South Bend news-times., 1922-11-05
TODAY'S TALK
REFRESHING
BY George Matthew Adams

REFRESHING
The sUest. weakest most useless. and most hob
goblned mind in the world Is OF the who
takes all his opinions from others.
His is the mind already sold to the meanest
bidder
such one may be, the words OF Stevenson. "a
docile citizen" but "hs will never be a man"
So that to meet one whose opinions and ideas flow
from fertile and open mind is like coming into a
cool patch Of woods beside some fresh flowing
stream, after having suffered heat and dust across
the wide plain.
Each OF Us has a mind Of his own. with die
Jatng soul that is true the path OF the
But It be given It's say. This stubborn
OF right that often rises spur into
best and wsest way is a thing divine the
stars.
It Is no wonder that the very gods Of time make
way to honor such intrepid "rnsunderstoods'
Emerson. Thoreau Whitman. For they light
UP entire ages.
Our self-assertion must bear its own consequences
but insofar as Il Is expressive Of the sincere urge
of our voice-iet the judgment OF either
rabble or high court and stand fall by its merit
Have fear outside the throne OF your
heartl
Know-and know that you know because you
accepting the honest expression and thinking Of
your innermost best self-or else remain silent until
you do know.
believe that the great God takes away the loneii-
ness from many a human being. who has made
himself hermit for truth. by coming often to keep
him company.
So never mind my frierd. BE yourself in the
grandest way you know. and you will refresh every
last of your kind
the movie for educating the youth to scenes of
crime and methods of criminals and many states
bar films showing revovers or actual crimes
Turn back TO the year 1897, long before the day
Of either films and automobiles and read what a
noted authority on the problems CT the London
rolice system said about the things that created
criminals.
That was the Gay when there first began to be
enough patronage for coachmen to drive at night
You will find this warning by Mr.. Colquhoun very
illuminating:
Might coaches also promote in an eminent degree
the preparation of burglary and other felonies.
Brbed by high rewards many hackney coachmen
eagerly into the pay OF nocturnal depredators
and wait in the neighborhood until the robbery be
completed and then draw up the moment the
watchmen going their rounds their stands
for the purpose of conveying the plunder to the
house Of the receiver who is generally awaiting the
Of the enterprise Three-fourth Of the present
hackney coachmen in London are said to be fash
designed assist thieves"
1T being certain that a o. mischief
done which could not be taken it not for the
assistance which night coaches afford to thieves OF
description, it would upon the whole advan-
tageous to the public that they should not be per-
mitted take fares after Il o'clock night,
if this is mpractcable that the coach hire for the
night service should be advanced condition that
all coachman going upon the stands after II o'clock
should licensed by magistrates of the division.
BY this means the night coachmen by being more
select would not be open to improper influence and
they might become useful public justice in
giving information and also in detecting burglars
and other thieves"
He seriously believed that is the night coach was
driven that it would stop all crime.
What who lament the Of the auto
by criminals and this who wrote of coaches
overlooked is the fact that human nature changes
little
Greed remains in the human heart. Crime pre-
walls of the temptations offered the weak
ling. Those who defy and break laws always the
same implements which afforded for usefulness.
After all, crime is only misdirected effort The
real cure for crime be in the treatment Of
minds and attacking the diseases Of which 1t is only
one symptom.