Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-06-10

THE NAN WHO TALKS


merits the severest condemnation is jeal-
ousy. 1t is the smallest, the meanest, the
most contemplate passion that ever poi
soned q human being. 1t always marks
a little pennyweight character. It is an
infailible test that marks the difference
between big. people and little ones You
see it cropping out in all human condi-
lions. One woman is Jealous If you
praise another woman's baby and not
hers. She has green eyes when her
neighbor has a new bonnet or a, new hat
One man is jealous if another man gets a
position that he thinks ought to go to-
him. It is painfully true in every conn
muntty if a hoy or girl makes the attempt
to rise above his condition. jealousy will
try to stop his progress. There are plenty
of people with just brains enough to re-
peat the old sneer, TITS only the caxpen-
ter's son!"
To have Difference for public opinion is
one thing, but to bow down to it and be
its slave is something entirely different
l have never yet seen person big
enough to f1out pIblis opinion and be able
to get away with it, I have seen many
men and women who thought they were
big enough, and really thought they were
doing it, but they were sadly mistaken
Exactly what pubic opinion is and who
What some old grandmother of either sex
thinks you and ought to do is some
times mistaken for public opinion And
there are some timid enough to take their
cue from the dear old lady Public opin-
ion Is the general consensus of belief in
right or wrong in all cases. and of wis
dom or unwfsdom in some cases. But on
some questions and in some localities.
public opinion may be about evenly t1i-
vided. In such cases we are not to take
our pace from either. but from our own
reasoning faculties. It is usually safe for
a man to follow the dictates of his own
reason, provided he has kept his reason in
a healthfIl state. He is never to be a
slave to anybody or anything.
Sometimes the question appears in pub
lie as to just what free government is,
and Just how it ought to be conducted.
Very little of this question was heard
prior to the French revolution. In the
early or middle ages there was no free
government 1t was generally the unlin-
tied or absolute monarchy. Magma Charta
extorted by the NOODLES of England from
King John, was the first dawning of the
day of government by the people TO be
| ruled by an absolute mnarch was autoc-
racy; to be governed by the few is an
oligarehy; to be governed by the many
that is, by the people, is democracy. II
does not by any means follow that the
! rule Of an autocratic king is tyranny
any more than the ruling of a New
England town or city meeting by an ig-
norant, bowling mob is liberty 1t is
sometimes forgotten by some that direct
rule by the people is an absolute impossi.
bility Authority must be delegated tc
/ representation. What would be the re-
suit if the attempt were made to carry
out everyone's opinion as to the conduct
| Of public affairs? The Tower of Babe
would BECOME a bonanza for the con.
| tractors.
| There is always something about the
| philosophy Of growth that challenges tht
| attention even if SO many of its feature!
| are buried in obseurity. We are now right
in the midst Of the growing season Fol
| the most part gardens are now planted
Many things are up. They have passed
through the allotted period in the under
world. They have come out of their dark
invisible. mysterious world of gernina
| ton into the open. where we can almos
see them grow. To most people there il
great pleasure in seeing in regular order
First the blade then the ear, after tina
the full corn in the ear" Now is not tina
| the way in which corn grows? Whoeye
used that Illustration must have had ;
cornfeld in mind. It is that little, SHARP
pointed green blade that first appear
pricking. through the soil. Then it con
tinues to grow into the stalk silently
invisibly, continuously and vigorously un
til the ear appears and finally the "fu]
corn in The ear" Things that grow al
ways follow the same organic laws o
development.
How beautifully the same law works Il
the unfolding of the human body Their
is the ssame period of small beginnings
the same prenatal life of obscurity, mys
terry, and yet of constant development
How gradually the little one change
from babyhood to childhood, increasin
I in strength from the use of the Hghte
toys up to baseball football, boating
swimming, hiking, and other sports tina
require strength, skill and good judgmen
: What mother. living or dead, has nc
: been proud of that great strapping BIO,
running Up into the air six feet or NOR
broad shouldered. and with an appetit
: that is perfectly abnormal. He is a fin
: exhibition of growth, and there are fe'
things on the face of the earth more in
= poTtant than attaining perfect physic:
proportions. 1 am heart and soul in fl
vor of athletic sports in our schools b,
i cause they help to make fine physics
manhood and womanhood. I am not s
keen to professional athletics, becau,
there is danger in making them too me
! cenary.
There Is an equal, Il not greater, d
nj light IN watching Intellectual develol
r ment- 1t goes without saying that, III
less there is growth in this directio
there can be but little show for succe
In life Nothing short of positive wron
{ doing in the world is more pathetic tina
/ a young person having a fine physial
capped with an empty head We nee
growth here if anywhere, and nowhe
n more SO than possibly along moral al
It spiritual lines. Scarcely anything affort
parents more real joy than to watch II
mental processes of their children gro
N and there is scarcely anything that Civ
- the children themselves more delight ths
to realize that. they are getting som
where with their studies; that they c;
not only think but think Connected
logically, with concentrated and sustai
y ed power. This Is a great ACOUSTIC
II The boy and girl are willing to go
a college because they feel able to co
with the advanced studies of the univeri
ty course. To do the worlds wo
81 growth IN this direction is imperative.
: This matter Of growth would be Inc
lie cusably incomplete without an emphsi
word in relation to growth of charact
or development along moral and spiritu
a lines In his early years the mother q
g. lights to realize that her baby icreas
n in weight. then in height, then mental
and then lastly in moral and spiritu
lines Nothing in the long run counts
much with the rank and file of men
character. We believe in the pub
schools because they do SO much /
le them. Churches exist because they do
r. parallel work for character. Along Il
line We see the Glue of Sunday. schoc