Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-15
The Impermanence
Of the Abnormal
-Thse. =. Rriss IN oommsros ana FInanos-
THE DISPOSITION to assume that whatever

THE DISTORTION TO assume that whatever IL.
i Is permanent. IN q weakness Of humanity
Al the height Of a storm. men despair Of fine
weather and end OF drouth they cease to look
for rain.
when prices are high most people expect them to
remain so ana when they low there are not many
who can discern the indications OF an advance.
Few are gifted with the ability TO foresee radical
change and fewer still have the courage TO act on IN"
vision OF that unusual foresight This is one reason
why 90 many sell st the bottom and buy at the top
That each extreme breeds its own corrective ano
that the abnormal cannot be permanent. are truths
which every admits and nearly every one tshs
10 apply.
They forge, that the power Of centripetal attrAo-
ton which holds the together has never yer
failed TO show itself supreme and that through the
ages the rhythmic succession OF night ana DAY winter
ana summer and ssedtime and harvest mas always
been unbroken.
They forget too that man himself is subject to
this law OF alienation and reaction that souvy
is followed by fatigue enthusiasm by spathy anu
esgerness 20 fight by willingness TO make peace.
Just now the tendency to overlook these funda-
mental rules nature and Of life and assume tnat
the war In Europe viii last indefinitely. IL the moro
remarkable because II Is evident that the very In
tensity u The struggle is rapidly e1haustng the oon
batants.
Mil,ons Of men have been killed and billions OF
treasure have been spent IN the already IL ts,
therefore. argued that II will be prolonged.
The German casualty lists show that 2i@,00 out
of a possible total OF COCOON trained soldiers nave
been killed or disabled thus far An equal. II not
larger number have been lost by the allies. The
world Il now leagued IN moral OF not military oppos-
ton 20 Germany.
Despite lord Kitchener, these facts which
make for ending and the prolonsation OF the
war
Just how the \ will come IL 10 impossible to fore
see but that eNh ston will shortly give the peace
maker his opportunity Is generalization that Is tuH-
fled BY the precedents OF history and the laws OF
physiology and we have faith TO believe that they
are the safest guides upon which human Judgment
rely.
between the United States and Germany will open
the way for a cessation OF hostiities.
II may be that the kaisers threatened invasion OF
Russia viii prove his undoing In case OF his
great predecessor Napoleon.
Il may be that tho fall OF Contantinople will mark
the climax OF the struggle.
Even patholoeists do not understand why how
Il il that breaks when the crisis Of the disease
il past but experience has taught them that after a
given time death is to follow II the fever does
not subsds
That the death of civilization and reversion to
autocracy impending We refuse TO believe
Such theory would be q denial OF history and an
abandonment of faith in the proGress of mankind
The virulence OF the fever has reached, II II
has not passed. the clinhactsrie.
An early abatement Of the struggle Is indicated by
all the experience OF humanity.
That we are unable to understand the processes
OF nature does not shake confidence in their
ourrence.
rpen be gathered. but everything we do and
plan we make assumes that any variation from the
normal will be but temporary.
BY the same analogy. we must believe that peace
cannot much longer be delayed unless admit that
nature has itself become an anarchist