MOORMANISM #22, 4-13-72 From McLeansboro Times Leader, McLeansboro, Illinois #Moormanisms

Moormanisms By Ira E. Hank Moorman

If air pollution cannot be controlled, we need to find a substitute for air. ..........

A friend of mine said, “Let’s feed the redbirds.” I sent the Cardinals $3 of the best birdseed.

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Went to place that said, “Sorry, we are closed.” I went in anyway.

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The doctor gave me a bunch of pills and someone took them. I feel much better today.

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While on a train I went to the club car and bought a sandwich. The sandwich cost two

dollars. What angered me was that I couldn’t eat the toothpicks. ..........

A man told me he never had a wreck until he married one. ..........

Same man told me he had to catch a bus. I never try it – always get on before it leaves. ..........

Thirty years ago Dad and Mom said “Good boy.” It was only a few days ago and now Mom and Dad are gone. 

He used one philosophical statement to open and one to close the article today, with humor and philosophy in between.

The Gospel According to Hank Moorman:

Even though Hank said he had been beaten and yelled at as a child, he took the time to honor his father and mother in this issue of Moormanisms.

Scriptures for this Moormanism: Ephesians 6:2-3 "Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise: that it may be well with you and you may live long on earth." Exodus 20:12 " Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.", Matthew 15:4 "For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death'." (NKJV)

Scripture for the Moormanism about air pollution and coming up with a substitute for it if we can not control air pollution: Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our  likeness,  let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on earth."

Stewardship was a topic that Hank wrote about a few times in his letters and Moormanisms. Taking care of nature was always on his mind. It was evident that he was interested in nature because he majored in Forestry at SIU and he lived on a farm. He felt we needed to do more with and for what God gave us dominion over.

Hank was not much of a proponent of drug therapy or the use of tranquilizers. He cracked a joke about it in this issue and in a past issue he also made a joke about pills making us wish someone a good day when really we wished they would drop dead.