Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-06-12
VOL. xxx.
Little World Under Ones Hat.

Iner0 Is a llUUle WOflu WHICH
each one of us carries under his
own hat, in which, with good luck
and good management, there may
be peace. For each one of us
that is the most important world.
In it may always prevail the high
privilege of self-determination.
1t can be made safe for democra-
cy or any other form of political
government. At "a pinch it can
be quite disconnected from the
mundane world without causing
more than passing inconvenience
to it's ruler and proprietor.
That is the really important
world, the one best worth taking
pains with; the one in which it is
profitable that each of us should
do most of his living. If this
small, individual world is in good
order, the troubles of the large,
outside world will be to each of
us of only secondary concern,
but if this little world is serious
ly disturbed, the big world may
run ever SO smoothly and the lit
tie worlds master will still be un.
happy.
These are times in which, es,
pecially, it behooves us, each for
himself, to maintain tranquility
in the little worlds under our
hats, and contemplate the big
worlds jolts and gyrations with
out too much dismay. For just
now the big world gets new jolt
every day, and the prospect is
good that it will continue to be
butted, pinched, scratched, i'm
perilled and reviled for years to
come. 1t is not on the way to
peace, but only to the door OF
peace. The best that can be done
for it is Oput it in the way of at.
tanning real peace and regaining
material prosperity in the course
of a generation or two if it minds
it's eye and makes wise devices
and lives frugally and works
hard.
For the big world is in the hos
pital, and the thing Immediately
ahead of it is not so much recov
cry as convalescence, and a pref
ty long one. 1t is an awfully sick
world, and of a temper consistent
with serious indisposition. II
can't die, and it must get well
but it is an invalid, and is going
to be for some time to come The
mass of US are apt to feel that We
cannot individually do much tG
put it to rights. The regulation
of it in large matters must be del
egated to such experts as the
brethren who, wrangle at this
writing in Paris over the detail.
of peace. What they may do i:
the best that can be done, so fal
as we can see. In general wa,
we must back them up rejoicing
in whatever they achieve tina
looks good to us, and having grea
patience with them VIII IN the diff
fi,ulties that beset them are to-
much for their skill. In tim
they will work out something
and we will accept it for bette
or worse, and make the best of il
and use all we can of it in our bus
mess. If it is not good enougl
to laugh, it will at least be goo'
enough to be improved, and. W
can work along with it until i'm
provement can be effected,
But about the re-regulation Q
the highly important little world
under our several hats there nee
be no delay, nor any waiting o
experts. We can put them t
rights if we have the will and ca
discover the way. No rule of tn
Peace League will forbid us
fortify them against adversit,
nor limit-What armament we ma
contriye to make themsafe. Thel
was a poet who wrote, MY min
to me a kingdom is" and anotht