October 2, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



26S 



George Watson^s 

 Corner 



"Too In your email comer and me 

 In mine." 



No doubt Tom Roland is already 

 thinking of his high duty as a public 

 official and worrying about the big 

 speech he will have to write in ad- 

 vance. It takes some thinking that 

 speech which only some of us hear 

 delivered, but which is always 

 printed so that from Maine to Cali- 

 fornia he who runs may read. 



There are various things Tom must 

 think about, out on that wave bound 

 island of his. (No, it isn't exactly an 

 island in the Atlantic Ocean, but 

 pretty near it. The handle is thin and 

 could easily be cut off.) As the bil- 

 lows boom over his midnight slumbers 

 what is he thinking of, who can tell? 

 Fan tan in Hong Kong or prohibition 

 in Quebec. Whether to aeroplane to 

 Europe and locate in Berlin where 

 there is still some good Pilsner or 

 take a taxi to the nearest steamer to 

 London via Boston and sit down in 

 the old Oxford in Piccadilly and say 

 "How" like a human being once 

 more. In any event the speech will 

 be a very difficult one to write be- 

 cause Tom will be lacking in en- 

 thusiasm for his adopted country. He 

 will be thinking of the plant and 

 flower quarantine oligarchy one min- 

 ute and the next minute about the 

 Volstead invasion of a man's personal 

 rights — the right the Anglo Saxon has 

 always fought for — "a man's house is 

 his castle.'' On the public highway 

 we do as the community orders. In 

 your home — that is your businecs. 

 No one has a right to tell you what 

 you shall eat or drink. If we all get 

 together and make a speed law limit 

 we all keep it, but to issue edicts 

 without consulting us, that is false to 

 all fundamental laws of democracy as 

 understood by the American people. 

 The great Aristotle to whom we al- 

 ways go back when in doubt says 

 about government: "That form of gov- 

 ernment which is best administered is 

 the best." 



This means no matter whether it's 

 a King or a democracy, the adminis- 

 tration is the big point. 



In that connection let me quote a 

 good thought by Henry Morley on 

 Aristotle. It will be refreshing to 

 most of you; 



"Great wealth he regarded as like 

 creat poverty, a great evil; strength 

 and happiness seated in the mean, 

 that enabled a man to maintain body 



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