Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-12
THE MAN WHO TALKS

economics. We cannot expect to find the ! required leadership in the business office 1 for the same reason. Those who are en- gagged in producing tangible commodities | cannot expect to be leaders of thought | We cannot look to the ministry for pre- | eisely the same reason; the ministry spe- | cializes in moral leadership, and can hardly be expected to furnish leadership in questions of sociology and economics. But the colleges have teachers who are supposed to be fully acquainted with all the burning questions of the day; men who have studied deeply into these questions which they have made their life work. There is too strong ten dency to heed the rawlings of the soapbox agitator rather than the man of learning whose mind is not poisoned against so- ciety. And yet these men have their followers which inperils society.
 Is the presence of Japanese on our Pacific coast a social and economic menace to that region and to the coun- try at large? Doubtless the attitude of California, to say the least, is not friendly to their presence in any consid- erable numbers. But history shows that i it is difficult to standardize our opinions | in relation to the effect of any foreigners among us. Years ago California was up | in arms against the presence of the Chi l iSS6- NCly HdI SH lHlHSS were SdlQ about them, and still harsher things were done against them. But this has long l since blown over, and they are no longer l considered as constituting 'the yellow peril.' But the more intellectual Jap anese are now regarded a a real menace. l Probably no one would advocate unre- 1 stricted immigration of any Oriental 1 labor to California, but men of ability
 and character ought not to be denied
 admission because their skin chances to l be yellow rather than white. The ques-
 tion ought to be decided by what lies | under the skin.
 One can hardly help smiling at the | strange arguments that are sometimes used in support of preconceived opinions | If we earnestly desire a thing to be true. we will move heaven and earth for ar: | guments in it's favor. That Is. certain l types of temperament regard their ideas as identical with absolute truth. If a man rides a hobby he is sure to make l himself ridiculous by the arguments he
 uses in defense A good deacon once | strenuously objected to ministers taking | 6 vacation on the ground that "t1e devil
 never does" This deacon was perfectly
 consistent in that he never took vaca-
 tfon himself, but when he attempted to | apply it to his pastor the consistency shifted base considerably. for the pastor
 replied that "he didn't take his cue from
 the devil in anything; that he was taught
 to shun the devil in everything" It is quite easy to show the absurdity of the deacon's argument; if the devil never goes on a vacation, then he must always stay at home, and if that is so, he cer- tainly cannot be the old orthodox chap , that goes about seeking whom he may devour.'
 i, The devil, however. is too fruitful a
 subject to receive full justice in a single
 paragraph like the above Human con
 captions of his satanic majesty are col
 ored by the prevailing ideas of the differ
 ent ages. In the heroic ages of the past it was perfectly natural to picture the 7 devil as all powerful; a. being that was strong and fierce, that went about Hike lion seeking whom he might devour. D
 Such an absurdity was once as thorough
 ly believed as that the surface of the
 earth was fiat. simply a plane surface : Later that view was modified so far as almost to create a new person out of the : original devil. This newer idea makes him sly, quiet, ingratiating person who
 does his deadly work through magnetic s attraction; the lion has merged into a y compound of rattlesnake and fox He is
 no longer a beast armed with hoofs and horns, but a person clothed in dress
 suit and possessed of elegant manners As human society became more polished and refined it was found necessary tc create devil that corresponded What l the next move in devil-making will be is
 a problem at present
 n There ought to be somewhere on the
 coast of Connecticut a seaside resort held in perpetuity for excursions. some : place where Sunday schools might gc : adapted for picnic purposes such as bal games. V1TiOnS al hoIy o5 E.L chowder. There seems to be no longer
 any such place within the limits of oul
 state. Once there were Mystic Island
 Fishers Island. Watch HIN and other
 places that welcomed the excursionist
 But these are no longer accessible, a,
 private ownership has shut out the pop.
 ular excursion. The only place within T reasonable distance now available i: = Ocean Beach, but picnic conditions thert
 have become intolerable. All one can dt
 is to sit in the pavilion and watch tn, l. menagerie. If there is anything at Oceal l. Beach worse than the beach it is tn
 condition of the back yards that surel,
 are inviting the cholera
 i One is not quite able to figure it ou + just why we associate yellow with sIv
 ness, artfulness, meanness and low
 down trickery, while other colors, sucl
 as blue and red. stand for nobler traits | 't the field of nature. When vegetabl
 growths fail to function properly the
 first turn yellow. That is the first int g nation we have that something is wrong e If grub gets into the squash root tn l. vine and leaves turn yellow If an Tn
 sect stings your cucumber vines you de
 tect it by the yellow appearance If tn nights are too cold ca-n turns yellow l
 the garden as g, whole turns yellow, yo ' know that the whole blooming business le degenerating. When human beings ar
 sick the skin takes On an unnatural ye
 Jewish tinge. Perhaps Californians woul ss explain this use of the word yellow fro1 T. the color of the Japanese whom they d IS not love overmuch, or from the Chimes
 whom they have forgotten that they ono
 hated. The real yellow peril' is in th l. things for which we make the wor F. stand.
 o. Would it be an act of injustice on th
 part of the United States government
 federal law were passed prohibitin If immigration to this country for perio - of ten years? The advisability of sue an act is being seriously considered | It congress. We are all ready to admit ths
 the state has right to protect itsel
 Slavery was abolished because it threa ,h ened to disrupt the Union Prohihitic e. was written into the constitution mainl ty because the liquor traffic had grown
 be menace to public safety Is thel
 not good reason for believing that imm 4 grafton under existing conditions wi e. weaken rather than strengthen our d. mocracy? The war has made havoc a i' along the line in European countrie IT. Doubtless most foreigners feel that the
 can better their condition in the Unite
 States But if we have req aSons for h