The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-04
OF A POLICEMAN
ARE THOUGHT AND FEELING,
ARCHES BULL MCCARTHY.

but FIRST We Should Have Been SEINE
thing Else. says tho Nan Whs Fsre-
Sees . Day when the Ednoaslsa &C
Youth WIN Ne Exactess seseEss.
The lad who hung around the Oak
street police station yesterday afternoon
was reticent and hashful His bearing
pleased Lieut.. Bull Mccarthy 20 such
an extent that. rearing his head fom
the blotter. that discursive policeman
interrogated the youth In this wise:
Sonny" demanded Bull. where do
you live. how old are you. what are you
doing. why are you doing IL and what
are your secret hopes and fearS''
The boy made answer that he was
Arthur Diccon, II. OF ~ Oak street. de-
sirous OF adventure. lie would like to
become a sailor or . policeman. Bull
nodded.
That IL an excellent programme.
he said. a sailor first. a policeman
Afterward. When you are ~ you may
ship before the mast. Make two voy-
ages and then try for the police force.
In that way you will superimposs upon
an Adventurous career the comforts Of
nome. The sailor roves around like q
Harvard graduate. The sailor Assimi-
lates nature and the Harvard man cul-
ture. The two are compliments. IL
doesn't matter which you get first. coli
lege or foe ale. 80 that ultimately you get
BOTH
Arthur Diccon promised to follow this
advice and took his departure. Bull
addressed alternately Lieut.. Larry D 'Brien
and the ceiling
After this Intellectual fever. = he stated.
'the Police Department will go back
10 nature. meaning human nature. not
general alarms on how 20 know the Wild
flowers on the fire escapes. But this
intellectualiaIn must run its course. Psy-
chology has its place In the third degree.
but what chance has metaphysical evil
dence In an excise arrest! Our empir-
ical City Magistrates care nothing for
the pragmAtic sanction Of William James.
Lieut.. Larry O'Brien paused from the
task OF igniting his cigar 70 remark that
mAndamus some folk might want . writ
Of certiorari Bull turned upon him.
Policemen arr domestic men,, he
began with seeming irrelevance. A
man becomes a policeman because he
canno; help himself His nature exists
On VA" pouhuaiy bVe"coh 'houkht anu
feeling.
Men Of thoughtful nature 90 into
business and do material work. Men in
whom feeling prednminates so TO sea. 60
To war. That j. all wrong.
The thoughtful man should 90 Ad-
venturink. because being material by
nature he would make a success Of I,
financially and morally The man oi
feeling should lead a humdrIm existence,
for his prediSpo-ition would flavor its
plainnesS with romance.
Policemen unless they have had some
previous utterly diverse experience in
evitAbly fail. They are critics Of the life
about them. they momentarily Judge 10
No man can b. a good critic or a good
cop Who has not achieved his technique
AZ some other sort OF work II he has he
has a point u departure Thought and
fs.lug enter into every act a policeman
does. He deals with all kinds Of people;
he must have a point of contact with
every man. I have been printer and
SAilor a. veil a. policeman, Had ! also
t'.en soldier and dry goods dealer Id
he just twice a. good cop
Lieut. larry wished 10 know II Bull
l..h~vsd IN educated men
Every man ~ -sducat.d. retOrted
Bull. every man - self made. little
more precision. please Psychology IL
today matter - Instruments
-MstAphy-r- will spon l.. a popular
sri"nc- ! shall 1--we 20 the day when
given a certain nature IA a certain lndIvid-
IA anything can 10 made of the hoy one
wishes Twenty years frpm nov Arthur
mCcpu would u. scientifically szed mp
Then "A college education and thr,se
wears exTerenc~ as drummer would
bs added and he would 10 equipped TO
become first class public official. IL
will n. all "A matter u chemistry. thus
Arthur Dlccon > A y Princeton ?
sales agent minor pubic Official A /
our Childr.n will 10 analysed az 7
and reacted upon TO produce certain
result fra from allows AZ 81 II will Ia
a supsrlativsly good thing 81 course. but
personally I'm glad | grew up IN ths days
when youth eGy"rimentsd on him
self IN the world laboratory and deligh t-
edly ran his own rsks u explosion and
disaster