Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-28
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 THE MAN WHO TALKS !
 A well-known English writer, whom nobody has eyer accused of modesty. or under self-appreciation once said "It is well in October for one to take a long stroll into the country if for no other purpose than to forget for awhile just how mean he is. This writer, however did not very shrewdly guard his own thoughts. for. as he closes his little vol ume, he says. What I have written in this book has been entirely personal ex- perience. We can quite agree with what this writer suggests about taking long strolls in the month of October, and if t were means of eliminating human ineanness we would advocate a statute law making these hikes compulsory. But as g matter of fact, long hikes into the country and meanness have nothing whatever in cornnion. If anything we Rouid say that a leng yak in the glories cf oct6her were an entidetk rather than a cure Scr ueannessi. With the physical, mental and even neral stimulus one Sets from q leag hlke, there would be less dispcsitien to hk msaa.
 Mlsh ee this cepstrs's greatness is due te the insistenee of the carly settlers in making education the handrnark of the Z 1 grim Fathers rendered this country was in building theif meeting houses, and tiie second was like unto 1t. that of h1ilding schoolhousAs. As soon as the little white Saeeting-house was eornplet- 1 ed. out of their limited means they put 1 up the modest little school building. And there they have stood side by side for three centuries. the twin bulwarls of i our democracy. The Pilgrims were wise enough to see that Christian ignoramus was likely to become a fanatic: and an educated pagan was likely to become a cynic, and the one was just as much of a nuisance as the other. They were not satisfied with merely common school education. Soxteen years after they came they founded Harvard college, and their descendants have been building
 colleges ever since. The church plus
 the college is the explanation of Amer
 ica's greatness.
 tGarfield about a log with Mark Hopkins l, one one end and himself on the other was good enough university for him will hardly apply to these days of specializ- ed education. Neither in these days are men of the peculiar caliber of Mark Hopkins produced, and this is saying nothing of present day ability. Mark Hopkins grew up under kind of col ] lege training that gave student a
 srnattering of everything. Since the iIl-
 troduction of elective courses in the col- lege curriculum, students specialize. They learn fewer things but learn them
 more thoroughly than the students of the older regime could possibly do. The log with one man at one end, however big the rnan--egen if he have the mental pro- portions of a Mark Hopkins-would
 hardly meet the requirements of today for a lesser man on the other end than a President Garfield. The saying, how ever, was a splendid tribute to great
 college president
 | Why hasnt somebody written on the lpsychology of athletics2 If such book is in existence 1t is not known to the writer, Why is it that there are one thopsaIl people who are interested in physical sports to one hundred who care | nothing for mental sports. We can un- derstand why boys in their teens which is the age Of physical vigor- II should prefer physical sports. but why
 adults in middle life and far beyond
 Suppose this very afternoon, there was scheduled a public debate between the
 ablest students of Yale and an equal number from West Point, in Woolsey
 hall, would they have to bring in ex- tra chaivs and Wooisey hall will seat afternoon 7o,o00 people assemble in ths , mammouth Yale bowl to see the Yale. Army game. And they win come iron a mighty big area---from Maine and ever } Caiifornia-madcs 4 possible by powerful l motor cars. The steam cars will bt
 packed to their limit, and very likely
 some will come in sir-ships New Ha-
 ven Is Americas Mecca today. Coule
 anything hut athletics do this?
 According ts the New xerk Tines
 an official in this now notorious New Jersey tragedy, will make a startling ar rest the day before election. Of course the natural and logical question is: Why , the day before election? Has this ter. rible homicide anything to do with New , Jersey politics? Has the investigation
 been allowed to drag along because oi some real or fancied effect it may have on the result of the state contest? 4 ilfteen-year-old girl of one of the slair !. parties made this claim sometime ago which was bitterly resented by the Of ficlals of two counties But if the above statement Is correct that an impoytan
 arrest is being held back till the ey, of the state election. 1t will certainl, justify this girls criticism. We have been KOrceu 10 DelleVe TOT long Whu' that the professional politician VII
 stoop to almost anything to gain .hii , ends. but 1t is unbelievable that the, would make capital out of a brutal rnur l, der. If so it is enough to make fh,
 blood of the slain parties cry out fol vengeance.
 ,I yeEy much Is said in rhe cssA Beck
 and especially in its closing portions about the reward given to these whs overcome. The idea pre-supposee tha
 we all of us are beset with foes. We al ! of us have trends upward or downward ! The worst of men have some impulse. , upward, and the best some inciination ! downward. Everybody who wants to live straight has something that tend to drag him down to a lower level Thes, foes sometimes appeal to us with tn honeyed words of glittering fascination sometimes they threaten us with a shot , gun or battle axe. In either case the, , would destroy our power of seif-deter 5 Eninaticr. Now the question is, shall VI
 neekly follow them and allow ourselves
 body and soul, to 6e aiiured or driv
 en, into abject seryituds. Or shall "
 hold the whiplash ourselves, and driv
 these enemies out of the sacred precinct
 of Gods tempIe7 However much " may be infuenced,it Is we who decide iI We sometimes nsaks tse mistake . putting virtue in the wrong rlace TAer