Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-12
TIE USE OF BRAINS AyERTs DISASTER :

fr i , getting under Natures. feet. She cares ! no more about you and your interests I or your life, even, than she cares for 1 any mullein stalk in any pasture. She | has her road to follow7-a road you and 1 I don't always know the direction or | terminus of-and she follows 1t. You and I have the privilege, of keeping out of her way or of taking the conse- quences. There is no evidence that she cares what we do. She will cover our fields with waving grain CT load our trees with luscious fruit. if only we
 have brains enough to see her inten- tionS--have brains enough and use
 them Otherwise, she'll broadcast those
 same fields with thistles and weeds
 and sprinkle those same trees with
 caterpillars nests and cider apples. Bless you. 1t makes no difference 10 her. If it makes any difference to you. why, you've got brains and can use | 'eIn if you see fit, If not. take the
 clubbing which is coming to you. It has been said that the undevout astroromer is mad. Assuredlysfthe
 brains ignoring farmer is. nladder, <, There may be other callings which demand more cummings. There may be
 others which require more expert 1 training. There may be others which 1 compel finer technical skill. .5 l But there isn't a business on earth which has use for wider all sruupd knowledge, for the more constant4use or sound judgment, for the, daily er1i- ! ployment of all . | mans reasoning
 powers than farming.
 In, other words. for the use of his l brains. @4 q.sa s's
 No man ever lived yet who was wise 1 enough to know just which-s way Ma ture was heading or just what she was going to do next. It is as sure as the sunrise that the wisest of us will make
 mistakes. Even Solomon seems to have fallen into one. or two errors in the course of his career. 1T he rest. Of us
 are even more liable. to blurldeT.f But
 the use of our brains does shein, seme- F wha t.. There can be no denying this
 However regardless. of our interests Nature may be in her progress nc
 matter with how callous. an4fudtffer- ence she plays the game, she Is. at 3east fair. She carries @ club. True She will use it just as nonchalantiy tC
 knock our heads off as to kill edozer chestnut trees in the5Woods. But--she has also given us brains by the propei use of which we may keep out. of that , clubs reach, most of the time. No , only that. but the active use of<thost !. brains may enable us to get some hell , from the baelz-ld Of that club. swing. That's wherein we diffeA iron
 1 the blighted chestnutS. They can't sfieir
 themselves. If they: get in the4way 0, Natures net chestnut blight. thev'r,
 goners.i There's no hope for them Bu
 we farmers have been endowed Eitf brains. Are we not better than ma nJ chestnut trees? Surely we dre, If w
 use our brains. If we don't, iwheretr . lies the difference?
 Now, the use of brains in farming 1 doesn't nece ssarily consist in a know , ledge of animal netaboHsIn. Nor 1T } blind obedience to textbook rules. No in a technical definition of carbohy
 drates. Nor in calling 9 daisy : , "Chrsyanthemuin Ieucanthemum" Hor ace Greeley was once quoted as sayin, . that of all horned cattle in a news paper office a college graduate was tn | worst The oloer grow and the bet ter acquainted get with dirt. tn , more I'm inclined to shy at people wht | use big words to name simple, com 7 mon things.
 2 The average farmer has plenty 0 , l-se for most Of his brains in just keep
 ing out Of the way of the steam roller He can give ample employment to al ! his own and all he can beg. buy, bor row or steal from his neighbors in de vising methods by which he can nlak . that Steam roller turn his grindston :, for him.
 The chief function of brains Is t knew Why. Also How And sW-her And Where. And What.
 |! If the farmer doesn't use the brain r allotted to him for these purposes, ac :, corGing to the intent of the gift3sall l the proper functioning of those I sail
 brains. whose fault is 1t if he get | bumped? If he actually does use then ? to the fullest extent, he will escap most of the shocks and arrows of out 5 rageous fortune. and such as still hi , hiln-why. his brains will tellr. hin , what liniment to use temporarily ant aleviativelv, and also how to avoid tn next pounding, perhaps. According to the Stars diagnosis
 Nature doesn't pound one if he use his brains; only as a last recourse t teach him wisdom when he Is tot inert to learn it of himself. I don . know about that. should: say tha she pounds him if he gets in her way regardless, and the best professfona use of farmers brains is to- teact : him how to keep from under..s a1 ..' How that reading of the rules would .l fit the strike contagion leave tc