Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-14
THE MAN WHO TALKS

He cedure for society at large, and another one, radically different, for the indiyid- ! uals of which society is composed. Thee | is not one code of ethics for e0rporatiens l. and an entirely different one for people ! at large There is something the mat" ter with law if, working alons some lines, it contfadicts it's working along any other line. If the government does business in a way that would ruin a private firm. there must be something wrong with the government. single l. Irseratfcu of ths will suffice: On Sep teFrfber 1g the United States government sold 2ge ocean freightees built Of wood m the war period. The average cost }. these ships was about S7eas000 each- .flie whole lot was sold to q single buyer for $7S0,069, which was less than sorns of these ships cost apiece. This was not Business, but ws must not forget the pe- eulfar emergency that brought them E- to being.
 There are tines--and the present is one of thkni--when the humanitarian has a right to be indignant with the prevailing selfishness in certain quar. ters. reviewer of the work of Maude Roydea. an English social worker, has this to say of her: "Sne is one of those wsho is bewildered by the seifshness oe men and women, a brutal, arrogant challenging, and wholly unashaT%I sci f1shness, which publicly seeks its own pleasures, publicly displays the offend- ing symbols of it's offensive wealth, pub- dcly indulges itself in the most shame ful and irfuriating luxuries, even at time when children are dying like flies of starvation and pestilenee, and while nien of their own household, who fought to save civilization from the despotisl1 .e AFS~ streets, hungry and bitter-hearted, looking for work" Right-minded peop1s will applaud this censure, because seefe- ty has a certain claim upon wealth which cannot be ignored with impunity. Most of tho rasnts ot saptesaDes. and in October until broken by the gentle ratn ef the 7th and Eth, 8 drought pre- vailed over a large section of f1ne ceuii- try This was sufficiently serious &s Ss ! justify the action of several of the gov ernors to prohibit hunting as long as the drought lasted. This was so perfeetfy reasonable that there Is recorded no pro | test from any quarter. With d drought l there is always a blue haze, increased I by the smoke from forest fires, which grows in intensity until the atmosphere | is clarified by the rain. But this natural i world of ours is not the only field in 70 writer shortly since heard a man speat, | in public, and surely the surrounding hills. had nothing on him for haze. ! l this instance. as in the world about us | it was caused by the same thing. s drought. When the mind dries up it i: always hazy. If one Has nothing to say | mean iIlgie.;s words are hay. The reIa. | edy is mental refreshment.
 f One of the greatest scientific discover | ies of the day is radio activity. Tl.' knowledge of the wave motion of the at nospifere has long been known, or af least surnIsed, by natural phi sorhefs
 but it belonged to Marconi to bring i
 witlGn the scope of practical investigA ! ton. The possibility Of conlrduriicatln: !( between widely separated points witho l the use of wires establishes beyond doubt the wave motion Of the air. Re
 gently this mastery of the air has beel
 made more convincing by the raa s i, grams that are nightly heard from dls
 tant places giving operas, lectures etc Does not all this find close analogy i ) the neral and intellectual activity of tS l, race which seems to move a3ong in t.: 5 currents of human life with the wa, sl action of the sea or the air? Revival : of religion have always been spasmodl <, in the life of Christianity Spiritual in zt z able regularity. Probably the wave the ) ory covers a wideI% area of human as I siyity than we think.
 A remarkable book has recently bee 3 published. simultaneously in Engian | and America. entitlS1 Painted Win ; dows," containing the work and infig | once of twelve outstanding persons l si the religious field of England. It IS q study in religious personality. It give { us wide field of viewpoints of what
 deemed essential in the Christian relis
 ion. We have almost everything frei Bishop Gore emphasizing the trad:
 tionai doSnas of the church to Gei : Brarnwell Booth insisting on evidence g the new life by faith. There is nothin 2 like consensus of agreement anon . Ethese twelve as to what constitutes u a essentials of the Christian Religio' . This book, however, brings out tu
 strikingly significant facts, first, thel
 is in the English pulpit today no ma : who has any conspicuous following as J leader of thought and action. still ti14 Il gre painted as men of sterling eharact h and earnestness. Secondly all al e agreed that modern civilization is not l. success, and that the church as who n is sadly inadequate to the needs of u fl hour.
 hl It wss Dt. Chalmers vhe coansd ]
 Oppression: The expellfng power Of
 new affection" This is sdenttficaIt
 correct on the ground that no two bodi
 can occupy the same place at the sar , time, Nc two thoughts can be in t
 mind at the same moment They m.
 follow one another in rapid successfa but it is always one at time. ia t ol matter of temperament precisely t 1t same thing is observable, one cannot
 in fit of despondency if his heart
 thrilled with joy. Is it not true that t ,a sunshine has wonderfully expelli q power? It seems to the writer that
 never saw so many people with sunshi
 written all over, their faces as durl
 the last month when it was mostly su n shine all about. If one was inclined q gloom. to SC out on the street and ha r. bright .sehoolboy say, with face
 aglow with light, Good morning. si D. was enough to substitute monday d midnight. Was not the great Scotch ;, s. vine right when he spoke about f
 ''expulsive power of new affection ?'
 Criticism is not new mental attitu " in the world. It is not the sole prert Il. alive of any particular set of peor In most cases it is nothing but ia
 finding, and Is wholly divorced from
 telligenee. All people feel at liberty
 criticize, yet for up-to-date, murder re the-eye criticism we must take off ( as hats to baseball fans. In the wo of series of last weG& we saw how easily
 little baseball god was orn from his p,
 estal. Nowhere in all tiie world will ( elk see such a sudden mental flop from l sd sanfa to cruelty and visa versa as in z,. | volatile sbleachers. Of course each
 of the .3s,0O0 spectators was qualified
 render expV-t judgment. Nine-tenths ,s them would have made home runs | they been up to bat, but poor Babe R,