The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-08
MARSHALL SERENE
AS HIS TERM ENDED
RECENT VICE PRESIDE EN- T
PUFFS HIS PIPE CALMLY AND
GIVES SOME GOOD ADVICE.
IS RETICENT AS TO POLITICS
Finds No Reason for Mortal to Be
Proud, and Wants More Democracy
Among People. The Heart-Throb
Makes World Brighter and Happier.

Proud, and Wants More Democracy
Among People. The Heart Throb
Makes World Brighter and Happier.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Eight
years ago, when Thomas R. Marshall
was on his way to Washington to be
inaugurated vice president, he was
asked just after his train pulled out
of Baltimore what he expected to find
and to do in the exalted official cir
cles. With that freedom from dog"
which all the country has come to
recognize and to appreciate, he replied
I'm like a cat in the garrett don't
know where / am going, but I'm on
my way"
Reticent in Politics.
Three days before he would vacate
this office and surrender it to his sue
cessor, when he had finished mod
est but sufficient luncheon and was
seated in the very handsome and or
nate room OF the vice president, TAX
ing his ease for a few moments
which means that his feet were drawn
under him in his big chair, and he was
pulling lazily on an extraordinarily
black and battered pipe, looking for
all the world like exactly what he is,
shrewd, knowing, kindly country
lawyer philosopher-he was asked
what he thought about things he had
seen and heard.
Politically, he had not much to say.
That will come some other day. He
NAV take his pen in hand after a while
and express a few thoughts and OBJ
servations. For the moment, his ideas
about things political may be known
only in so far as he revealed them by
remarking that, when things shake
down, good will be found in the last
eight years, and by good | mean
Brotherhood democracy" Maybe there
was fleeing revelation, too, when he
added to his goodbye; Il must go to
work now and appropriate $30O,0OO,-
600 or $400,0O0,000 out of depleted
treasury"
Sees No Reason for Pride.
But he was fluent in putting into his
own pungent phrases the old, poetical
query: "Oh. why should the spirit OF
mortal be proud?" After eight years
in the seats of the mighty his notion
lis that there is no reason in the world
why the spirit of mortal, particularly
one occupied with public affairs and
politics, should be proud. He begins,
as Mr.. Marshall sees it and puts it,
a hv on the upper spoke of the wheel.
Probably at the end of four years,
certainly at the end of eight, his spoke
is nearing the bottom of the wheel,
and nearing the dust.
He ought to be very kind and con-
sideratc to everyone" said the vice
president. Under our system OF DEM
Iocracy and with the American people
what they are the man that he ell
bows in the beginning and looks down
upon is very likely to be the identical
man who walks into his office at the
end of four years or eight years, feel
ing mighty good, and says: Here's
your hat Get out
Besides, what is the use OF being
proud anyhow? Mr.. Marshall would
like to know, after his eight years OF
Imingling with the powers OF the world.
He has watched the great of this
country come and go, and, during the
war and the months following, he
watched with the keen eyes OF an In
diana student of human nature, than
which few are keener, the conings
and goings of the great OF other lands.
And his question is the stronger in
his mind for the watching.
Il have seen them" he said, and
think now what | always have
thought | think it more and more.
1t is that he who would be greatest
among us must become as servant
Greatness is in goodness. Intellect
alone, be it ever SO lofty, will not sui
fee. Nothing endures that is created
by or founded upon pure intellect
alone. The heart-throb lives-the i'm
pulse to service, to the making of life
brighter and sweeter and happier.
Defines a Good World"
That is what underlies the need to-
day of this country and of the whole
world. What is the use of making the
world safe for democracy if there are
| no democrats to live in it? A world
safe for democracy is no good unless
| there is democracy in it. And dem
ocracy is brotherhood among men,
and brotherhood among men comes,
not from intellect, not from greatness
looking down on the mass, but from
| luG Wdi Ill III OD vi tiIC ilNdil lildl
would serve mankind. A good world is
place filled with good human beings, |
not with good houses, or good farms,
or good business, or even good gov
ernmentS.
Pride? Centuries before | was born |
great empires rose, waxed, waned and |
were buried so deep in the dust that |
the pick OF the arch9logist has not yet |
found even the dome of the capitol. |
Centuries hence the world will be |
moving on, according to the divine
plan, which | don't. understand, and |
am not fool enough to try to inter
fere with Pride? Why should any |
man look down on his fellows? Why |
should any man think to be great ex
cept in goodness and in service? Only |
the work that follows the heart throb |
can live. AS for me, | am not good |
man; | am religious man, and there's |
difference"
Being vice president, Mr.. Marshall
thought, is like being anything else, if |
one wants to be happy in the place
The secret is in the mental attitude,
in that job as in any other, high or
low, to which man may be called |
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