Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-02-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

senting opinions of Justice Holmes are
among the glories of America.
Trivial diSagreements, on the other
hand, must be claSSed merely as
grouches, Of which there are enough
already. The belief that to agree with
anything shows ones weakness is as
silly as the feeling, SO plainly manifest
ed by many. that to disagree shows one S
manlineSs.
Acceptance and disagreement only
amount to something when they are
genuine and honest, whether the matter
under discussion is important or trivial.
No one can label anything as trivial,
after all, for it Is not given to man to
see into the future That is what we
were driving at the other day when we
said that time does not exist Some one
could compile most interesting record
by putting togther all the gueSseS in
every walk of life, as to what was going
to happen, and then. later, putting right
alongside what actually did happen. In
most Of the cases it would be entirely
different from the prediction.
One might think people would hest
tate to predict anything but the human
mind IS wise with a gross slynesS; it
realizes that by the time the event
spoken of in advance actually gets into
being the prediction of past days will
be forgotten except by few, who may
be disposed of by branding them as
"grouches."
Surely, disagreeing perpetually with
| the state Of the We2ther-that is, saving
that one wishes it were warm when it
| is cold, and cold when it is hot-is TAX
1 tnO fo1C hall u
Of human dissent.
To dissent because ones heart and
mind are in it may be sublime, but
surely it is only silly to be "ag'in" the
weather merely because it is unusual
That very unuSualneSS is what helps TO
keep it an interesting and alive topic
| why 1t Is not and cannot be stale or
stuffy or unfit for human beings. We
are evolving toward some end or other
of which we are not quite sure and
the weather goes with us
over at the United States Weather
| Bureau they will never agree with you
| that the weather is changing" be-
CsuSc they know better than most OF
us that meteorology is big subject
! as big as the universe. And the uni
verse is WhOpping big thing 1t is SO
| tremendous that our little indifference
| W ~, Vi W any VI It's manifestations
| becomes worse than futile One must
| be interested, if one is to be a real
! human being Perhaps few people have
ever come TO decent realization OF
what it means TO be a human being, Ia
| be human in a human way. Too many
are human in sub-human way, which
we like TO call an animal way" but
! which phrase does injustice to the ami
mails The brute creatures are animals
| because somehow they failed to evolve
enough brain cells to learn how to con-
vey ideas one to another through the
medium of ordered sOunds-talk.
1t Is talk (and its development, writ
ing) which makes the race Of man
kind human and which saves any hon
est theme-such as the weather-from
being either trivial or unessential
Nothing is small which contributes tc
the human mind and its radiations
That mind is the best we have. II
makes us human. The beasts accept
! the weather, as We must. because none
Of us can help it. But we may dc
something they cannot dove may
talk about it, and we should because
it Is interesting. because it helped bring
us here, and because 1t helps keep us
here