Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-08
THE MAN WHO TALKS

that of the good and bad; if it is econo- mic you will see the world as made up of the rich and poor; if you are sociologis- you will think of the high and the low. But from almost every lpoint of contact you will see the world divided into lead CTS and followers, and the latter are ov- erwhelrningly in the majority. This is no artificial line of cleavage, but forms the two great divisions. Boys inside the school room and out recognize leader whom they instinctively follow We see the same recognition in the workshop, in churches, in clubs, in politics in social life. Leaders are born not made. If 1t docs not come by birth, education cannot man ufacture it. but if it is there education will strengthen it. The leader rests under great responsibility that he leads iq the right direction. The tenl2tation to do oth- | erwise will be strong. Of him that hath will much be expected.
 As man possesses an emotional nature it is subject to ecstacies. As these are organic they are natural and seek cut ward expression in a great multitude of ways. Ecstasy under had control leads to fanaticism as we so painfully see in the middle ages. But une of it's most beauti- full forms of expressions is music. When | ever joy is resident in the human soul. and | especially if it is abundant to thS point of | overfowing, it is most apt to break out in | to singing. What cold, hard, dry, juice 1 less world this would be with all song l left out If the emotional nature is the cultural field of music, certainly music is reaexive in stimulating joy in the soul. i Music braces up courage, it urges man on 1 to the performance of heroic deeds. It is not too much to state that Luther sang his way to the successful accomplishment of the Gernanie reformation. His 'Ein Feste Burg is Unser Gott" was the key note of his nature and his great hymns like the man himself, are mountain rang i es of belief and devotion.
 It may not be easy to give good work 1 ing definition of co1bwelos, but most of us 1 know from bitter experience just what they l are. If you don't then sit down before you typewriter when your stomach is a little out and your head still more. so and try to compose. Did you ever try ii when the notionless keys seemed to grin 1 at, and mock you saying, "Oh you plumb idiot, why don't you get a move on you: If you have had this experience I sur mise you've a dim idea of just what cob webs are. Of course by 'cobweib" I don mean that fine, silken, almost invisible strand suspended from the ceiling, glitter
 ing in the sunlight and tickling youl
 nose and giving you the only comfort foi the time being-that is not the kind oi
 cobweb I mean, but rather the sort that puts a muffler on the brighter intellects like that Of which the immortal poet sang | o, cobweb cruel thing of lead. an ivory ball thou mak'st my head! Whilst thol
 are here both ears do ring, I cannot thinl
 Of Q blooming thing.
 We ought to make a careful distinction
 between things that are legal and thoSt
 that are expedient and wise There arr many things we have a right 70 do that ", , ought not to do. There al thinEs som people can do and come out all rieh which others could not without injury The lads in Washington can sit down il
 the wet streets and play marbles withou attracting attention. but if Presiden . Harding and Senator Lodge should do s
 the whole nation would be shocked Wh,
 do we have a double standard: One for un
 known boys, and another for famous men
 When it comes to a question of moral
 there ought not to be a double standard
 but in minor matters it cannot be avoided A woman can dab her pretty little freck1 ed nose in public with a powder puff an d get away with it, but a man couldn s Hasn't he the same right to dab his purpl l. snout in public as she has her freckle e nose? A cruel standard says no. A ma
 can hold a corn cob pipe in his mout
 on the street and pull it off in great shar . but a woman couldn't without damacin q her reputation. Public dpinion may | j. unreasonable but it utters an ultimatun n and if we butt up against it we shall gt V hurt.
 n There is one thing now on that We car a not well help. and we ought not to Iel l. it if we could and that it the lure Of ou - door life. The blue jays have been tryin
 to teach me a lesson along this line latei
 It was either because they Tnuddled thins l. | or I was too thick skinned to get the . message, but when reenfenced by the roi u in's song I knew it was a call to ouJdot > life. It was a distinct invitation to me e join them in Tnagnifying external natur l. It is well to turn away from books if early spring and sit at the feet of oth'
 school masters for while and ho
 much they have to teach us if only ol T. spirits are in unison with the alboundiI > new life about us, and our ears ara a IS tuned to their manifold voices. When V l. stray off into the wilds and get in tt touch with it's appealing life, can we n L. better understand the urge that came - the 1nGians in the spring time to wand s in the old northern fishing grounds ar 0 dwell in tents? Is there not some grour It for the gy4gsy's lust for roaming? W 7f have not any of us entirely outgrown u
 
 Nowhere has more intelligent progre
 been made than in the use to which e
 ening schools in some of our cities ha
 been put. Provision has been made f 1- study rooms to accommodate day sch0 il pupils; especially those in the low
 grades. This is proving to be of inestr
 able value to the many scholars who a tend. The rooms are located largely I the nor-Elglish districts of our citie 'u where home conditions for study are f r. from desirable Most of our day schoc are now very properly insisting on hor
 work for pU2ils, and the great value q, this is little understood and appreciat ,d by the rank and file of many of our inn - grants. Congested quarters noise al i9 general confusion make home study diff
 cult. But in these study rons under t
 supervision of competent and synJoathet in teachers, several hours study has a mar ne ed value.
 10 The world has always been trying
 solve its problems, and there have alwa
 been problems to be solved General il w provement in human. well being incref +o es the number of problems it is the pr z We pay for the blessings of life. Our ma 00 difficuICy. lies not in the fact that DIT
 lems exist, but in the manner in whi
 we deal with them. If We only used { It. wishbone less and the backbone more he accomplishments would be greater. h. we are to be overconrers We must 5lS
 our pathway through trials and diffic
 ties and obstructions by downright ha
 work and not by trying to wish tn les away. Most of the obstacles Of Nge gr lat less at least if looked squarely in the e on and faced with heSoic and lpersistt
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