Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-11

work which this war was intended to
emphasize.
Lawyers Too Precise.
International law has perhaps
sometimes been little too much
thought out in the closet Interna-
tonal law has (mav | say it without
offsense?) been handled too cXclu-
sively by lawyers. Lawyers lilSa defi-
mite lines. They like systematic ar
rangements. They are uneasy if they
depart from what was done yesterday
They dread experiments, They like
charted seas. and if they have no
charts hardly venture to undertake
the voyage.
Now we must venture upon I'M
charted seas to some extent in the
future. In the new league of nations
we are starting out on uncharted
seas, and therefore we must have,
will not say the audacity, but the
steadiness of purpose which is neces-
sary in such novel circumstances.
And we must not be afraid of new
things, at the same time that we must
not be intolerant of old things. We
must weave out of the old materials
the new garments which it Is neces-
sarY that men should wear.
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that kind of thinking for mankind;
human thinking. thinking that is
made up of comprehension of the
needs of mankind. And when I think
of mankind 1 must say I do not al
ways think of we'll dressed persC rs.
Most persons are not we'll dressed.
The heart of the world is under
very plain Jackets. The heart of the
world is at very simple firesides The
heart of the world is IN very humble
circumstances; and unless you know
the pressure of life of the humber
classes you know nothing of life what
ever. Unless YOU know where the
pinch comes you do not know what
the pulse has to stand, you do not
know what strain the muscle has to
bear, you do not know what trial the
nerves have to go through to hold on.
Worlmen Real Mankind.
ITO hold on where there is no glee
in life is the hard thing. These of US
who can sit sometimes at leisure and
read pleasant books and think of the
past, the long past that we have no
part in, and project the long future,
we are not specimens of mankind.
The specimens of mankind have not
time to do that, and we must use our
leisure when we have it to feel with
them and think for them, so that We
can translate their desire into a fact,
so far as that is possible. and see that
most complicated and elusive of all
things that we call justice, Is ac-
complished. An easy word today, and
a noble word upon the tongue but one
of the most difficult enterprises of
the human spirit.
1T is hard to be just to those with
whom you are intimate; how much
harder it is to conceive the problems
of those with whom you are not in
innate. and be just to them. To live
and let live, to work for people and
with people, is at the bottom of the
kind of experience which must under
lie justice.
THE sympathy that has the slight
est touch of condesCension in it has
no touch of helpfulness in it. If you
are aware of STOPPING to help a man
you cannot help him. You must real
ize that he stands on the same earth
with yourself and a heart like your
own, and that you are helping him
standing on that common level and
using that common impulse of hu-
manity. FI
In sense the old enterprise of
national law is played out. / mean
| that the future of mankind depends
more upon the relations Of nations to
one another. more upon the realiZa-
ton of the common brotherhood of
mankind, then upon the separate and
! selfish development OF national sys-
! TENS of law; so that the men who can,
! if l may express it So think WITHOUT
! language, think the common thoughts
of muhanity, are the men who will be
the most serv!ceable in the immediate
future. r. asa
God grant that there may be many
! of humanity, are the men who will be
| hope and wish to advance It and that
the plain men everywhere may know
that there is no language Of society in
which he has no brothers or co-labor-
ers, in orde.' to reach the. great ends
| of eoualitV and of high juSticen