New Britain herald., 1919-02-20
\ LAID PALETTE"
Willis Henry Believes President Has
 Too Many Colors.

Willis Henry Believes President Has
 Too Many COiOrs.
 Editor New Britain Herald:
 One way to get the attention of people, is to ask a question or make statement that cannot be refuted. In this article I first ask question: What is there in the twenty-six arti- cles as formulated by the Allies in France, to lead one to believe the performance of the burden of these articles will make for everlasting peace ?" The statement I make is: ''The heart of man is as desperately wicked as 1t was in Ne1 1os time" Do not misunderstood me. I mean, that in the present day 1ight-thc accum- ulated light Of the ages-that man ito man, man is as selfish as he ever was True, we do not murder one another with as little provoC9ton now as they did in the days of the Caesars but we do, as individuals, seek to get the bet ter over our fellow men in every way. It is so in business-the srnartest man wins-whethe it be through what is known as "sharpness'' or "keenness" in business tra nsa ction or barefaced trickery.
 There is a tendency nowadays to gloss over all action on the part of man. he thinking in so doing Truth may be fooled Truth cannot be fooled. Truth is the fundam enta1 ee- ment of Righteousn ess. Take the question Of advertising for instance. I ask you to read half a dozen adver- tisem ents in any magazine or newspa,- per Mark the words. See how much is made out of nothing. If it's a rub ber heel. the advertiSemen ent goes on +o to+a tI,ot hwy nc one need never be afflicted with rheu- matism. Is this statement mislead- ing3 So with some kind of a Yankee collar button. The advertisement writer simply plays on the feelings. II belongs in the same category with You can make him believe the moons made of green cheese" Thus we see, there is evinced on mans part, not the desire for the broader brotherhood. which in simple par lance is. "Do to others as you would they should do to you,' but rather that of modern times, DO others or they'll do you"
 Now to come back to the subject ---ah. how often I've been accused of straying from 1ny subject. But as it's q, mighty big subject I believe I may be excused, especially, with all re-
 
 times.
 These tWentN-siN articles are to me like laid palette" The colors are all that may be desired by the artist with which he sees his 'mental pie ture," but when it comes 10 painting it he finds he has before him too many colors,--he is confused. All the artist really neds to paint his picture are the primariCs-red. blue, and vel low. That which these twenty-six articles need is to have the head and tail cut off of twenty-five of them, and roll them in to one article and label it--LoVe. But it must he a love that acts. It must be a love that Vaunt- eth not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unGeemingly, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, is kind, gentle and long suffering. But you say ''Do not the twenty-siN arti- cles contain all ths?' Yes, I sup pose they do, but in a way they savor of verbosity They lead everywhere and nowhere. There is too much chance in years to come for a loop hole. They may mean everything or, they may mean nothing. An, the English language is great stuff especially in a lawyers mouth. Then what would it mean when juggled by nalf hundred foreigners? We'll thered be one consolation,-f all hostilities were to cease tlll these men understood one another, there'd he no more war. Perhaps this is the very thing these men had in mind when they framed these twenty-siN articles.
 Not for a moment would l have you thlnk I'm not a good merican. But ] thank God that I'm trying to think