Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 Melvill Land and it will be 5000 miles [ long. Let this line follow the equator and it will be more than one-third of | the earth's circumference. It occupies about one-third of all the land in the world; and roughly estimated, it's 20e,- | 000,000 people are one-twentieth part Of | the entire population of the globe. Itl does us no hIrn to now and then recall | the size of our heritage |
 The value of music in making military organizations more efficient is coming to | be recognized in war circles! From the | office of the chief of staff in our war de- | partment has come circular order for the organization of orchestras, regular drill periods for singing and informal entertainments. Commanding officers are called upon to name a musical director in each organization, and, when qualified officers and enlisted men are not avail I able, provision is made for the appoint ment of aNcivilian. This idea is not the suggestion of mere sentiment, but investI- gation and observation have shown that music not only makes the soldiers more efficient but increases their morale and contentment According to this provis- i ion the war department will make the musical director responsible for singing, 1 both instructional and recreatienaL for : the entire command. Let us hope that singing will prove to be the agent that will beat the sword into the plowshare and the spear into the pruning hook"
 So much is now being said and written | in regard to the tercentenary celebra- 1 tion of the landing of the Pilgrims which I will take place next month that we are likely to overlook the celebration in Vir- i ginia last month, which commence ed i the landing of Virginia's first s ! over 300 years ago. Of course the Pil- . l. Tl,,r; lo... i and liberty have overshadowed all other l influences in the development of our 1 American life but We have 1907 as well ] as 1920 as a hallmark in our history. ! And we have needed the aristocratic, high church spirit of Jamestown to keep | Plymouth Rock from going to seed. It
 will be remembered that these first Vir- { ginia settlers when they landed at Cape i Henry erected a cross before sailing up I the James river to Jamestown. It was very appropriate last month that the dis : tingushed visitors from England and : Canada when they put wreath on ' Washington's tomb went down to Nor folk to honor the raising of a cross at i Cape Henry in 1907.
 As these lines are written shrub and
 plant have largely shed their foliage. Is 5 there any lesson to be taught by these 7 bare branches and fallen leaves that are now dead and soon will be rotten What
 a comedown from their reign of splendol I in October! The 90th Psalm has it about B right, 'in the morning it iourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut dowr and withereth:'' It simply shows us tha
 nature has no mercy with useless things When the sap ceases to flow and thu
 leaves to function, the tree refuses t @ carry a useless burden. With interna s energy gone they cannot resist externa S opposition: hence the winds scatter then hither and thither. In this we may fint ai lesson. Possibly we are carryinl
 around with us only the shadow of for
 mer things Things thai have lost thei
 usefulness are burdensome. Are ou r lives weighted down with deadwood? D c we keep up practices long after the spiri " is dead? Do institutions keep up prac t tices, once useful but long since dead q simply becauSe they are too proud to con f fess that they are outworn when the . know that the spirit no longer functions : The chief concern of the United State = looking to the country's development has been the creation of an American na II tionality. The recent census has brough T out facts that all citizens ought to know e matters of vastly greater importance {
 our people as a whole than the topic l. under debate during a heated presider l. tial contest. A census is vastly nor a than the enrolment of a people. If tn ;. number of people were the only thin then China alone would outrank all ci1 's ilized countries combined in nation; 't greatness. She stands in danger of bt l. ing crushed by her own weight. In ses lel sons of national calamity, (which ,e China's normal eondition), greatness ( n suffering and weakness is directly prt . portionate to the number of inhabitant
 It is to be regretted that a nations pet 'o pie cannot be measured rather tha Us counted. Why has not some bright ger r. jus devised an apparatus that will weig Ia nations mental and moral power re well as count it's noses. But the work $. the census bureau is vastly more impo Ia tant than this. It puts all the facts tn; = yield to tabulation before us so that V " can judge whether the national trend IT. in the right Or wrong direction. It wou 7o be well to study carefully the bureau
 last report
 The injustice of letting the lay mil
 determine the degree of wrong doing bA the part of the accused is becoming mo
 and more clear as we read the verdic
 brought in by juries. It is a question :. the average man who has had no leg i training can weigh conflicting eviden ne sufficiently to decide a question on
 merits It is well to give the accused t
 benefit of a doubt. and yet to let me I'd sentiment result in miscarriage of ju ht tice tends to weaken respect for law al
 order. The verdict recently rendered
 the Carl Wanderer case is an iIlustr ce tion Wanderer admitted that he car he fully planned the murder of his wife, al
 yet the jury pronounced it murder In t
 second degree. The judge roundly SCOT :, them for their decision, but they refus ei@ to change it and jaStice has not he 7r- done to an innocent murdered woman
 One of the most regrettable incider
 growing out of this hotly contested elt lot tion was the eleventh hour islander th li- Senator Harding's grandmother was ne. full-blooded neGress There was not
 shred of truth in the accusation. St ng pose it had been true, it could not ha si- added anything to or taken anythi ,ut from what Senator Harding actually
 We needn't go back so very far to fl
 our own ancestors as savages But .ho course the despicable object was to D the Tardina Of oo,' 'oruer ,,ds states agail lch as a Boomerang against ite ;rst;,atc 1e
 Prof. Chansellor of Wooster Univers
 who was responsible for giving the stt lot circulation was summarily dismiss be from the university. In a country nk- ours where fair play is believed in, 2
 insisted upon, no man can build hirns
 up, by pulling another man down cad at least in the estimation of the public nd- The view that is taken in these d
 is of juvenile delinquency would be an e
 opener to the early Puritans IT
 would have been aghast at the idea
 juvenile courts and would probably a at What has become of the homer" the most amazing thing in the matter is