Evening star., 1941-08-23
Sees Golden Rule
Busis of New World
Mutual Tolerance Regarded
As Prime Necessity
Of Progress and Peace
By Ida M. TdrbeH.

By Ida M. T1rbeH.
(This is the sixth in series by
leading American writer's on the
theme of the Williamstown Institute
of Human Relations, August "a to 290
The world with which I shall be sat-
isfled Is one fit for all men to live IN
freely. How are we to get it?
For centuries force has been the direct
and unhappy route we have taken. The
weakness of the appeal to force is that
1t leaves behind victor and van
quished. The victor gloats over his
victim. The settlements are punitive.
The vanquished never rests until he
thinks he is ready to turn the scales by
more force. We are seeing today gang
sters organized to loot the earth in re-
venge for what they have suffered by
a punitive peace.
They justify their atrocities by the
promise of a new world order. Can we
hope that the order they plan can be
one in which there is any chance of
permanent peaceful living? What do
they propose? To destroy whole race,
all religions which are not of their max
ing BY no stretch Of the imagination
can we consent to live in a world made
and carried on at such cost.
The world in which we want to live
cannot be made by either gangsters or
idealists. That is, 1t cannot be made to
order as each attempts to do. There is
no quick and easy route to it. 1t must
grow 1t means starting where we are,
knowing that growth depends on the
multiplying of men and women who be-
lieve that human nature is capable not
cnly of visions, but of the patience and
Self-discipline 1t takes to turn visions
into realities. They are multiplying,
thanks to the dictators.
It is the dictators themselves who are
responsible for the swelling of the chorus
Death ever, slavery never" responsible
for the tightening of the hold of men
and women on freedom, the inspiration
of that chorus.
Freedom is the inspiration, but the
very dependence on the word endangers
its realization. There is no way to get
it except by peaceful methods 1t will
never come permanently through wars
But no more will 1t come BY talk and
wishful thinking. Man has no tougher
job than to make reality of freedom
Take that phase of which we talk Sc
much, the right to do our own think
| ing, to speak our own minds. 1t is
written into our Bill of Rights. 1t is 1
| fundamental of democratic institutions
But if have the right to think my
| thought and speak it, is it not your righ
| to do the same? If believe as I do
! that free and orderly society can be
| worked out by peaceful methods under
democracy better than under any other
| political system, am I going to refuse
my neighbor the right to defend his be-
| lief? Am going to dispute his right tc
try-out his theories wherever he can fine
a nation willing to make the great ex-
pertinent? Certainly not as long as hi
lets me alone in my belief and my
experiment.
We never will get an orderly world b,
denying anybody's right to make tria
| of that in which he believes, and that
goes, as far as am concerned for every
thing that is going on in this troubled
world today except the appeal to force
We have had too many centuries of tria
of that way out not to know that
carries the seed of more force with it.
All this means struggle and sef-sacri'
flee. What else does the most practical
hopeful rule ever given us mean? Tht
rule Christ gave: "As you would thai
men do unto you, do you even so untt
them" Try it and say that it is easy
This is sure, a new and permanently
| peaceful world order can be worked ou
only by applying the rule which We cal
| golden