Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-10

unspoa<en but no less deeply held con- viction that it is still more blessed to give than to receive.
 Sure; I'll take anything anybody gives me. and say Thank -yse'," said a callow youth the other day.
 Which is very much whatsrdEs do at no higher and better than swine?
 don't want to turn these Talks into sort of Bulletin mutual admiration society, but I own up that I had to clap nay hands and shout "Hurrah." for The Man Who Talks the other day when I read this in his opening para graph:
 There is no good reason for all these disturbins labor contests In old in the market place to remind men to- rule their actions and sanctify their gains by the remembrance of the cross. The new rule every man for himself, and the devil take the hindermost- fs today recognized as an utter failure. It is ian utter failure That is~ In any true sense. It is turning the world into a moral junk heap. It is market nniasms. It is sacrificing man hood for bigger profits or swollen bank accounts or higher wages We farmers ought to be-and I hon. eStly think most of us are-ashamed to get into that crowd. We hold a unique position in that the worlds very existence depends upon us. Shut off for but one week the flow of food from the farms and the cities would starve to death With opportunity comes responsibility. which usually is and always ought to be steadyins agent.
 Like all other men who have their own lives to protect and fostert farm CTS must consider their own interests first. It would be sickly sentimentality for them to do anything else. But that doesn't mean that they are wholly to forget the dictates of humanity or the rules of fairness. It authorizes them to see. first. to the welfare of their own households, but it doesn't require them to let the devil take the hindmost, without helping hand being offered not justify them in forcing him to the rear and then teIephoning Satan to come and get him.
 It doesn't justify anybody in that sort of action. But we farmers are responsible for ourselves more directly than for other folks. and it is up to us to keep our own skirts clean of de- fiement, whether others do or not. It' is no more an excuse for us to engage in greedy Drof1teering because others do. than for us to eat hog -wallow be- cause swine like it.
 # another man cheats or lies or pliers or swindies I don't have to take him as a chunl. But if I lie. then I've got to sleep with a liar all the rest Of my life. Same with you. Do we either of us want that kind of bed-fe11ow in our own skins? Eh?
 If man is farming merely to make i money; if that is the sole idea in his head: if that is the only thing he thinks about or care about, he is mistake on the farm. There are larger opportunities for money making in other directions. The farmer has an uneoualied opportunity to live wholly clean and worthy life. with manhood rather than money as an aim All his surroundings have tendency towards real uplift. That any among us, no matter how small a minority level is matter for sorrow and self cnastening.
 In the present era of unrest and dis turbance and discontent and revolu- tioEary threatenings. it is largely upon us that will fall the business of keep ing the old ship ahoat. Never more than now was it essential for us to can we counsel and enforce sobriety and honesty and justice, unless our own hands are clean and our own con duct irrsproachable?
 The man who always asks only How much can I get?" may gain a tain the heights of manhood or win the solid satisfacti of life.
 The man who asks. part of the time at least. How much can give in fair ness to myself and those dependent on meo'' is much more likely to win his own self approval. if not the love and respect of his neighbors.
 'T serve was the motto of one Of the greatest heroes of media evai times
 It is in service rather than in gain that the true spirit of manhood grows
 THE FARMER