Evening star., 1926-09-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

I Slowly the clock in the tower chimes
out q -bong,-bongt-the waves
| created In the air by the reverbera-
| tions gather momentum, speed by ana
| die away in the distance. At least.
| that is the impression our sleepy mind
gets. We may be all wrong scien'
| tifically Perhaps the waves do not
speed. nor do they die away in the
distance.
"Hopelessly we wish that the party
would die away somewhere else
Might they not adjourn to the front
| of the house for an hour or so? EVl-
| IDENTIFY the party has no such inten-
| ton.
ut Is bent, evidently, on sitting
right there by the back windows and
| broadcasting happiness to the world at
| large, and our little world in partlcu-
| lar. Probably they know they are an
noying us. Yes, that must be 1t. IL
adds pep and punch to a party 10
| know that the neighbors are curslng
| you under their breath. Fossils! why
do they not have parties of their own,
, instead of lying there in their beds
| like Jumps Of salt?
yet, upon consideration, I find 1t
| hard to believe that the glad boys and
girls are giving a single thought 10
any one but themselves There the
| whole trouble lies. l have enough
| faith in human nature to believe that
| If that good couple over there, enter
| tanning friends at 2 am, stopped 10
consider they were annoying their
neighbors. they would call a halt on
| the party, or put down the WINDOWS
! or take steps to end the nuisance tney
are constituting.
| X X X \
| Nuisance?
| "a hard word, yet the police would
so regard them, and all those awake
so regard them. 1t is so easy, now
ever, when one is having a good time
or what he regards as such, to FOR
get that any one else has any rights
yet community living In cities is
built upon a practical application OF
the Golden Rule. Perhaps the pre-
cinct station is as near to carrying
out the precepts of Christianity, In
q practical way, as any other agency
in the world.
II wonder If even the police have
ever thought of their work in that
| light? Yet 1t Is true. A large part OF
their routine work Is ending nuisan'
ces that are created by thoughtless
and Indifferent people, who have no In
tention of treating their neighbors as
they would be treated themselves.
THE policeman forces them to OBJ
serve the Golden Rule, after fash
ion; therefore, yonder stout officer
gum -shoeing it between parked cars
to peer into the window before he
rings the doorbell, is a minister OF
Jesus Christ, in his way"
| * X X X
The speaker smiled. then contin
ued: Some persons today seem to
have the idea that home means
license. They purchase a house, and
imagine that, once property holders,
they can do anything they please.
| Thus they violate the very funda
mental of home-sanctity. For nc
home can be q sacred place if it is
subject to violation by others. either
through the medium Of sounds or per
sonal intrusion of any other nature
Living thus in groups, home
owners who wish to be a good sport
will naturally observe the proprieties
as worked out over the years. Mind
| ing your own business and not annoy
ing the neighbors are two funda
mental requisites. Violating the
second automatically puts one in the
position of violating the first, fol-
| there are other ways of not mindine
your own business than butting into
| other peoples affairs"