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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
G. M. MORTON, Publtsher
CUMBY I I I I TEXAS
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There is no fresher or better topic
than baseball.
The baseball knocker is simply^
reactionary in the field of sport*
Thank goodness, the circus never
threatened us with a farewell tour.
The wireless is fast being consid-
ered the greatest invention of the
Fortified by statistics, swat the first
fly, and kill 9,327,648,595.671 other
flies.
One person who need not be told that
the baseball team is in town is the of-
fice hoy.
The bleachers are never willing to
ladmlt that a hostile umpire wds born
tree and equal.
If any person thinks that free
speech is restricted in this country let
’fairn go to a baseball game.
Also, it is well not to forget that
thero is a certain amount of healthy
exercise in swatting the fiy.
The best barefoot dance of them all
1s the one the youngster does en the
brink of the rwimmin’ hole.
A London court is trying to decide
what is a “sardine." Even the small
fish get their day in court.
/
gr-
it appears to be absolutely useless
to dispute with a locomotive for the
right pf way at a grade crossing.
.There Is reason to suspect that the
expressive slang phrase, "Never
again!" originated on moving day.
Despite the war of extermination on
the mosquito and fly last year, the cru-
sade will begin as usual this year.
PI
I
lysical
Cxercise
Of Great Value
to Many
Morbid Persons
%
By SARAH S. PERKINS
A Chicago reformer advocates the
wmployment of policewomen in plain
clothes. No use—they wouldn’t wear
’em!
Every woman .knows that she can
be her own beauty doctor, but prefers
the work of a more experienced mas-
seur. (
A Chicago pastor refuses to marry
eouples who are not physically sound,
but we presume he winks at love sick-
ness.
King George’s doctor says that Chi-
cago Is a pretty place. Anyway, most
of the campaign portraits have come
down. .
Japanese children, it is said, are
taught to write with both hands. It
takes a halfnelson to master that lan-
guage.
The price of gasoline has gone np
as well as the price of hay. This is
where the auto has nothing on the
horse.
Amateur gardeners should he 1%
formed that it is not necessary to
plant string beans to the music of
mandolins.
According to a fashion authority,
styles in women’s hats this year are
to be “more sensible.” Going to raise
garden truck on them?
Certain dreamers talk about the mil-
lennium, but it will only come when
baseball fans take the word of the
umpire without a murmur.
China now has a native aviator of
Its own. Very likely China before
long will go to talking about the back-
ward Civilization of the Occident.
A food expert advises us to eat less
wheat and mord rice, but we have a
"vague suspicion that he is doing press
agent work for a chop suey factory.
C.
We see by the papers that two Los
pu
Angeles girls rescued
two young men
ife c
from the angry deep.
This being leap
nr
year, there can be no
doubt about the
sequel.
A Pennsylvania woman, charged
with having ten husbands, has been
sentenced to a year in jail. If the
jury had been made up of spinsters
pothing short of capital punishment
would have sufficed.
P aj ^HE common-sense point of view, it seems to me, is that as far as
the working people, under present conditions, are able to benefit
from gymnastic exercises, just so fa*r they are valuable to them.
That, of course, applies to any other class of people as well. All
of which simply means that to a vast number of working people it is a
matter of minor importance or of utter indifference because their prin-
cipal need is for industrial conditions which are safe, and for higher
wages and shorter hours, which would give them opportunity for mental
and moral education as well as physical.
To educate oneself in any way means the expenditure of energy, and
one must not only have the energy to expend, but must also have enough
good sleep and happy leisure, which is not active, in order to replace the
energy nsed in work and active play. ,
If the question is whether the large part of working class women have
these things, the answer must be that they do not.
The object of expending energy is in the hope of getting something
one wants; one’s living, one’s health, some one or other form of happiness;
if the struggle of life is too hard, then the lessened energy is used to
secure the greatest instinctive desire, one’s bare existence, and often there
is not enough energy for that.
To use a part of that small and precious fund in active play appeals,
I think, very little to the working clats, that is, to that part of it which
expends most of its energy in making a living. They crave something
to relax the nervous tension, something which is “done to them” without
much effort on their part. Hence it is that there is so much drinking,
loafing in cheap theaters and so many vices of various kinds.
