-
vised for their more nearly certain at-
tainment. A court that reverses a ver-
dict of guilty in a murder case on the
ground of some technicality does not
necessarily display a disposition to trifle
with justice. But not infrequently the
effect is practically the same as though
that had been the court’s sole object.
It is by no means discreditable to the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that
this tribunal recently reversed a guiltv-
of-murder verdict on the ground that the
trial judge in giving his charge to the
jury had expounded “the taw” on the use
of “deadly weapons” alone whereas the
defendant was alleged to have killed a
man with his “bare hands” by choking.
Under the taw the appellate court simply
did its duty; that judgment would not
be disturbed even by the assumption that
murderous intent on the part of the de-
fendant had been clearly shown by the
evidence.
It was the taw rather than the appel-
late court that was at fault. The law
pins not only juries but judges as well
down to cut-and-dried formulae to me-
chanical rules that may easily estop them
from exercising for practical relevant
purposes whatever intelligence and
common sense they may have. Then if
a technical error is made in the pro-
cedure an unmistakably guilty person
an enemy of society may go free. Even
to reverse a conviction tends toward ul-
timate acquittal. There is no time so
favorable to justice as that during which
the vital tacts have a freshness which
inspires society’s guardians to do their
duty.
ADVERTISING THAT DOESN’T PAY
Of all forms of litigation breach-of-
promise suits in the narrow sense in
which the term is customarily used
“recommend themselves” least highly to
persons in whom modesty is a domi-
nant trait. A highly respected lawyer
once declared that he had an utter con-
tempt for anybody who would drag his
or her intimately personal affairs through
the courts in search of “heart balm.”
Perhaps there are circumstances in
which such a course would be the lesser
of two evils; but even on this score a
reservation of doubt is suggested by cer-
tain actual cases wherein the circum-
stances were such as to give considerable
plausibility to the plaintiffs’ avowed pri-
mary motive of self-defense as contra-
distingvished from pecuniary gain.
A case apparently in this category or
seemingly subject to such classification
was recently tried in Atlanta Ga. Of
course there were certain obvious and
indisputable circumstances to discount
the plaintiff’s declaration that her pri-
mary object was self-defense the pro-
tection of her good reputation; princi-
pal among them was that the man sued
was wealthy. Defendants in breach-of-
promise suits arc almost invariably
wealthy—and it is this circumstance that
places a heavy discount upon the plain-
tiff s avowal of a more worthy primary
motive than that of pecuniary gain.
However the Atlanta case was such
as to give to the plaintiff’s plea of self-
defense about as high a degree of plaus-
ibility as such a plea might have in
a breach-of-promise suit against a rich
man. The defendant had broken his
troth for an alleged cause. He made
no accusations on his own account. He
even said that he did not believe the
stories he had heard. His professed rea-
contributory factor in such conditions.
Moreover. England has no constitution
to prevent Parliament from doing what
it will in the matter of taxation.
Another “moreover” is that the United
States government would have no need
for all the revenue which could be raised
by mulcting the extremely wealthy as
England is doing if Congress had as
much power as that inherent in the
British Parliament.
The relevant difference between Par-
liament and Congress is that the former
can “make good” any tax rate it fancies
whereas the latter can enforce only such
rates as will allow the tax-payers to
make a profit for themselves while pay-
ing tribute to the government.
As a whole the proposition resolves
itself into the principle xvhich Grover
Cleveland so aptly enunciated: It is
a condition rather than a theory that
demands attention —and common-sense
action.
- OO
SELF-DEFEATING LAWS
” THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
son for breaking the engagement was
that such stories had impaired the wo-
man’s reputation.
So then her reputation was at stake
even independently of any notoriety that
litigation might impose upon her. There-
fore there was substance in fact for her
professed motive of self-defense in tak-
ing the matter into court; there was a
chance of repairing her already dam-
aged reputation.
The outcome —on the assumption that
her primary motive was a worthy one —
was ironical. That was not singular;
rather was it in keeping with the gen-
eral rule —and this in final analysis is
what casts the deepest shade of doubt
upon the possibility that there are some
circumstances in xvhich the wisest course
in honor is to sue for breach of promise.
Apparently the plantiff's character—-
character as distinguished from reputa-
tion —was not the issue upon which the
jury reached its verdict. More or less
technical but none the less vital legal
issues intervened. For example evi-
dence was presented by the defense to
show’ that the plaintiff was legally the
wife of another man at the time she
became engaged to the defendant: and
the legality of her subsequent divorce
from her husband was attacked.
