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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1909)
p "j- ttwt The Commoner. MAY 21, 1909 15 FACT im FAKE 1 "'"'. to J!Lj Just a Few Thoughts And so, Rinaldo, you don't take any stock in what you call those "religious myths." You are too wise and too knowledgeous to be caught by those old wives' fables. You are not going to accept anything you can not understand. All right, Rinaldo. Wo know just how you feel about it. Something like thirty or thirty-five years ago we knew almost as much as you know now. And we wouldn't be lieve any such stuff as that then. Good enough, it was, for the simple minded, but they had to show us. You know a whole lot now, Rin aldo; a whole lot more than you will know twenty-five or thirty years from now, if you live that long. And by -that time you will not be so in sistent on having the ocular, visible proof submitted. Then you will take a great many things for granted. But you want the proof, eh? Well, so do we. By the way, did you ever see a watermelon seed? Of course. Well, will you kindly explain how that lit tle black seed can produce the big melon with ita.lucious core of red, rlts cushion of white and its skin of green, together . with a few hundred more black seeds like itself? Where is the green in that ripe seed? How does the growing melon draw red heart and white rine and green skin from the black earth and the white Tain? When you tell us that we'll take a few minutes off and explain .to your satisfaction a whole lot of those "religious myths" that do not now appeal to your youthful knowledge. A few years, ago, Rinaldo, we strutted around with a head so full of knowledge that it made us walk Jop-sided. We had many a quiet laugh at those deluded old folks who had an abiding faith in a lot of things that appear to you to be noth ing but foolish superstition. All of us boys- go through that sort of thing.- But you'll get over it if you live long enough. Some of these days, dear boy, you are going to be called upon to stand by the side of some loved one who has spent a lifetime in that abiding faith. And when you see that loved one walking down into the Valley of the Shadow with never a qualm of fear, and with a face illumined by a smile of joy then is when you are going to receive a rough jolt in your philosophy department. You insist upon having everything ex plained to you, but when you go through that experience you'll be content to accept somethings without the explanation. . Won't believe anything you can not see, eh? Humph! We've never seen your brains, Rinaldo, but we are not going to insist upon that fact as being proof that you are mentally deficient. We know better. We know better. Wo know you have got brains. And some of these days you are going to give those brains a chance to assert' themselves and then you are not going, to be so cock sure of all these things. You are going to take all you can on reason, and the rest on faith. Yes, we heard you say, Rinaldo, that the Bible tfas poor reading. But that was because you never read it. Or if you did, you "did not read it in the proper spirit. Wo used to be just like you, my boy. But that was some years ago. Now, when wo want to read a war story we know to a' certainty that wo can find none more thrilling than the war stories in the Old Book. There is Gideon, for instance. As a warrior he was what boys of today would call a "beaut." And Joshua ah, there was a general who knew a thing or two about strategy. And David was the possessor of some knowledge along military lines, thank you. And love stories say, Rinaldo, did you ever read the story of Ruth and Boaz? Or the story of Jacob's love affair? Don't talk to your old uncle about Jaura Lean Jibbey, or Bertha M. Mudd. They never could have framed up as fine a plot as that revealed in the concise story of Jacob's little love affair with Rachel and the subsequent battle of wits be tween Jacob and his father-in-law, Laban. Political stories? Now we've got it for you, Rinaldo. When wo want to road a masterpiece of political lit erature we turn to the book of Esther and read how that Esther thwarted the political schemes of Haaman and put her own favorites in the place of authority. A lot of much-touted political manipulators of modern times would have to go some to keep up with that little Jewess. O, yes; you are about the age when you like poetry, eh? Well," when you can dig up something in tho poetic line that has the edge on the poems of that Hebrew shepherd king, David, we'll admit that we are a bit mistaken in our judgment that David swept with poetic fingers the entire gamut of human emotions. In the glorious sweep of his divine har monies he parted tho clouds of doubts and fears and let in upon mankind the glorious gleams of the Almighty's smiles. You never read real poetry, Rinaldo, unless you have read the Psalms of David. Perhaps' your mind runs tothe dramatic, Rinaldo. Well, yo-i'll find the best there is in the Old Book. Just read Isaiah. Augustus Thomas and Daniel Frohman and all the rest of the modern dramatists, could get pointers from that wonderful book and they have, too. Or, perhaps, you are of a higal turn of mind. Ezekial has given a lot of valuable pointers to tho crim inal lawyer, and the greatest law pleading recorded in history is that of Paul in his own defense before Agrippa. Some of these long summer even ings, Rinaldo, when ypu haven't any thing else to do, and you feel blaze and out of touch with things In gen eral, just sit down In the quiet of your own room, take up the Old Book, and opening it almost any-, where just start in and read. You'll be surprised how interesting it is and when you have read awhile, you'll find your mind clearer, and your heart cleaner and blood running freer. Then you can turn into your little bed and get such a night's sleep as never came to the young "sport" who took in the town and painted things ermine In the exuber ance of youthful joy. We know what wo are talking about, Rinaldo. Your uncle has been through the mill. Cream Separator DISCS In view of some would-be competitors' recent unscrupulous advertising a little plain talk about DISCS is in order. Every separator wise person knows that DE LAVAL DISCS revolutionized cream separator construction increased ca pacity, reduced speed and power required and increased efficiency. The man who tells you that DISCS would not increase the skimming efficiency capacity and thoroughness of any "hol low bowl" is either a fool or a knave. The man who tells you that it costs less to build a DISC than a "hollow bowl" separator simply lies and tries to fake you. The man who pictures to you a great heaping dish pan full of DISCS simply tries to fake you if he intimates that the DISCS of a DE LAVAL bowl are cleaned in that way. The man who pictures to you a lot of DISCS strung along a picket fence simply tries to fake you if he intimates that the DISCS of- a DE LAVAL bowl are handled in that manner. The man who would have you believe that the up-to-date DE LAVAL bowl is not the easiest, quickest and most thor oughly cleanable and hence the most sanitary of any separa tor made simply tries to fake you. It is a fact that some imitating DISC and BLADE separators are hard and difficult to clean, as arc also the muzzle-loading-gun-barreHike TUBULAK shaped bowl kind, but the DISCS of a DE LAVAL bowl arc readily cleaned as a single piece by a special patent-protected DISC transfer and washer, and the whole machine is absolutely sanitary throughout. It is a fact that the DE LAVAL Company is suing infringers of some of its numerous patents covering different forms of DISC construction, but the man who tells you that such separa tors arc like or as good as the DE LAVAL simply lies to serve some selfish purpose of his own. The man who intimates to you that the DE LAVAL Company on top of its sale of a MILLION machines is not selling more separators in 1909 than at any previous time in its 31 years of creation and development of the cream separator industry either doesn't know, doesn't want to know, or simply lies to you. There is not a man competent to judge of cream separators who doesn't know that the 1908-1909 IMPROVED DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS are all-around superior to any other made, and the man who would try to have you believe anything else simply has a -selfish business interest of his own to serve in doing so. That's the difference, between FAQT and FAKE as to DISCS. The De Laval Separator Co. 42 E. Macibon Street CHICAGO 1213 & 1215 Filbert 8t. PHILADELPHIA DfTUMM A SACfMuEHTO STB. SAN FRANCISCO General Offices: 165 Broadway, NEW YORK, 173-177 Wuuu Street MONTREAL 14 & 16 Princess bTREET WINNIPEG 107 First Street PORTLAND, OREG. i Tt. , , 'U i " til 4U ',,