However, I would not in any way undervalue the usefulness of phys-
ical exercises for the many persons who are enabled by them to throw off
morbid conditions and to pull themselves out of anemic conditions and
get fresh starts in life.
The only objection, I should think, is the tendency to make them
into a fad, and to give the impression that, given gymnastics, we have
cured the sorrows of the world. In other words, we must not put the cart
before the horse, but remember that poverty aud ignorance are the real
evils to be coped with and we can have no real health while we have these.
Anything, however, that will strengthen us for the time being to play
whatever part we have to play in
the world must be counted as
useful.
us lux tut: unit: utriiJg lu pia
Method for
Making
Business
More
Hushing
The manufacturers and other business
men of this country would like to have
business more rushing and not so quiet as
it is at present. They can easily bring about
such a condition of affairs, as it is a simple
matter. All they need to do is to increase
the wages of the producers so they will
have the moncyto Imy Faoi- of the
things they have produced. Th^ would
relieve the present stringency and limes
would become easier. Those who own the
machines that the workers use for produc-
ing certain articles are all the time storing
np more and more profits, and as they are
in the minority and the workers compose the vast majority, the workers’
proportion of obtainable money must necessarily diminish as fast as the
wealth of the capitalist increases. When a panic comes the position of
the capitalist is somewhat like that of the monkey who put his hand into
a jar of nuts and got his hand so full that he was unable to withdraw it.
The more selfish and grasping the money kings (and humanity at
large) will become the oftener we will have times of depression and panics.
By F. N. BLANCHARD
Should
Not
Seek
to Acquit
Guilty
A lawyer should only seek justice for
his clients. By obtaining an acquittal for
a guilty man he has defeated justice.
Suppose a lawyer knows his client is
guilty, and if convicted the sentence must
be imprisonment ; but he obtains a verdict
of acquittal. The client is turned loose on
society, and commits other crimes while he
ought to have been serving time for the
first crime, is not the lawyer partly respon-
sible for his crimes?
The knowledge that they can hire great
lawyers to defend th<pn has given encour-
agement to criminals all over our land. It
is true, a lawyer owes a duty to his client, hut if he knows the client is
guilty he has fully discharged his duty when he has made clear all extenu-
ating circumstances, if any there be, connected with the crime, and has
made a plea for as light a sentence as the court can pass for the crime
committed.
"While the lawyer owes a duty to his client, he also owes a duty to
himself, to his profession and to society; he can best discharge these duties
by laboring to obtain absolute justice for all.
By CHARLES G. HUNTER
Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters sf Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
FARMERS’ UNION HIGH TIDE
There is nothing so very comfort-
able about a blanket mortgage.
Co-operation is the application of
common sense to the doing of things.
The cure for our social ills is more
good common sense, applied right at
borne.
Nobody mistakes the stubbornness
of a balky horse for strength of char-
acter.
Everybody works on the farm; even
the harrow is obliged to scratch for a
living.
Some folks seem to think that a dis-
play of backbone demands a show or
bristles.
It takes a big man to leave any
noticeable gap in the ranks when he
drops out.
The aviator cannot follow his voca-
tion any time at all without being up
in the air.
You cannot bring fortune your way
by kicking nor win the smiles of the
fair, either.
The sheriff may not be a popular
man, but there are times when he is
irresistible.
Tbe unhappy Individual who was
rooted to the spot soon had his feel-
ings harrowed.
The man who sticks to the work,
despite the dark days, is the man who
comes out ahead.
Too many young people depend up-
on their parents’ earnings taking them
through the world.
Beware of tbe man whose dog
crawls under the house when its mas-
ter enters the gate.
A western sheep pasture is like the
knowledge of the all-round man, in
tnat it covers a wide range.
The rooster may flatter himself that
he makes all the noise, but It is the
hen that produces the goods.
Some men throw away a barren
farm in disgust because they never
tried to study out some crop, grass or
fruit that would suit the soil.
Some men have had so many law-
suits that they feel well versed in
jurisprudence, however lacking they
may be in ordinary prudence.
WORKING OF COUNTRY CLUBS
Numberless Co-Operative Associations
Operating as Corporate Bodies
Doing Much Good.
A Boston professor is quoted as say-
ing that 1,000 westerners could re-
store rural New England to its former
prestige. M-m-m. Well, it took near-
ly that number of New Englanders to
make a prestige for the west.
