| Show COMPLEX HUMANITY We have a friend who is Innate Innately I ly refined and of ot high educational attainment He lie is also endowed with much ot of this worlds world's goods Ilie hag hAa mingled with wI that class of oft t wherein are often found tho tho so-called so social autocrats whose whoso common affliction Is a ells dis disposition to swank and shallow I hoW In spite of ot repeated ex cx- cx he has never contracted the tha affliction His immunity la is due C to the great heritage of ot commonsense common Sense with which he Is endowed Recently this Mend friend ot of ours be- be be lame involved In a serious technIcal technical ical cal legal difficulty which occa- occa occasioned occasioned occa his detention In the coan county coun Ity ty jail This Thia scion of ot true nobility favored of o opportunity fortune and mentality became perforce the companion of ot the cosmopolitan ago ag- ag aggregation that usually make up the registered guests at a county jail lall aIt There Thero were highwaymen bur burglars glare confidence men bootlegger and such After some days of ot our friends friend's detention there had bad we visited him and In In- In Inquired In concerning his bis mental ra- ra reactions re reactions actions to this strange new expert ence How do you on like Uke your compan compan- companIons companions ions I 11 we Inquired The They are very much like the that I have always associated associated ed od with ho he said stud and a great many who are det detained hero here could be exchanged for or some that are safely on the outside with TUh profit to 10 society at large He lie said other things that qualified and embel embel- embel that thought and which I me roo to think seriously of ot the treat great complexity ot or humanity I Here Is an example of ot a favored Ison son of fortune well born born and care carefully carefully fully educated forced educated forced into the tho so- so so clety or of o the called so-called unworthy of the other hal hair of the world Sn- Sn SaI Su I philosophers would say there could be no Do point of o sympathetic I contact and yet be he digs down under the tho crust of ot their er er- errors errors I and delinquencies and looks with sober eyes to discover tho the tao tao- mo motives tives thes which hare bate actuated them I the ideals or absence of ot to which 1 they have responded and lo 10 loho ho found they are arc very much like I the people I have haTO always associated ed cd with He lie found at once a common ground of ot fellowship and no doubt counts It a valuable edu edo educational educational experience The point we wo would make slake or the moral we wo would d deduct from the experience of ot our friend Is this There are educated and people there are truly edu- edu educated edu educated and falsely educated peo- peo people tO- tO tOpie un on un pie there thero are privileged and people but good and bad as applied to people are ar relative are rarely applicable terms Some poet has bas given us the thought In la the thc lines which read There Thero is so much that's bad Inthe Inthe in inthe the best of o us usAnd And so much that is good In the worst of us That flat It hardly behooves any ny of us To speak Ill III of the rest of us Responding to the gr great at first law of self preservation society has through through Its duly authorized law lawmakers makers figuratively ely drawn an Im- Im Imaginary Imaginary Im Imaginary line floe through the field of human conduct across which It shall not says thou pass It If however a literal enforcement I were possible and the thc penalty pro pro- provided provided provided vided was imposed upon all who I violate that Injunction in any of Its its complex details particularly as applied to the law the variO various s tax tas laws and the automo automo- automobile automobile bile bUe and traffic laws a great per per- per of o humankind even or of o our splendId American citizenship would be branded as outlaws and many would bo be under penal detention lion tion Our detained friend may have made an important discovery in learning that they are very Tery much like the people I have bave always as- as as associated with The Idea Is not new but the source from whence It comes Is Js unusual and reflects the tho fine fIno courage ge and that we know our our ur friend possesses ses A general acceptance of ot the truth which he be announces would lend much to the sum total ot or human happiness |
