Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-06
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 ly lost his life recently at Ocean beach l by diving into water not more than 4wO feet deep, illustrates the point in oles i tion. As salt water usually has a hard, sandy bottom beware of diving in water | less than five or six feet deep, or in fresf1 | water that has a soft, muddy bottom l Never att snpt to swim In thick sea | weed, because you are liable to get all 1 tangled ul never attempt a long dis l tance swim alone, for, however expert 1 you may be as swimmer you are not !; immune from cramp when heated, never plunge into very cold water, and if you are unable to swim be careful of deep holes. But you reply anybody with l common sense ought to know these things, for they have been dinned in- to our ears ever since we were bo n. Very likely, but tomorrow morning you will read of some lad losing his life for doing one of these things.
 We are regaled so often in speeches and written articles of the wonderful achievements of modern times-and won derful they certainly are, and are not to be underrated, including steam as applied to locomotion on land and nav igation of the seas the telegraph, tele- phone, automobile, wireless and many other things-but yet we are not the sum total of human knoHledge and achievement, to the extent, at least that we are justified in having the swelied head. Revived notice is called OFT at- tention to the marvellous attainments of old Friar Bacon, the great Franciscan monk who lived far back in the 13+h 1 century He not only wrote, but con- 1 versed with ease and elegance n the l Latin tongue-Who can do 1t today? He mastered every science then known: as- 1 tronomy. chemistry, physics, language. 1 mathematics, and was proficient Tn 1 Syriae, Hebrew, Chaldean and Arabic l He had visions of flying machines, div 1 ing-bells. steam engines, suspension bridges. and high explosives Can ths age produce more remarkable record? :? It may he that the versatile brain If l old Roger Bacon held the incipient germs l of the modern airship that recently has 1 made such self revelation of its pawe- 1 The damage that n airpIane recently did in putting an old German war craft ] put of commission by the dronpin,y Of 1 high explosives from a great altitude revives the question of its probable a,aec l in future battles. The experiment has l clearly shown that it Is not difficult to i attack one of these floating fortresSes from above, and that a battleship can not defend itself from a great perpendic- ular distance. Whether this will have 1 much effect upon the worlds naval pro-
 
 1 seen. As long as the nations are in- fatuated with the attempt to outdo one another in the production of big ar1na- 1 ments, nothing will smash the obses- son but the vision of bankruptcy But aS many nations are uncomfortably CT the edge of bankruptcy now. possibly the doings of the airship will be respect ed
 Recent excavations In New Mexiec and Peru have opened wide the eyes ei sciantific scholars to the fact that won l derful civilization was in existence ir what is sometimes called the prehistoric age. The work has revealed one thing 1 very strikinglY, and that not all of oul ancestors in the very long ago were un. uttered savages. living in mud huts ant presumably eating raw flesh. The ruin. of an old Aztec civilization compIeteI, unearthed in northeastern New Mexici give the strongest evidence of beine abandoned at the most conservative cal culatlon at least .. thousand years be , fore the Spaniards came to America Ths outside dimensions of one of the build ings excaVated gre 2S0 by 3so feet Ant : one portion of this building must hrv, . been three stories high. Not alone th' size, but the workmanship excites tht admiration of the explorer. Massiv, stones are fitted together so closely with
 
 the blade of a knife in the crevices. Al this was done with crude instrument of the most primitive sort.
 According to the calendar we hari reached the season that may properl] be called the nid-year pause. It is tn
 period of the year when Nature speak; . to all of US more or less loudly througl the channels of depleted energy. He t l teaching by interpretation is: "Let ul . bit on the usual activities until haY
 a chance to repair the fatigued DOW 1 CTS" And wise is the man or woma1 g 1 who listens to this voice and in some va, gets 9 release from the ordinary toi somewhere and in some way Not on,
 man but institutions suffer from wastag
 in hot weather. It is no sign that r mans business or his church is goinj J | to destruction because it shows signs c
 fatigue in hot weather as well as him
 self. Some people think that the church s es have compromised with the devil UT q less they run full blast through the sun
 mer. Nobody says the same of the pub
 lit schools that have a longer sumrle
 vacation than any of the churches If tn s devil gets hold of the public schools ; g summer he lets go again soon after I l
 bod Jay without apparent damage. L.
 us all manage to have some vacation U Tn An great cities and in the con $ gested quarters of small cities and bi h towns. we have in evidence today quit
 3 necessary modern institution know l as the traffic cop" Very strict trafl Ia regulations have logically followed tf
 increase Of automobiles, and the "traff = cop is th cir living expression But ho . about those uniformed chaps on motol
 cycles whose duty it is to gee that th
 speed laws are not exceeded? The nee Il of the officer is seen in the fact that son Il people are prone to drive recklessly, an n reckless driving is responsible for va,
 majority of all automobile accidents Bl
 is there not another side to the mattel Are not the drivers of machines at Il y mercy of these copsf I saw a drive T the other day arrested In one of our b! J. cities by a young beaTdless officer appa'
 ently for no just cause. It might hay
 been that he was not turning over . se much money to the main office as h :. superiors expeeN-d, and that he might 1
 regarded as falling down on his job. (
 course we want the public protected, bl se we must also insist that justice be gil
 en to all drivers of cars
 There is no question but that the pow IT CT of heredity is seen in our lives, bl r. it probably has less influence over ol h conduct than our present environment 10 The Apostle Paul gives his opinion of u
 subject in these words: We all wit
 open face beholding as in gla 6 the glory of the Lord, are changed il 9' to the same image from glory to glory h We grow into the image of what d Id lights us most. If we stand gazing 2 le red light our faces will show red. If V
 live in the brazen red light districts (
 cities, and come into constant touc .n with it's coarseness, it's materialis1n, i
 sin and Sharna fhaeA thin rvii l en-