The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-24
By Douglas DoM

oDVrisAt 1919. By PuOliO Isdsst Go.

Chesney resumed, with tho same
smooth composure;
II thought was wise to take as my
chief value the biggest thing In my neld
OF consciousness. I still think So"
"What In hell is he talking about?''
thought Henley slowly. Chesney pur-
sued. Ticking a speck from his sleeve.
For that reason, the affairs Of man
socially obscure, a man In no way my
equal, since I am the product Of con-
turtles Of racial effort toward an ideal.
were negligible matters to me alongsids
the honor and general interest Of my
foreground figure. Do make myself
clear?"
God knowsl'' biuntly rasped an
elderly colonel. Go oni''
I'm glad TO do So" Captain Chesney
said gracefully. 1T want now to az
plain that, while sitting here, my cx-
perience justified, In a most surprising
and annoying way, the late professor.
From my transmarginal conscious
meas"
Kindly explain that term, Captain
Chesney," interrupted the elderly colo
mel.
Certainly, sir. It means, according
TO Professor James, that on the more
or less unknown margin outside our
consciously known selves, float fields Of
highly enriched mentality, unused Sim
ply because it takes time to get at them;
we do not inherit them at twenty -one
as a man does civically his right to
vote. You understand, STRIP
go on" growled his superior I'M
easily.
from my transmarginal conscious
ness, new field Of awareness unex-
pectedly, suddenly fioated into my
every day perceptions, as II sub
merged island anchored under sea had
cast It's mornings and come up. joining
my mainland---and becoming part Of II.
This was, and Is, very annoying.
For saw In this new field a figure
larger and more important than that
other figure to which had SO carefully
sacrificed everything.
Being a man without remorse and
uncontrolled by any superstitious dog
ma, was able to study this second
figure clearly. .
1T was unable TO deny Its bulk. It
was a much vaster affair than the first
figure, and, therefore, to my intense
personal discomfort, forced on me re-
adjustment Of my whole scale Of
values"
Corporal Madison stirred bitterly
though slightly. Why did they let
Chesney talk on and on, saying moth
ing, or was It merely to torture Madi-
son himself with this dreary, eternal
waiting for the sentence he knew must
GOMEZ ,,,
A faint tapping caught his ears, close
at hand. He glanced quickly up. then
turned his eyes down again; It was
only a rat, scratching a.semi Opaque
ear.
The handaged officer continued
calmlys
"But as all Of as exist by our scaling,
suiting our moves to what we find to be
the figure In the foreground, had no
choice but to offer to this new figure
all I had offered to the former one."y
The physician leaned sharply for
ward. Chesney folded his arms: His
eyes looked easily, coolly at the court;
yet in their glance something as remote,
as lonely as Madison's eyes was visibiy
growing. as he said quietly: a' t@*
at Is part of this offering to the
second figure that now wish to state
that I was in the sanitarium. Being
cured, / concealed my past trouble and
entered the army. But I brought with
me a memory Of certain acts committed
while was-mbalanced. 1t Is phase
of my disorder. It's periods have only
occurred twice in my life, that can
recall clearly what my other, or 10 put
It bluntly, my mad self did.
II had no right to enter the army.
But the figure in the foreground wanted
1t. So I did. But now, IN the narne
Of the second figure, wish to state, in
as few words as possible, sanely, clearly,
with acceptance Of my henceforth
ruined career and blasted private life,
that Corporal Madison has told the sx-
act truth, and deserves at your hands
not condemnation but distinction"