Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-17
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'1f somebody does not keep the
processes of peace going; If some
body does not keep their passions
dtsengaged. by what impartial judg-
fnent and suggestion rs the wofid tol
be aided to solution when the
.ghole thing Is over? If you are IN
conference in which you know mo-
lhndy Is dslnterested, how are YOU
going to make a plan? | tell you
his. gentlemen, the only thing that
saves the world is the little handful
Of disInterested men that are In H.
"Now, | have foun Few assn
terested men. | wish | had fouhu
more ] can name two or three
men with whom | have contefteu
lagaln and again and again ana
have never caught them by an IN
ndvertence thinking about them
selves for their own interests ana
tie to those mon as you would
title TO an anchor tie TO them as
Won would tie to the voices of con-
science If you could be sure that
ea always heard them. Men who
/ lave no axes to grino to grind Men
no love America so that they would
/ give their lives for 1t and never
! are whether anybody heard that
! ley had given their lives for IT,
willing to die In obscurity if only
| hey might servel Those are the
men and nations like those men are
1.-THE nations that are going to serve
! the would ana save It,
swollen Ones Won't Bnrst.
There never was time in the
history OF the world when charac-
ter. just sheer character all by IT.
self told more than IT does now
\ friend orr mine says hat every
man who takes office in Washing
con either grows or swells. and when
i give man an office | watch him
arefully 10 see whether he is swell
ug or growing The mischief of it
s that when they swell they do not
swell enough to burst. If they would
only swell TO the point where you
Ialgnt insert a pin and let out the
ggses, II would be a great delight.
do rot know any pastime that woul
9e moro dWerting, except that the
elaes are probably poisoned, so that
sc would have to stand from an
der. but the men who grow, the
men who think better year after
they are put In office than they
thought when they were put in Of
&c, are the balance wheel of the
whole thing. They are the ballast
nat enables the craft to carry sail
md to make port in the long run.
so matter what the weather is.
Illus Come Through Fire.
so | have come willing to make |
this narrative OF experience to you |
have come through tho fire since |
talked to you last. Whether tn, |
metal is purer than II was. God onlS !
knows, but the fire has been there |
he fire has penetrated every part oi
1t, and II ! may believe my thoughts |
have less partisan feeling. NOR,
mpatlence of party maneuvers. mos,
enthusiasm for the right thing no
matter whom It hurts, than | ever
had before in my life.
And ! have something that il ia
no doubt dangerous to have, but that
cannot help having ! have a pro-
FOUND intellectual contempt for men
who cannot see the signs of the times
] have to deal with some men who
know no more of the modern pro
Vesses OF politics than II they were |
living in the eighteenth century, and |
for them | have a profound and com
prehensive intellectual contempt |
They are blind. They are hopelessly |
blind, and worst of il is | have t. |
them when / know before | start az |
much as If | had finished that 1t Is |
absolutely useless to talk to them. / !
am talking in vocuo.
THE business Of every one of us
gentlemen is TO realize thar If we are |
correspondents of papers who have |
not yet heard Of modern times we
ought to send them as many intima- |
lions of modern movements as the5
are willing to print There is a simnc |
that was used by very interesting |
English writer that has been much in |
my mind. Like myself he had often |
been urged not TO try to change So |
many things. ! remember when | |
was president Of university a man |
said to me- Good heavens, man. |
Why don't you leave something alone |
aNd LEI II stay the way II isl And | |
said: If YOU will guarantee to me
TINT II win stay the way It is. l will |
let it alone. hut II YOU knew anythin. |
You would know that il YOU leave |
thing 1t win not stay where il is. L. |