Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-19
WORK NOT WORDS WILL WIN
that isn't the way of the great World warmer and life -sustainer.

that isn't the way of the great World l warmer and Life -sustainer.
 We dig up some of the bottled sun light, captured millions of years ago by Carboniferous forests and turned by succeeding ages into 4coal, and dump it into furnaces which roar with it's combustion to drive, engines which rattle and pound under its impetus. But the rumpus isn't due to even that form of sunlight, but to our failure,- our failure to learn the secret which the sun knows and the ancient forests knew, but which we are too clumsy and awkward to understand.
 
 1t is a blessing for the most of US that this, like others of our most powerful natural allies, works in ab- solute silence.
 can almost imagine Old Sol, as the spinning earth exposes new meridians to his shining, saying to himself: Hello, there are a few million acres, waiting to be lighted and warmed and sterilized and aerated and nitrated and capillarized and generally set a-going. We'll, I'm on the job, even | if I ain't saying anything or making any noise; about it" And; as new meridians roll forward, the same thing over and over again, through our day which is the antipodes' night and the antipodal day which Is our night, never ceasing, never apoIogizing, never ex- plaining shining on and on till it rounds the year out and fills the seasons lap with overf1owing harvests. The storm may howl, if it will, but above the clouds the sun is always power always gets the better of the bowling storm. the end l Some of us farmers regard our selves as the slaves of the sun and the ] rain, abjectly subject to their caprices. Others of us take higher ground and | regard them as our potent allies, by i whose sovereign aid we are able to 1 make the desert blossom as the rose, and bring the whole round world into 1 subjection.
 I have noticed that those who take 1 t.is latter view usually share in greater or less degree the same dislike ! of slam bang methods, and hold in greater or less degree the same spirit 1 of silent devotion to tasks in hand
 which are characteristic of their
 mighty natural allies.
 l They may not make anything like | the noise of some others, but they do
 things and they get things done. | Which is. the important thing, al- ways and everywhere.
 The farmer who goes ranpagins 1 about, denouncing the weather and ] scolding about the hired man, may and
 often does get his name in the papers. But the farmer who stays by his job
 in fair weather or foul, who is always
 Johnny on-t -the-spot" with his blow or his hoe or. his Paris green, who says little but keeps his eyes wide open for every least showing of opportunity and grasps the skirts of happy chance
 with both hands the minute they get
 within his reach-that Is the farmer
 who, if he doesn't get his name in the
 papers, is apt to get good crops into
 his cellar or or to his market -wogan. "An ounce of performance is worth
 a pound of promise, says the old adage.
 It's not what man says but wha1
 he does which brings results.
 Fair words butter no parsnips' ! Bua a fair amount of work and fer
 tilizer and good seed and gumptior
 will usually provide the parsnips ready
 for buttering. Which is something al
 the talkee- talkee in the United States
 senate cant do.
 We've had long, cold, hard winter ; But, thanks to it's super-abundan
 snow, the great wheat fields of tht west are said to be in an unexpectedl! 7 fine state. Something good has al } ready come out of what, at the time ; seemed to present evil.
 We're fleeing a cold, late. sou
 spring, apparently. We'll, it may b, } that in it's very unpropitiousness lurki
 the seed of some other good whicl shall come to light, later. :.
 Our job is, not to sit supine in list
 less dejection. nor to fume and bluster nor to apologize and explain, but t.
 keep our eyes open and all our sense } alert for the first real opening whicl f gives us our chanceIt is to have ou tools ready and ourcampaign al 5 plenned, so that we can "gt int, shape" instanter and proceed to d. : things
 For we've got to do things, tii 7 coming season. There's a big re I sponsibility upon us, which we'd bette l realize and appreciate, now, than wal f for German raiders by sea or air t s enforce upon us.
 6 We may not have the highest ad : miration for all in our government t We may think some of them inefficien f and some even incompetent We ma; e be as full of criticism an an egg is e : meat. Nothing of that sort matter. S We've got this year to feed four na r tions instead of one.We farmers wi y have to provide that victual. It ism t a theory which confronts us, but n condition.
 If we fall down. now, then civiliza
 ton and all the hopes of humanity ia t down also. and bloody outrag t>l triumphs over us.