Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-31
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
By Paul Y. COLLINS.

Then when the world is born again
And the sweet year before thee lies.
Shall thy heart think Of coming pain.
Or vex itself with memories"
WILLIAM MORRIS.
Somebody mas declared that every
morning IL a beginning OF life ana h1i
satn man may ~ta, ifc ane" "''h t1e
new DAY But Is tt1as rue Can man
wipe out the past SO easily enc eIiace
the effect Ii has made upoE his charac-
ter and environment Loci INTO me
heart of a newborn babe and realize
that he has never mad" mi.taHe. new
or committed a Sin, never uttered an
t1nk,nd word 10 ANYBODY that his neart
is absolutely unta'rlcd and msuiliod
But remember thu even ne mas m
herited from anrest.y not Of his own
selection. and how '.uge IS his handi-
cap, The only human being without q
handicap Was Adam before his fail.
And shall a hardened sinner, Ike
YOU and me. find II easy tomorrow Ia
wipe out the past ard face the future
with no handicap ~ hnit ont ability 70
start everything anew and clean ana
bright?
Perhaps not but We may adopt new
resolutions and determine 10 try again ~
and again. Here thew are--model rcso-
buttons
A little more smile, little less frow1
A little less kicking a man when NJ
down.
A little more we little less /,
A little more laugh. a little less cry:
A little more flowers on the pathway OF
life,
And fewer on graves at the end of The
strife"
There is inevitably something solemn
about starting a new year and filline
all OF the old year with the eternai
past for the past Ia SO long and so com =
prchensive that il frightens with rs
reach We can no more comprehend
its lmmensity than We can CONCEIVE
eternity All that We finite creatures
can do IL 10 take sample and cnhn'
the threads in that little scrap. Even
so. how confused We become with our
BITS Of knowledge!
For n decade nr two, We have necn
laughing at Dr Osler.
Or. Oslcf never said that men ot 10
might AS well be killed OF what ne
did hint was that man AT ~ wa
"too did mentally" for after 40 or,
tay s0~-thr scientific mind loses mu"li
Of It's elasticity. becoming too cautious
and too conservative and TOO seldom
brilliant and too seldom daring Yer
orrnt hooks would have To hc written
IA nortray the worlds conquered III
science. IN art and In discovery, bV men
drrndes beyond threeacote wears Gen .
rallzntionS rs TO years are meahh'R~
less when they can be set a~rV ~
energy and ambition FOR there " aig~
uiiiranea In the prnverb The younger
brother Is the ancientef
And w who have met win adversely
hast
And been bowed la the earth by It's
fury,
70 whom the twelve months tina, have
recently oasaed
Were as harsh as IA preiudifed infN '~
Sun IN 10 the FUTURE and Join III our
chime,
The regrets of remembrance Ia CoHen
And having obtained a new trial oi
Shout Ia hopes OF kndllet dozen
The idea that men could not live iisr-
ful lives after thfeescnir years, Whlf|
has been credited tn That learned man
mas appeared hhttl bouu tukt N'N'
medical science has been adding To nui
expectancy year by year so That toaht
II Is 30 years longer than II was IA
the days NJ Our own grnndfathrfa nf
1910 or 80 Twenty years added To our
lives2 why then n man of 90 Ii equiv
alent 10 hls grandfather al 40 80 he
must be just III his prime. That has
been too readily assumed
= =
II is always fine mettle To be on
tlmIstlC. but even our modern AIhetl'
can historians now pIofehA IN ignore
all considerations except facts, ~ We,
too, must taee the fact that there Ia
| u much point Ia the laugh At nr
0aier tdf the United atatea P.lhilt
Health Service takes the wind out ol
our sails by explaining that the dave