Evening star., 1924-12-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

1t will be better for us in the long
| run to leave behind a trail Of kindness
than to have placed our full quota Of
| footprints I'm the sands of time.
The sandy footsteps may mess up
our living room rug and bring down
upon our unsuspecting head the just
wrath OF very busy housewife.
trail of kindness, however, leaves
only sweet taste in the mouths OF all
| those who come after. Like the odor
! of pines permeating the cool atmos-
phere of Maine woods, this fragrance
| fingers with us always.
We may be so mean as to forget.
| yet there will come a time when the
faint, far-fung ordor will recall US,
with start, to the memory of a good
deed done us by a friend.
| lnasmuch as we have done good deeds
to others we will be measured, not in
| the stature of heavenly things, but in
the fullness of time and in the inner
conscience OF ourselves. This is one
| of the surest things in the world, that
none OF us can get away from ourselves
| or fool the best in US.
That still, small vice in every decent
man and woman calls out at the most
unlikely times, and in the least suspect
ed places, to tell US when we are wrong
| or when we are right.
| The very fact that a decent man feels
| that something is wrong is proof Of
/ the existence of that wrong. Others
may question him loudly. and ask for
| more proof, but he needs none and
gives none.
The conscience is like a radio receiv-
/ Ing set. One man has a one-tube set,
another has a SiX-tube super" The
! detector tube. however. functions just
/ the same in both sets. The mystic mes
sages from 1000 miles away are strug-
| CLING to get to you on your single. tube,
but unless you have the necessary am
plification you cannot hear them.
There is not a day passes but each
one of US misses some opportunity
| to do kindness to another.
Our sins of omission are many
| times greater In number than our
| misdeeds. although, no doubt, 1t Is
| true that they may not be as serious
| as many of the latter.
If the number of kind deeds which
we might have done but did not
care to do were made into pearls,
shining with a strange translucence.
and put upon string about our neck,
surely most of US would bear a chain
! longer and heavier than Marley's ghost
| clanked into Old Scrooge's chamber.
And the name of some of those
pearls would be:
The chance you had to bring
smile to a little child"
The opportunity you let slip by to
change a tear to a grin"
THE praise you withheld for
meritorious work"
The hand you refused to reach out
! TO fallen brother"
The hand you refused to lift to
save a fallen enemy"
1.-The word of thanks you failed to
send to the man who pleased you"
Alas. the joker in all this is that
these things we might have done
but did not do-were such little
things, so easily performed that at
the time they seemed inconsequen-
tial.
1t is only as we slook back upon
them that they loom large in the eyes
of conscience.
x x x y
All you radio fans: How many
times have you resolved to take your
pen in hand to write to stations
WCAP and WRC and how many
times have you actually done 1t?
Think back over all the events
! broadcast do not like the word
"radiocast" by WCAP - important
| addresses. base ball games. wonder
| full symphony .concerts-Mrs Carrie
F; Jacobs Bond, May Singi Breen and
| Peg Wannamakef-andt the new tea