South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-16
Other Editors Than Ours
WHERE Is THE VOICE?
dearborn independently

Everybody foresaw that reaction must follow the
war, but few foresaw what form the reaction would
take. 1t appears to be taking course OF serious
determination Or, if that statement too
profound a reaction yet, it has taken a course
critically appraising many of the most soundly
tabshed practices among us. We are much more
ready admit the presence of fault in insti-
tutiOns than In ourselves. failing to realize that in
stitutions but the materiaiized shadows of
and because of this fact it may seem too much to
claim yet that have entered period OF self
examination But the future would be much more
hopeful if we had We sha get very far by
putting the blame what have ourselves
created; must reach bottom truth by putting
ourselves and our shortcomings the grill
II a rather pitiable condition in which society
finds itself inasmuch just there
handing voice OF leadership among the peoples. We
that here and there political voice is
crying, but the difficulties OF the world longer
political problems are longer exclusively
political the reforms and advances we seek are not
at all political in their nature The world every
whore is in position take all the political bless:
ings of which in its backward parts il
dreamed Of possessing.
Yet that these blessings accessible they
do not TO satisfy the need. Something more is
desired The field of economies has been opened
up to popular cultivation in notable way Popular
dreams envisage the whole of life and the
rights OF man interpreted as bearing relation
his industrial and domestic life we'll his
political status citizen
The lack OF leader carries with it lesson which
should give pause We might have had leaders
not?
Simply because those who might have been lead
too busy justifying the system that was.
utterly blind 10 the fact that the system that
slowly passing away.
IL is tragic thing TO devote ones life labor and
thought the OF that which already fail
ing Yet are constantly doing that Many have
not the foresight 10 appreciate the fact that tho
future is 10 be the leaders present. They have not
the faith that to prepare bolster today is
simply decreeing oneself 10 be a back number to-
morrow. Men labor 20 into the life which
they before their eyes. forgetting that by the
time they have served their apprenticeship and
ready 10 enter in, life will have moved TO
other standards
If there is somewhere a leader who yesterday
ignored the Establishments of popularity and reward
who scOrned our then triumphant life because he
knew il TO be imperfect and passing phase he
is likely be the man who has a word for to-
day. But only he has Only children of the future
have guidance into the future; children OF the day
perish with the day.
We distinctly in times II we had
been transported 10 another country another
planet And for the most part. the people are be
wildered by the newness OF il all II there shall
"a voice guiding US out Of the mists 10 the
highway. IL will be the voice OF whom ig
nored yesterday because he did not join In yester
days hosannas itself The advocate OF Yesterday
Is no leader for today--ne never has been all
through history he never viii DE through all the
periods Of human progress