That story of a workman who fell
tl stories in New York and caught a
jrope several times on his way down
land remarked on reaching the ground
>that he felt a little dizzy, certainly
'gives the reader a dizzy feeling.
It:
Remember the cake walk? Perhaps
he day will come when we can ask
he same question about rag time.
A lady named Yik Yug Ying is re-
,ported to be at the head of the woman
suffrage movement in China. Nobody
can accuse her of not being a Y’s
woman.
A five-story pickle factory in Chl-
icago was destroyed by fire the other
iday. But, then, one could hardly
i expect a pickle factory to be pre-
served . ___
Mirth-
is Truly
God’s
Own
Medicine
Ur. Orison Swett Harden is perfectly
rip;}it in saying that mirth is God's medi-
cine; but how about those to whom this is
denied, those that Jive witJiin the limits of
privation and even at that do not really
live but only exist? For those I do not
belicvf there is any fun. When people
battle with misfortune every day in the
year, every day in their lives, how can they
laugh in the face of fate and say. “Wc
won’t concede that we are beaten?” WheD
everything looks dark in the future l ha’:
is an impossibility. For scene unfortu-
nates the sun never shines. They are hu-
man machines and they drudge from morning till night and wear out
their lives before their time.
And there are others less fortunate even than the human machines,
those poor souls that lost their jobs because work is slacking and there
is no bank roll to back them up. They* do not feel like being cheerful
about it. They have desperation written on their faces.
And I am sorry to say that many of these have not the education or
abilitv and perseverance to better their condition.
By R. W. REICH
The Impurlance cf clubs for seed
growing and other country effort does
not always appeal to those few indi-
viduals that are able to do their best
without any speeding up to carry on a
life work in great research without
the spur of competition. It is just
such people, however, who can lend
a great deal of aid in providing com-
munity effort if only their modesty
will allow them to realize how very
difficult it is to the average person to
keep up the fight without some meas-
ure of their progression. The good
boys and girls so often lost from the
farms, where they are needed, find in
the city every step in their advance
noted by those over them, and receive
a somewhat better position or in-
creased wages, whereas out of town
the progress Is gradual and not dis-
tinctly marked.
A large number of people succeed
in town because they need only a few
qualities to fit a particular job, their
line of work is mapped out for them
so closely that they can hardly ever
fail except they are lazy, and this
trait is much less apt to develop un-
der continued oversight than where a
man is his own boss from day to
dark.
I do not believe that it is the win-
ning of a cup or even the appreciation
of his efforts by his fellows that gives
the great incentive to either boy or
girl to solve country problems, but
tbe feeling that he or she is part of
a body whose collective force is found
to count for much in their community
and that every year will bring some
improvement in conditions and sur-
roundings which will make country
life fuller and better worth living
than town life under present condi-
tions can be. except for the very few
who can greatly excel the average.
No amount of preaching will keep am-
bitions boys and girls in a stagnant
community town or country. The way
to hold them is To create a live or-
ganization of which they will become
a part, to realize their needs as young
growing people who are going to
make history either in town or coun-
try, and not at all willing to accept
an outworn condition that satisfied a
prior generation.
The fart that combinations of
money and brains have often been
used for purposes of oppression, does
not alter the fact that they are ef-
fective find that „ co-operation must
come to the country, as to the town,
if it is to have its share in progress.
Co-operative work does not necessari-
ly mean running a store any mere
than corporate work means squeezing
the life blood out of producer and
consumer, though these words have
come to have somewhat that meaning,
sucii organizations Usually being
formed for offense and defense; on
the other hand, there are numberless
co-operative associations operating as
corporate bodies which are of the
greatest help and are far more easily
developed in country than in town.
Quitter Indicts Himself as Less Than
Man and Works Injustice to
Himself and Childreq.
To the Officers and Members of th.
Farmers’ Union:
Peter, who denied Christ thrice, was
one of the greatest “quitters” in all
history. But he repented. And his
sublime atonement is one of the finest
chapters in the story of Christianity,
standing forever as a sublime lesson
to the great tribe of “quitters.”
There are plenty In the Farmers’
Union who belong in that tribe. 1
want to say a few words of brotherly
admonition to them. For with the
organization stronger than at any
time since its founding, it grieves me
to see a few short-sighted farmers cut
themselves off from its advantages.
