Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Yes, very "funny''-absurd In real
ity--since your first Impression was
based on nothing. yet had all the i'm
pressiveness of truth
What one Hkesi That is the button
we press a hundred times day, usu-
ally nothing popping forth but an
ugly jack in the box, a grinning thing
unworthy of being hid in so essen
TALLY beautiful a container.
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Each one OF US Is the center of the
world for himself. For me, ! am the
center; for you. you are the center for
them, they are the center.
Sounds like a lesson in Latin gram
mar, does il not? Yet il is more than
that much more than that. this clarity
ing Of my view. and resultant clarifying
of yours, as we consider the problem.
for that is all writing Is, in essence. a
Standardization to begin with, carrying
something over to the reader. You may
not agree with me. but IL we think the
best we can we have done something.
AS far as possible. then, men ought
not to condemn others upon small
provocation. AS matter of cold fact,
this hasty condemnation. this snap judg-
ment, Is our human equivalent for the
dog trick of swapping at people.
The dog vents his animal spleen upon
others by swapping at them with his
physical mouth.
mus against our fellow mortals by ours
ing them, Kidding" them unfairly, when
we know next to nothing about them
Often IL we could know, we would
blush with very shame at remarks we
have made
Here Is a man who has a CROUCH
we tell the world. He is the meanest
old cuss that ever walked on two legs,
we never miss a chance informing all
| our friends.
But it is we who are the mean cuss.
for that man has a hidden stomach
| ulcer unknown even to himself, perhaps,
| which is responsible for the surface
| traits which we so greedily seize upon
| and magnify, as II there were nothing
| else to the fellow except those bad
| traits of his.
| Scores of teachers have erred In their
predictions OF future hangings and peni-
| Tertiary sentences for bad boys
| through their inability to know and un-
derstand hidden ills In the ply steal and
mental economy.
Slowly these maIadtes. hidden deeper
! than the bottom OF the world, are being
dragged one by one to the surface of
man. where they foat so that all may
see and understand.
| But II one sees, does ne necessarily
! understand
Alas. that Is the eternal joker which
the master Of the pack seems to have
placed there since the beginning.
We see, and stiil we fail to under
| stand. Having eyes, we see very little
and having ears. we hear not, as was
said long ago.
| X 4 y
| Don't condemn offhand.
The child may suffer internally, al
though standing before US as the very
| picture OF health. The teeth may be
liberated. although sound and white or
| the surface.
| The dog may have had no water for
days, when he froths at the mouth some
| hot Summer day .
| How can we know?
| We cannot. that Is why we ought no,
| Judge others harshly, condemn unnec-
esssriiy, josh unknowingiy. Some day
there Is going to arise a philosopher
greater than has ever been known, one
who will bring peace among the nations
by giving peace to men, peace TO the in
dividual.
And these results he will get by
bringing theory and practice down &c
1 the level Of common sense. How he will
| do It? How do / know. But there Ia
one thing reasonably certain. He mus
begin with some such principle as this
DO not condemn--they may be sick >