Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-26
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS

6pSAkor 2IvU0Ezck H. " 04tAeSa OA Springfield struck the key note Of q campaign for IA better America" when ho said that we must go back the way we travelled in earlier days and pick out safe road. It is the simple life alone that will restore the country to views expressed by MT Gillett in the Sunday Star, in answer to the question of how to make America better. What is the matter with, America now" counter questioned MT. Gillett, then lie said. First Of all we must see what is the nlatter-we must look about and sec where we stand. We have been climbing a steep hard hilE We have won to the top only by expenditure of much of our reserve strength. At the top we have reached the cross roads and the sign posts to right and left and straight ahead are marked dang erous road, travel at your own risk. lsut there's a fourth sign post marked to a better America and it points along the way we have come. Somewh ere down that way we shall find the road to a better America but we must so back. The people of today are living a life of excitement and pleasure, of ex- travsgance and restlessness. This is abnormal living and abnormal think ing. IL is far from the homely New England methods which first made America. We must go back to those methods, If America is to attain the fitness of it's opportunities"
 As an illustration the speaker chat ted on condition in his own city of Spri3Efieid as they existed a few years back. He referred to the skilled me- chanics who were employed in the Springfield armory drawing wages in- finitely less than paid today yet who were ccnten: with their work and who respected themselves and their fellow men and who were respected" The speaker went on to say These men took a keen and intelligent view in politics and lived the life of free men to whom that condition meant high re- folks of those men met life with no less healthy point of view. They took the home which their husbands earn ing capacity builded for them and put lem of managing it efficiently. Their happiness lay in their healthy chill dren, in their pleasant homes and in the consciousness that they were aid ing their men folk in the work that was theirs. Together such couple lived in happiness. They furnished and in- sisted on the education for their chil- dren which enable them to win to any success their individual ability might make possible. Satisfied with their es- tate, peace was in their hearts instead of restlessness. Their ambitions were conceived in reason and they pursued them with healthy appreciation of the fact that steady and sober meth
  rash and spectacular gambIes **~ This was in Springfield many years ago. Today we see different picture throughout the nation. We see men clamoring for immediate attainment of extravagant ambitions, restless and discontented in the estate which is theirs We see women aggravating the condition by seeking costly and oph- moral excitement under the niscon- ception that they constitute the ha y,n nA eir r1o of today emulating the mental attitude of their parents towards life, thinking far more of the movies" the soda fountain, the dances and so forth, than of how to best develop sound minds and healthy bodies for the 1ite that lies ahead of them Any thinking man or woman is conscious of this, and so we stand at the crossroads with the signs marked dangerous. The way to make America better is to retrace our steps carefully till we come to that juncture in the development of our national point O. view where a man and a wo- mah found life good without the frills deemed today. The citizens of the land must discard the abnormal for the normal. And the old ideas that we of New England are SO proud to call our own, the ideas Of sobcrness and thrift are the ones that will see the nation through the crisis of the present to secure and prosperous future. We
  erous unless one knows where one can in the end go farther forward by stands and whither one progresses. We first going back a step or a rod or a mile sometimes. Particularly when we find we have overstepped ourselves and that we are in d dangerous locaH- ty.''
 And now we are told that Washing ton is to become a world capital and before the leaves fall we shall be hob nobbing with royalty. There is all ready heavy booking to use the lang pected stars are the king and queen of Belgium, the king and queen of Rou- mania the prince of Wales, the prince Of Denmark and other crowned heads or heads to be crowned at a laterdat te, who may drop in to return the recent visits paid by President and Mrs. Wilson while across the sea- Rumor adds to this lise of attractions Marshal Joffre, Marshal Foch, Field Marshal Hais and other military heroes. Added to this comes the proposed visit to the United States in Ocober of he council of five from the league of nations. So- tiety folk are on the tip-toe of antici- patton, mansions are being renovated, hotel reservations made for October and thousand and one steps being taken to secure bandwagon seats for l jealous anglo -maniacs, Belgium mani- 1 ac, Roumania -n1aniacs and other de- rotees of royalty. who don't want to l miss seeing or being seen of the antici- oated events come off on schdule time. 1 Taken all in all, theren be something l 1oing here this fall. unless all signs l tail. |
 Although the race riot has quieted ! iovsn on the streets an incipient rebel ion has followed in it's wake and a | score Or more white elevator men in | he senate office building threatened to | strike unless the one colorcd operator | was discharged from such service. The l 'unny part of this strike was that the | elevator men secure their positions | through political patronage often so eagerly sought, that the patronage | is at it's wit end to find 1 snough elevators for them to run--and | senator's are besieged by constituents | wanting the positions. Now the men | want to dictate who other senators | ,hail appoint. The matter was adjust l ed by giving the co1ored man a night f elevator while the white operators are l off duty.
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