Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-18
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 weight start some fool talk on any sub ject whatever and it Nifl at once begin | to be peddled from mouth to mouth as | serious fact. Of all the inane driveI that | floats irresponsively over the country to- l day is that in relation to the supposed | failure of prohibition. It is always easier | to listen to gossip than it is to search | after facts. For the real truth we are not to look to the prejudiced "wet' or to the fanatical dry" Hear what an inn partial investigator has to say about it {: Clifford Gordon, financial director of the Victorian Anti-Liquor league, Australia, was sent to this country to carefully study the actual working of prohibition. MT. Gordon has visited every state in the union; has talked with great employers of labor, with labor leaders, with crirnin- oloaiSts. physicians, alienists, federal state and city officials, private individ- uals, and has even interviewed "the man on the street." and what is his testimony:
 "NOw, after 12 months of EhoRouEh in- veEtigation am convinced that prohibi- tion in. the United States has succeeded" | The decrease in the number of arrests in New York city for drunkenness be- tween 1915 and 1921 was nearly 300 per cent; in San Francisco 1t was 325 per cent; in Los Angeles it was 1s0 per cent in Detroit it was 2s0 per cent. in | Portland, Ore, it was 300 per cent, and | thus the proportion was kept up in all l the large cities of the country. He quotes Judge Gemmill of Chicago as saying: | There has been a decrease in the num-
 Der of persons arrested In America for | drunkenness of over 60O, 900 per year" Twelve years prior to prohibition the va 1 rious Neal institutions for drunkenness 1 treated more than 125,000 patients. Af- 1 ter prohibition they are all out of com l mission. In Pittsburgh the county jail l has'S40 cells and before the days of rco- l hibition there were often as many as 94o 1 prisoners at 8 time. During the first year | of prohi <tion there were sometimes
 empty cells. Today there are 315 empty
 cells. And thus the evidence accumu-
 lates all along the line.
 | How many ways there are in common life in which the old saying proves true {:
 "He tempers the wind to the shorn lamb | And in this world of oucs there are a i great many "shorn lambs" There are | three general ways in which the poor lamb seems to be ''shorn.' Some are born into the world "shorn," and thus they will remain until they get out of 1t There are others who through bad habits
 or lack of self protection shear them selves; and thirdly those who let some body else shear them. To my mind it Is an, exceedingly difficult proposition to state with any degree of certainty just |, how far the ''shorn lamb'' has a right tC
 expect that the winds of life are going tc
 be tempered in his behalf. Does it not
 depend upon the degree of his own-r sponsibility in the shearing? Undoubt 7 edly there are fewer "shorn lambs'' today than prior to 1918. If a man shears him l self or lets az her man do it with hi! | eyes wide or$l. has he much of clain
 upon the tempered winds? Possibly thu
 theologians can answer this question. . Before these lines appear in print i may be that New England may exercis
 as usual her prerogative in taking a som ersault in weather conditions. but al , these lines are written we are still enjoy y ing wonderfully clear and mild Novembe = days. This surely is a sense in whicl ;, "He tempGrs the wind to the silor1
 lanb.'' The condition of 8 ma iority o coal bins leaves no doubt that the peopl are "shorn' all right. It certainly is al instance in which they themselves hay
 not been doing the shearing. It may l. a question whether the people have bee Il justified in sitting quietly by and allow t ing themselves thus to be "shorn" by tn l. strikers in the mines and on the rail l. roads. Doubtless much suffering { bee z- averted by the remarkably mild weather o but no thanks to those who are respons t ble for the coal shortage. But accordin !, ,' to the report recently made by the stat '- fuel administrator we are not yet out ( II the woods. It may be that the fleece y lambs will suffer yet.
 Science has determined that 1t nlak. g. little difference what the color of one l. eyes is, whether black or blue or gray Id it has no relation to physical strengtl Ig mental capacity. or moral power. I'll IS color has nothing to do with charactt a+ or temperament. But if he develops gree "a eyes, God have mercy upon him or he - Let me illustrate: Mrs. Smith hears u 70 sound of a new horn. She rushes to u IL window and discovers 8 green touriT H. car in front of her neighbor'S door, NJ It and Mrs. Blank have made a new pu re chase. Doesn't that beat the Dutc li- Joe?' she says toN Mir. Smith. "Ju :. imagine the Blanks having a car, I su a. pose Mrs. Blank will forget all about h H. rheumatism in sailing about in tn nd thing. Not many years ago, when I "
 in the academy, she was working in t
 mill. We'll, some people do love to D He on airs" As a cold matter of fact, t CT Blanks having capacity and will pow have bettered their condition, and the eff suit is green car; while the Smitl ,pt having little capacity and still less wi ne power, have remained static. and the I oh suit is green eyes.
 ,es have often wondered what is the pl ,is else distinction between the statesm ad and the politician. According to popul he judgment there is vast difference E ..t popular opinion is not necessarily corr
 opinion. Neither can we wholly rely .e what Webster or Worcester may give ny definition. The dictionary says that eo- statesman 'is one versed in the princip ng and art of government" while a poll be- clan is one ''versed or experienced in
 science of government" To the lay mi
 it is difficult to see the difference w
 ster makes the tvs terms synonymous.
 this is true, the statesman can be the pl to tician. and the politician the statesm ow But the word politician" unfortunate
 admits of a secondary meaning as C
 primarily devoted to his own adyan re- ment in public office" The word "stat to man. Is never used in this connecti
 This then is. the ordinary distinction
 mako between the two: the etatesn in, works only for his country. while the p.
 tician works only for himself. and
 works overtime.
 Ts 1t to mans advantage, or oEherw n.o that this visible, material world furnis t... him nothing stable? Apart from mo "u and spiritual principles everything in 1 nas world of which we have any knowle |, is in a state of flow. Think of the g
 ernn1ents of men in the past. are they ap- almost synonym for instability? will would overtax any mind to give all der civil administrations from the time VI
 Abram went out of UT of the Chald
 to the time when Harding went i ., Washington of the United States. Mac