Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Years ago nobody heard of boy psychol- ogy, as no attempt to- make a scientific study of boy's nature was so much as dreamed of. If GalIlio were to come back and compare what was done, for boys formerly with what Is done today he would repeat his historic utterauee; The world naovesr re And probably all this is but the dawning of better day for the growing lad. for if 1t is conclusive that what we are doing for the boy today is | for his best interests, neither time, strength nor expense will be spared in | advancing along this line. Some may I sneeringly say that all this is only fad and that boys are no happier than they were formerly. Happiness is not the stan ! dard by which the value of life is to be | measured, but the capacity he has to gain success. If present methods strengthen his capacity, let them continue ' As far I as this thought is concerned I quite agree 1 With Tennyson Better fifty years of Europe than cycle of Cathay."
 But the boys not receiving the ex- l elusive attention of the psychologists. As 1 these words are being read, right here 1 in our town city, at the same time the 1 boys convention is being held in Hart ] lord, the older girls are holding a sirni-
 lar conference. Even more of the really rich things of life have come to the older |
 recent years Fifty years. outside the city, it was almost an unheard of thing tQ send girl to college. Why waste so much money on a girl? Even to give her l secondary education made her conscipu- ous- Mary Lyon, that splendid pioneer in the higher education, was looked upon 1 Tn many quarters as q fanatic. But today not only Mt HolyoISe but Smith, WeIIes- ley and all other female colleges are a | 4n
 and sagacity. Not alone are intellectual
 doors swinging wide open before her but tlneans of physical betterment as seen in
 the various camps and orders of scouts
 and last of all the polls. We must find a substitute for that old falsehood, 'the weaker vessel"
 Tho age in which we live is destructive
 as well as constructive, and while the
 former may not be such 8 pleasant task
 as the latter it is no less important It
 is probably far cry from older girls I conferences and education to rats pos-
 slbly Jumping from the sublime to the
 ridiculous with little logical connection. However, even older girls are sometimes
 brought into juxtoposition with ratS but | usually not in harmonious relations. To | educate a girl is construction to Kill a rat is destruction. and our wide awake reformers are insisting that we shall do
 both. There are some men and women :; who ought to go to heaven for the lives
 they have saved, and others for the , things they have killed. Those who de- stroyed slavery and constructed the four
 teenth amendment to the Constitution are
 entitled to the supreme reward. More re-
 gently those who knocked rum in the : head ought to have a place beside them And now reformers are calling for a twen- : tieth amendment that will settle for all
 time the rat business. When the call to arms shall come, nobody will have occa- , sion to say that the writer of these lines was cowartllv stacker. He, will don the uniform, shoulder his rifle and march against the mighty hosts advancing, t singing at the top of his voice Onward r Christian soldiers, marching as to war
 Very much is being very freely said ir : these strenuous days about free speech. : There are some who are rolling these e words as sweet n1orsel under their ' tongues" while the tongues therusaises are doing some very free waggl1s.- Is il
 free speech to damn everytIlinls ani Il everybody in sight until the reservoir q h hot air is exhausted? Is it real Htett, Il to defame another persons character tt q sheer at the government that -I1rotsf.ts us !, to insult the flag that wares over us. ant
 to urge the soo1iation oe pronePty tIia
 has taken more brains Q acquire than W, possess? Some are how ling against tf, l. treatment some irlTT1ier anss nave rccti;e q g and undoubtedly thare Ia ge been abuse
 at Ellis Island that need severe corro c
 tion. Has not our oo1nrry some -reaSC, for protesting against the treatnen4 sk,
 has received at the hands af soTle 'rl,r1i II grants? Democracy = :.ut 70 3e f,t5@., | by the misuse some officials make of il h Remember, all speakers, that fire e speech is not the .inslse to say ard q ,e whatever selfshness dictates!
 r. It was a great mistake to make tn n, the covenant Of the league of nations a . important political issue between tn ie leading parties in this presidential can T. paign. With all due respect to the hig
 average intelligence of the/American pet in pie, the league of nations is too much h. a technical question for the average vote E. to grapple with. As a matter of fact, tt ts rank and file of citizens, men as well 2 , woren are all at sea as to the merits ( s the question. In the writer's judgmer 01 1t would have been wiser to appoint 50 board of arbitration, composed of stl or dents familiar with international lay ny freed from partisan passion and preit Ill dice, who would have given us an inte ms pretation entirely reliable. At present s+ is hopeless jang1e and will not be in = proved by submitting it to a popular re -e erendun. It was lugged into the conte because there was nothing else to mal ID an issue of.
 ne The report of the annual meeting of Il no county home shows a wonderful wo1 'd- done for needy children. But the hon
 itself is more wonderful than any repo of Of it's work. The very best things of i stitutional life are those that defy tab lation. The perfect cleanliness of the dc 'iN rnitories and school rooms cannot be e gh pressed by figures. The weN-fed childre
 their happy faces and good rnanne
 speak well Of the management Those
 control of this county home may co
 graduate themselves that their i1stit hs tion is an honor to the public
 There is something almost tragic in {
 life Of French professor, according
 Han1erton in The Intellectual Life. Wfl CTS their learning and culture make it DOS on bie for them to move in the best socie isi and are expected to. do so, yet '.they ha
 an extraordinary talent for winning
 most vulgar and ignorant wives.' Tn r+s incomes are so contemptibIe as not aa attract women who are ambitious
 social preferment. Unless a woman ! Jun rare intellectual gifts she cannot get il
 fashlonable society without money. !
 professor, because poor is limited in ust choice of a wife lie must therefore sys prudent and look for companion V nse will be useful as domestic, and who '
 not complain if not invited to share
 his literary pursuits. Why is it the w,
 over the professional man is not deen -oof
 eat-
 The American Position
 The people of shis nation would drfft