The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-02
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
DEMOCRACY LIKE YEAST
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.


BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
- EMOCRACY like lump of leaven which woman
took and hid in three measures OF meal, until the
- whole leavened
Yeast Of the srangest substances Scientists 90
not understand it. s,@2s.
To this natural mystery, Democracy well be COM
The American revoutionss when they talked Of "cer
tain nalienabe rights when they justified armed rebel
lion by appealing ultimate truth and when they based
their new upon equality little knew how Tar
their radical principles would carry them
incidence from England but the powerful genius Of equity
they invoked could not stop there must work on
until the whole lump be leavened.
We beginning to get some notion OF the extent OF the
Simply stated means that every human being born
into the world has right equal privilege with
other human being That the idea that transforming
the world the gst of Jesus That is the meaning
Of 1776 That is the significance Of 1861.
It took almost century for Americans to that people
holding that conviction could not hold slaves
Since the yeast of justice has worked vigorously
That it is which Tabor troubles Underneath
all the stew Of strikes and Is the m
ing nor Syndicasm Communism, any other i'm
ported scheme, but simply justice to every which is
THAT it is which will democratize the all
secret companies that would control wealth For wealth
will never be secure until it also is democratic.
The Woman!Suffrage movement is but another mark
Of the working Of the yeast Of Democracy For
simply that the female entitled her rights human
The public school is the result of the same leaven 1t
that every child brought into the world has right to
decent training for life.
Yeast works. Democracy brings constant change 1t
means perpetual readjustment And that danger.
There always those who fear change For change
threatens established things
Nothing hates change and defends establishment
does ancient fraud How fought preserve 1.-THE d
vine right of kings maintain class and CASTE to up
hold ecclesiastical absoutism to keep their clutch
inherited and unearned wealth!
But little by little has the yeast of 1776 permeated the
Little by little the old dead Jumps of special priv
ege being permeated by the ferment of Democracy
The NIGH sha nOtS f0nu until
''all mems good
Be each mans rule, and universal peace
Lie like shaft of light across the land,
And like lane Of beams athwart the sea,
Through all the circle of the golden year
The greatness Of lies in his ability to interpret
Such must have that rarest of traits Of genius
he must instinctivey feel his fellow-men.
He is not leader The whole strong-man theory is
humbug. He is servant.
The greatest man is the man who comes nearest to
executing the will of the people He Servant of all
If he is poet he utters the word they dumbly feel
If he is artist he bodies forth their mpoent fancy
he statesman he materializes their political convictions
If he is orator writer, he says what they all would
Always behind him the mass from which he draws
his force.
It is the power of submergng self in the
of others feeling that is the gift of greatness.
The lawyer great who loses himself in the interests
of his clients
The physician is great who gives himself up to his
patients serving the poorest of them Loyalty
subject ever served his king.
The teacher great who the guide of his pupils the
expression OF their intellectual curiosity the will OF their
highest ambitions.
The workman is great who feels the profit of his
plOyer, the Of his goods and the perfecng of
work if it his
The merchant is great who his customers dvines
needs their wants. and he greater
his responsibility those he employs he
the personal embodiment of the activities of all his working
force.
president, governor SENATOR congressman, mayor
great if knows his people, if their conscience his
conscience his is their thoughts their desires and
ideals move his hand and brain
The great the manufacture of the people,
David, Caesar Washington, Napoleon-these knew how
to ride the crest of the multtudnous wave.
of Jesus thing be said than that He
uttered the heart of all mankind.