The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-08-21

and professional politicians while the world is
still full OF unsettled problems and the shadow
OF the Russian famine grows darker over Western
Europe and all plying hearts But millions of lucky
folk in many countries putting all such cares
aside and giving themselves up to the joy of
simple lie by any sea that breaks any coast.
France is nightly interested in the decision
Upper Silcsia but French men and women laugh
galy they plunge into the little waves at Dieppe
Trouvllc BoulogncA regardless Of what the line
may be that is drawn between the Poles and Ger
mans. The port OF Antwerp is deplorng its failing
commerce. but all along the Belgian coast youth
dances until the moonlight each ripple to
quicksilver.
In Italy the Red Communists and the White
Guards continue TO attack each other in restaurants
and cars but in hundreds of coves and isles,
agitter i'll the golden sunshine, brown nymphs are
singing to the tinkle OF guitars.
In England now, every stretch of sand thronged
with holiday makers who seem to know no care and
have left their troubles with their city clothes.
1t seems that here is the secret Of happ-
which most people searching for in the toll
of spirit and sweat OF mind with feverish ambition
Perhaps in that world being shaped by
unknown forces which imagine they control
happiness will to human nature by way of
simplicity.
TT is amusing how millionares
/ and profeers sckcn OF the luxury they have Gre
ated and for months in the year at least put it
away from them and try to get near nature again in
camps and in bungalows in shooting and in boating
All their financial juggiings and all their anxious
watching OF markets and prices. all their headaches
and slecplesS nights in pursuit of power and wealth
have led them only to the realization that the good
lie Is in the woods and fields close to earth and
under the open sky free from luxuries.
Getting and spending lay waste our powers,
said one OF the wise old poets All the complica-
tionS Of modern civilization clog in the
mansprings OF human happiness if they deprive
OF contact with nature and hinder simplicity of soul
and life | have an idea that the immense calamtes
that have befallen Europe due to the violation Of
that truth. The whole philosophy of the modern
world directed false ideas of progress and
happiness Our industrial energy intense but it
produced not greater individual joy, but enormous
cities OF unhappy people, all fighting each other for
greater share Of luxury, which they imagine to
happiness.
THE under dogs denied in many countries,
1 not only any kind of luxury. but the most
decent necessities so that the spirit of bitterness and
revolt scethed among them. Yet by the pursuit OF
false aims those who succeeded in this jungle of
conflict were utterly unsatisfed with their success
and certainly not happy. Looking back on the rich
society before the war; not as one of them, but
observer who went among them with watchfu eyes, =
| remember crowds of restless, bored people who
followed the drift of fashion from one place to an
other waowed in all the luxury that civilization
has invented, and most miserable.
War itself was their way of escape from bore
DOM and apart from all political crimes and rival
rics that war seems have been natures method OF
punishment upon a society overcomplicaed deceived
by fal ideas, too far away in her rponstrous ideas
from her earth and sky, careless Of those who
laborcd unnaturally for other peoples luxury.
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