Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-21
THE MAN WHO TALKS

3ea are not fellow sinner. You are about | two m1hes and a half nearer to the devil | than you were yesterday at the safae | hour. or yal are about two inches and | a haif farther from him. When old | Satan is holding high pnks in our ensi- fonsiient we cannot preserve uniform | distance from him We are either edging up little nearer to him cF getting far-I cher away Miss Priscilla Science. who 1 always ss,aaks losniaticaily. says there Is no such thing as stand still in the nat ural world EEer5thing capable ef ez- parsion is either advancing or retreatins. Toazy we are paysiesliy stronger or weaker. mentally brighter or duiier, morally better or worse. than we were yesterday. Tn so short | perica. of ce1rse, the change may not be observable but ehange there has Den all the Isazne. What . werid sf theught is wrapsed up in that one word preventive" pur ing the recent Ions dry spell game war-i , dens and fire chiefs souHded the aizr7n l and certainly it was one that was greatly needed--of preventive fires" Ii is hieA- 1 ly important that the doctors constantly din in our ears that many terrible dis eases are preventive And thanks be 1 to that profession that the number is cons stantiy increasing Ministers also have I their assigned task in constantly keep 1 ing before the people the important fact 1 that moral lapsesN are s'preventive." Many judges are beginning to realize the great opportunity of their position in impress 1 ins upon unfortunate couples that great
 majority Of divorce cases are clearly preventive. In the great political world l extravagance and crookedness are always .'preventive'' Social workers who have
 Investigated poverty and tabulated the results have shown that large petcent- l age was clearly preventive" Much of our salvation lies in that word s'pTevent- I i've"
 For adrottness h pulIing himseif sue ] of a seemingly hopeless political tangie, ], Lloyd George has no equal. living or dead. No man in the British political 1 world since Gladstone, and possibly not The Great Commonsr'' himself, has been So extravagantly praised by his friende il or, 50 bitterly condemned by lis foes. It l is only man of the highest type of in- te5iect who can become the storm center I of a continent He certainly has been \ big enough to arouse the snari of all the political melodies of Europe He weath-
 cred the gale while most of the world was , fighting to save civilization frcfn utter collapse, and no man did more to bring l that war to successful issue than he. } He has also been the one outstanding figure in holding Europe together in the !, more dificult period of readiustment si In Haaay sftuations weak man with 3 3 shotgun in his hands is more persuasiye sj than strong man wHh only arguments in his mouth. Moral suasion has it's place So also has a shotgun. As peo. pie we have not yet become so thorough, . imbued with the principles of the Sermon on the Mount that we can afford to dis pense with the shotsun. The Quaker
 may be theoretically right in his viewt J Of passive non-rasistance, but he doesns : ~aTt-to practice them in the neighbor r hood of thugs Og course, the thug be Il iieves that passive non-resistancs 2 proper from the Quaker. and would lik, : to have such beautiful theories more gen !. eraliy practiced. Moral suasion vii
 probably be much in evidence in Th,
 Sweet By and By but from present con ' ditions it will rrobably be wise for tn 5 next several thoasand years to have ei : hand a little grape and canister in cas- e of ernerEei,cies Unfortunately some peo
 pie must stiIi be dealt with as we do wit < l rattlsshakes.
 The greatest deeds in the world 1aYe no lsI always done by the greatest men. but b F. those who make the greatest 1se of tn V talents they have Scholars quite aEre JfiAl ElfdS1lllS WAS Il EFEaNPf ftfdn llS . his cont temporary, Martin Luther. but th V latter made an ineonparabiy greater in is press unon the world than tine formei 2 Luther was chiefly remarkable for bold Il nese, courage conscientiouspess ard ts Eoi saacity of par3ose. Few men in all his et tory have surpassed him iH this respec ,s But fer those traits that display Il, .oI highest intellectual ability others hay e. eetily surpassed him. buts few, If ap!
 men in history ever worked their abii :. ties u,o-s vigorously than the great Gel v marked that class xaiedict arians in co oe lage are not the greatest al around n1e $ and do not always n,ske the rsost cor y.l sDicubus sHccess .a life. They usual at work harder than the less scholarly. TT at man who finds himself in college al toi then throws himself into his life work E. the man generally heard from cal When . eemTs,unssy Is ktart.ed by son H. 1 mysterious and brutal murder. the in4e n ests Of justice are not sUbsrrved by il
 attitude of the public. Tco often in su,
 cases the public is transformed into = bowling mob crying out for ssnmedfa ns justice. It is not strange that vicle l.s passions are aroused at the bungii, tiy manner in which some osf these trs@edi r- are handled But local ofselaIs. who no lslS U<SS& t1iey t1lts ASS SnLaltSQ 10 &o{
 consideration. Some crimes leave in ths a- sraii no apparent clue. County osieis ra are not highly pnid men. and have h ,.t little exDerienoe in detective work B = kae outraged public demands the inn '.e diste apprehension of the guilty party
 Y parties. If this is not fcrthc0ming, u, " the public prnds thci7 officials to ma nc nsss. forgetting that some crimes reun to, all the ingenuity of Sherlock Holmes I'd ssrret out. In mauy instances the pr in lie. without Investigating. stands roa ter to name the murderer.
 an What is she natural eenssaneaee of tl lge unjustiAable TneddIing on the part of 1
 Yubiic If the crime involves two cct
 ties, the officials Of one Of the counti
 hamp~red by red tape. fearful Of usurpi
 the duties of the other, and lacking a sns tangible clues on which to act. are dris ct- to desoeration. They feel that they m
 do something tc appease pubsic sentiml
 and hence, in order to save their Q th. hide, they Eashly make g gcapegoat v, s,rnshody without the ieaat show of j tice, Sozpebpdy is arrested on the di ; slAst Of eyidence. h 50 doing 1t may
 that an innocent person must hage ing blasted reputation for life. And ub- pRfhcs of it ali is that t is done in at. name Of justice. TFaen the public c;
 right about face and csals their efici
 something worse than fools. Tag d
 are appointed and "hSnor fnadgD raj sA to protect the innocent. but the dam; ash has been doAe. It is as paiafuily t nst today as eyer that xox pepwii is not !
 Dei.
 Would it net be well far Us to rems i've Der when disposed to criticize somew ep-l hsgshiy boys maHpers, that in the t