Eureka Reporter | 1905-08-11 | Page 5 | Evil of Present Day

EVIL OF DAY mental faculties greatly disturbed by noise noise in my judgment la one ot the most powerful and most success ful organizers dis of the mental bacul i ties in the world said a thoughtful citizen to a representative ot the new orleana times democrat and when we reflect on the enormous ini in i crease in holsea of all kinds we will probably be convinced that the timela rapidly coming when the race will be in no small danger mentally on ac count 0 noise progress Is noisy necessarily so I 1 suppose but when I 1 speak of progress of the noisy type I 1 ol 01 course mean material progress we can t build in a material sense without making noise intellectual progress even Is not always along quiet lines but I 1 waa thinking ot noise in a lighter aspect have you not noticed how some men become mentally reckless on account ot louda talking have you not noticed that children will sometimes shriek them selves into a highly nervous state they become mentally on account of the noise they make I 1 was a rather close observer of a man at a game of baseball the other day he started to yelling gently and grad bally worked his way up to the altitude of the shrieking rooter before that game ended that fellow was aa mad as a march hare he had been crazed by his own voice noise Is aj dreadful distracter dis tractor when you come to think of it and the trouble about the noisy rooter at a ball game Is that in driving himself to the madhouse he Is likely to take a few other fellows with him