The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-10
CAN you SEE STRAIGHT

The human eye ana the human DTalh, WoIhhB IoBeISi
oftentimes achieve strange results.
Much more useful than analysis of the blows struck
at Toledo last Friday which adds nothing to the sum OF
human existence is comparison of what the various on
lockers saw or thought they saw.
What was the color of the umbrella that hoisted
over Dempsey when he first nito the ring?
A half dozen different observers saw that sunshadt
in half dozen different coors But maybe some of them
we're color blind.
Did Dempsey stand with his back to the ring unit
the call of battle had been sounded twice. or did ne stand
eagerly waiting the summons to conflict!
Two old and seasoned writer's of pugiism totally dis
as to why the battle did begin when the gong
or the whistle or both first sounded.
Who struc kthe first blow? Was it left lead landing
lightly on the upper part of Dempseys head, or was 1t
a smashing left to the champions ribs?
You can read the accounts and get either record and
believe whichever one suits you.
Who threw the towel or the SPONGE whichever it was
into the ring and so gave the victory to the youthful bat
tier?
There are three four answers to this in dspatche
which were sent the wires.
In themselves no of these questions, or all com
bined are of the least moment.
But suppose that the life of man depended upon the
answers.
Suppose that the verdict of jury was to be based on
the testimony of the who watched that hght what
sort of chance would the defendant have of getting
just judgment?
N
because they are trained observers Of things pugstc
Manv of them have hundreds of ring battles Some
of them have themselves been fighters, and one or two
had been champions And yet two saw the same Things
and put them down in agreement.
Of course on the big result they all were in unison
OF the number of times that Willard was hoored all but
one or two agree but as to the details there was hopeless
confusion.
Very few men have wel-developed powers of observa
ton
professor in one of the big universities tried thu
experiment of having man strangely dressed wall
through his classroom and then asked his students TO WRITE
description of what they had seen
No two of the students agreed to the height weigh
complexion color of har and details of DRESS and oni
a small minority were approximately correct.
The power of observation like the power of memory
needs to be exercised to have strength.
Most men 60 through the day without observing nue.
of anything
Their minds are aimless. They have eyes, but the
see not
| 1t is a great misfortune.
| There is so much in the world worth seeing so niue
worth studying and thinking about, that no man has
right to go laundering through life.
| Teach yourself to be Observant.
| Train your eye to correctly.
Be so certain of what you see that you swear
it.
| Carlyle said of Maccauay that he was man wit
spectaces instead of eyes" Carlyle said good man
things which were not true especially about his conem
poraries,
Correct eyesght and mind that accurately register
what your eyes may sometime be of nestmable US
to YOU 1t may eavs another mans life; it might be tina
it would your
! If this editorial has dragged out of prize fight an
into your mind thought that will be useful and helpful
it has accomplished the almost impossible feat of gettin
something out of nothing, for prize fights are about
barren of things to think about anything could we
be-Washngton Times.