The Washington times., 1921-12-27

Nearly Moralizing.
About the New Year.
Great Opportunities.
Psrslstsncy's Value.

EDy Arthur BRISBANEJ
tcepyrisht lssl.)
Advice to young gentlemen:
PREPARE and start your New Year
resolutions. Take Z running Jump
at wise living with q six-day
start. It may carry you farther
than . standing jump. from the
drst Of the year.
Whether you keep your resolu-
tion or not. make II. Keep it II
you can but anyhow make it.
An infant makes many efforts
= walk. falls down often. finally
walks. It's the same with good
resolutions. And failure to do
better b not as bad AZ not even
wanting better things.
Good resolutions last at least
. week. and made NOW they
carry you safely over the foolish
nsss Of New Year Day.
There h such a thing a. train
ing the mind to wise thinking.
Good resolutions do it. To do
anything worth while q man must
plan 1t, think about and resolve
70 DO Il. thousands Of times.
Changing your mind complete
II. switching from one idea to
another; is often part of great
sucseos. Bernard Shaw. in his
lat article. reminds you that
Cromwell took the oath Of ale
glance to Charles The First In
1923. George Washington took
ths same oath to King George
the Third ia 1853. Cromwell later
cut off Charles head. and WASH
inGton. fortunately. took this
country from King George.
Don't let an occasional change
Of mind discourage you. or make
you think you lack character.
Saying q wise thing Shaw, as
usual. says a foolish thing. Him
self Irish, he misunderstands the
power in Irishmen, says they have
few practical statesmen and are
too sentimental. "slaves Of fixed.
ideas and phrases. Such words as
the republic and the memory Of
the dead can bring lump into the
throat Of most Irishmen. but really
modern problems cannot be solved
BY Jumps In the throat"
II sounds clever and true, but is
not either. "Lumps in the throat"
by which Shaw means intense emo
tion, shedding Of tsars tor 9 copii,,
try's wrongs, have kept Ireland
fighting for $50 pears. Without
those s1umps In the threAt the
fighting would have stopped long
40 and Ireland would never have
known freedom, The Scotch, less
Riven to Jumps in the throat, are
ruled by England-they also once
wanted to be free.
Whether freedom for a small
nation Is q good thing practically
and economically we shal! learn
after q few years Of Irish SELF
government. Some have theory
that Cslts and Jews, 80 valuable in
other governments, are incapable
Of governing themselves. We shall
learn about that from Jerusalem
and Dublin.
What sort Of New Year Is COM
ing? One thing is sure: No one
knows or can guess. Everything Ia
turned upside down, according to
old notions. Even MONEY, usually
10 wise and settled, is all upset,
as Simeon Strunsky Interestingly
shows.
bles away like an infant-nations
70 back to primitive barter-secre-
tarioe Of the treasury wiring their
handk over mounting piles OF gold
n their vaults-bankrupt nations
threaten well-off nations with
ruinous competition-the creditor
kneels before the debtor, pleading
for. the privilege Of lending him
some more money-that Germany
may deliver coal indemnity to
France, France lends money to
Cermany-the Chinese insist on
paying right away for a railroad,
and the Japanese insist on giving
credit"
It Is q mixed-up world and the
funniest part Of the mix-up is
your old Uncle Sam. tricked into
4 treaty that makes him guaran-
Nee Japan's empire. while Japan
absorbs Asia. And that after Sans
children had declared by seven
million plurality that they want
ed NO entangling alliance.
OF one thing be sure, young
reintlemen, this and the next few
years hold great possibilities for
those that now have little. When
the water n rough and weather
uncertain, look out for valuable