Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

An, English writer says There rare a great many people who. VI hen tteE try, really mean they have doae bet ter for them selves. | his sseefns to be par,ticalaray true Of che great sto oclz scompanSes making rnslni 6ns of wa F making most money in the warning countries srg those wifea are supply : ing the arnies and these are doing stheir country aSwe1f as dcdng for 9t: Here in Anrericas 1t Is said the ar1lay y supp1iers for the past tive years have. made four hilticu dolla rss not only. skinning the enemy, but skinnsn g their own conntryEneHz but they are not ehoIing sip iaTze. on the liberty: ed here has been hapreufns in Eng. land and EranceysS 6serisaany and Rus .s eia. , Those who profit by the war are the ones who should be compelled to give it large support. r s f think Dfsfy Sunday talks more about TelTs1than iss f1ecessarys;;a and speopiess szs 1t in a way thaS is rash. Doubtless becas1s@: of our conduct all Of us. have had a: little taste fof the niseriess Of it berause of our regrefss A Persian poet wrote 800 years agos T sent my Sosif tfarou sh che Invisible some letterso of that After-aifes to: spell; and by and by my Sou1 returned to Heaven and Hell, :: We aN know n1er- riress and s. misery alternate in sl this world like sunshine and shadow; and we all get portion of both. And considering our power to make our selves. miserable. lor happy as we achieve or err, we get a gleaFn of the and uErigilteotIsf1essr which jars our sbetngs Mir Sunday makes 8 good deal more use Of Hell
 
 Biblical writers did In twenty ono. centuries. It: WAS Ben 1cnsef1 who was of the opinion men mtghts so to heaven with half the labor they put forth to go to heE,. if they wonid but venture their industry. in the right way" Billy Sunday may be right when heszsaysa hell will be- crowded; but legs and arms do not hang out of the windows in the Devils packing houses.
 All +he fighting nations have dis covered that. the liquor tramc is not a national defence but a, national per- il: and most of them have enforced to increase the men for the nations good;3 and as an incidental result they have doubled and tre51ed the savings in the banks of the liquor restricted nations The controlling board of England control the Intoxicating drinks of 3S million people, and in the past two years they haTe reduced the intoxicating quality of liquor from 425 degrees below proof to 50: and 80 degrees below proof has been made the legal maximum; and in the same space of time the prosecutions for drunkenness have fallen off from 15o,- 900 in 1914 to 1000 in 19f6.1 Cor near. ly half. The great advarta ges grow ing tout of these preservative meas ures will not be without influence in New England which today represents the booze end of this republic.
 Some one has said, Every cheerful thought points the way to another and it may as well be said that one worry leads direct to- another. All repetition4is is habit-building, and to master habit instead of having habit master us we must have ancare how duct. It is as easy to make praying a habit as hawking: and'sto make pray CT as empty as rag time song. It is why and how. we do things which gives or detrects value from them. There is no denying that man first makes his habits and then his habits make him: and this is why the guard against habit through in struc- ton should be early established: for the chain Of habit remains4too small to be felt until it is too strong to be broken. If habit is, as defined, petri- fled feeling, we should be careful what we solidify It is an estab- lished truth that If you SOW an act you reap a character; sow cl1arac- ter and you reap a destiny.''
 Many e man thinks he is 8 politi= elan when he is only. joke. It is; a long way from being a political heeler"@to being a political power One-half tthe men who have given their whole. time to politics in this republic since the day of it's founda- ton could not if called upon have given an acceptible definition of the word or given a comprehensive idea of true political duty; and many of these dullartlS have risen toll be con- gressmen, not because of their abil- itys to serve their country1nen, but be- cause of their genius to fool them. A real politician is a. citizen who under stands the science of GovefnTn mt; and more than half the political work ever having learned there Is such a thing as a science of government they only become expert in the sci ence of logrolling, telling tales that are not true, making promises never intended to be kept, and getting ap- pointed to places they were totally in- competent to efficiently fiji.
 Have you noticed that the, people who seem to enjoy talking most are y.9- are all indicted of thinking foo little and talking too much. Too many converse lions remind one of poor Polly. More can talk religion. busi- ness high society. politics, hsfaing, or groveling worms of the dust than can talk horse sense: Most of our talk is about one thing or another: and those w1o think they have tall ancestral trees like beet to talk of their fafnilyss past. Those can talk joy best who have always known comfort; and those can talk patience best, who have never had palm: and those can talk reform best who think they are of the elect; and those can talk revolution most X blatant1y 5 who have least consciousness of what it means. The gift of gab Is large responsibility; and ganbing is a hu- rnaH,s fault Half the regretszef hui mankind would be eliminated if so many things that are not so were never said.
 if other crops were as persistent as the crops of plantaan and .dandelions on -.ther. lawn. or quack-grasfk and Ns@.