Evening star., 1925-02-09

! added, by one who has the snun-box
| picture. also a bust, and many DOCKS
about the great Napoleon, and VINO ad-
mires the man for what he was, and not
for what he was not.
&c X X r."
| We sit around and pan" the Presi-
| dent whenever he signs an act-or does
not sign it-without once trying to put
ourselves in his place, and attempting to
think what we would do II we were
| President
We lambayte Congress in much the
same spirit with which we speak OF gut
ter sneaks. I heard a man on an eleva-
tor, very Incorporating man, make
the following statement:
"Oh, all the members OF Congress are
crooks!''
He seriously believes it, too. despite
the manifest absurdity of the thing, and
every time he says it, and is not con-
tradicted forthwith, he believes 1t even
more. Indeed. II some one defends the
| members of our two great legislative
bodies he is all the more firmly estab-
lished in his own opinion.
| You see, he doesn't know single
member of the House or Senate. and,
what is more, isn't able to look at
them from the inside, or even from
a decent outside standpoint.
AS a matter of cold fact, the mem
bers of the Senate and House are
just such fellows as you and I, per-
haps a little more hail fellow we'll
met, undoubtedly having been born
with a political urge.
| Almost invariably they can think
and talk on their feet, something
which the average man cannot do.
This combination of qualities
rough, hearty personalities, the po-
| ha Oh lro
speeches-is responsible for our Con-
| gressmen.
Down at bottom they are just men,
most of them with an amazing ability
to work and to understand the big
questions Of government II you do
not think SO, hustle UP to q public
hearing some day and marvel at their
grasp Of the situation.
When a ridiculous proposition IL
made in government. and for a time
| seems to be carrying the day, the
common sense of Congress is there
to turn the proposition inside out and
vote 1t down. 1t seldom fails That
is why most of US who are not of
| the political nature need not worry
too much Congress has great good
sense, after all.
| 1t is not necessary, however. to
look to such exalted seats as those
on the Hill to see the value of being
both on the inside, looking out, and
on the outside. looking in.
Every parent can benefit both him
self and his child by remembering
the days Of his youth. Perhaps the
most utterly absurd sight in the
world is that of some staid father
or mother forgetting absolutely how
he or she acted and felt when young
Yet it Is done every day. Many
men, for instance, seem to lose their
sense of proportion when they grow
a mustache. They impute to little
Johnnie motives the kid never had
nay, could not have. They simply
forget to remember themselves as
children; they refuse to look at the
problem Of the moment, no matter
| what 1t may be, both from the inside
as well as the outside.
| In the business world storekeepers
and clerks often fail to put them
selves in the customers place; and
no doubt, the shoe Is on the other
foot, in many instances, and the Gus
toner will not place himself in the
position of the storekeeper and the
salespeople.
Perhap ps all of US ought to be more
chary of harsh statement against
others, unless we absolutely know
how the matter looks both from the
| inside as well as from the outside.
This would save many unjust accu-
sations, many a feeling OF having
done injustice to others, many a
heartache, many a regret. How do
we know what the man in the patrol
wagon did?