It may be that you quit because the
order didn’t revolutionize the earth
a month after you joined. You forget
that tremendous results are accom-
plished slowly, that it took ages for
the little coral polyps to build up tbe
state of Florida, and big Islands by
piling their bodies one on top of the
other.
It may be that you quit because,
when you entered the organization,
you were full of steam and ginger and
spent it all in the firBt few local meet-
ings without setting the brethren on
fire. Steam and ginger are good
things —-indispensable things — but
they ought to be nursed carefully and
distributed gradually as you go along.
If you gush out all your enthusiasm
in one grand spasm you won’t have
any left to meet the big tasks and or-
deals that are inseparable from an
organization of this national scope
and unprecedented nature.
It may be that you quit because you
had a little streak of crookedness in
you, and saw you could go back on
the organization, or on some one of
Its enterprises, and get a trifling mess
of pottage for your treachery. Bene-
dict Arnold figured it out the same
way. He got his pottage, all right.
But he died the most execrated man
in America, the man most held in con-
tempt in England, which bad bought
him, and there were no loving, re-
spectful hands to smooth his pillow
as he passed away in that lonely Lon-
don attic.
It may be that you quit because you
found some deviltry in the organi-
zation, many specks of rottenness,
graft here and there, Incompetence,
selfishness on the part of leaders, a
tendency to play the organization for
their political advantage. All these
things have happened in the Farmers’
Union. Nobody with any sense or
candor denies that. They have also
happened in all the churches, in all
the secret orders, in all business, in
every feature of private life. You
don’t lay down and die when you find
any one of these weaknesses in one
or more of these places. But just be-
rauttc it crops up in a farmers’ organ-
ization—which is made up of fallible
human beings—you want to kick right
out. I tell you right now that joining
the Farmers’ Union doesn’t make a
man automatically an angel. We have
just as many devils as any body of
similar size. You needn’t be sur-
prised when you find them in your
immediate vicinity. If you desert be-
cause you do find them, instead of
jumping into the ranks and helping
either to cure them or eject them, you
ought to be ashamed to look your wife
in the face.
I look at the hundreds of thou-
sands of faithful members who have
plodded along1* with the long, hard, pa-
tient pull—enduring, fighting and see-
ing just the evils you see—and then
regard you with a feeling blended of
contempt and pity and a longing to
reason you out of your forty. It isn’t
the Fanners’ Union you damage when
you quit it in a fit of sulks. It’s your-
self, your wife and your children. For
every one of you who lays down his
musket and turns tail, or becomes a
knocker there are a dozen W'ho enlist,
who boost and who develop the sense
to see that because the organization
isn’t perfect there is no excuse for
their leaving it.
The deserter is everywhere held in
loathing. He is about the lowest
creature under God’s sun. The cow-
ard who flinches in the face of danger
or inconvenience is no better. You all
know how the world feels toward the
few men who showed the white feath-
er when the big Titanic went down?
Well, the fellow who deserts the craft
of the Farmers’ Union for some fan-
cied or real grievance—and there are
plenty of the latter—doesn’t deserve
any higher place in human estimation
than the buzzards who proved craven
on the Titanic.
Come back, you quitters. Study the
story of Peter, of Benedict Arnold, of
all the great quitters. In Peter's case
the quitter who recovered his nerve
and manhood did more valiant service
than many of those who had never
dreamed of deserting. You can do
the same. There is a nobler work on
the Almighty's footstool than sacrifice
and labor for one’s fellows—work and
sacrifice when it seems that neither
is to count for much, when ingratitude
looks like your main reward and when
you are tempted to take the easy in-
stead of the hard road. But bear in
mind we are engaged in the holiest
work in civilization's history—the ef-
fort to bring into his rights and Ins
full man’s stature the farmer, that
member of the race who has suffered
most from neglect and Uom misunder-
standing. frequently from the avarice
of his own fellows, not to mention
outsiders. Are you going to stop sulk-
ing and help us in a movement that
promises to be one of the greatest
achievements America will ever give
the world?
CHARLES S BARRETT.
Union City, Ga.
INTONATIONAL
suNMrsoiooi
(By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Even-
ing Department, The Moody Bible In-
stitute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR JUNE 2
HYPOCRISY AND SINCERITY.
