Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS

-- These are times in which none of us can afford to be indifferent. Indiffer- l ence is represented by having no heart and seemingly invincibie giant of the world which is responsible for more than half the worlds woe. Indiffer- ence and neutrality are twin brothers hood. To be negative to right in any direction is to be wrong; and to be
 negative to duty is to be stacker, or a sneak or renegade. Planning to be for neither side when the world needs men as it does today comes pretty near to assuming to be nobody. The indifferent world. will not endorse this, for the truth is often so embarra ssing
 that most of us decline to recognize | it; but there is no escape. When a mans interests are all Involved, as
 well as his rights and privileges, he cannot be blind to conditions, although he neglects to do his part to better them. We agree with Pelham at this point: That negligence is the rust of the soul. that corodes through all her best resolves" The country calls us and honor shouI -.prompt every one of us to do cur bit. Most people do not believe it is pos sib1e for person to make themselves over; hence they do not try 1t is S5 easy for a person to be different as it is to do different; ard that depends WnOl1y upon WI16IHcE HS Is IHdStSI CI his will, or his will is master of him Confirmed habits make lis what. we are-new habits make US different; hence putting out an old habit and represents the process of making our selves fit, instead of continuing as mis-
 fits. You cannot be made different in
 the twinkling of an eye, except with a
 gum. Good results are seldom .n-
 stantaneous, and it takes time to
 model ones self upon them. Every
 thing that is worth acquiring costs
 effort. Of course, any fool can slide down a mountain, but it takes a man
 to climb to it's peak, Thousands of
 people have made themselves over,
 but not one ever did 1t by believing he couldn't, for achievement requires one to do it. Power for good increases with action. and weakness follows ev
 cry failure to strive with faith and res
 olutfon.
 The world seems to be getting short
 of about everything but money. It is getting short of men, short of food,
 short of metal and short of common abundant It is getting short of tin cans, and the demand for them Is greater than ever. It requires 720,- 900, GOO cans to meet the requirements of this nation for sweet corn, peas and tomatoes, and this doesn't repre- sent one-half the total needed to take
 in the meats, fish and fruit In view
 of this scarcity baked beans, sauer-
 kraut, soaked peas, horniny, spaghetti and soaked lima beans, which can be
 carried dry, will not be canned this year. It isn't any wonder the produc
 ton of 150, GOO cans results in an old can nuisance in all the towns and
 cities of the world; and around the
 Pyramids of Egypt. It is said there is no place on earth where old tin cans are undiscoverable, as they line the
 trails of explorers through the forests
 of Brazil and the path of caravans
 across the Great Sahara desert. And if
 canned fruit had not been found
 among the ruins of Ponpei, the mod ern canning industry would never have
 been known.
 There is no doubt our registrative and selective system of making an army may be juster to all concerned than the old and now secuted volun such a clear way to dodge military
 duty; but there was nothing ancient or old-fashioned about the good cheer and enthusiasm which marked the system. The man who wants to be in the strife will always be superior to the man who doesn't want to be; and the man who yearns to do and dare will make a majority, doubtless, of those solicited under the present sys- tenn for they will resort to every method to get by, while the don't Want-tO' s may De depenOeQ upon to 0O
 things which may queer their physical
 efficiency. The boys of '62 were frail
 looking chaps when they went to camp, but they held the enemy in
 check until he was worn out and starv- ed out: and as veterans of the Grand
 Army they figured in peaceful citizen
 ship as power for good in all the
 walks of ife-1gured as no other vet erans ever figured in the annals of
 time.
 This world war has ceased to be a
 question of the achievement of arms,
 since at last it has resolved itself into a simple question of sustenance. This is the reason the strong appeals now
 being made are fully as urgent to the
 man behind the man who is back of the gun, as to this valiant defender of the flag. Man-power IS recognized at last as depending more upon meat than money, although it cannot get along without either. Half the able bodied men o9 the earth engaged n slaughter and the destructon of prop e-ty for nearly three years have brought all the nations of the earth to +ile verge of faIuine. America. North and South, Is How the one great source of provende-, and without our crops our men would DC more of burden than a help to the warning nations. An English stateman says: Tt has be- come a question nov which side Is go- ing to stick it outi We arei" With food and fuel to keep up the, man power and machine power the Entene x,i1 R11t the end of the struggle is