Evening star., 1924-12-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E.. TRACEWELL.

Whatever you let them take away
from you, never let them deprive
you OF hope.
Hope is the 3-in-1 oil on the main
spring of life, the A and B battery
| current in the receiving tube Of our
existence, the first quality the in
FAINT acquires, and the last the old
man gives up.
1t means more than money, be-
cause fake stock promoters can take
your coin away from you. 1t means
more than success, for often sue
cess only brings home to one the
need for hope in ever-increasins
doses
Hope is that happy quality of
mind which, IL a man possesses 1t
in full. can make him view injustices
I>heaped upon him with pity for those
who so treat their own immortal
souls, and laugh in the secret places
or his heart when others think he
ought to be plunged into deepest woe.
My hopes are not always realized
but 1 always hope" said Ovid. and
those brave words are the motto
today, as they have been for thou
sands of years. of countless men and
women who never even knew they
existed.
This is true because hope is a
universal quality, needing no fine
words OF tongue or pen. no matter
how appealing, to instill It in the
very hearts of all OF us.
The words are welcome, however.
serving to call attention, now and
then, to the deep necessity for hold
ing this quality in the reverence
which we do accord 1t, but often
unthinkingly TO know a thing is
not always to have 1t. To think
about 1t often makes 1t ours.
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If all the men IN the United States
of frustrated ambition could be as
sembled in a parade down Pennsyl-
Vania avenue they would make the
mighttest gathering the old street
ever knew.
For countless days and nights they
would march, 20 abreast silent as
the pyramids, an impressive tribute
to ambition. Just claims. false claims,
justice and injustice, with all their
winged ministers OF thought and
rainbow dreams and speculations
lone banner would be carried at
the head of that mighty host. and on
II, in letters of pure white upon a
background OF gold, would be the
single word:
Hope"
For the men OF this impossible pa
rade would do the impossible by one
and all recognizing that hope was
the quality which still imbued them.
There in line would be a drunken
wretch, i'll clad a victim of old time
whisky and new-time rotgut, a man
who had beaten his wife, abused his
children, alienated his neighbors,
lost his own respect
He might seem down and out. but
hope springs eternal in the human
breast" as Pope well said; and this
victim of one of the queerest chem
ical tricks Nature ever played upon
man. although he might seem too far
gone for any thing, still in his bosom
would hold tight single fold OF the
beautiful garment of Hope,
In the line would be a downtrodden
clerk, of the type familiar to Dick
ems. as 1t is to US of this new land
Whether in Government or private
service would make no difference
He started with ambitions, with
dreams, with hopes; he awoke at 40
to realize that he was a partly bald
animal, holding a $1,000 Job, without
the slightest chance in the world of
ever being anything else or getting
any farther on in the world.
He played the piano once; he
dreamed of being a concert player
Even until he looked into the mirror
recently he held his dream that some
day something would come OF It,
Now he knows better He knows
that tomorrow will be no different
from today, and that, as far as he