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VOLUME 1.
NEW YORK CALLED
A GRAVEYARD OF
REAL HUMAN
CHARACTER
DOTED EDUCATOR CRITICISES
METROPOLIS
So Busy Making Fortunes, Men
Have No Time to Learn
How to Spend Them.
President Charles F. Thwing of West
ern Reserve University Declares
He Would Not Want to Live in the
City Under Any Circumstances —
“In the Smaller Places People
Have Not Forgotten Their Good
Manners”—Life in New York Too
Fast; It Burns Up Men.
New York is a Graveyard
of Real Human Character.
Life in New York Is Too
fast It Burns Up Men.
Not Many Men or Wom
en Can Endure Such a Life
for a Long Time.
The New York Man Is So
Busy Making His Fortune
He Has No Time to Learn
How to Spend It.
In a Smaller City There Is
Time for Thought, for Self-
Development.
In the Smaller Cities
People Have Not Forgotten
Their Good Manners.
NEW YORK.—Writing In the
Sunday World, President
Charles F. Thwing of Western
Reserve university, thus
voices his opinion of New
Yorkers:
I have been in the habit of
visiting New York at frequent in
tervals for a period of 30 years.
With each succeeding visit I became
more and more convinced that I
should not want to live in New York
under any circumstances.
Why?
The question is at once a big one,
complex and serious. It carries one
beyond personal equations. It in
cludes tendencies and movements In
character and work of our people.
America is becoming the world, and
its larger city is a microcosm. New
York is one of the largest German,
Italian, Irish cities in the whole
world. Scores of other nationalities
are here gathered and put into the
melting pot.
Besides racial elements other ele
ments abound.' The most intellectual
and the most stupid, the mqft dis
tinguished and the most obscure, the
most charming and the most uninter
esting, the most philanthropic and the
most selfish, the highest socially and
the lowest socially, the noble morally
and the unspeakable morally, are here
mingled, and mingled not in quietness,
but in surging forma and ways.
New York is dynamic, not at all
statical. New York spells strenuous
ness.
Now, this condition, at once force
ful and fascinating, opens opportuni
ties for educational, religious and so
cial service such as human history has
never offered. The condition is preg
nant with celestial and terrestrial
’gravitation.
Servant Problem a Real Difficulty.
I But this very condition creates a
positive disadvantage. .Not many
many men or women can endure such
a life for a long time. The pace' kills.
New York is not simply a “graveyard
of reputations,” as it is often said to
be; it is a graveyard of real human
character, dead before prime.
Let me Illustrate. A friend of mine,
whom 1 will call Abbott, went to
China in 1875. He served there in
the customs service for more than 30
years, and became one of Sir Robert
Hart’s great men. Four years ago he
retired. He wished to spend the rest
of his life in writing a history of
China. His familiarity with the au
thorities, historical and literary, would
allow him, in doing this work, to be
i nany part of the world.
He was an American born and bred.
His wife was American-born, though
English-bred. Three years ago he
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“He is so busy making his fortune he has no time to
spend it except in the obvious ways of) the lust of the eye
and the pride of life.”
came to America with the thought of
possibly settling here, living his life
and doing his work. After spending
four months in New York, Mount Des
ert and elsewhere, he wrote me say
ing:
"We are leaving. We are leaving
for two reasons. First, the difficulty
of securing good domestic servants.
Second, and more, the killing pace.
We cannot stand the life.”
Less Orderly Than Smaller Cities.
They returned to England and
bought a place in beautiful Surrey,
some fourteen miles from London.
The case of the Abbotts is, 1 think,
typical. Life in New York is too fast.
It burns up men.
Now to the comparative side of the
question. A smaller city, like Cleve
land, for instance, is a city of diverse
populations, it is also a melting pot
of Medes and Persians, and the dwell
ers in Mesopotamia. Its forces are
active. It, too, has people who are
the most distinguished and the most
stupid, the most charming and the
most uninteresting, the most phi
lanthropies! and the most selfish, the
highest socially and the lowest social
ly, the noblest morally and the un
speakable morally.
But all these forces are not so con
gested, so crushed in together as they
are in New York. In the smaller
cities there Is more orderliness. Peo
ple have not forgotten their good
manners, or at least many of them
have not. They still have time to be
considerate. The crush, both physical
and intellectual, is not quite so crush
ing.
More Human. Than New York.
