Evening star., 1932-07-18

affairs Of daily life than into the grand
tactics of politics. etc.
There are literally millions Of men
in this country, so years and older,
who Insist on rasping away on paper
with old-faShioned pens which rust
and sputter. = you mildly suggest
that they purchase fountain pen, for
their own satisfa ction, they shrug their
shoulders. The pen manufacturers
have scarcely tapped their market
Often the same man refuses to sit
In the newer types Of chairs. which are
built much lower to the ground. with
lower backs. These chairs require that
the intending sitter cast himself down
with some abandon and no doubt the
''middle-aged" and thereafter refuse to
become abandoned, even when it comes
to sitting In chairs.
There is a great deal to be said for
these low-type chairs however Their
very atmosphere suggests the modern
They are, above all, style in chairs.
They are typical OF this period An
made to the high-seated, high-backed
l0unging chairs of 1910 to 1920 and
thereabouts. The present chair radical.
who revels in the low ones, then will
find himself chair conservative! He
will refuse to become comfortable in
the new chairs with high seats and
will insist on his old, beloved chair of
the vintage of 1882, with its "old-fash-
ioned" low seat.
One OF the queereSt conservatives is
the older man who is suspicious of the
telephone. even after ali these years.
kindly to telephones. They incline to
-
that the other party can hear them;
they regard the whole contraption as a
bit mysterious and tricky, TO be ap-
preached in very firm manner
The new dial phones came. to this
conservative. as just another sample of
radica'km running hoe-wild. What
was the matter with the old type?
These new dials simply made the user
do the work, etc.
In most cases this dangerously con-
servative fellow got over his pet crouch
at the dia's. but replaced 1t with a spe-
cial ''peeve" against the one-handed.
or continental type instruments.
Now he can see no use for them. You
use orlv one hand in handling the old
type, he points out, correctly enough
The merits Of the respective instr1l-
ments, however. have little to do with
our case: the point is that our friend
shows his conservative nature by re-
jecting the "new-fangled" Instruments
simply because they are new to him.
He Is SUSPICIOUS Of new things on
principle. and in his defense 10 defense
is needed. 1t NAV be stated that this
is an attitude which is very much
needed. as a sort Of brake applied on
the enthusiaSms Of the born progress
n iv,1n nt1ta
one insists
Al Smith more or less summed the
matter up in his post convention state
ment when he said: I'VE are living
under system Of two major political
parties. The party out of power should
constitute the check and audit upon
the party in power"
We have no desire to apply a parallel
here, except in regard to the use Of the
idea OF two parties" and the necessity
for one constituting a check" upon
the other
Conservatives always thus keep check
upon those who are not conservative
If We may put it that way. not only in
politics. but also in the thousand and
one walks Of every day life. where the
question of what color to paint the
kitchen wall may loom a great deal
larger. for the moment, than the fate
of nations
Many human being can work him
self into a rage over the failure Of a
painter to secure the exact tint which
he had visioned for his house but
somehow fails to get excited over a
tale of cruelty and injustice.
Are We not all conservatives and
radicals upon occasion, with the seeds
of both in US, each waiting for chance
to sprout, according to the way life
treats us?