Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-27
THE MAN WHO TALKS

man in any business is the man who
 minds his own business, and becomes expert se it. Religion fits business just as well as it does the church, and if more religion was put into business, the world would not be upset by the
 deviltry of it. There is no good reason
 for all taese distuEbing labor contests.
 In oid times there used to be a cross
 erected in the market place ito remind
 men to rule their actions and sanctify
 thei- gains by the remembrance of the
 crosz The new rule. every man for
 himself aIfd the devil take the hinder
 most, is today recognized as an utter
 failure.
 1t mckee mo sick to hear New
 England workman of birth and breed
 ing say: .Thfs is no kind of a govern
 ment, anyw ay:" He doesn't know if 1t
 were net the best government under
 the sun people of all nations who have
 found .. welcome and a home here
 would not go to war to defend the flag and die by the thousands to make this government secure for their children and their ,chiidren's children Of
 course. there is no such thing as a perfect government. and it is doubtful
 if there ever will be- although there
 may be governments far better than the world knows anything about today somewher re in the future The citizen who speaks i'll of the government is false to it and the hag--the man who easily becomes false to his own people
 if there were more people produeins and fewer people handling what is pro- duced. prices would be 1owar. Besides cost of production, prices are affected by shoftness of supply and conse- quen-' competition to obtain for con sumption the necessities of life How much buyer wants a thing that is scarce. and what he will pay to get it. makes prices excessive and hiehty Raising wages is not the way to make things cheaper, since what increases the price Of one product tends to in crease the price of another Everything is relative. and nothing is gained bv making conditions more and more out of joint. When the balance is restored things will become right
 We know that birds SOW seeds which rtoduce their future food plants. We do not know whether they are conscious of a future time but we may lie sure they are conscious of much more than man suspects. Ii is tfue the fox sparrows and the white throated sparrows later in the season oeneht by this habit of the gold finch to drop au occasional seed upon fhe ground: but the gold -finches are not good s'eaners. and do not appear again ltrtil the sunfowers are ripe. We do not think 8 fly knows anything: but Fabre. the eminent French mai. uraHst. discovered that a hy knew when inc height of test tubes had be- ! come dangerous to the life Of hey i young and would not drop them on the 1
 
 TOT oanFer. The gold-fnches may i have an eye far-seefng enough to ae- i sure Hor themselves future grouns of | sunfowers for their seeds i
 'ou man whatever else you may De look oGt that you do not becor1e ! rainbow chaser" That bopy of promise in the sky which Coieridee l poetlcally describes as being made m 1 or tears and light" points to no pot i of gold in the ground at the snot to which the end Of this will-o-tre- -w,isn points because il never points at :, i spot or earth. This smiling daughter 1 or the storm" is what prompted man to sing: The rainbow-the rainbow: the smile Of God is here," Wbaf a l sign the rainbow is that the Crea tor knew A thing of beauty is a joy for- e Yer Man first looked upon the l rainbow with wondrous awe but when 1 he recognized it as a symbol of prom ise for something of more value than gold. it began to serve a divine pur- | pose.
 When a man disfeures the thoughts of his predecessors in the field of lit- arature and uses them as original he Is a pfagiarist: but when Jack London was proven guilty of taking a dog story from an unsuccessful novel and presenting it as his own. he discIaimeti oaing -pla giarist because the man who gives wider. circulation to such a good thing. is public benefactor I wonder what any of us would do if it were not for the hard workers and oil Of the past? It was no sixth comma pdment in art," And all who write know how much they owe to their predecessors Most origi- nality in these days lies in expression rather than in facts.
 Old Jereny Taylor ~as . brick His aphorisms are still ringing down -he aisies of Time! It wasn't he who shouted "One should believe in mar -iage as in the immortality of his soul." But he declared For a young he Lord; for an old man to marry a young woman, is of man: for a young man to marry an old woman is of the ievil-" The man or woman. old or young, who thinks marriage is a love east or picnic. has another think on he way. Thoreau, the old bachelor, said: There is more of good nature han of good sense at the bottom of ,n tflcs way to marriage do not always snow where they are soing.
 # there had never been any sly birds in the flock it is doubtful if there would ever have been any "sly birds" among men Among all the seen one that showed a trait of this kind. Yesterday I saw one among a flock of sparrows that took large pieces of food and dropped them in 70 the grass beneath the Iee01nE DOX- The sparrows usually take q liberal norsel and fly to some nearby roost- ng place to leisureiy eat it alone; but his sly bird kept pushing large piec- ss over the edge of the box as if he was fearful there might be shortage of food. and then he would <now where to find some Blue jays have a reserve supply of food stored away, as well as the strikers and it is not surprising that a spar ho . hn ]
 Old ine must smile at the people who so 'gleefuliy describe themselves IS '7o or 30 years youngr' He knows they are not as young as they elaim to be. The spirit of man is wonderful. but whenever Time touch es man for the purpose of compen ng him to take notice the pretended youth of him is a weak defence. A story is told of 8 Greek philosopher who did not realize that he was old lntii he saw the brick house he had quilt crumbiing with age. If is no new thing for youth to cut figure at