People in smaller cities are more
human than New York people. They
are less inclined to weigh all things
in the scale of the mint, if New York
has more LIVING, smaller cities have
more LIFE. What you see emerges
readily in a smaller city, in New
York one becomes so easily lost. In
a smaller city not so easily. Cleve
land, for instance, is large enough to
give a field for one’s forces. It is
small enough to preserve and pro
mote individuality.
in New York this pressure has be
come a very materialistic one. At
least the materialistic side is the ob
vious one. Os course there are to be
found in New York great men and
greatest men in all fields of human in
terest. But they and their work are
not so obvious to the passerby as are
wealth, the desire for wealth and the
seeker after wealth.
New York is too large for many
people to know' people of other types
Intimately.
Seek Only External Things.
The young man feverishly seeking
a fortune does not know the inner
lite of the man who has learned that
great wealth has little value e/cept
as a stepping stone to opportunities
for a larger life. He sees only the
external grandeur and display of liv
ing. He is so busy making his for
tune he has no time to learn to
spend it except in the obvious ways
of the lust of the flesh, the lust of
the eye and the pride of life.
In a smaller city where the pressure
of living Is not so great, time fori
thought, time for self-development, in
tercourse with men who have thoughts
on other subjects than money are
given. Such a life can be found in
New York by the man who insists
upon finding it. It Is obscured by the
external' rush and dazzle unless he
does insist and keeps on insisting with
a strength and fervor which his ob
vious surroundings are all conspiring
to stifle.
®lw Sullclin
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGI A, FRIDAY, MAIM II 15. 1912.
Both New York and smaller cities
need, and in New York more, I think,
the lesson of Walter Bagehot, if you
have a mind, use it. It is the most
interesting thing. The cities, like
America itself, used to be taught that
the things of the spirit are the real
things, that what one sees will soon
vanish, that the Invisible is the eter
nal, “that the lust of the flesh and
the Just of the eye and the pride of
life are transient,” and that the spirit
of man deserves, and is really strug
gling after, the real truth of life.
DEFENSE OF THE CENTIPEDE
Frenchman Declares Insect Not Only
Comparatively Harmless, but Real
ly of Much Value.
The centipede—which really never
has a hundred legs, in spite of his
name —has always enjoyed a bad rep
utation. A Frenchman, M. J. Kunckle
d’Herculais, recently came to the de
fense of this insect in a paper before
the Academy of Sciences in Paris.
In the first place, the animal Is
not poisonous, as is commonly sup
• posed. There is only one authentic
case of poisoning by the centipede on
record for this country. That was re
ported by Dr. Josiah Curtis of Wash
ington. A woman was walking in her
room at night in bare feet and was
stung or bitten by a centipede be
tween the toes. The bite was fol
lowed by inflammation and severe
pain that lasted for thirty-six hours.
Mr. d’Herculais questions even this
case, because the symptoms were
very much like those produced by the
sting of a bee or hornet and also be
cause experiments had been made
with much larger species of centi
pedes and these were always harm
less.
But he also finds the animal useful.
On several occasions he came upon
individuals of the species scutigera
coleoptrata catching flies and other in
sects. The centipede grasps the fly
with the front legs and quickly bites
it in the thorax, Injecting a juice that
kills the fly instantly. When there
are manyWlies about the centipede
will kill several before beginning to
feed. Instead of chewing at its prey,
it sucks out the soft parts through a
puncture, leaving the head, legs, wings
and other hard parts.
Another argument for the harmless
ness of the centipede is deduced by
the author from the fact that when
the animal is grasped it does not try
to defend itself, but seeks rather to
escape. It often escapes by “leaving
its legs behind”—that is, the animal
automatically throws off a number of
legs that have been caught by the
enemy and limps off on the remaining
ones. It can easily spare a dozen or
two of its thirty legs, for the lost
members can be regenerated.
The centipede is found pretty well
scattered in all parts of the world.
The species common In the United
States, scutigera forceps, was report
ed over twenty years ago as devot
ing the nights to killing house tiles.
And later an observer detected one
iu the act of capturing a butterfly
much larger than Itself. The Insect
hides duripg the daytime under door
steps or window frames, or in any
crevice large enough to conceal its
numerous appendages. — Harper s
Weekly.
Not a Flattering Opinion.
Blobbs—“Does young Dr. Squills
know much about medicine?” Slobbs
—“Well, I should say that what he
doesn’t know about medicine would
fill a morgue."
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