Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS

 ton comes the greater capacity for en- toying it. Psychology informs us that | we have an innate capacity for pleasure, and with the capacity omes the des're. | The old Puritans who were not pSycholo- | gists said that the desire for pleasure was the work of the devil, and therefore it ought to be crushed We say this de- l sire ought to be trained, not crushed. We 1 have no right to crush anything God has implanted in ds. If there IS rhis Wh0le- | some desire in the inner life there ought | to be some wholesome objective in the outer life to satisfy it. Motion pictures, theatrical plays, musical concerts are very important in furnishing that objec-s tive Of course these things need regu- lation, as the desire for them needs train Ing. It is 3 great mistake to suppose that people are going to be made better by crushing any natural desire.
 May will also be memorable in the annals of human history, and especially May 5, 1921 when Napoleon breathed his last at St. Helena, the desolate rocky islet in southern Atlantic. Intellectually Ma poleon will aways stand in the front rank of the worlds great men. No man ger surpassed him in planning and executing great military schemes, and no man ever approached him. in so co-ordinatlng his schemes as to make one support another. But military affairs did not exhaust his genius. Many competent critics regard his Code Napoleon far and away the greatest and most permanent thing he ever did Napoleon, however, was the product of a system which is being more and 1nore-and in the future will be uni versa ally-discredited Kaiserism was the dying gasp of absolute militarism Great as Napoleon was his real value in the changed conditions of today is that of danger signal. The brilliant meteor of Austerlitz was a cold, dead stone at St. Helena. In defeat he was less than med1- ocre. Had his qualities of heart and soul been equal to his mind, he would easily have been the first name in human his tory.
 Why is 1t that so much interest centers around Babe Ruth? It is not confined merely to chronic baseball fans, nor to boys and men of sporting tendencies. Prim maidens clap their lilywhite hands when Babe Ruth's name is mentioned. Why this widespread popularity? It Is due to the fact that this man makes i home runs. Now a home run is the ne | plus ultra of baseball. We may admire | the twirler who makes a long, melan- ] choly line of cutters on three strikes or 1 the catcher who can plunk the orb into l StOm1En erytirne, but the batter so strong, so i agile, so unerring, as to give the center | fielder the blind staggers, and scores a run by making the circuit of the empty ! base has reached the zenith of base 1 ball fame We have a right to shout | ourselves hoarse when home runs are made. If your boy says he would rather i make a home run. on the Yale diamond 1 than to study in the divinity school, don't
 shoot him
 The principle underlying home runs l applies to a wide range of human actiV- | ities. Let any man or woman, boy or
 girl be a cracSerjack at anything and we clap with invisible hEnds We like to
 see anything done supremely we'll People
 who are not particularly stuck on ser mons admire a man who can deliver the goods in apple pie order. When twisted up with appendicitis we want the job done
 by a professional cutter (not a sharper)
 who will use a sharp knife The lad iT
 the Lynn high school who tri-sected the
 segment of circle by arithmetcal pro-
 gression scored a home run and has l pleased all the editors of the country who
 may be a little shaky on arithmetica
 progression We all applaud the lad o1 iassie who makes a home run in algebra
 Latin or anything else worth doing al all Plato, still on his throne, is saying
 mot to do. but to do we'll" When any
 body by sheer ability reaches a higf water mark. we are generous enough t say. well done, thou good and faithfu
 servant"
 Much has been said of late about, no
 the wisdom, but the necessity of censor
 ing motion pictures. This, of course, i bitterly resented by those who Dander t low popular tastes. It has been seen tha l the censorship in vogue is not stric 1 enough, as many things slip by tha
 ought not to be thrown upon the screen
 Why the sliny monster should be al
 lowed to 1eface a film that is other wis commendable is hard to see because i ! offends the tastes of many who would lilk the motion picture A widely advertiset ) picture not long ago was presented in on z of our theatres. From the scenic stand point it vas a marvel from the moral i
 was a bitter humiliation. The villain wh
 nearly ruined an innocent girl was mos
 exasperatingly successful. Probably som will be saved from a like experience b. the shock it gave, but among tn T thousands who saw it may there not hay 1 been many who said 'If that chap coul l get away with such things, why not I? 7 We have no more right to suggest imDuri
 ty to a young mans mind, than to intro e duce strychnine into his stomach.
 d Years ago when the rank and file - people had money enough to ride on tn f steam cars they used to give stop ovt h checks. Perhaps the custom still pre-
 vails I am going to ask the first ric
 man I meet if this is so These check
 were convenient for various reasons
 relieves the stiff joints that all me d when they arrive at a certain age and a
 |
 a long journey. Just in proportion 2 p ones journey is fatigufng, to the san j. extent will much of the pleasure of tray
 1 cling be lost It also gives a person
 chance to see things-not as they used 1 if in anti-profibition days-but things wor ;- seeing. If you start for Chicago fro "a Boston. why not stop over at Pittsfe
 for it is worth seeing in itself and it's el
 vironment; at Albany run up to Saratog
 for if you use discretion you will hay money enough to get back to Alban n Take peek at the General Electrics 'e Schenectady, and of course at the tv
 other great natural wonders of Americ
 the Falls of Niagara and Henry Ford Il Detroit Why are we in such ms ,e rush to get through this world? V e shall find eternity long enough when V
 Init the trail"
 | IT It IS true that the American republ IS twas conceived in liberty there is b y one thing to do and that is to see to 1e that it continues in liberty. We are ca
 ed upon to denounce autocracy wherev
 and whenever it appears. It was by fgl ,d ing autocracy in the Revolutionary W ,t that America found herself a free natic
 France had to go through the Reign il Terror before she ridded herself of abs 't lute monarchy. We fought that 1nonst
 in this country in the form of slakel US Wherever men get sufficient power whet