The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-11

eloNen thousand inruffonsbie London
taNi.drlVcrs drove everybody into the
splendid buSca, and Ia another month
immense excitement because the
strike of all the insufferabio London
bus.drivcrs drove everybody into tho
splendid taxis. NJ. fegoud accom-.
plished the astounding feat Of flying
upside down at JuvlSy without being
killcd and then came and flew upside
down without being killed at Brook
lands. one man flew over the slmp-
Ion Pass and another over the Alps.
Colonel Cody flew To HIS death in
one waterplano. and MIR. Hawker
made a superb failure to lily around
Great Britain In another waterplan..
The suffraEists threw nolsome and
infiammable matter into the letter
boxes. bombs into MIR. Lloyd Georges
house at Walton and into other al.
most equally sacred shrines 81 the
great. stones into windows. axes into
pictures. chained their misguided
bodies 20 ratings and gates. damned
their miserable bodies into prisons.
hunger.struck their abomins BILE
bodies out again. and hurried their
outrageous bodies In front Of the 81.
cred race for the Derby at EPSON. and
tho only leas sacred race for the Gold
Cup al Ascot.
II was terrified
Al one moment the loyal public
was thrilled by the magnificent en-.
rolmcnt Of the Ulster Volunteers.
and at another moment outraged By
the seditious and mutinous enrol
ment % the Nationalist Volunteers.
In one month the devoted Commons
read third time the Home Rule
ban. the Welsh Church Dlsestabiish.
ent ian and the Plural Voting ban.
and tn the very same month the
stiff.necked and abomlnabie Lords
FOR the third time threw out the
Home Rule BIN. the welsh Church
Discstabiishmcnt Bin and the Plural
Voting Elll. II was terrific. The
newspapers could scarcely print it,
or anything--tcrrificai enough. Ad.
Jectives and cpithets became ex.
hausted with overwork and burst
The word crisis lost all meaning.
There was such a welter OF crises
that the explosions of those that
came to a head were unnotic.d and
pushed away into the obscurest cor
ncrs Of the newspapers. before the
alarming swelling OF those freshly
rushing TO head. II was magnIfi.
cent. II was a dcliciousiy thrilling
and emotional year. A terrific and
s,upendous year. Many well-known
people died
II vas naturally a year Of strong
partizanship. A year Of Violent feel
lngs violently expressed. and amidst
them. and because Of them. Sabre
found with new certainty that hs had
no violent feelings Increasingly he
came 10 know that he had well ex.
pressed his constitutional habit. the
outstanding trait In his character.
when. on the day 81 that talk I'm the
office with Mona. he had spoken Of
his disastrous nability--disaHtrous
from tho point OF vtcw OF being sat.
iRfactory 70 single minded persons. or
OF pulling out that big booming stuff
called succesr--to Soc a thing. what.
ever II might be. from singi. point
Of view aud go all out for Il from
that point OF view. Convictions"
he had said. and often In the weiter
OF antagonistic convictions Of 1919
thought again. Convictions. n
you're going to pull out this big
booming stuff they call success. II
you're going 20 be satisfactory to
anybody or 10 anything. you must
shut down on everybody's point OF
view but your own. You must have
convictions And narrower than
shat--not only convictions bu, con.
viction. Conviction that your side
Ia the right eide and that the other
sid. h wrong. wrong 20 he'll
And he had no such convictions
Above. and most snphaticatIy. be
had never the conviction that his
side. whichever side II might be IN
any OF the issues daily tabled for
mems discussion. was the right side
and tho other side the wrong and
wicked and DISASTROUS side.
He used to think. Il can't stand
shouting and can't stand smashing.
And that's all there IN. These news
papers and these arguments you hear
Its all shouting and smashing. It's
never thinking and building. It's all
destructive: never constructive. All
blind hatred 81 the other views. never
fair examination OF them. You get