Evening star., 1922-06-04
ny THOMAS n. MARSHALL,
FormeP Vice President Of the
united States.

ny THOMAS r. MARSHALL,
FOrmeP Vice President of the
uaited States.
LONDON. May IS.
"Tiv mad world my masters"
1t may be. Most OF US have our
monomania. Fortunately for man
kind. it is harmless in most cases.
IT marks our difference from the
rest Of the crowd. and prevents all
Humanity from being alike. The
composite madness of the world
shifts between melancholia and
megalomania. 1t manifests itself
in the books that men write and
read and In the problems they pre-
sent to themselves for solution.
Every now and then the liver of
the world grows torpid, and the
literature Of the people Is sick
lied Ger with the pale cast of
thought" The past is all wrong
and the future inevitably must be
as bad. After a time nature re-
asserts asserts, Itself: and then ws pass
arc.
Just now the world is being sur
feitsd with biographies, 'autobiog-
raphiss and memoirs OF the great
war. They have a pleasing SINH
larity. They add a. new aphorism
to the language. Instead of no
man being great to his valet. 1t
now appears that man is only
great when his conduct is guided
by his secretary.
The biographies disclose that
great men would have been great
or had they listened to advice. The
autobioSraphiesi reveal that that
which proved wrong might have
gone right Y warnings had not
been needed The memoir Is SIM
ply pleasing way OF compliment
ing friepils and condemning
enemies. Ut will be long before
the world has digested the facts.
fads. fan9ies and follies of the men
who conducted in council and on
the hel1 of battle the world war.
wheth sr provincial who had
spirit OF catholicity might not
write, book that would be help
ful ~ perturbed world A man
OF Ordinary good judgment may
be both provincial and catholic.
Th'N will probably be acknowl-
edged by any man who will take
the trouble TO review his own ex-
ps'iences and recall events in his
own life.
In the CONSTRUCTED environment
of my Indiana town I possessed
those characteristics which mark
the man who can go up and down
his main street a dozen times a
day without undue physical exer-
else. AS / transport myself, in
ize that people in larger walks of
life were not subjects OF my sneers
or laughter simply because they
did not eat the things nor drink
the things liked. think my
thoughts. nor live the life I was
living.
When I advanced. II it were an
advance. into the environment of a
governors ofice. 1 found myself
accommodating a state provincial
ism. 1 was intensely loyal to my
state. ] thought her oratory was
just a little finer. her literature
better, her sense of justice keener
than those of any other state.
These: Of course. were provincial
thoughts. Subsequently I accumu-
lated the idea, which has abided
with me since. that however loyal
one may be to his own environ
ment. he is unjust to the rest of
the world If he condemns the
world without taking a look
through its spectacles.
Moving on to Washington,
American provincialism took hold
of me. No one waved the flag
more frequently nor signed appro-
priation bills with greater gusto.
But when i contemplated Haig
with his back to the wall. and
France, bled white in cause
which was the cause of human
kind, 1 realized that virtue. 10y
atty and bravery were not the ex-
elusive possessions of the country
! loved.
AsI journey through life I am
moving onward. holding to my
American loyalty and patriotism,
but willing to look through other
peoples spectacles in order to find.
IL possible. some common ground
upon which all men can meet and
speak and work for the good of
future yet unborn.
How many varieties of monoma-
MIA ! may possess l do not know.
There is one of which 1 am as
sured. 1t is lifelong love for the
peace of the world. l am not
much troubled about the past: it
is either secure or condemned. My
worry is about the future men and
women of the world. Into what
environment of thought and pur-
pose I find myself wondering. are