Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 I am inclined to think the ideal va cation is the one that completely
 i meets ones expectations. The vaca-
 tion which exhausts your energy, your purse and your patience doesn't con- 1 tribute to the joy of living, but sim ] ply adds misery to misery Too many ! vacations resolve themselves into a loafing spell and vexation of spirit I no good comes of them. Some peo- pie spend their vacations in riotous ] living, and some in doing the work | for themselves they can find no other | time to do. Those who get some l thing of value from a vacation are l the ones who know best what vaca- | tion is for. Most vacations represent an endeavor to crowd a years fun in- to fourteen days or less. A season of but positive seif-abuse. A reasonable l person returns from a vacation fit for l work, not fit for the services of a doc | tor.
 Is it not strange how many men l profess to be talking for the people l who have no credentials, or even pop ular ideas which command their ap- plause. In a republic like this every
 demagosue claims the right to speak for the people, and the people are too busy, or too tolerant. to cong cern themselves about his utterances. The people are lovers of peace and are not ambitious for power Mackenzie defined mankind in the gross "as a gaping monster. that
 loves to be deceived, and has seldom
 been disappointed" The common
 people" are always receiving uncom--
 mon attentions fran political dema-
 gogueS when their y~.es are wanted
 they realize no rewards after the
 dema gogue has ceomplished his pur-
 pose. The love of equality represents
 the true spirit of democracy. but no
 affection seems to be wasted upon it
 by the masses The only freedom the
 peopre seem to yearn for is to pur-
 sue their lives and to develop them
 selves as they see fit. The people
 only resist when the evidences of op-
 pressfon have become too ga1ling.
 We are asking ourselves after the
 war what?" But we do not all agree
 upon the answer. Some think of
 peace without lending a thought to
 compromise: and some think of in creased territory or trade without giv-
 ing consideration to the cost of eith-
 CT; but we must admit intellectual
 Germany in it's sane, studious and peaceful moments has told the world a great truth no one can deny. A
 Tuetonic proverb tells us, "A great
 war leaves the country with three armies-an army of cripples. an army of mourners and an army of thieves and it might have included an army Of orphans and a poverty that is ap- paHing. After the war what? Peace and the price, It has not only turned men into cripples and debtors, but in- to beasts of prey, and placed a burden upon the nations which it may take a score of generations to pay. Indicted as it should be we read that war has done more to make the world vast Golgotha, to unpeopie the earth and to sin under which the earth has ever groaned and suffered and over which l angels ever wept." thought he could not Action brooks neither doubt nor hesitancy. The whole man must be in whatever one undertakes. It is an old and true proverb that the house divided against itself will surely fall. Purpose and energy must walk hand in hand. Eusebias called attention to the fact that whole nation was made slaves because the people could not say 'fNoi" The mind is the conceiver and l designer of great things and great movements; the mind generates a force which must be reckoned with. l He who hesftates is -ost because lack l of confidence is a lack of ability The or mar the individual. There is noth- | ing truer than this: AS a man think | eth in his heart so is fle,'' for it is by thought that man may exalt or de- grade his SOul-be saint or a satan. | The man who is master of his thought I may surely become the master of | his fate-the captain of his soul.' I -lake certain of the will, but beware | of the wish.
 We all interested in the en- deavor of the government to conserve l the crops of the country and pray that i 1t may succeed; but when fruit is so abundant and cheap that it doesn't | pay to gather it. to say notbing of getting it to market, how is 1t going to be conserved. The uncultivated and in New England for the past half century has been enough to have pro- iuced all the food the people needed; and the wasted fruit has bullled up to hundreds of thousands of bushels every year. Doubtless the apples wasted in New England every year ire sufficient to produce cider brandy enough to get all the people drunk Then we are charged with eating
 hird more than is required for sus-
 ence. hence to this extent we waste tnd promote disease. There is a big opportunity for the practice of econ 'my in this country but how waste an be prevented is a greater problem han the raising of three billions to lght the enemy.
 An English woman says: Content nent is a very great physician. His ees are high, but we cannot afford to dispense with him." He wipes out uss and fret and worry if we but l | what we have. Since we cannot get what we like" runs the Spanish prov rb. let us like what we get" This s fitting ourselves to circumstances instead of letting circumstances ir- itate and confuse the soul Content nent promotes every good thing, be- { aues it sustains one great quality = ( | makes the man who sweeps the
 treet a happy as the man who rules ( .n empire Duty vel done abides in z as a single joy. Con eminent does not depend upon what | ve have, but upon our relation to { tod and duty. Contentment with the Divine will removes the sting from 2 misfortune and permits fear no more ( o menace the human soul, or desire 0 excite envy and the haunting niseries which follow. ContentmentI z s spiritual elevation-a feeling of se- : urity such as wealth even cannot f i've. 7
 # you want that boy or girl Of C ours to grow up right and be credit C rJ 7af %zIf r .