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A PHASE OF ADOLESCENSE.
The first person a man lias to convince is him
self. There are so few things of which we can be
absolutely sure; and even with these, a neighbor’s
doubt, or a swift mood of depression, or a new angle
of vision, or the sudden accession of new knowledge,
will topple our most carefully-reared palaces of con
viction into irretrievable ruin. Some men are able
to encase themselves in their convictions as in a coat
of mail; for some, today’s opinions can be shed as
lightly as an old coat, if they are inconvenient to
morrow.. Every man must have some basis of as
sured conviction or he could not endure the mere
fact of living for a single day. And most people
are didactic, have an enthusiasm for imparting the
things they have seen or that they think they know.
This necessity of imparting probably makes us
crystallize many of our opinions long before they
have reached anything like their final form. We
have to know where we stand before we can explain
where we stand to others. So our conclusions are
all too often immature, made hard and definite in
their early stages of development, through the de
sire to make them known to others. It is a pity,
but there the fact stands. That is one of the evils
of a democratic community. The value put on mere
ability to express is the prime cause of most of our
crude social and political and religious thinking.
And then we are chiefly occupied in justifying pos
itions we have been hurried into, in defending, for
consistency’s sake, things that in our heart of hearts
we know to be open to the gravest doubts.
It really pays in the end for a man or a nation
to be inarticulate. If there is no easy vent when
experience and knowledge are limited, power and
wisdom accumulate, bank up, to overflow at a very
much higher level. But that is just what the rush
of modern life and the passion for talk will not let
us do.
So with pitiable frequency we find, if we are
open to new ideas, that we are compelled to justify
ourselves to ourselves. Most intolerance is due to
that. A man who has his feet on the rock is not
perturbed with the surge of contrary opinion around
him. He is sure of himself, and can look out on
the welter of ideas at his feet with calm certainty.
He has won to the peace of conviction. It is only
the man not sure of himself that is driven to bluster
and bellow. He tries to persuade himself by the
loudness of his talk. He will howl down all oppo
sition because he dare not face the possibility to
shout his opinions, he is hoping first of all to con
vince himself.
You w;ill see that in the person who has risen
from humble estate to riches and authority and who
is prone to insist upon the fact that he is a gentle
man. When a man has to talk about it, it is plain
that he is full of doubts on the matter himself. The
gentleman born takes it all for granted and would
never dream of calling the attention of others to his
breeding and his lofty ideals or honor.
You will see exactly the same process in a young
and vigorous nation that is forever proclaiming its
supreme worth from the housetops. We in Austra
lia, and New Zealand are in the sage of big talk. It
is a phase of our adolescence; we shall grow out of
it in time. Great Britain has too great a history
to have any doubts of her quality and she has no
need to advertise it. The average Englishman can
not understand the American or the Colonial point
of view, and usually has as little sympathy with our
passion for self-expression and self-advertisement as
we have for his condescending aloofness. Probably
his opinion of himself is far higher than our opin
ion of ourselves. But the centuries have given him
the assurance that comes from the final judgment
of history on his claims, while we of the younger
nations have still to talk to convince ourselves.
America is still in the big boy stage, further
along the road than we are, and with infinitely more
to boast about; but with all the achievements of full
manhood, America must still let the adolescence have
his way. That is what Dickens noticed in the
States, and the best part of a century has not alter
ed matters much. America is still so vigorously
growing, and a couple of centuries is of so little
account in the life-history of a great nation, that she
will be open to the same charge for many a long
year to come.
It is not a sign of national weakness, but of the
steady realization of strength in a powerful, growing
people. Some of its manifestations are not pleas
ant. Owen Wister has tried to purge from the
school histories in the United States the taint of self
glorification and unfair vilification of the older na
tions of Europe, and especially of the British em
pire. We do not know how far he has succeeded.
We do not think he can succeed. It is all part and
parcel of a nation’s growth'to full maturity, as in
evitable as the boasting stage in the average boy.
TIIE MOVEMENT TO PRESERVE WILD LIFE
The Department of Agriculture lias issued a
bulletin in connection with the conference held in
Washington early in October between the rep
resentatives of the raw-fur industry and the United
States Department of Agriculture, at which confer
ees from England and Canada as well as all parts
of the United States were present. The bulletin says
that the possibility of cooperation in insuring the fu
ture supply was discussed, and that it was the gen
eral opinion of those present that the available sup
ply of raw furs can be materially increased through
proper legislation. Fur dealers are anxious to pre
vent illegal trapping and to bring about standardi
zation of grading of skins, so as to eliminate unfair
practices between traders and trappers. It says:
The fur trade also indorses the policy of
the department with regard to the conservation
of wild life by preventing the indiscriminate
draining of swamps ami lowlands and by pro
moting forest preservation.
Most trappers, continues the bulletin, are farm
ers and their sons, who derive their income in the
winter from trapping fur-bearing animals at a time
when the farm duties are light and there is little
cash income from the farm. It has been estimated
that from fifty to sixty million dollars is earned
annually by farmers through trapping activities.
This sum, according to the Biological Survey of the
United States department of agriculture, can be
greatly increased by proper conservation of fur bear
ers, and especially by preventing the taking of ani
mals at seasons when their skins are unfit for com
mercial use.
The declaration against the “draining of swamps
and low lands” and in favor of “promoting forest
preservation” is indicative of the far-reaching effect
of bureaucratic government. The disposition of the
swamps and forests of the country are matters that
transcend the importance of the preservation of wild
life.- It is more important that we have more lands
on which people may live and prosper than that we
have more wild life.—Juneau Empire.
REPRESENTATIVES from every state except
Washington, Oregon and Missouri at the annual con
vention of the National Grange recently went on
record against the proposed child labor amendment
to the national constitution. At about the same
time the American Federation of Labor in annual
convention, indorsed the proposed amendment. It
is evident that the country is still very much divided
on the question.
Emma Goldman will canvass Great Britain
against Bolshevism. It will be a strenuous eompaign,
and its purpose will be to lubricate the hinges of the
American gate that bars her from this country.—
Houston Post-Dispatch.
Now we are told that the Couzens committee is .
going to probe the payments of wealthy men and ^
corporations, but perhaps you have no need to wor- ^
ry,—Boston Globe. t
Senator La Follette’s opposition to the Republican $
Party does not go *to the extent of refusing to ac- ^
cept his seniority right in the Senate.—Omaha Bee. {
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News dispatch says the Nobel prize for litera- {
ture for 1924 has been awarded to Ladislas Rey- $
mont. But what some of use would like to know $
is, who is Ladislas Reymont ?—Macon Telegraph. ^
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Merely because the name of a man you never ^
heard of appears in a list of big income taxpayers ^
it is unjust to assume offhand he is a bootlegger.— (
Detroit News. $
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Indiana says she has oOO poets, knowing it ^
would leak out anyway. |
Voliva has made $6,000,000 for Zion City in ten j
years. One of his drastic reforms must be no but- j
tons in the contribution plate.
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