Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-01
THE. MAN WHO TALKS

nave 10 a6af W1lLlSsE 10 IS not euIy true | of vegetable gro1vths 4of which : L have | recently written, but includes the whole ] area of organic life. How perfectly be- l it would be if the details of any department should burst upon us at the same time full grown. We appreciate 1 the flowers all the more because each 1 variety has it's season. It is a long stretch from the crocus to the laurel from the daffodil to the azalia.- As each has it's season, size, shape and color, we have ample time to drink in and absorb the pleasures of this great variety. The same orderly procession is seen among fruits. Strawberry. raspberry, thimble- berry, blueberry, huekleberry and black berry come as orderly as the so1stices and the equinoxes Do we appreciate this provision of nature?
 Do we not see the same degree of wis dom displayed in the world of educa- tion? It is the alphabet before the word, the word before the sentence, the sen tence before the paragraph, the para
 graph before the page or chapter It is the primer before the sixth reader. Suppose the little fellow were given a chapter in psychology to analyse the first day at school, what: discouragement what
 blank amazementiF Suppose when the pupil first begins the study of arithmetic there should come to him in tumble long division, compound fractions, inter- est, stock and bonds, square and cube root There would be no burning desire to take up later algebra and geometry, or in college the higher mathematics. These things come to the students in an, orderly way of development just as he is mentally prepared to take them in Is it not true everywhere in life that the s"Winds are tempered to the shorn 1a1nh ?'' Sorrow, hard knocks, disappointment that would crush the child are easily endured by the man because of the long years of disciplinesg
 Dr. Thomas ChaIniers was the author
 of this .oft-quoted expression: '"The ex- pulsive power of a new idea" That is equivalent to saying that two thoughts cannot occupy the mind at one and the same time. Thoughts can be consecu. tive but not simultaneous There is the emotional and the reasoning quality of thought The emotional, being the more energetic, is the more sexpulsive, ;; while the reasoning, being the slower and deep er is the more abiding The affections belong to the realm of the emotional and have remarkable < .expuIsive power. Take for instance the power .of~love.- Its sway is so masterIy that it will sweep all else from the mind during the period of it's doHinance. Take the mother tend ing her little one while, it hovers between ! life and death. It is the one passion that controls everything until the cause that I inspired it is removed Much of the
 worlds best work is done under the stress of new ideas and impulses.
 June is the great month for graduation
 in all the school. Nice little deelanlations
 have been given, and nice little essays l tied up in pink ribbon have. been read But after the grammar school and the 1 ,Academy-what? For many reasons the majority of the graduates will go to work; the aspiring few will go to col lege. I would urge all those who have
 the desire to make the effort for liberal
 education Even if your clothes are shab-
 by and your purse, practically empty
 make the plunge, for, if you really mean
 business you will get there. I believe
 there is a special .; providence guiding
 brave young lives who are willing to. pay the price The most democratic place . on earth today is not the American work
 shop but the American college. Nobody
 will snub you because your clothes ara 1 shabby, if you are snubbed 1t will be
 because of your shabby personality. Nc
 place in the world is So quick to discover the real heart of the prince. or princess
 as the college If you, want the college I then make the plunge.
 k I could never quite grip the sense o1 the old proverb, You can't make whis. tie out of pigs tail" I never saw z person who tried to do t, or wanted tt
 do it, or saw any sense in doing. it. I l whistle could be made out of a pig'l 1 tail, it would be good for nothing, Th' Il only. thing gained would be the hurnilia ton of the pig, and the end wotild hardly I justify the means. I suppose the fol
 lowing is the meaning meant to be con
 veyed: You can't do first class worl ! out of imperfect or impossible material. T That depends on the man who does tn i work. A blundering workman can't do ; i good job whatever the material, but frs I class work is being done every day witt
 poor tools and poor material. That i skill and we see it all about us. As t impossible material, is theTe such 2 , thing? What is impossible in one age quite possible in the next If one had toll
 Jonathan Edwards that in two and a hal
 centuries men would be- flying across th continent he would have .eXclaimed: "Im possible!" Science has put many of thes 3 old proverbs on the blink. J-..5- . Naturally the young people occupy til r the center of the stage as the schools c 2 Nall grades close for the long vacation , What a wide gulf between the old, an the new attitude towards young people During the old Puritan supremacy tn
 psychology was entirely wrong that re
 garded them as incapable of worthy ac
 tion until they had undergone an emotion
 al change of heart. We do, not belieT Il that the little ones come into the Worl s inherently bad, but that environment ha
 much to do with their growth into good
 ness or evil. It is of the utmost import
 ance that they be kept in the right char . bxyf 11a f4I11 md f1o O1 r attitude toward them should be one {
 sympathetic interest kindly guidance and colnpanionship with them in the ] sports, their play, their studies, as we n as moral ideals This is more sane an q rational than the old idea of subordins
 tion in the home and church., For 5mel
 than two centuries their voices were nt V heard in the sanctuary, and the sanctuar : felt it. Last year with the new attitut T in full bloom, more young people unite
 with the church than in any year in hl
 man history.
 el Since the memorable year, of 18t e nearly three whole generations haN ,- come, and even those who have reachs
 the allotted three score and ten limit @
 but dimly remember the anxious July
 1863, which was the beginning of the ba e tie of Gettysburg, which was clearly ol 'si of the decisive battles of human histor l. Had Crecy lived ten years longer he ce
 tain1y would have included Gettysbul
 among his 'Fifteen Decisive Battles:'' l. with his usual masterly strategy hs
 planned the invasion of the north, al IS had he been successful. in all hurns ls probability he would have swept on { New York and other strategic places
 the eastern states and broken up u ,s power of the Union as Sherman brol f the power of the Confederacy in til
 spectacular March from Atlanta to | P Sea" But General Meade, the hero