Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-22

boys. Noodles line of talk of course
 would excite nothing but derision. He
 is a bundle of magnetism. Attraction --the subtle attraction to which youth is subject-hows from him. He whis- ties to gang of boys and they flock to him like pins to the magnet. Why?
 He is one of them. He has lived their life. He is the type that Maud Adams tried to depict in her little piay-the boy who has never grown up.
 His "spiel'' rarely varies and sinews of war in his campaign for the news boys all over the land are readily ap- proved.
 His Noble Ambitions.
 Noodles is ambitious He wants to reach all children and he is going to do it Recently while in a large west ern city children of the rich thronged to the theatre begging tickets, tickets never for sale to the show he was giv- ing for the children of the poor They had heard of this Pied Piper of Ham lin, these children of the rich, and they were unable to resist the magic flute. In a decade. continuing these tours, Noodles will be second only to Kris Kringle in popular Juvenile es- feem. The memory of toys fade, the hand of friendship, the word of en-
 couragement, the beat upon the back ! at critical periods of childhood, never fade in the memory.
 Lectures Against Cigarettes Noodles favors the Boy Scout move ment; he educates upon sanitation: he lectures against tuberculosis, cigar cites and strong drink; he has a hun dred fsms that go to make men health fer and brighter. And he is the apostle of the smile. Be cheery is his per- enniel message disseminated through cheerfulnees unknown in this world, since MT. Dickens pen dropped from his dead fingers. Be cheery. Be happy as you can Cut out the do1eful. Try to encourage the other fellow. Let the milk of human kindness mellow every thing. What a. message for childhood Noodles originated this. Nobody told 1t to him. He had although he will not speak of them-and he knows what must be done and how. He re- members the harsh word on the street corner, that crushes the soul of the gamin: he knows the blow of the bull ly; to the cring1ng babies who are toting their papers for the first time; he knows the home that has no cheer and the parents lips that never talk baby talk; he remembers the chilly night in the street, improperly clad and the delicious dream of coffee and sandwiches; he remembers the thrill of any bit or part of that amuse- ment, the recreation without which childhood is dead. is simplicity itself. Reaches Al. Creeds.
 Keep clean-physically, mentally and morally. Be upright and honest. Re- were your parents and cling to your friends. Here is his creed in a nut shell. He breaches to Catholic Pro- reaches them as no minister ever can, as no man in American public life ever has.
 What the Pessinnist Says.
 We are entering a great era. Un- rest is everywhere. Old standards of morality are being shattered Every body is saying that religion is losing al fa does not pay, that women need no longer be held sacred: that, in short, we are doing our best to go to pieces on the rocks of demnition boW-wows The gamin hears this. He sees keenly
 that honesty is not the path of riches We know the moral delinquencies that are only too common; he has little re- spect for religion that leaves him to
 go unclad in winter and hungry most of the year. He, the gamin, is only too likely to conclude that moral standards are not worth while and that the thief and debauchee are the proper models. All the evangelists in the world might unite upon the gamir to convert him, without success, for he would not listen.
 Where Noodles UpEifts. Comes Noodles, who is one of them, still a street boy. and he listens. He is told, in the heartieet way in the world. that religion is not dead; he is called on to remember, without a. suggestion of the hypocrite in the ad-
 monition, that he must be kind and good and loving and true, that when
 he gets to be a, man the nation may
 find him sterling citizen; he is en-
 unused by the conviction that he is
 here to play a patriotic part, that if
 things are not altogether as they
 should be, he, the ragged urchin, may
 dc much to make them what they
 should be
 Nobody Else Could Do This.
 Do you get this? What else could
 do that? Try 1t. Stop dozen news
 boys and preach to thern-and then
 run for your life. Yet Noodles does
 it and gets away with it-every day
 in the year. And he leaves millions
 of tiny hearts lighter and happier for
 his coming-steels millions of tiny
 souls for brave part in the battle
 that Is to come. If as some think, a
 decade or two will bring a terrible
 national crisis. 9 keen student of men
 and things in America might surmise
 that the greatest moral force in Amer
 tca today, the greatest influence work
 ing for good upon the citizens of to-
 morrow, who must decide that crisis,
 is Noodles Pagan.
 It is buried treasures that Mir. Nor
 gan is on his way to Egypt to seek