Evening star., 1932-06-07
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

TT doesn't do you any good to gel
sore"
This is sentence, caught in passing
from the conversation of two men on a
downtown street.
1t doesn't do you any good to gel
sore, eh?
One wonders what they were talking
about Maybe . business deal, per-
haps q private matter.
A right or wrong, of some sort, was
involved, no doubt, but there was nc
way Of ever settling the matter. for the
men had disappeared In the crowd.
Nor could one have waltzed up te
them and demanded the subject OF their
conversation.
1t does no one any good to se
sore?
In the abstract, especially in every
day affairs, it is much better to re.
main calm, II one can. than to nj
OF the handle" and get angry abou
something or other.
No one knows this quite 80 well Al
the man or woman whose disposition
is toward easy anger.
BY easy anger We mean sort OF In
born ire. or irritability.
This Is disposition so common thai
almost all people partake Of 1t, in some
degree, at least
In most cases 1t will be discovered
that many outwardly benign persons
attain that state of perfection through
tremendous curb put on their tongues
Religion. ethics. childhood training
common sense, expediency-these arr
some Of the diverse causes which tent
TO make an irritable person hold hi
tongue.
Innate decency, too, must be in
cluded There are, thank heaven
thousands of men and women WHIT
somehow come to realize that to us'
human speech as one instinctivel!
wants to use it, upon occasion. L
scarcely decent.
Decency here goes beyond the mer,
idea of ceemly social conduct and take
in range of ideas verging on tn,
! ideal states toward which the mins
Of man inclines itself in its better mo-
| ments.
1T doesn't do you"-or any ont
else-"any good to get sore"
The genius Of the race. on its better
side, is against the practice.
Anger, except on the necessary oc-
casion, Is devitalising force which
merely creates more Of itself. The only
result from average anger is more
anger.
What seems difficult for many persons
to understand is that the one hurt most
by offhand ire, in its common mani
festations, is he or she who lndulges
in it.
The person who is the subject OF
these demonstrations, whether in the
theoretical right or wrong, usually puts
on honestly, or assumes, the air OF
prosecuted righteousness.
His resistance Is perfect.
Even when he deserves what he gets
he is able. in most cases. to gain So
called moral victory If he is able &c
keep his own temper in hand.
No matter where the victory rests
however, the man who gets sore" over
something in the everyday walks of life
and shows it plainly. becomes the rea.
victim.
The very fact Of his irritability shows
| that already some one has scored upon
his inner nature.
Something or other rankles.
And humanity is such a curious
blend OF rights and wrongs, OF good
and bad traits, that in many instances
this revelation of inner hurt is all that
! nine out OF ten people want
Whether it is just or unjust make.
not the slightest bit OF difference tc
them.
They want a handle to grasp, and
here it Isl
| Hence wise men of all nations, after
reaching maturity. deliberately adopt
If they have it not by nature q GER
tain air of reserve which stands them
in good stead. not only in the major
affairs of life, but in those thousand anC
| AA AAA IL
large. after all. and which constitute
for the majority Of humanity tht
chronicle OF their somewhat unevent.
| full lives.
This air OF extra sagacitv often
strikes young people as indifferency
but it is not that; it is deliberate at
| tempt OF the human mind to guide 9
life. and as such. becomes one OF the
most interesting spectacles in the whole
| range Of creation.
Thus this average business man, who