Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
THE MAN WHO TALKS

tnaL unt1ay DECK yaJaa ana unHl3ntty front lawns ddd not exhaust the work of
 cleaning up. Cuttered up cellars and
 attios come under this sanitary effort.
 But how about the street in front of our houses7 They certainly demand close aH
 tention and vigorous action We ought not to expect miracles of the street de-| partment. To keep an eye all the time on every foo< 1f our 112 miles of streets would tax the capacity of a much larger force of men than the city would care to provide Streets are made unsightly by light and movable litter blown hdther and tIither by the wind. If each house holder would see to it that the street confronting his premises was kept clear o6 such rubbish 1t would be a long stride toward introducing the City Beautiful. l We can easily have a clean and slightly city Of which one may be justly proud | if we want 1t.
 The crowninE feature of democracy Is its government by the people, and there lis no form of government that demands Ia higher grade of intelligence on the part of the people-provided it is to function properly. In an absolute form of government like Russia under the czars the people were governed to the last limit of endurance, The present
 soviet rule is an odigarchy in which the government by the few is even more despotic than former czardoni. Democ- racy is ideal when backed up by intelli- gence, integrity and activity. But it will + easily slump down into an oligarchy when the indifferent many allow them selves to be ruled by the interruptions few. The ward heeierl and political char Iatan are quite insistent that certain types of men stick to their last" But true democracy is equally insistent that all trades and professions shall bear their
 share of public duties Yet from slums
 and saloons Gaelarean devils still cry ::
 Why touch us7'
 Il There are many respects in which inc present age is an improvement upon the sl past. This is as it ought to be- If ciy- 1hzatdon is progressive we ought to gain something from the accommodating experi- ences of past eras. A point in evidence
 is the public park. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century they were mostly
 confined to the larger cities, but now
 they are to be found in places great and
 small distributed throughout the country. This was impressed upon me tffe other day as ] walked through Mohegan park from the Washington street entrance to Boswell avenue. There are few, if any parks in the state more beautiful. We are wise in leaving unspoiled it's wild
 native beauty. All this has an e6Ica-
 tional value in creating and sustaining a : love of the esthetic. The view to the ! south and west from the ridge on the : Washington street side is equal to any } thing in this section,
 Il As one walks through the woods, Nike , Mohegan park, for instance, he is greeted by his old friends, the violets. Isn't there
 something in violets that appeals to the more refined part of our natures? Ont ? has no inclination to think of anything : low or mean when he gazes at bed os 5 violets 1 saw a ragged, dirty boy in thu z park the other day with great bunch o this little blue flowers in his hand Whel I looked into his face I found feature : indicating mental refinement, just as had expected, in spite of the griIne anS
 dirt Did you ever know a boy wh, loved flowers to have a coarse nature O
 mean disposition? The violet, Nike tn
 rose, tends to uplift us; if it does no
 i wholly snfte. it keeps down the savae A within us who ever strives for the mas ' tery. Prof. David Levfng once said il his his great Chicago church, when e settler plants a rose in front of hi : cabin it kills the wilderness"
 It Is the growing custom with man public institutions to set apart one da U in the year as an annual inspection day U It gives the public an opportunity to SC 1T the institution at its best. Everythin is is scrubbed and polished until it seem l., brand new and shining I have been f k institutions when visitors were not es X pected when by no stretch of the inaa = S, nation could things be called spick an span. With such an institution inspectio ' day was merely a dress parade day ev s dently designed to turn aside the publi 70 mind from normal conditions We car r. not always take our cure of real cond Ig tions from specially prepared seasons fc h inspection. These remarks certainly q i+ not apply to the Backus hospital, who's :. inspection day was May 13 One coul ie hardly detect anything out of the ord T. nary. Perhaps bouquets were a lit " more in evidence than usual, otherwis
 the rooms and corridors had the san re clean and wholesome appearance tn: ,s they always have.
 It There Is, however. a shady side to fl as spection day for all institutions and tn: ,h Is the supreme delight it furnishes ta Is knockers; it is a gala day for tho! a. whose conception of heaven is a chan, ,o to smell bad odors and see bad thin,
 where such things do not exist. IT knocker is the most perfect specimen at | the idealist, for to him reality is on T. conformity to. the ideals that exist in h
 uH1i pnlHA olIllDly peCauSe his puny Ii at tie intellect is stuffed full of bad odo l. and bad sights he simply has to find the re counterpart in the things he sees a ,o about him Because in his disease ina e nation all things are wrong, the knock o Is bound to find nothing but wrong ever gu where. "As a man thinketh so is he
 We are very apt to find in this wor
 what we are looking for. If we are
 quest of the bad, we shall find it, De n haps inside of our front door. If we a na after the good. we shall find that, to
 The knecker cannot be big man.
 The interesting news comes to us fro ga the far east that General Wu Cor oug ad 1t to be spelled Whew?) has sent Gener
 Whang to drive General Chang into Ma as churia, where douhtless he belongs.
 only needed some General Bang to c
 operate with General Fang to have A he initiated the invader completely. At tt es great distance it is hard to judge co ot rectly of the merits of the case, but COT
 pared with many uprsings in the Cele
 tial empire we are justified in feeli, h. that all the parties concerned, if they h, na their just dessert would be turned oy ,,a to the tender meTcies of General Go
 Hang. With a depleted treasury pro
 ably China thinks that she can susta
 the sinews of war by great loan fire 's- the United States and will very likely 2 'nt it. Then when all is over and great m ed cry prevails, of course, help will be C
 pected from the United States to save t
 stomachs and tsle pfgtahs of the sl = l VivnrR