Evening star., 1922-01-01
BY THOMAS n. MARSHALL.
Former Vice President of the United
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look, may see the stars
shining through the hem
lock trees. Everything
comes to an end, and everything
has an opportunity to start over
again. There is no such thing as
finality in the affairs of mankind.
The wise man looks for hopeful
signs. Only the fool sits back in
.sackcloth and ashes. OF GER
tainty life runs in an orbit and not
on a straight line.
This New Year finds us again
lined up before the starter and
ready to run the annual heat IN
the derby of life In the last
twelve months many OF us Droke
at the first quarter, lost shoeS al
the half-mile or were pocketed on
the home stretch. BUSINESS was
bad and, try as we would, we could
not strike a steady, speedy, pace
The more desire dashed us the more
desire lashed us the more restiHe
restive we grew. We were handi-
capped with national problems ana
international conditions. The track
was new and heavy. We did not
know it's rough places. We sus-
pected unfair practices all along
the way on the part of contending
jockeys.
So it was that many Of us never
finished. and it was natural that
some should feel that they had
been jockeyed out Of prize money
Dat no
is over, the race is won, the deci-
sion of the judges from which
there is no appeal stands. and II
we have any confidence in our
selves we will ask the stable boys
to rub us down and to prepare us
to ride once again the very best
We can.
The years end finds many man
doubling the goodness of God and
the business and fairness of his
fellows The world and all its
work and all it's ways has been un-
kind. unfair. cruelty relentless. He
had not even hope of winning In
the race of life. The years gone
by. filled with the fever Of specu-
ldtlOH- ndU leit HlIi Win thV
idea that SO long as the price of
gasoline kept up there was no
other way then to let the children
go unclad by day. unfed to bed.
With bitterness of soul he may
wonder without thought of his
own blameworthiness why he
should longer hold to an order of
things that tempts him with lux
uries and then tells him that he
a
acts of him a choice between ne
cessities and luXuries if his labor
will not suffice for both.
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What sort Of government is this
of ours, he may ask, that will not
by some legislative act rain down
upon me the mamma of necessity
If I will have the courage and
strength to work and earn for
myself the luxuries I long for.
His revery may carry him to the
conclusion that he had gained
nothing in the years gone by save
heartache. failure. despair. Could
any order Of things be worse than
the present order? he asks. Should
he Join Ishmaers band and pill
lage and ravage at his own sweet
will, or should he just throw up
his hands and sink beneath the
waves OF adverse circumstances?
Happy is that unfortunate soul
who has his bitter dreams inter-
rupted by the good angel of the
republic touching his feverad brow
and cooling his mind with the
thought:
Despair is never half so deep
In sinking in seeming
Despair is hope Just dropped to sleep
For better chance of dreaming.
Too often the world has Wakened
only to ask, '"Watchman, what OF
the night?" and then sank back
sinto its sleep of faith or hope or
despair when answer came. "All
is we'll" Through the long CEN
turtles battle cries and peace cries
have been evolved out of the dark
ness of ignorance and superstition.
come to pass this New Year when
men may ask of their consciences
and nations of their rulers, watch
men, what of the day?' The old
order is gone. 1t is not night; it
is day, New Year day. A new
system has been set up. Equity
and fair-dealing have entered eco
nomic life. Justice and charity
and peace and goodwill mark the
relations of races and nations
We all are about to start again.
We will not, of course. come in at
the end of the year neck-and-
Some are handicapped by years,
environment, heredity, early edu-
cation. Some are jumping with
the excitement of youth; some are
sick; some are sullen, and far too
many are entered in class too
fast. But whether we pin our
faith on Christian Paul or heather
Pandora, each may start out, if he