Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-14
THE MAN WHO TALKS

not exactly Christian, are supposedly hu- man, We find a new classification in which l children are reckoned with dogs. It used 1 to be said that corporations had no souls. which was doubtless true of some corporations. To lodge a similar com. plaint against city landlords would be less open to criticism because it is far more obvious. A man seeking a rent to- day is unfortunate if he owns dog, but vastly more so if he has a child. N matters not how able a man may be to pay his rent or what reputation he has for doing 1t, if 1t is discovered that there is a dog or a child in the family, the landlord simply shakes his head and says: Nothing doing.' The real dff- ficulty is not the dog but the child. The dog can be sold or knocked in the head, but not the c1ild-as yet Possibly to meet the reasonable desire of up-to-date landlordism, the innocent little babe can be eliminated from future society.
 Is there any good reason why any boy or bunch of boys, should act like hood lums? If there is no good reason for it there is certainly no excuse There Is nothing whatever in hoodlumism that adds to a boys capacity for play or makes it more enjoyable. It is natural
 enthusiasm running riot in a boys life that has never been properly restrained and trained in the home. The boy who Is allowed to grow up in the home with no more cultivation than young bull soon becomes a holy terror. The moth CT stands him as long as she can and then shouts at him to shut up'' which he ordinarily does for three consecutive seconds. When pandemonium breaks out again she shakes him and puts him into dark closet "to stay there till he can be a good boy" His kicks and yells 1 limit his jail sentence to four min utes and a half In a few years he gives 1 public exhibitions of the home training on the streets for the benefit of the com l munity. He has TO respect for private or church property. He breaks windows, defaces property and is a nuisance gen
 erally. The police are all right until
 their backs are turned wher the second
 act begins. The question still remains: How shall we deal with the hoodlum problem?
 | Prof. Mansem of Oxford University in I 1858 delivered the famous Hampton Iec-
 lures, his theme being The Limits of Re ] ligious Thought Great controversy fol- lowed the publication of this remarkable
 work. The older theologians and philos-
 ophers stood aghast at the statement that
 the human mind could be conditioned in 1 it's investigation of any field whatever.
 ManseHs mode of thought is being ap- l piled to the matter of sacrifice today. ] How far is one justified in sacrificing I for others. As to the principle of sac i rifice there can be but one defensible posi-
 tion. and that is the one laid down in l the New Testament. As to it's applica- l ton, however, opinions may reasonably differ. Hence there are limits to sacrifice Sacrifice ought to be conditioned accord ing to the merits of the object on which it is bestowed. Is a mother justified in sacrificing for an utterly unworthy son or daughter? Ought anybody in Amer ica to sacrifice to support any fighting l factions in Europe, simply because they love to scrap?
 Science presumes to speak ex cathedra
 That is, from the bench of high author
 ity, and like the early church fathers is l often dogmatic. In the far distant past belief prevailed in the transrnutation of metals theory which science brushed
 aside with rude hand. But the dis
 covery of radium, ''the great puzzle of the twentieth centry," by Mime. Marie
 Curie has proven clearly that metals are transmutable. From this singular metal enough has been brought to light
 to establish the possibility that by a pro cess of evolution elements may be pro. duced from other clements quite dis tinct from themselves This great dis. covery suggests the following thought ' If there is such 2 thing as the transmu.
 tation of metals why not the transmigra. 2 tion of souls? Both theories were one,
 held and both denounced with equal Be-
 verity- When the human soul leaves 1 that body what is co prevent its now. CT of selecting a new form for its out.
 ward expression? The functions of ra s5 dium argue in this direction.
 The chamber of commerce has issue,
 circular letter in the interests of 2 cleahly city. The idea is in every wa1 l commendable. Were we all of HIS to roi 5 our sleeves up to the elbow, and go fortl ito the mighty conflict armed witt l scrubbing brushes and sapolio. the sup ply would fall far short of the demand
 Flus all this overtime work would b,
 inperatively needed Now this Is due f,
 the fact that for long months we hay, allowed filth and litter to accumulate Think not that in the matter Norwich
 IS sinner above all others, I tell vol nay. It is habit of easy-going Americs g to put OH till tomorrow the things the,
 nope they Will not be obliged to do a f all. Is there good reason olet tb wreckage of late fall and winter lie mn touched until the time comes to plant Why should every beautiful ravine b looked upon as the natural dumpin, 7 place for everything we can't use. sell g burn or give away. Of course it is Q fine thing for us all to get down on ou h knees event to scrub-it limbers the knee
 up for other purposes. If we use in
 electric cleaner oftener we can let m
 bit on the knees and scrubbing brush. a In our great industrial centers firebran
 nterature was sent out by the radicals
 in which heroic measures at least wer
 advocated as a cure for the ills of eov ernment. If this advice had been take seriously, as far as all federal building
 are concerned, they would be looking noy
 very much like ancient Jerusalem r,vi+ F not one stone left upon another" a i course, we were all very thankful to walk
 up Monday morning, May 2, and to fin
 that We had escaped universal chaos. I |, fact, 1t was the mildest May day that tb .. .. civilized world has. witnessed in twent - years. It was in Mexico where the an;
 tator grew reddest in the face hut h
 peat the air in vain, for the crowds P. e ceived him in cold silence. It is quite Av, f dent that the condition of Russia. wher l. these radical ideas have been put on tria
 IS convincing the proletariat that univer
 sal anarchy is not the road to univers. o peace and happiness.
 r May 1S is the anniversary of the frs l. British settlement in the United State
 at Jamestown in 1907. Nothing is Ies
 to mark the spot but few melanchoi !. ruins, In 1919 it was a large an6 aour
 lshing settlement, it's original numbe
 having been largely increased by new rr '- cruits. About this time a. house of bur
 gesses was established, which was th
 first appearance of British legislativ '- assembly in America. Two causes led t v it's utter extinction-hrst the destrpct;o