Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31

Cancellations from observed phe.
nomena are rather risky, especially wher
hinged on the character and conduct OF
human beings.
That intelligent people are the quiet
people, for instance.
artistic people.
That those who prefer dogs are men
and women OF action.
These are pretty generalities, which
no doubt have much truth in them, but
1t Is easy enough for any one to question
them, and to give instances of just the
opposite.
Few would be willing to dispute the
fact, however that the more intelligent
q person is the quieter he is likely to be-
1t Is not so much q matter Of still
waters running deep, as that he has
come to see that thought is opposed to
mere ostentation, and that this latter is
usually the be-all and end-aM of noise.
Machinery and the like has noise as a
by-product, the inevitable consequence
of friction. 1t Is demonstrated every
year that even machines tend to grow
quieter and quieter, as their manufac-
turerS recognize the demand for less
noise In mechanical things.
Noise, with human beings, Is only in
cidentally a by-product of muscularity;
1t is mostly the inevitable consequence
Of indifference to the rights Of others
and mistaken notion Of what 1t means
to live as one pleaseS.
These are the two flaws in the men,
tai characteristics of the noisy person.
as he works himself out in modern life
He is an interesting spectacle of greater
evils in little: To him the only law is
the law which pleases him.
For law and order in the abstract he
has no regard at all, hence is willing to
be totally Indifferent to the theoretical
rights Of others.
AFTER me, the deluge," is the unspok-
en- motto of the noisy individual. The
French King used it as bit of bravado;
the noisy person observes it as a gesture
Of indifference.
The thoughtful man is not noisy be-
cause he realizes SO well the vast amount
OF interesting phenomena which there Ia
whether it Is good or Iii, and which, like
time and tide, will wait for no man.
To be raucouS on his own account
he has learned, is to deprive himself of
the interest of the study of noise in
others.
The one noise browns the other, and
he is no better off than If he were noisy
himself by nature. This would never do
so he refrains.
He will not, Of course, he noisy under
any circumstances, because he has a
regard for the likes and diSlikeS of 9TH
erS, feels that he and his sort must set
good example, even if it never shall be
taken as a model by those who need 1t
most.
1t is one Of the most curious miscon-
ceptionS in the world, that models must
be patterned after. Life is full of the
most exemplary conduct, for instance,
with few takers, not because it Is not
admired, but because it is so difficult to
initiate.
1t is happy state of mind, this feel
ing that right is right, justice Is jus
tice, truth Is truth, without need of the
common proof of imitation.
The extremes of quiet and noise. as
applied to human character, inevitably
come down to questions of lack of con-
ceit and conceit.
Only the person without conceit, ex-
allied ego, will realize the deep necessity
for quiet, II he is to be an observer. The
noisy person is too intent on his own
little blast to be interested in others,