Show THE r r. AGE OF DIPLOMACY r At times we have the urge tube to write one ond of thise bust em wide open kind of editorials a sort of rip from the old d days ys i Te We have learned from experience of many that it is sometimes sometimes some some- times as d dangerous to st step p on the typewriter as it is the gas bas that is the typewriter is more deadly than the machine gun But matters weigh heavily upon ones one's civic consciousness I and patriotic fervor and such burdens may best le be e lifted by ex ex- pi Oui Our humble conviction is that the world is drifting into the habit of doing things because they are diplomatic things to do often regardless of whether they are the right things to do One may go up and ana down the scale of human activity and find a suffering world avoiding on every hand such controversial s subjects as politics and religion and other great questions of the thet t t r. r day The fashion is to be diplomatic and stay out of great issues that are vital letting a comparatively few shoulder the burden of carrying on For fear of tramping on someone's toes many people sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice fice their own personality and well ISome I 1 Some public officials try to curry favor among certain groups according to vote-power vote with little regard for the principle of greatest good to the greatest number upon which proposition good government must exist if at all Consistency should never be sacrificed for diplomacy Tact and have their place in the scheme of life in fact an m importance to be considered but truth should never be sacrificed upon the altar of affability nor right subordinated to the path of least resistance The press is another institution that struggles between its own conscience and ideals on one hand and a changing reader reader- interest and support on the other Platforms political civic and social always stand the heavy strain of vote-control vote and patronage The world needs to get back to simple truth and the ability to stand by them Advancement of a race a nation a state and a community depends not on how much of what we learn can be and how much can be relied upon going Easy-going freedom will get one thru life to be sure but seldom into history Neither Socrates Alexander Moses loses Jesus of Nazarath Luther Burke Emerson Lincoln nor Darwin succeeded in getting everybody to approve of their acts nor accept their teachings but today the world is still wanting to know more of them and nd of what they taught and did None of them succumbed to diplomacy for diplomacy's sake This is an age of diplomacy from which it is difficult to escape escape escape es es- cape but what all ll can hope for and work for is a condition where when if diplomacy is to be a necessary ingredient in human relationships relationships relationships relation relation- ships all may BE IA DIPLOMATIC TIC IN DOING RIGHT INSTEAD OF WRONG II I I |