Perhaps in the jury’s mind the plain-
tiff had been falsely accused by anony-
mous persons; and possibly in the same
judgment her reputation had been un-
justly damaged by the action of her
fiance in line with such accusations.
But there remained the more vital con-
tention legally that the engagement had
been a spurious one such as the taw
could rot recognize without contradict-
ing itself. In that light the defendant
even though his action may have un-
justly impaired the plaintiff’s reputa-
tion Lad abrogated no contract as no
contract had legally existed.
So the plaintiff's reputation instead
of being repaired by resort to litigation
was probably still further damaged in
the eyes of prejudiced and even of some
disinterested observers. If self-defense
was her primary object she did not
gain it. What she got out of the suit
was a larger measure of what she had
undertaken to destroy. That is what
the plaintiff in any breach-of-promise
suit almost invariably gets. And does
a pecuinary gain however great ever
fully compensate for . its cost in notor-
iety?
TO TIMBUCTU
When a railroad runs to Timbuctu
one of the last outposts of mystery and
danger will be dragged within the pale.
Then the tribe of tourists may visit that
almost fabled city in the far reaches of
the Sahara and traverse the vast sand
wastes over which only the most in-
trepid travelers have dared to go before.
The French government will soon have
under consideration a plan for the build-
ing of a railroad from western Algeria
to the French Soudan. A survey of
the country to be traversed has already
been made by explorers and engineers
who crossed the desert in automobiles.
This had been thought impossible on
account of the deep and shifting sands
but the difficulty was overcome by the
use of caterpillar tractors. Two such
automobile trips were completely suc-
cessful and it was found that the rail-
road could be laid without encountering
any particular engineering difficulties.
So parliamentary action is expected upon
the project within a reasonable time.
H seems almost a pity that the world
should be so Completely tamed. Dirigibles
to the north pole! Railroads into the
heart of the Sahara where such ex-
periences as are related by Rosita Forbes
in her account of her trip to the inac-
cessible and forbidden Oasis of Kufara
form the common background of desert
life. Seven days without water trails
lost in the shifting sands certain death
from thirst and starvation if the guile
has not an almost instinctive faculty of
finding his way.
And still while the imagination is de-
prived of food for romance fields for
adventure the risks and hazards of the
wild it is fed in another way. The
mystery of the unknown vanished but
in its place comes the wonder of con-
quest of man’s conquest over adverse
circumstances and the waste and for-
gotten places of the earth.
• - oo •
Tn addition to a teapot there seems
to have been somewhat of a jack pot.
BLACK SHEEP
From their folded males they wander far
Their ways seem harsh and wild :
They follow the beck of a baleful star.
Their paths arc’dream-beguiled.
Yet haply they sought but n wider range.
Some loftier mountain slope.
And little recked of the country strange
Beyond tbc gates of hope.
And haply a bell with a luring call
Summoned their feet to tread
Midst the cruel rocks where the deep pit-fall
And the lurking snare arc spread.
Maybe in spite of their tameless daya
Of outcast liberty.
They’re sick nt heart for the homely ways
Where their gathered brothers be.
And oft at night when the plains fall dark
And the hills loom large and dim/
For the shepherd’s voice they mutely hark
And their souls go out to him.
Meanwhile. “Black sheen! black sheep!” we cry.
Safe in the inner fold;
And mjybe they hear and wonder why.
And marvel out in the cold.
—Richard Burton.
MATING A
IN THE WIL PS ijg
By OTTU/eLL BINNS
ILLUITRATIU
! ©l4lO ALFRED A.KHOPF.IHC. ©UOH* A SEgVICC.IKC.
Benn Here Today.
Hubert Stane rescues Helen Yard-
ely when her canoe travels toward
dangerous waters. Together they sta’t
to walk the trail to the camp where
Helen is staying with her uncle a
governor of the Hudson Bay Com-
pany. The carnn is near a northern
post of the company. Stane is a dis-
charged convict.
A forest fire overtakes them and
they flee from the flames. They set-
tle in a cabin they find on the trad.
Trooper Anderton of the N. W. M. I'.
comes to the cabin and Stane shows
him a paper found by him in a book
loaned to a former friend Gerald Ain-
Icy. Now go on with the story.
The meal was finished without
any further reference to the past and
after a smol^-. Anderton threw on his
furs and went outside. Presently he
returned and announced his intention
of going up the lake to the Indian en-
campment.
Stane looked at Helen then he
said: “We will accompany you An-
derton.”
When Anderton had harnessed his
dogs they started off making direct-
ly up the lake and within two hours
sighted about half a score of win-
ter tepees pitched near the shore and
with sheltering woods on three isdes
of them. As they came into view
with the smoke of the fires curling
upward in the still air the policeman
nodded.
