Evening star., 1932-03-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The finest qualities of human beings
shine because they are in such brilliant
contrast with the evils which lie 50
prominently about.
These inimical phases of human con-
duct, no matter how unworthy OF our
highest ideals, are a part OF life, they
always have been, and 1t Is not quite
evident just how they will ever be
changed much.
They are the reverSes Of the medals
whose best sides humanity prefers. 1t
is only because life has two sides that
we are able to see the best side in its
shining colors.
This Is something which it is easy to
forget, or even easier to brand as
bromidic on the barren plea that all
statements made today must have
novelty in them.
Novelty itself only appeals because
of staidneSS Something new" has a
vogue because of something old. 1t Is
not always possible to say which side
of the medal of life is the best and the
most interesting. after all.
Environment has great deal to DO
with it. Temperament shows one side
glowing to one man, drab to another.
What appeals as excitement to one
seems only evil to another.
What is one mans meat Is another
mans poison. There is q bromidic
statement, enough, but 1t has held its
own for many, many years, and still
manages to put great deal OF truth in
little.
1t is the balance which makes life
the interesting thing it is, humanity
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error comes what we call our good.
Only because of the trial. and-let
us never forget-only because of the
error, the good has ever arrived, and
won the suffrages Of thinking men.
The term thinking men" deserves a
bit of Qualification. There is a tendency
on the part of some people to believe,
and all too easily, that nothing can
ever be really right; that what Is moral
one place will be immoral another, and
vice versa. While there Is one element
of truth in this, there Is another and
decidedly larger element Of error in 1t.
The thinking man, who has balanced
one against the other, will think sur
prisingly like the thinking man in an
other part of the world who has
balanced the same two facts.
Their conclusions, on the whole, and
utterly irrespective Oh race OF CTeeO,
will be the same. Often it will be ex-
pedient for one Of them, perhaps, to
refrain from publishing his conclu-
sion to the world. But II he can be
caught in mellow hour, when he feels
safe and his mask is down, he will
reveal the truth as he sees it-and it
will be the same truth which this dare
devil here spoke out boldly.
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All the philosophy in the world, how
ever, will not quite save the benevo-
lent soul from feeling some hurt at
the attitude of those persons who re-
fuse to do more than tolerate him.
Well, there is certain large salts
faction in forcing them to tolerate one!
There is something there to be proud
of after all. If they will not love, let
them tolerate. Perhaps it is too much
to expect anything more from them.
1t is we'll to believe in ones self and
to feel that those persons who for some
reason or other refuse to find the good
in one miss great deal.
That is thinking we'll Of ones self,
and it is worth while, if for no other
reason than that it makes the man
who would have all people respect him
know that he has done as much as he
can. There is a satisfaction in that.
The rest must be left for more per-
feet world than this.