Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

When the world-war is over let us | hope the word Revolution will be w1p- | ed out of the dictionary and Evolution, l be printed in capitals. It. is time for all people to drop that R and to De | come acquainted with the better word and the spirit back of it. After man | has shed a part of his ignorance and foolishness it will not De so easy for | him to shed blood. Man can as thoroughly subdue the savage. that is within him as the savage in the neigh boring nation, and, when the savages are dead in the worldwide brother | hood. there will be no remaining saw ages to s,,hdue. We can grow out of our way free from the. complications they create. Religion doesn't consist of holding savages down, for its ob- ject is to make all men free.
 More people would cultivate silence | if they were conscious of the value Of | it. If there is anything on earth more | dreaded than constant talk 1t hasnt been discovered in social life yet You never heard of a silent woman stirring up the whole neighborhood; and it yet remains for a silent man to be quoted
 in court ,E1I The scripsnre G. c9mmandI %hE indi:
 cates that there is power and inspira- i tion in silence. We learn there, also, l of the still, small voice." which re-
 quires attention and quietness to be heard. If you do not obey the com
 mandments how do you expect to hear
 the voice. It is a historic fact that | five words cost Zacharius@ forty weeks of silence. but in these times five | his life. Silence is protection as well | as a sign of wisdom. The Arabs say | if one word is worth 2 shekel, silence l is worth two.
 | One prevailing human fault is being passive. Inertia of the mind is more l prevalent than most of us think. Faith l like charity begins at home. If we have no faith in ourselves we can have | no faith anything else If we have faith we must show it; if we believe | we must act: if we are good, we | should be good for something. There | professions. Too many prefer to drift instead of getting into the race | and swimming. We are all more or | less guilty: This is an indictm cnt few ! can venture to plead not guilty to- It | is a common fault now when the free l dom Of the people of all nations is be- I ing menaced. We are all beginning l to feel the pressure of. these conditions and we all shall have to do our bit. I We are facing the hour of great trial and great sacrifices. The call is not i to the men. in khaki more than 1t is | to you and I. Don't wobble. Front l iiSt. Ly SS, IiShI.
 Once in a while we meet someone 1 who thinks she does she pleaSes. l These are plainly self deceived people since it is a fact that no one in this l world of ours can do as she pleaSeS. l They have simply reached the limit | when they think they do. There are l lots of laws and conventionalities de-
 signed on purpose to prevent every one of us from doing as he pieases. We can neither dodge the tax collector nor the undertaken. If we could, what host would be doing it; We are com pelled to play the game of life well or I we rue it. have noticed style makes slaves of people when poverty doesn't l-none can act as they please, or eat what they please. or say what they please. We all have to obey the law Eef man and the unwritten laws of our | being. >~a
 1 When, it comes to the Golden Rule, how do you suppose the real good | people got the habit of, applying it ! to the measurement of others a hun ] dred times where once they apply it to l themselves? When up against it we all sag sadly. It was designed for | home use and OUT personal improve ! when it would serve us better; and l then indulge in yoluble criticisms | which would better fit us, and so ap- piled would benefit instead of injure 1 us. ~6-- COuld -He1IneT O1r Oui
 neighbours faults nor venture to de- ceive or cheat him if we lived up to ! this rule. It was intended as check upon these everyday bickerings of
 ours, but we decline to make it practi- cal. It works well in connection with conscience, but we manage to keep 1 them apart We recognize it as a good thing for George, but not for our | selves. --- 1-'
 We do not appreciates, each shining hour do we?, We may be surprised some time by the account, of the num- Der of golden moments and shining 1 hours we have let slip. If we know 1 ourselves as we ought we are aware we have more lazy streaks than are 1 creditable to us.- Laziness was long ago labelled as the leading hereditary sin of human -nature.e If indulged the 1 cobwebs of 1aziness turn into chains. Leisure is~its genteel name. And yet, | eventually doing nothing becomes hard
 work. The lazy man always yawns thrice where the busy man yawns once.
 Sloth is a., name that fits it-a slow | crawling animal! Very we'll repre-
 scented by human beings who waste good time hunting for soft It oftener looks more like a twin to stu pidity than like the first cousin to it, for it puts the mind to sleep. Egotism
 and laziness like, to sit down together 1 they are chuTns.
 It is now being proclaimed that the food hog is everywhere a. national curse; and I am wondering how much l verse he is than the heartless specu- l lator. The. food-hog in this country | isn't getting half a chance when the corn-crop run six million bushels l ahead of all previous records and In-
 dian meal is selling at 3 cents a pound | and hen feed at 1-2 cents. Eggs at 70 cents the dozen and oysters 75 cents l a quart, and everything else from. two | to three times higher than it was three years ago. except the average wages. If the food-hog means the speculator ! in foodsttffs there is no req son why
 he should be left to menace his coun- | try when alien fire bugs, criminals
 and even sympathizers are being | rounded up. What is needed is heavy
 blows in the right place and then | constant hitting.