South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-12
TODAY'S TALK
WHERE FREEDOM REICNS.
BY George Matthew Adams

II you want 20 give your body a worthy setting.
set out By foot rail for the great rising white
browed giants that make up earths mountain
chains. But II you to sit quietly in your study
or home and expand your soul-read Walt whitman.
For Il Will not be long then before you will find
yourself out in the air. thu sunshine the lowell
ness Of Nature-walking ne walked to feed his
mind. his heart and his soul.
Could you suspect anything else from such an ex-
quisite line this which Whitman long ago gave
to the world:
"An beauty comes from beautiful blood and
beautiful brain
Get this as your heritage and every step OF sod
becomes sacred ground bear you nearer to the
Maker OF all
Ike to think Of mortal selves as freely fluid
creeping like spired-over dam to all OF our
kind far and Typifying inherited knowledge
that has to be stirred b. human contact and sound
effort. however. before It becomes plain fact
radiated through the power OF influence.
All what a sordid thing Is gain-unless melted
into love and beauty and made to smile back again
into the heart-face OF the stars the blue sky the
standing solid strata OF rock, the waving bending.
high nodding miles and miles Of trees. and the
earth's great ap OF flowers
Is there freedom anywhere else7
Is It any wonder that we must depend uron our
poets for a INSTALLATION OF greatness? They who
have eyes-and seel
You may feel very poor in earthly material-but,
my friend, you have Gods free Out-of-doors Wash
your soul in it every day. and become clean.
dered IN cold blood during one night A frightful
picture. But it's picture of the murder situa-
ton in so-caIled civilized America
Spread out over a gigantic territory and divided
among miIlionas of people. with a murder here
and there. day after day, and lose sight OF the
terrible total
DIT. Hoffman found that the 1921 murder rate was
fraction moro than nine out of every 100000
Americans.
Allowing for concealed murders that are
definitely discovered (lnciuding many missing per-
sons" cases). a conservative estimate is that one
American in every 10000 is murdered yearly.
Meaning: Your chance Of being slain is one in
10000 each year, one in 1000 during period of 10
years. Figure it up over lifetime and, if you
100 years. one chance in 100 Of being murdered.
a dreadful PENALTY for permitting the sale of
pistols. which the death instruments in the
jority of murders
The brighter side OF the picture is that while
more than 10 900 are murdered in a year. at least
los. 100000 not murdered. As in all other forms
OF crime. evil ''far away" in the minority.
That's why evil gets so much attention-its tho
exception the unusual.
Most of US. after all are decent law-abiding cti-
zens.
New Orleans Italian issues a spaghetti eating
challenge. Where is that New Orleans man who
pounds of crawfsh?
says Pershng his party claim they
killed 200 ducks but doesn't say how many they
Russian Soviet government is five years old
Like all youngsters 1t never has had enough to eat
1t is strange how put things off. In Kansas,
q man needed a shave 90 days before he got it.