Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

We are now in the season of visibly lengthening shadows. Dim outlines of the fast approaching autumnal equinox loom up before us. The equator will on in triumphant glory into the south ern hemisphere. Were the sun a, sen tient being he would experience no sad ness in going into the great south, | simply because he had done his full | duty in the north melting ice and snow. sending his genial warmth into the | frozen earth and filling it with the rich l powers of reproduction. Then under | his kindly benediction, these once-frozen | fields are made to bud and blossom as | the rose" And when he beholds at last 1 the fields of waving grain and the earth | yielding sufficient sustenance for physi- l cal needs, can he not truthfully say: T have done my best and now I can go in- | ito my southern hon1e!" Is not this a fair picture of those who have done their best in life's spring and summer? When the long autumnal shadows of life approach, they can feel like the sun and like Abraham, that God Is calling them into the great southland of His eternal goodness and mercy.
 We are on the verge of another Labor day, and it's recurrence furnishes food for serious thought It is a day that ought to mean much to the working | him, and to society at large of which he is part. It would be a grevious mis- take in the future to make labor king. We have had the enthronement of capi- tai in the past and it was not a success.
 Conditions would not be improved by exchanging one monarch for another
 History shows very clearly that socie- ties as well as individuals have inter preted unlimited power in terms of ty- ba that it would fare any better under the dictates of labor than it has under eapi- tai The one great thing we need to | flight against in this country is the spir- 1 it of autocracy wherever it asserts it. | self We shall not reach the ideal un- | til both labor and capital regard them selves as agencies cooperating for the general good of society If Labor day serves as an opportunity for propagat- 1 ing this spirit of mutual helpfulness, we
 wish it Godspeed.
 1 The late P. T. Barnum once remarked that "the American people loved to be humbugged' and the great snowman practiced what he preached to the letter However, his statement was received
 with a storm of protest as an insult to the superior intelligence of the Ameri- 1 can people. It is a long step from P. i T. Barnum, American, to Charles Ponzi Italian, but the latter proves what the former once said. Thus far it has not been proven that the willy Italian has violated our laws in his financial trans actions any more than the high nucky mucks that infest Wall street who are usually immune from the clutch of the law. Ponzi's greatest fault seems to have been in fostering wild cat schemes i of unsound financial basis. Nine-tenths of all get-rich-quck schemes end in dis aster and the fool and his money soon part" Ponzi has dealt in differences of iexchange, while others .prefer oil, copper
 rubber, etc. but it is the same old gold brick in different form that is within
 the law. For real cleverness we must hand it out to Charles Ponzi who will probably die some day of Bright's dis : ease.
 It would be unjust to condemn all mu- i. sicians as being jealous-all the time l sometimes they are funny. Not long age
 a really amusing incident happened at a rehearsal of the Detroit Symphony or
 chestra. During a pause in the absenre
 of the conductor, one Graham Harris
 second violinist, conceived a strangs no ton that it would be very amusing to tickle one Philip Abbas, a 'cellist, in l the ribs. As the 'celIst sat directly ir front of him it was very easy to carry
 
 which men submit to tn3 Ll:d,inS process
 is a matter of temperament. Many peo.
 pie Especially mem don't like b be tickled in the ribs Nov it would seen that Abbas, who was an oriental, be. = longed to this class. lie believed tfa l his ribs had divin3 rtght to be let , alone. So when he fa:t He strange oc cidenta1 sensation which coalcs fIor, the end of fiddle bow tak'ag !iberti e; l Iii r;L f hr,1a of the 'cellist and put costly fl5le out of commission. The vio.ia:st feit se g grieved over his unsuccessful joke Una he put in a big bill for damages. Tht I conductor came back (wln3e nan,e wa' $ Ossp Gabrilowitsch) pleaded argued scolded and threatened. 15ut they re
 fused to mediate. At jas. ha began tt 7 shout his name at hem Result they E. listened, grew pale an1--shooN hands :, Moral: Never tickle a mule unless vol know him.
 The value of life is not to be deter = mined by insignificant beginnings or un l favorable surroundings. I picked som : water lilies this summer that grew il l. mud and slime, and nothing more beau l. tiful and fragrant in the whole flora , kingdom could be imagin s1. It is no
 uncommon to find in the schcolroo7
 some child who towers above all the .ei
 in intellect who is reared in abjec
 squalor How many occupants of tn S White House were born in palaces an
 grew up in luxury? Take census o ] the men in our cities who have becom
 famous in almost every department 9
 1 activity and how many of them Wer S born and spent their early years on tn
 rocky New England farm. let it be ad
 mitted that blood tells as much i e men as it does in cattle and that here6 t ity is a mighty force in human life to
 counted with, yet the springs of
 mans immortality lie within himself. H y himself is the factor that is to decid F. what his life is to be. He can live III
 on the mountain top or down in the SUI
 less glade. He can make his surround ,A ings bend to the splendor of his spirit y The time is cIosc at hand when hig
 schools, academies and colleges will b.
 gin their fall work The season mari L. an important epoch in the lives of ol .o ,' boys and girls. Going away to scho for most of them means the break up Il. the old home. When college studies a
 ended the new home life soon begin a One of the grandest sights in this Ii Q. is the boy or girl of slender means VI " dares to face a great uncertainty wi lion heart. This would be a vel
 tame world if some were not sRol re enough to dare to do things out Of u CT ordinary There are no braver spiri a. than those who go to college witho
 knowing where the money is comil
 from. But usually the money comes D
 cause this is the spirit that "overcom CT the world" I have never known a b. dy to be despised because he was willil CT to get up at 1 a. m. to shovel patl
 take care of furnaces and to do oth
 kinds of menial toll in order to get