“The end of a journey of 200
miles; or the beginning of one that
may take me into the Barrens and tip
to the Arctic. Lord what a life this
He laughed ns he spoke and both
those who heard him. knew that he
found the life a good one. and was
without regret for the choice he had
made.
As they drew nearer the camp
two or throe men and perhaps a
dozen women with twice that number
of children came from the tepees to
look at them and when the dogs came
to a halt one of the men stepped
forward. He was xu oin man. and
withered-looking but with a light of
cunning in his bleared eyes.
“What want?’’ he asked. “Me Chief
George.’’
The policeman looked at the bent
figure clothed in mangy-looking furs
with a dirty capote over all and
hen gave a swift glance at his Coin-
Minions the eyelid nearest to them
lettering in ii slow wink. A second
Inter he was addressing the chief in
his own tongue.
“I come” he said “from the Great
White Chief to take away one who is
a slayer of women. It is said that
be has refuge in thy lodges.”
The Indian's dirty face gave no sign
of any resentment. “There is no sueh
man in my lodges.”
“But I have heard there is a man
who is the son of thy sister with a
White father.”
The old Indian looked ns if con-
sidering the matter for a moment
then he said slowly. “My sister's
son was here hut he departed four
days ago.”
“Whither went he?”
The Indian waved his hand north-
ward. “Towards the Great Barrens.
He took with him nil our dogs.”
“Done!” said the policeman with
a quick glance at Stane. “It is cer-
tain there are no dogs here or we
should have heard or seen them.”
He turned to the Indian again
whilest Stane looked* t Helen. “You
heard that Miss Yardely? Our exile
is not yet over.”
“Apparently not” agreed Helen
smilingly.
Static again gave his attention to
the conversation between his friend
and the Indian but half a minute
later happening to glance at the
girl he surprised a look intense
interest on her face. sTjp- wa« look-
ing towards a tepee that stood a
little apart from the rest and won-
dering what it was that interested
her Stane asked: “What is it Miss
Yardely? You seem to have found
something very interesting.”
Helen laughed a little confusedly.
“It was only a girl's face at a tent-
d< or. I was wondering whether the
curiosity of my sex would bring her
into the open or not."
Stane himself glanced at the tepee
in question the moose-hide flan of
which was down. Apparently the
girl inside had overcome her curios-
ity and preferred the warmth of the
tepee to the external cold. He grew
absorbed in the conversation again
but Helen still watched the tepee; for
the face she had seen was that of
Miskodeed and sh« knew that the
thought she had entertained as to the
identity of the woman of mystery
who hud fled from the neighborhood
of the cabin was the right one. Pres-
ently a mittened hand rrew aside the
tent-flap tver so small a way; aid
Helen smiled to herself.
Not un©l St line addressed her did
she take her eyes fron| the tepee.
“Anderton's through.” he said.
‘His man has gone northward: and
as you heard there are no dogs here.
We shall have to go back to the
cabin. Anderton tried to persuade
the chief to send a couple of his young
men with a message down to Fort
Malsun but the fellow says it is iin
possible in this weather to make the
journey without dogs which I dare
say is true enough.”
“Then” said the girl with a say
laugh "wo have n further respite.”
‘‘Respite?” he said wonderingly.
“Yes—from civilization. I am net
absolutely yearning for it yet.”
She laughed again as she spoke
and Stane laughed with her. though
he did not notice the glance she
fla she<l at the closed tepee. Thon
Anderton turned abruptly from Chief
George.
“I'm sorry ” he said “I hare done
what I could for you two. but th"
noble red man either won't or can't
help von. I shall have to mish on.
hut the first chance I get I'll send
word on to Factor Rodwell. If only
I could turn hack—”
“Please don’t worry about us. Mr.
Anderton.” interrupted Helen cheer-
fully. “We shall be nil right.”
“ ’Pon my word. I believe you will.
Miss Y'ardely” answered'the police-
nan in admiration. He looked down
the lake nnd then added: “No use
my going hack. It will only be time
wasted. I will say goM-bye U-ro.
Keep cheerful old man.” he sail to
Stane. “You’ll work clear of hr’
rotten business at Oxford yet I feel
it 1” bones.”
Helen fnovcil a little away aM the
nolicemnn lowered his voice. “lAcky
beggar! You'll ask me to be best Ban.
won't you?”
CHAPTER XVI
An Arnow Ont of the Night.
The short Northland day was draw-
ing to a elose when Stane and Helen
reached the cabin again. For the first
time since he hud known it the man
felt that the place had a desolate look;
and the feeling was accentuated by the
somber woods that formed the back-
ground of the cabin.
