The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-19

fighting, and to the rest OF the
world? The nations were tired
and because they were tired, we
did get what the word armistice
means. "ArmiStice" is defined as:
A temporary cessation of hos
Utilities agreed upon by opposing
forces; truce" This definition
does not promise an end of war,
nor safety for anybody. 1t offer
ed only rest and u breathing
time for those who were to carry
on the further fight.
Let me quote Il few lines here
by John Temple Graves, III, from
the Asheville Citizen today: They
called it ArmiStice, but they were
sure it was the end of war-to-end-
war. The joy of it was measur-
able only by the awfulness to
which it gave halt. But armistice
was the word, only a space be-
tween hostilities." " at was
only day of armistice, of a little
space between battles; and the
space was all too little" 3" " "To
be brave and to be fair. They are
ancient qualities, snug 50 much
that their tunes are stale. But
they are the qualities for want OF
which the war-tO-end-war was
only an armistice." The quotation
is true, interesting, and sad. When
can we sign something that is
more than a narmistice? We talk
peace. Let us live peace.
1t has occurred to me, while
about making 1.-The world
safe for democracy" that the
type of so-called democracy that
we have in the world today even
here in the United States, is not
as safe as it could be and should
be for the world. Let us make
our democracy so purely and truly
democratic that it will be perfect
ly safe for the world. Maybe,
then, it will be desired by the
world. And such a true and pure
democracy vii he more powerful,
and in better shape to make the
world safe for itself. To be a
healthy democracy, it must be
made up of men and women of in
telligence and integrity. A good
many years ago, when the rebus
instead of the croSS-wOrd-puzzle
found its place in the newspaper,
there was one of these REFUSES
that came to my attention, and
me so deeply that its
pictures and its meaning stand out
clearly in my mind today. The
picture was that of two men, The
first of these men was dressed III
the garb of school master, with
two or three books under his arm;
the second was dressed in over
alls with two or three hand-farm-
tools on his shoulder. When cor
rectly interpreted, this picture
read: "Wise, honest men
are in demand" Of course, at the
time when this rebus appeared, a
man was thought wise, if he dress
ed in school garb and carried
books; and man was thought
honest if he wore the clothes and
carried the tools of farmer. The
figure may be a bit out-of-date IN
our day, but believe we can I'M
derstand the parable.
Wise, honest men are in de-
mand," caused me to think how
important it is even in our day,
that the two traits of character be
together in the same Individual, as
the sentence is intended to point
out to us. The world, in every
age has had it's gotta of wise men
who were not honest, and of hon.
est men who were not wise. But
there never has been time in the
history of the world when there
was as many wise-honest men as
it took to supply the demand. You
Just cannot get too many of that
kind of men. If all the people in
the world were that kind, you |
could still use more wiSe-honest |
men and such wiSe-hOneSt men
would beget such offspring like |
unto themselves.