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The Parthenon Is in ruins but Pericles is the talisman of “the golden age ofAthens.”Gone is the Circus Maximus forever, but Caesar shall live as long as letters live.The Roman governorship of Jerusalem is but a withered wreath on the tomb of a once imperial dynasty—and Barrabas is known only of prowling students—but the children of an enlightened day have lisped into immortality the words of Him whom Pilate did not pardon.Let us smooth the rumpled pillow of classic reference and turn to the man, the hour and the place—to Billy Sunday, Now,and Here.*** + ••*There will be Introduced at our council meeting next Tuesday night an ordinance for the rigid regulation of the saloonkeeper. It will provide that when a license Is forfeited by law not only will the saloon-keeper be placed on the blacklist, ineligible forever to get another license, but the place itself, will be eliminated as a saloon site. No license for conducting a saloon in that place will be reissued to the mkn who has forfeited it, or to anybody else.In brief, such an ordinance will not only make the saloon-keeper fearful of violating the law, but it will make the brewer and the landlord equally zealous in seeing that the saloon-keeper obeys the law.It is a good ordinance. It should be passed. It should be enforced. And that ordinance might never have been formulated if Billy Sunday had not come to Joplin. Its enacture and enforcement will be a permanent and enduring monument to the influence of this evangelist’s revival in Joplin, it will attest the impress made upon the thought of the community.** n * * * * *•lust prior to Mr. Sunday’s arrival in Joplin The Globe stated that it did not. agree with all of his propositions. We differ from him absolutely on the proposition of prohibition in Joplin at this time. And when we say “in Joplin at this time” we are intentionally qualifying the divergence of his views and ours 011 the subject of prohibition.It may be trite., but it happens also to be truth, that “circumstances alter cases.” There be those who contend that right is right and wrong is wrong, and *hat from smh finality there is no appeal. Butis not one or those compensations in city prohibition, in the judgment of The Globe.The conditions of rural life where the saloon, ordinarily badly conducted, is a constant and almost monopolistic menace, may demand with logic its eradication, because it serves no essential purpose and in its destruction no worse substitute is possible.A man living in a thinly populated township in Newton county, for example, might favor prohibition, whereas the same man living in a city like Joplin might oppose prohibition for property reasons and because of the debatable moral progress orretrogression that would ensue.* * * * * *The Globe is glad Billy Sunday came to Joplin. It. indorses him in many respects, differs from him in some, acknowledges his earnestness, enthusiasm and tireless ability, will remember with pleasure his too few and too short visits to this office, and wishes him God speed, a happy new year and trusts that, his “ginger” will stay with him for many a season.Preparing.From Life.We have been watching him for a week or two now, and can detect the symptoms.There is a sanctimonious twist settling upon his lips, his eyebrows are arching in a sort of deprecatory sincerity, and when he sees a little boy or girl he fidgets as though he wants to say something.He is perhaps practicing self-rc^straint, but he knows, and we know, that he will break loose before long.He is the man who goes about telling children there isn’t any Santa Claus. He’s going to he honest, no matter how much happiness he spoils.VII in u Lifetime.From Life.A woman who is improved by paintneeds it. so badly that nothing can make her attractive.Jones tar the ball, to Mrs. Catterson) - -How beautifully your daughter sits outher dances!There are two distinct angles from which we all look at life, the one while we are doing things we ought not and theother when we get caught.Knocks by Hie Broadway Knocker.From the New York Morning Telegraph.It takes a woman of tact to smile when her rival is praised.Opportunity is rare and a wise man will never let it get by him.He that would fight the devil with bis own weapons must not wonder if he finds himself overmatched.
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Jan 02, 1910
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