Evening star., 1926-05-03

lies the solution. There alone can any
thing be done about 1t. 1t Is to reach
this individual conscience that Isaiah
wrote almost the finest poetry in the
Bible. 1t was to reach 1t that Jesus
lived and died.
The great and good Of all races and
times have recognized this fundamen-
tai defect In human nature. 1t Is in
! teresting to speculate on what I'M
| proved condition the race would find
itself today if it had extirpated anger.
| In the first place, the world un-
doubtedly would be a happier place to
live in for literally millions of people.
There would be no angry fathers, no
harassed, petulant mothers, few
screaming children.
In industrial and business fields
there would be more and better work
done, because employees would not have
to save part of their strength and
ability to meet the attacks Of out-of-
humor employers and others in po-
sitions Of authority.
| With all these individual angers
wiped out, it must not be forgotten
that the causes of many of them would
equally vanish. The ill-natured store
clerk, the mean employe, the worker
that takes every advantage of the alb
sence Of the boss" to take 1t out"
/ OH SOI1le CuSIOIncT--tEebe, LOO, WOulu
be of the darkened past.
Without the sudden, binding i'm
pulses to anger which have made so
much misery and woe In the past, the
world would find that it has gone q
| long way toward making wars less
liable, and individual life safer and
| happier.
Anger. in all it's forms of meanness,
rage, fury, irascibility, ire, has caused
more woe in the world than alcohol,
even. The sorrows in its crown are
more than seven, and its paths are
ways of uneasiness and terror.
| i " X
! The practical thinker always gets
| back to the point from which he
started-the individual.
| The individual is the center to
which all matters tend. He is at once
the problem and its solution. He is
| the effect and the cause, also the So
luton and the end.
| If anger, per Sc, is ever to be wiped
off the human slate, it must be eradi.
Gated one by one, one by one, rather
| than by the adoption Of unanimous
resolutions, acts OF legislation, or other
ipse dixit.
We would say nothing, in all this,
against righteous anger. This has its
place, as demonstrated by the Man Of
Nazareth. when he drove the money
| changers out of the temple.
| There are times and occasions when
anger must we'll in the human heart.
Then it has it's place. Even the Gre
ater has been pictured at times as a
Being Of wrath. 1t seems essential,
in the makeup of created things, that
some anger must enter.
This need not initiate. however,
against our general thesis, nor the
argument for the individual fighting
the good fight against this foe to
mans happiness. The individual must
resist. The forces of easy tolerance
must be fought to a standstill.
In this as in other affairs, there are
not wanting apologists to uphold the
easiest way" These are the apostles
Of retrogression. Civilization is a
forward and upward movement. mot
for just an hour. not for just day
not for just year. but always"
Only by every one striving the best
he can will it be possible for all of us
to get to where we would go. The
individual is. after all, the true and
only solution Of life's problems.