The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-03-16

wells army Of peasants or OF thosa
who fired tho sho, heard around tho
worid.'N Even the Germans had
something akin 20 a. II does not
change tho situation 10 say that II
takes root IN sophism II II there.
I, mus, bo rsckonsd with II Il tho
officers only salvation against death
by muiiny An officer with a sun
could not drive a regiment OF tol-
diera With similar weapons as
nero feat Of miiltarimn. But there IL
always enough morale In the mas. 10
back the officer aEalnH, tho private.
Tho 10 knows someone has blum
dsred." every soldier knows Il 10 be
a bigger blundsr 70 mutlny In a
cslsia SO hs stands UP 20 the order.
TO his comrades and trusts 10 the
desperation Of heroian TO get himself
out OF a bad prrdicAment Was II
not = few Americans IN Beileau
Woods who dared the Germans TO
como and Sc, ihem7
Tho real moron IN tho man in
whom inaiyidualism has gone 20 sesd.
who thinks 10 almighty much Of
himself and bis so-cRllcd individual
rights that he win not play the gams
with tho reat OF his fellows. who
saplenuy Gays someone has blundered
and refuses 10 Jump into tho breach
and try 10 make tho best OF u. We
DO mako charges and ask questions.
lots OF them, as In our right, but We
keep on paying ths taxes tina, the
hlundersrs nsssK.. We ars ffes
agents II In 10 laugh. How free Is
tho man who r. a slave 10 hin low~
Holf7 No man really RttainH bis
trueut freedom until no n really a
slave. that is. really devoted TO the
bsst ideals OF personal, homo and ma
tional life.
Individuals have rights: 20 have
communities: 30 have nationA Indi-
yiduals cannot 1.-Two altogether a. In
dlyiduaia when they 1.-Two In CON-
munitiss. Eelf-asseriiycnesa without
regard 10 others causes friction. Fric-
ton ppuila happiness OF communi.
tlcs- Laws are created. or should be.
TO minimize causes OF friction. Tho
constitution ls not an individual
document. II Ia collective. IL con-
templates at least that there are two
or more OF US II may not have fully
anticipated tho time whom there
would be 10000. 900 Of us SO we
mako Il 1T that time with--amend-
mentA An individual doea not need
TO mako q constitution. While tho
constitution may seem 10 define itself
In terms OF individual rights, II can
only do so relatively. Tho individual
must consider well the kind OF inter-
probation no gives 10 the definition.
There are threo kinds OF imperial
ism: two OF individual character
the individual at the top who wears
the crown and tho individual nj the
bottom who would like 20 wear the
crown. Then there In the imperial
Ism OF the nll-all The two former
must so. but the latter must abide 10
save us from n decadcnt democracy.
Tho individual cannot get away from
IL no long as no Is part OF II. He
may fight against the pricks OF It's
hlunderers. Me may have reyolu-
tionary genius to overthrow II and
prove as big blundorcr as those no
ovcrthrows. a revolutionary right il
good only for what II can get away
With; II Il falls WOO be unto the revo-
lutionlst.
We may be wiser But glibncss
with which We question laws and or
ders docs not prove II. We certainly
arc getting cockicr. when tho ques-
ton Is tho offspring OF the sapient.
adolesccnt saphead. II may be sign
OF n growing cocltiness Tho wonder
Is that II hangs on 80 long TO youth
masaueradIng in adult pants. The
smart Alex" sometimes tho smart
Alice. is ever on the Job. 1n.crroga-
ton Is tho middle name OF so many
Alexis and Alices, that II shows the
Influence OF ono good father at the
christening. II certainly has a
strange sensation for gray head OF
go to hear young girls scarcely In
their teens settling such serious
questions as the cschatology OF their
parents by telling them to 20 to
II. (Not heaven). Yet have
two instances OF tho kind TO record.
could wish they were exceptional.
But unfortunately they are not. Too
many parents let these young
sprouts OF insolenco and dIsobodlence
get away with II. II gets to be n
habit ut homo. They try II abroad
and sometimes II works,
These aro the real morons. trained
or miatrained, In tho homes 10 be tho
morons OF tho state. with pcnchant
to preface not only the blundorcr's
order, but soclety's most funda.
mental laws with their impudont
questions. and moro impudent viola.
tions-tho Hagons, piclows, Ar.
buckles, ct nl.
Tho real moron is tho pnmpercd
young man who does not have some. |
thing In his soul, In hla life, In hls
homo, In his country for which ''he
viii rush gladly to embrace death" II
occnalon demands. lilo 10 not much