Things were just ts they had left
them on their departure and he drew
a little breath of relief. Why he
should do so be eon Id not have ex-
plained. A few minutes passed and
soon the stove was roaring filling the
cabin with a cheerful glow. Then
whilst the girl busied herself with
preparations for supper he went out-
side to bring in store wood. On the
return journey as he kicked open the
cabin door for a second his slightly-
stooping form was outlined against the
light and in that second he enught
sounds which caused him to drop the
logs and to jump forward suddenly.
He threw the door to hurriedly and as
hurriedly dropped the bar in place.
Helen looked around in surprise.
"What is it?” she asked quickly.
"There is some one about” he
answered. "I heard the twang of a
bow-string and the swish of an arrow-
over my head. Some one aimed—
Ah. there it is!”
He pointed to tbc wall of the
cabin where an arrow had struck
and still quivered. ' Going to the wall
he dragged it out and lookeil at it.
It was ivory tipped and must have
been sent with great force. Thr
girl looked at it with eyes that be-
trayed no alarm though her face bad
grown pale.
Calmly as if hostile Indians were
part of the daily program she con-
tinued the preparations for supper
whilst Stane fixed a blanket over the
parchment window which was the
one volunerable point in the cabin
This he wedged with the top of a
packing case which the owner ot
the cabin had improvised for a shelf
and by the time he had finished
supper was almost ready. As they
seated themselves at the table the
girl laughed suddenly.
"I suppose we are in a state of
siege ?”
“I don’t know but I should not
be surprised. It is very likely."
He considered a moment then he
said: "We must keep watch and
watch through the night. Not that
I think there will be any attack. These
Northern Indians are wonderfully pa-
tient They will play a waiting game
and in the end make a surprise at-
tack. They will know tlmt now we are
on the nlert and I should not be sur-
prised if for the present they have
withdrawn altogether.”
“You renlly believe that?”
“Honestly and truly!”
“Thon for a moment wc are safe.”
“Yes; I think so; and you can gc
to rest with a quiet mind.”
’ “Rest!” laughed the girl. “Do you
think I can rest with my heart jump-
ing with excitement? I shall ‘keep
the first watch perhaps after that
I shall be sufficiently tired—and
bored—to go to sleep.”
Stane smiled at her words and ad-
miration of her courage glowed in
his eyes but what she suggested
fitted in well enough with hi* owr
desires and he let her have her way.
end himself lay down on his couch
of spruce-boughs and aftei- a little
time pretended to sleep. From where
he lay he could see the girl's lace
as she sat in the glowing light of the
stove.
Helen was thinking of the face of
Miskodeed. as she had seen it over
her shoulder when the;.- were de-
parting from the encampment up the
lake. She had read there a love for
the man who was her own compan-
ion and in the dark wildly beautiful
eyes she had seen the jealousy of an
Undisciplined nature.
A sound of movement interrupted
When a Feller Needs a Friend
her reveries and she hnlf-turncd as
Stane rose from his spruce-couch.
“You have heard nothing?” he
asked.
“Nothing!” she replied.
_“I will take the watch now Miss
Yardely and do you lie down and
rest.”
(Continued in Our Next Issue.)
THE FUME TREATY
Jtaly is rightly celebrating the sign-
ing of a treaty with Jugo-Slavia end-
ing the Fiume dispute. This treaty
giving broader effect to the treaty of
Rapallo is accepted as Mussolini’s
greatest diplomatic achievement. It is
an important act of pacification af-
fecting the Adriatic region directly and
all Europe indirectly which goes to
the credit of a dictatorship whose
pacific intentions have been widely
questioned.
Through the compact Mussolini ac-
complishes two things. He has for-
mally annexed Fiume to Italy thus
satisfying an ardent national aspira-
tion. At the same time he has res-
cued the port from economic stagna-
tion resulting from divided authority
there and from a hinterland boycott.
The Rapnllo treaty erected the free
city of Fiume and gave Sussak to
Jugo-Slavia with an informal commit-
ment to recognize later Jugo-Siavie
sovereignty over what is known as
the Delta.
The Free City was a purely politi-
cal creation. It had no resources and
was not competent to conduct the busi-
ness of a i>ort. For n long time it
was n sort of medieval fief held by
D'Annunzio useless for economic pur-
poses. Its trade withered ami tbc
harbor was deserted. D’Annunzio was
finally expelled by the Italian govern-
ment but the regime which succeeded
his was equally futile. Mussolini has
always realized that Italy’s interest
required not alone the annexation of
the city proper but an acknowledg-
ment of Jugo-Slavia’s rights to rne
other sections of the harbor and the
operation of the port as a unit uniter
an Italian-Jugo‘/Slavic consortium.
