Evening star., 1925-03-15

ways making fuss because they are
compelled to obey commonsense rules
in the best interest of all. The fool is
the worlds greatest curse, and we are
too lenient with him. For his good,
and for the good of all, he should be
punished more promptly and his
schemes laughed at Many of his
schemes are now regarded with ven
Grafton as great discoveries for hu-
man betterment, and decent people
suffer a long time before his plans
are finally discredited and deserted.
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can never understand people who
have photographs taken and then say
they do not look like them. For, Of
course, the photographs do look like
them.
A wise gentleman in a recent writ
ing says automobiles are not properly
used; that the only remedy is to edu-
cate the people IN their use. l know
of nothing that is used properly; the
remedy in everything is to educate
the people. But a certain proportion
of the people cannot be educated. SO
l see no hope-automobile accidents
will continue. In everything, those
who have a little Intelligence must
watch out constantly or be run into
by others. 1t is foolish to hope for
world without trouble. We cure moth
ing, and new evils are constantly ap-
pearing to annoy.
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No reconciliation is possible. be-
tween the physical and spiritual. a
physical creature may have spiritual
thoughts, but cannot carry them out.
The physical life may be summed up,
| demonstrated, by today, yesterday.
| last year, the past century, but you
cannot prove the spiritual yourself,
| nor can you find any one who tells a
| reasonable story about it. If you
cannot prove a thing. it does not exist.
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| There is a style of vehicle desig-
mated as a coupe The dictionary
gives but one pronunciation of the
word-koo-pa. But 1 heard a school
teacher say lately that so many call
it coop" that it seems prudish to use
| the correct word. This is quite gen
orally the case in other things. Mil
| lions who know better apparently in
dorse wrong words and principles
rather than offend the ignorant.
| I have just put down a foreign
magazine in which appears a state
ment by a dissenter in Turkish poll
tics. He says:
The press is muzzled. Freedom Of
speech and freedom of assembly no
| longer exist. Independent opinion is
suppressed, religion prosecuted. We
| are forbidden to talk, to write, to be-
lieve, to think
How familiar that talk! I have
been hearing it in the United States
| ever since I can remember. 1t is
| heard in Africa, India, China, Japan.
in Australia, New Zealand, among the
Indians of the plains and of the
islands Of the seven seas. 1t is re
corded in tablets now being un-
earthed in the buried cities of an
tiquity.
And here it is in the latest print.
Yet I doubt the story was ever true
anywhere. The people have never
been forbidden to talk, to think, to
| write, to believe.
What liars men are,
What old lies they tell.
And we are all reformers on one
side or the other. There Is occasion
ally something new in most things,
but the lies we tell are always the
same.
If we should become as persistent
in fairness. politeness, as we have
been In misrepresenting and trying
to injure each other, surely it would
be better and easier.
| Those on my side, stung by the lies
told about us by the opposition, in
vent greater lies. Perhaps some one
hurls stone. Then a fight, a riot and
general war.
Isn't it surprising that the weakest
OF us are unable to realize the alb
surdity of 1t all?
Copyright. 1922