Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The people who know their gardens best enjoy them most. What a lot or aliens make up the flower garden. We find Africans and Russians and Greeks
 among the tulips, Spaniards, Germans and Japanese among the Iris, French and Turks among the tulips, ana our little White Saline, or Catchf1y, IS an Alpean mountaineer Most or the nar tions of the earth and the islands ot the sea have floral representatives, in our gardens. And perhaps you do not know that floral hobo, blaek-eyed Susan, that mixes with clover ana hayseed and comes to us from the West and spreads itself in lean pastures like the daisy and as weed is as persistent as the Canadian thistle or the wild carrot. It IS so pretty and easily grown that 1t IS popular with amateur gardeners, and I am fond of it myself. It allows no creeping thing to crawl up it's stem. but invites to it's flowers all, kinds of flying insects which collect honey or pollen. Its nectar cups are deep, and | it is really moth and butterfly | flower. It belongs to the rudbeckia tribe. and this alone is evidence of it's profuseness of bloom and tenacity. | 1t is doubtful whether any nation on earth. unless it. be France, under stands the Spirit of America. When
 President Wilson says we are in the war in the cause of humanity and are not looking for loot or indemnity, they do not understand or believe him, for l they have not learned the lessons in I liberty which make men courageous and elf-sacrificing for the betterment of their fellow, men instead of the en- richment of themselves or the ex- | tension of power. Our hundred days
 war with Spain was against the en- croac achment upon the rights of weak
 nation and for humanitarian princi- | pies. What other nation pays the enemy for property seized or returns l 30 millions of indemnity awarded by an International Court? We are so simply just that we are laughed at | by felonious and criminal potentates
 and governments. America is setting
 new example to kings and adding prestige to her name as the espouser and protector of human rights and government of the people by the peo- ple, which the German Junkers define
 as government from the gutter
 The man of power cannot be too
 self -assertive. He knows that tact is superior to command; and that l work with me" is more fascinating than work fer me" If Chas. M.
 Schwab had not known this he could
 not have taken charge of the govern
 ment ship building. and brought about
 such a wonderful change. In rising
 from a poor boy employed as a stake driver at a steel mill to be the presi-
 dent of a great steel corporation doing 1 hundreds of millions of business every wear, he gathered the wisdom which
 gives him such eminent qualifications
 as a great industrial leader. He does not work for the government in these 1 times of stress. he works with it.-he talks to the men about working with him not for him. When it comes to turning hairs he never turns one the 1 wrong way-he is as smooth as silk velvet He knows his men and is sure of himself By clear vision and
 clear expression he makes his way smoothing out all opposition as if il
 were nothing but crumrled paper
 Tact is not only skill, but goodness ol
 heart.
 | Fanatacism was not made in Ger many, but it has been developed there to a point where. it blends so nicely
 with insanity that the whole nation
 seems to have gone crazy. A German
 orator declares, An un-Germar freedom is no freedom; Ger
 many has been for centuries the tru'
 and only home of freedom worthy O
 humanity and elevating to humanity. The German must conquer
 and when once he has conquered to
 day or in one hundred years n'
 duty is more urgent than that o
 forcing the German language upol
 the world" Men must come t learn whoever cannot speak German i a pariah" These are gems of though | from over the Rhine. The fanaticisn |. Wendell Phillips used to talk. today,
 he declared would become the fash
 ionable creed of tomorrow" but ther is no occasion for alarm lest this Ger man frenzy should be accepted by tn : people, for as Cowper says: thei : fanatacism is "the false fire of al t overloaded mind
 : Chamfort told US changes of fash } ion is the tax which industry i'm I poses upon the vanity of the rich,
 but today we witness necessity i many nations. making old clothe fashionable. The slogan that we mus l wear old clothing to economize is no