Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-28
THE MAN WHO TALKS

1 of a mystery than it is but for it's gray days. It is these latter oeca-
 sions that often. give us the key to 1 many problems which we have found 1 perplexing and incapable of solution. l We are told that in the tropics the. oc- >casional gray day that comes affords a wider view than when the suns 1 brilliancy dazzles the vision, and new beauties and new wonders are dis l covered that have hitherto remained unneted. The gray days are not with out their Salutary lessons, hard though | the lessons may be, and he who ac- cepts them in the right spirit goes far 1 toward solving the better meaning of l life. There must be shadows to 1 soften the glare. or else we would lose 1 our sense of proportion; there must be hardships to make us understand Or else we would not unrave. life's tangles; there must be sacrifices or | else we would not know how 70 live to take the bitter with the sweet.
 Did you ever stop to think how some people ask questions? There are those who build their conversation about questions. Some ask questions for the ,! sake of information, because they l.really want to get your opinion, while others who so frame them that
 they expect you to coincide with their l ideas. They seem to be certain on
 
 satisfied until they have tried to make others admit; and seemingly at times against their actual beliefs, that they
 think the same way, like the same i things and make the same moves that they do. Such converse tional habits give an interesting
 insight into personality and furnish fascinating opportunities for human
 nature study. We are all fellow be- ings but no two of us are alike.
 ,i There are too few people who know how to commune with themselves with
 wholesome results. Such a course too
 often produces the opposite effects
 from those desired. and instead of
 soothing our feelings and ironing out
 the wrinkles it only increases our
 nervous depression. That is largely because we do not know how to in
 uuire into our inner consciousness; we merely skim the surface and go
 down only deep enough to make mat sf concentration is not always a birth right; it may be acquired after earn est effort, and in this form is, perhaps, more valuable because it is the result Of our own exertion. The proper kind of self concentration induces peace of
 mind, and those of us who feel our
 selves at dagger's point with the world
 should seek some quiet corner and
 work our way back to peace and hap
 piness.
 The loud protest against the high l cost of living has accomplished at , least one thing, and that is that it has , made many persons think Of certain in
 problems connected with living con-
 ditions that they had ignored up to
 the present. So many of Us had been
 content in the past to look only to our ' own interests that it seorGls almost as though it were something new under
 the sun for us to intN-est ourselves in
 the problems of others. Yet, when we enter our protests against pres , ent high costs we are entering it not } only in our own behalf, but also in l behalf of others. One man can do very little but united effort has conquered , worlds. Upon the people rests an ob- :, liaation, a balance due, as it were, :. from our war accounts and we should not rest until we have written paid 1 in full across this prominent page of our lives.
 Right steps for the prevention of a , bad accident have been taken in test : ing out the stability of the West Main 5 street bridge. We have gone through : the unpleasant experience of having .. one bridge drop into the Yantic and one is enough. Proper attention 4s therefore being given to that happy st s70gan, safety first" in restricting 2 the loads on the bridge. It is of 9 course only the forerunner of a new 2 bridge at that point and that will be
 reason enough for reviv.ng the of
 urged step of establishing q draw
 bridge over the Yantic that we may 2 proceed to the proper development ant 3 utilization of the advantageous anC 2 much coveted HolIyhcck Island, the ? getting of which has cost us so nucf 2 and fer the development of which we [ have not always seemed alive.
 It has been said tFat out of every , thousand persons living on this eartf
 not more than one is alive; that is alive in the best sense of the word Too often we see people going abou c their daily tasks to all appearances = thoroughly dissatisfied with life. Sucl : persons cannot by any manner O Q means be called alive. Indeed, they are dead to their opportunities. in q different to the wonders about then . and bored beyond endurance witt y 1 what is left to them of the fife upoi q which they so joyousIy entered il e their early years. In the Yernactlls- t of the street, such persons have sour Q ed'' on life; they have seen it's sweet " peS vanish instead of looking to them ; selves to discover the reason for thei t discomfort they have unhesltatingl
 placed the blame where it did not De
 long. The GNlden days of living no
 bly are ours. How are we going t
 use them?
 Did you ever stop to notice tha
 when 8 man is poor his ambition i
 to become rich? And that when h
 becomes rich he longs to become rich 'ei CT? There are the instances where l. man feels that he had got enough, bu
 then he wants power and reaches GU
 eagerly for that. When he attain $ much power his appetite for more j n still insatiate, and even if he become
 the most powerful man in his genera
 ton, he still is tortured by ambition
 his passion is to go down in histor as the greatest man of his tine, an III So strange and contradictory an lg blind is human nature, he will q
 small things to win that elusive ent
 No man except the brother to the o It is ever contented and, therefore, n l. man, with that one exception, is har 70 py very long at a time. No matte 70 how successful a man with any stu
 in him may be, the lure of still great
 CT successes still beckon him on, el the disturbance of his peace of min Ut and the disquiet of his soul. Twas evt re thus, and thus, we have reason to fe
 twill ever be.
 Most of US have experienced the UT T. pleasant effects of being out of hal d- mony with existing conditions, but V l. do not, as rule, feel that we shou
 share the responsibility for the sam
 It is hard to admit that we are 1ii rather than put ourselves to the hl Ito4i of dniT l,ic