GOLDEN TEXT—“Take heed that you:
do not your righteousness before men, to
be seen of them; else ye have no reward
with your Father which Is in Heaven.’’—
Matt. 6:L
v-flR
Someone has called attention to the
“buts” of God as recorded in the
Scriptures, showing that they always-
lead to something good and contrasts
them with those of men that are always
the introduction to some derogatory re-
mark. In something resembling this
the words of Jesus, “Take heed,” are
tremendous with import.
Doing was the greatest thing in the
Jewish religion that Jesus came to set
aside when he established his new
kingdom. It is easy for a man to try
to do for himself in order to merit
God’s favor. It is hard to let God do
for us and we to accept his finished
work. \
In this lesson there is one inclu-
sive word and three illustrations. This-
word is the word “righteousness" sub-
stituted in tlie Revised Version for
the word “alms” in verse one. The-
three lines of application or illustra-
tions used are, first, that we shall
make our righteousness secure by so
doing our alms as not to be seen of
men; second, that in the saying of
our prayers we shall not, like the
hyprocrites, desire to be seen of men,
and third, that in the keeping of our
.fasts and our vigils we do them, not,
as do hyprocrites, that the multitudes
may observe and comment thereon.
In another lesson upon this mani-
festo of Jesus we studied the subject
of the law and in it he summarized it
all by telling us that except our righte-
ousness shall exceed the righteousness
of these Scribes and Pharisees, whom.
John ttie Baptist designated as a gen-
eration of vipers—hypocrites, we shall
in no wise enter into this new kingdom
which Jesus came to establish.
Righteousness He Demands.
In the lesson Jesus shows us the
difference between Jheir righteous-
ness and the righteousness which he
is demanding of the subject of hie
kingdom. He demands that our righte-
ousness shall seek its approval not
from nor among men but of God. The
motive which must govern is the
glory, not of man but of God, not
man’s approval but the approval of
God. In verse two the word “alms’*,
is retained and hence the first illus-
tration has to do with our “doing of
alms” i. e., our relations to men about
ns, our right-ness. The doing of aims
has no fundamental connection with,
any question of honesty between man.
and man. The doing of alms accord-
ing to the strict interpretation of civil
law is no part of duty. There is no
reason why the business man should
give away his earnings provided he is
just in his dealings and does not de-
fraud in his transactions. Yet we do
see men making great gifts and bene-
factions to the cause of philanthropy.
Why? Jesus lays bare the secret
when he says, “that they may have
the glory of men.”
Next Jesus takes up the subject of
prayer. Again our attention is drawn
to the fact that the exercise of prayer
has but little to do with our relations
to men. True it is these relations
must be right before we can come to
God acceptably but prayer Is to be di-»
rected to God and not to man. Apart
from our belief in God, why should we
pray? Commercial or other inter-rela-
tionships do not require prayer, why
then pray? The keen blade of Jesus*
logic again reveals the innermost se-
cret, “that they may be seen of men,"
and such an idea of righteousness is
repugnant in the kingdom of Jesus.
WTe now come to the third illustra-
tion, the keeping of fasts. Fasting
does not and never has appealed to
the natural man. Naturally it is re-
pugnant and' distasteful and vet we
see men making a show of fasting and
imposing a like burden upon others,
why? “That they may be seen of
men.” Is there, then, no place for,
nor ministry in fasting? Certainly
there is. True fasting, however, con-
sists ii. foregoing and abstaining for
the “glory of God.”
God the Final Judge.
It is a sad fact that much of our len-
ten fasting and of our abstemiousness
upon Fridays is that it shall be seen
of men and not beeause of any real ap-
preciation of the underlying need or
sense of the principles of fasting.
This lesson Is a great warning that if
we condition our righteousness upon
the approval of man it will have no re-
ward whatever ot God. The ostenta-
tious or unctious display of phil-
anthropy will receive Its reward from
men and weighs naught.
Followed through this lesson applies
to all the walks of life. For illustra-
tion, to adulterate food for gain and
yet appear active in church for the
upbuilding of a reputation. This false-
ness is the sin that lies back of graft
and corruption and that allows Amer-
ica to have “the worst governed cities
In the world.”
It is quite noticable that there i9
not a single personal pronoun in this
model prayer. It begins' with God,
leads us through his dealings with
man and back once more to him tc
whom all glory belongs.
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