The port cannot live without the
hinterland's support. It can be of
no real service to either country un-
less it is used as a gatevray for the
Danube basin. * Italy exports manu-
factured goods. x Jugo-Slavia exports
food and raw materials. The two
countries are not commercial rivals
and can carry on a mutually profit-
able exchange of commodities. Com-
mercial intimacy between them is
natural and such intimacy must help
to bring them closer together politi-
cally.
Mussolini is therefore presling for
a commercial treaty which will sup-
plement the concert for tbc manage-
ment of the Tort of Fiume.—New York
Tribune.
ALWAYS FOOLED.
“For the first time in my life” said
William Jennings Bryan at Frank-
fort “I am on the side of a great
majority; in the last three years the
country has reacted from the theory
of evolution as never before.”
There is much that is pathetic in
the life of a man who. since 18911.
has been trying to get in the side of
a great majority but nevec has suc-
ceeded. In '96 Mr. Bryan then in
the heydey of young manhood heard
the shouts of hundreds of thousands
nnd was greeted by mammoth parades
in which lovely young women clad in
white rode silver-gray horses.
Anyone attending a Bryan rally was
warranted in believing tiiat everybody
was there like the cub reporter who
didn’t see why he should write a story
of the great fire because everyone
saw it.
Maybe Mr. Bryan af er a lifetime
of futile effort to get upon the side
of a grent majority finds some meas-
ure of consolation in his present de-
lusion as he goes about telling legis-
lators that they should pass a law
forbidding schools to "teach evolu-
tion.” He has. by the way. advertised
evolution by his opposition until he
has awakened to interest in it hun-
dreds of thousands who knew and
cared as little about it before he be-
gan Grading as they kn j w and cared
about Newton's methods of divisors.
—Louisville Tinies.
FEBRUARY It 1924.
A Puzzle a Day
The drawing shows a large triangle
which contains sixteen smaller ones.
Each little triangle contains a letter.
Start at any triangle and pass to an-
other triangle which touches it: if just
the points of the triangle touch it is
all right. (For example: from triangle
“X” you can pass to cither "T”).
Follow from triangle to triangle and
if you choose the correct course th?
letters as you arrange them will spell
two appropriate words.
Yesterday’s answer:
CHECKERS
CHESS
The two games were “checkfrs” nnd
“chess" the names are formed by fill-
ing in the stars with the proper let-
ters.
Where to Go
Vaudeville.
Majestic—Big Time Vaudeville.
Motion Pictures.
Palace —Mae Murray in “Fashion
Row.”
Empire—Thomas Meigban in “Pied
Piper Malone.”
Princess—Bebe Daniels in “The
Heritage of the Desert.”
Rialto—Tom Moore in “Marriage
Morals.”
^tock.
Royal—Edna Park and Players in
“It Pays to Advertise.”
Grand—Jimmie “Slats” Allard in
“Going Some.”
ANCESTRY OF MODERN
PHRASES
Night-riders attention: Tarring-
and-feathering was invented by Rich-
ard Cocur-de-Lion King of England
about 750 years ago. He ordered
that any sailor convicted of theft
should “have his head clipped and hot
pitch poured upon his pate and upon
that the feathers of some pilloy -a
cushion shaken aloft.”
You use the expression “That's a
feather in his cap.” Do you know
what'it means? Some 500 years or
more ago the Hungarians had a cus-
tom by which a ma; couldn’t wear a
feather in his cap unless he had killed
a Turk. A feather for every TuxC
like notches on a gun.
In 1791. French slangsters coined
an expression. “What will the frogs
say to this?” Spread like wildfire the
public applying it to all ridiculous or
absurd proposals. That's the origin
of calling the French “Frogs.”
In olden times when a man lost
his right arm in battle he was so in-
capacitated that he had to have a
servant accompany him to take the
place of the lost hand. This originated
the saying “He’s my bight-hand man.”
Heels were put on shoes to prevent
a horseman’s foot slipping in the stir-
rup. Buttons on the coat cuff date
back to Frederick the Great who put
sharp buttons there to stop soldiers
using their cuffs as handkerchiefs.
The wedding ring originally symbolized
a chain.
So it goes. Thousands of the things
we use and things we say and do are
remnants of a -long-forgotten past.
Habit keeps them alive even though
their real meaning is as obscure as
their origin.—Wichita Beacon.
—By Briggs
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