Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-01
TO BE READ BY MAKERS
OF NEW YEAR RESOLVES
One Resolution Is Here Suggested 70
World That Probably viii Forget
Il With All the Rest

Il With All the Rest
TN THE days between Christmas and the
i years end almost every mans bott"r self
shakes off its chains, walks out Of tn"
dungeon and climbs upward to the light Tor
call on the taller IIackeys, secretaries
doors and bolts cannot keep the shining
wrath away. 1t enters inevitably to SIT on
thc bed in tho empty hours Of the morning
or 70 look across m imposing desk with the
air of proud and diSdainful superior.
"Wcll." it will say pnticntly, i see 'nal
Won 'yc made "A mess Of II again. You W.
boon spending too much. You sW"rc to me
Inst vcar that YOU woudn't. The mon who
work for vou think You a snakc-not' am
ofrnid without some reason. l"u assured
me if memory serves, that you d be d'''n'
in your business.
''You've druggcd your mind with rumors'
You have been believing all the vicious nap
doodle hurled about your CLUB ny P'"Pe
who mistake political bigotry Tor PATRIOTISM
And the other night that gang YOU tra,n
with had to hustle you home in taNl'ao'
Won smelt of wood alcohol and YOUR wlt'
rrTed haIf through the next day. There lsn
much homo for XOu You re- looking Older
You show your years believe me. 100 mu'h
food too much mOtOrrar. not enough 'N'l
else of body and mind
Then New Year resolutions are maze
II rttlo tablets were made and engraved
with all the great resolutions made AT thc
beginning of ench now year, ana II tn'>c
tablets could be placed end on 'hu Ih'E
would extend higher into the blue cmpyreah
than some senator's opinions OF themselves
II they were used for paving-as. indeed
most good intentions are-you could bulld
wide. smooth beautiful boulevard stralEh'
down to the red hot back doors of Gehenna'
And yet New Year resolutions serve one
excellent purpose. They are an annual re-
minder OF universal aims, universal hopes
and universal weaknesses. In the llght lhut
shinos ont Of them you will see that AL
men. high and low, literate and lIIitcra'c,
exalted and humble, are as much ahke "t
! bottom as Miss OGrady and the iady Vi
Killings we'll known colonel. You Will see
/ too, If YOU look sharp. that human tribula
! tions arc due not so much to the defects OF
government and political systems. to cIlqueS
! or exclusive bundS. nS 70 the haDlt OF Tue
avprag" man to treat his better sell curing
| 800 days of the year as b" would treat u
| dangerous yrggman.
| Tbero l. g me slight CONSOLATION in the
| knowledge that only the heroes of this world
| only the rare and exceptional men, manage
| 70 keen their New Year resolutions. At
| Paris for example the New Year mood
| lasted for six months in 1918. That was
an achievement.
| Ilovd George resolved. VI. CIcmcnCcau
| resolved Mr. Wilson resolved. other
statesmen and their peoples resolved might
ilv. They resolved that the affairs OF ma
! tions should never again be conducted after
| thn manner of poker game with million
dollar chips They soemnly vowed that the
| devastating liquors Of imperial ambition
| should be- Nolsteaded forever and ever.
| They would drink of them no more
Well, something happened to most OF
them 4 few are reeling dizzily once more.
| Another big game is on and som" of the
PLAYERS, angry eyed and suspicious, have
| bitcbed their guns around into convenient
| nositions in the true wild west manner
How those statesmen in Europe will ever
explain TO their large families is mystery
They probably will not explain at all They
will tell the conventional tbs. They will say
! that they played too long'Rnd too recklessly
because the gang just wouIdn let them QUIT
| and 60 home.
That i, what they all say II is the oldest
| stuff in the world. But all sorts of UeopIc
still manage t" got hy with it.
II we were cndou ,i with the power and
authority of a bcnctCrnt dictator We should
besccrh all subjects in the realm to max"
nud hold 70 one New Year resolution which
in time like this must be regarded as tn"
most important Of all. Upon walls and in
print. wherever people might by chance read
il. We should PVT the three words Of our
appeal: "Rcsolue 10 knOt0"'
Almost all Of the major troubles Of the
world are due To people who do not know
thc causes and origins Of the forces that
| confuse and harass them and who will not
| TAX, the trouble 10 hnd out. They do not
know tho truth about what is going on il
uo,iircs or in diplomacy or In m" minds Of
| ,rrav.,I and subtle men who are forever try
| .,.v T., ,r.Ic control Of civilization or tMr
fr-it> Of riylization. Th"," U'opIr who .lr
NOT know have always been ready to arrrr'
i,- rrvItn all the dangerous gossip and all IL,
| intending propaganda Of IL" i'm" after il
! bos been filtered and filtered agqiu through
| Ji,hnnost ignorant or perverted minds
TLry are forever partly under the intlucnC,
Of intellectual moonshine-thc thing tha
might be- called the bootleg brew of cuntem
porary criticism.
Resolve. therefore, 70 read whore you will
gct the facts ; whore men md women hay,
tLr intelligence and courage 20 face and dis
rlsS the truth. That il all Important +"
,Lr,. are strange times aud tr"m"nduu
battlo on which tho future Uf Tn" world ma,
drPrnd - raging -L'H'N J" Almost over,
land.
II Is "A war brrv,rn Nv" ,.",.' dounaM
ideas and Il j., h"Ig fought ~ funoa-Il il
the minds uG nil sorts "' l"n n~ il VA
fonrht over nt the Marine. Onc ID. Mr~
ilcnS had its beginning in Nintl>chr, II bril-
limit German and an antichriSt who die
,noj The sum of Nietz-che's philosoph
NAV ma be put into two words: BE hard -
Nmtz~chran were the dominant minds il
Germany in the two generations that pre-
ceded the world war. Nietzscheans held i
all sincerity, too that the Christian, tn
tender hearted, the compassionate, the for
IL IL.
earth and that only men who we're ruthless
strong and selfinterested could ever guar
antce peace and security to those depeudcu
'n them. They had no faith in the crowL
,TEcy trusted nothing to the collective min
n,,J conscience Of their own or other pcopIC
Srn,rior gronn~ they said, would alway
horo ~ 4" III" crowds thinking, Moun
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