Show Minded Child and nd id Ruled by Emotions' Emotions Editor The Telegram Aft After r the dirigible ble Graf Zeppelin landed at at Cuer Cuers Fiance Fiance- ance when en engine engine engino en- en gine gino trouble Interrupted its proposed voyage across across the Atlantic one who cared to observe things s European V could notice a strange ph phenomenon Th The French and the Germans Jerman were a actually saying nice things about one another for Another for the first time in nobody know knows how hos long Huge Huse crowds of ot French men and women visited d the h hangar ngar where the big airship was stored French soldiers sol sol- sol soldiers diers dices and mechanics mechanic worked beside Ide the German crew setting getting the ship hip into shape l In Parisian newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers there were words of pr praise ls for th the aerial visitors and in Berlin Ber Ber- Berun lin un the newspapers newspapers expressed appreciation appreciation elatiOn of the reception France had given Dr DL Eckener and his men All in ir all it was an unusual af affair af- af fair It wont won't last of course In a aso I. I wee week or 01 so o the old suspicion and hostility will be uppermost again B But t for a a few days there was an era of good feeling and to an irritable ir irritable ir- ir and world worl 1 even evena a n few da days s 's of it are something It goes to prove prOve as as It if any proof W were re n needed that that we are after all ruled by our emotions Just as ns Lindbergh's Lindbergh tic m flight suddenly Bended ended the d d' d nd between France and the United States and rid restored the old harmony I ot of 1 17 o 0 the tho Gr Graf f Z pp-lIn's pp landing lat land lathi hi ing at Cu CUErs rs wiped out for or the moment mo mo- mo- mo ment memories of W wars war's H S 'S wion s hd hel 01 hatreds and enabled two nations to meet a amicably on a common common cornmon com corn mon ground g The of it Is Is however that It works th the other way too Just Justa Justas a as sonie some sudden and speet spectacular cular event can override old enmities and andI I bring overnight s so a 1 less fortu 1 fortunate te accident can create creat equal equally ll l- l l ly swiftly a Wave ve of dand dandin and indignation in in V V Let your memory go back thirty thirty- one s years Jears if 5 ou dont don't believe it It if th the battleship Maine had hid not V blown up uP and sunk in Havana Ipa harb harb harbor har har- b b bor r ii in the ary winter of 1898 ItIs it itis itis is qute Quite possible that the American people would never nevel have consented cC 1 to fo the w war r with Spain That on one event set the th nation on fire It rous roused emotions th that t carried all aU be before before be- be fore ore thEmA them A child Vi is always ruled V by his 1115 emotions emotion A grown man is at l least ast S supposed to tp b bo be ruled d by PY his tnt intel intellect l- l lect In th the mass s. s l however r. r It appears ap an- pears s that that most of 61 us are sUll ihl children chill chil dren- dren V T Today f for r no no reason except except that thata thata a German tn airship land landed d in France e. e the thc French and Germans are show showering showering ering V compliments on one an another another an an- an other V V t for r rome some rome equally In Inefficient insufficient In- In sufficient efficient len reason they will probably be about war This rule of the emotions is dan dan- serous It has haR good tood results sometimes some somA times s but It is too uncertain Y You u can rant cant t ev ever r tell what it Is gOin going gOin to do to i ou nu V VV V BYWAY PHILOSOPHER |