Evening star. [volume], May 16, 1948, Page 2, Image 91

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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WORDS TO LIVE BY
"Half the truth produces only half a peace"
ON WISHFUL THINKING
' by Omar N. Bradley
Chief of Stqff, U.S. Army
Q^tCake tis to choose the harder right
instead of the easier wrong, and never
to be content with a half truth when
the whole can be won."
— Col. C. E. Wheat
These words from the West Point Cadet’s Prayer
contain a warning of two of the worst pitfalls
into which men — beset by events — can fall: the
loose, wishful thinking that causes some people to
hide themselves from the facts; and the willingness
to compromise principles for expedient gain.
Wishful thinking is the easy and smoothly paved
road to compromise. Knowing that the right road
is also the harder one, we have an all-too-human
tendency to choose the easier way. And, of course,
the justification for our choice becomes a simple
task. For we have great powers of rationalization
when it comes to proving to ourselves that we have
made either a “reasonable” or a “practical" choice.
However, when we choose the easy way out of
a difficult decision, we are only running away from
reality.
It is a form of day-dreaming, and sooner or
later we are rudely awakened from the folly of our
escape. History has shown time and time again
that we have arrived at catastrophe by our failure
to respond to events before they have become
perilous crises. >
If the world is ever to become the peaceful world
we want it to be, we must be prepared to live by
principles — to pursue those principles completely
and without reservation.
We must accept reality and react promptly to
all the facts — not only to those we want to hear. *
And we must fight constantly for the whole truth.
For peace can come only from truth, knowledge
and honest understanding. Half the truth will
produce only half a peace — and half a peace is
no longer enough.
Copyright. IMS. United Newspaper* Magasine Corporation
SHOPPING LIST. We’ve just heard
about an American official stationed
in China who has finally arranged to
have his wife come over to join him.
Wishing to have his house in ship
shape order for her, he asked his
Chinese house boy to make out a list
of kitchen supplies that might be
needed.
The boy came up with a neat hand
written document which included
several interesting items:
Bacon powder, tomato soap, one
woolen bowl, washing soup, one kitten
knife, one flying pan.
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to DEGREES COOLER INSIDE!
Perhaps the most remote movie thea
ter in existence is in Ivalo, Lapland,
300 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
The project is a fairly new one, but
Laplanders are flocking to it via
snowshoe and reindeer sleigh. Most
popular picture to date, we are told,
is a tropical item called “Tarzan
Finds a Son.”
MENU. Being male, we like a remark
that we recently ran across which has
been attributed to the late Clarence
Darrow :
“Getting married is a good deal
like going to a restaurant with your
friends. You order what you want,
and then when you see what the other
fellow got, you wish you had taken
that instead."
Tkig Week Magaiiie
FOR A BETTER AMERICA
WILLIAM I. NICHOLS. Editor
MEDICAL PEEPSHOW. 4
by Jack Pollock
THE OTHER HALF. 6
WE ARE THREE. •
by Ann Naplar
SO YOU WANT TO BE A CHAMPION? 10
by Parka Cummings
HIDDEN VALUE.It
by Jar onto Brondliold
"NO BUMPS. PLEASE".16
by Lawranca Gallon
MEAT PIE FROM DOWN UNDER.1?
by Clomontino Paddloford
WORRY, WORRY, WORRY. ?3
Cauar by Hy Parkin
Names and descriptions of all characters in
fiction stories and semi-fiction articles in this
magazine are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be Ae same as that of any
person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
TW-5-U-4*