Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 extinct species. Once in awhile you | will see a specimen of the. brand to-
 day and he is worth looking at and | initiating. He was tall, dignified, | genial, well dressed usually appear | ing in public in broadcleth and silk i hat; he spoke kindly to everybody l and was cultivated in manner and speech. This man would have been mortified at the uncouth habits of 4 i modern, hurried Americans. A select
 party of cultivated young Japanese was sent to this country to study the effect of Christianity on the life of the | people. One of the first things they
 saw was big crowd jamming into
 a railway station, each one pulling and hauling to be the first seated.
 These young men stood back in blank l amazement for they. had never seen
 its like in pagan Japan. The most ] conspicuous boor today is the ill., | hammered auto driver. On North Main street few people were walk l ing on the car tracks as there was
 nowhere else to go. An automobile 1 came tearing along. covering every ] body with mud and slush. There was i not room enough to give the machine
 a wide berth, but suspended license, g wing the boor a wide berth from his i car for year. would teach him a les
 son in good manners. o, for a return
 for the old time courtesy that consid- l cred others!
 | We are a people who make results I quickly and distances short. At least that is our aim and in most instances ! we succeed. The celerity, with which I our shipyards launched the finished ! product after the keel was laid filled I Europe with astonishment and Ger HTY71noSSibJaff, RI,f- along 1 mechanical lines this country has a | very strange habit of doing the inn
 possible. We hardly think of distance
 when the telephone brings our voices in touch with Boston, New York and T even Chicago. But when red tape is
 introduced the order is reversed; re- J suits come slowly and distances are ! heightened. There are some branches I of the government that cannot be. ac- cused of undue haste, or in making
 distances unreasonably short. It is
 not putting spurs to lightning when
 it takes two weeks for merchandise to cover the distance between, New 7j York and Boston, or eighteen months ] for letter, sent to a soldier in the | Argoune forest, to be returned to 5 Norwich. It has been noticed of late that members of congress who died in f 1917 have recently had their funeral Il SeGNlCSS III lIIC IldLAOlldE. NdE1IO1' ii1 , is not undue haste. We like to have congress dignified, but hope it won't be petrifed. Let us trust science vii } discover some serum for red tape as : it has for both the tape worm and the : book worm. D Is not good nature something more t than a mere trend of temperament = It plays too great part in, the hui
 man makeup to be the idle offshoot ot
 a mere trend. We do not rate the
 grace of suitability at it's true value $ We merely say of the fellow who ha: y 1t, 70. he's lucky chap, for he n wouldn't get anywhere if it wasnt 1t for his good nature" In, making a such a statement we hardly do th'
 man justice for we fail to realize jus <. the effort, he puts forth to cultivatt : and preserve a. good nature. He i ' doubtless born with a trend that wa, u but he must take the trend up ant tt work it for all it Is worth. Befnt ofi born with the artistic sense doesn' .-. make the artist. That "sense'' mus 1f be cultivated before the Madonna i k chiselled or The Transfiguratio "a painted. Coming into the world wit a a vpice-as., most. babies do--doesn 2 make either a Beecher or a Caruse IS but the training given to the trend le As the little one learns to walk onl Te by walking, so one becomes good na lg tured only by practising the grace ( l. suitability. Isn't good nature an as le set from the money point of view i'd Other things being equal which c M, two bankers will you consult, the ma ''9y | with a grouch or the man with It. smile? It wouldn't be bad to estab 1e fish a school to teach good nature. Ill The spirit of daring in itself is 7u most admirable quality provided thel le Is a balance wheel that keeps it frol ey rum ng riot. It is usually the bfigf a- boy who dares, because, daring re C. quires the initiative, and this. the du O. lard never takes, because he is onl Inf capable of imitation. It shows coul
 age love of novelty and display, Ii progressive spirit, activity, love of at venture, with physical and ment ao strength. Such qualities backed | an by prudence and good judgment al ch just the qualities necessary for gre; a. success in life. The men to whom V ar are most indebted for great achiev,
 ments have been dar- -ng men. The
 is no pioneer work without daring.
 navigation Columbus. Hudson, TT re Fulton, Simon Lake, Wilbur Wrig es dared. In religion; .Luther,- Wesle
 Edwards, Bushnell dared. In philal
 thropy. Florence Nightingale, Cla. ny Barton, and our own Red Gro re nurses in France dared. For .hl
 manity, the Canadians who I've
 over the top" at Vimy Ridge and u mi dou hboys in the Argonne dared. 11 all these eases daring simply spel iie immortality Father, don't scold tn
 boy of yours if he dares to do t
 thi gs from which his playmat -ys shrink! Give him good advice al led caution.
 Isn't there bit of mystery CO
 nected with that very common wol on "Shortage?"' It. is like Providence be that it is past finding out" As
 certainly covers a multitude of sir
 it may be likened to charity. It hel ,u- the retailer in these stressful da ,as more than any other word in t
 English language. If he is out
 what you are after, he rolls his ey heavenward a1d says very impre s's. sively "shortage!" What does the mean? That last years crop was [
 low the average? That poor trar
 portation has; balled him up that t ain wholesaler couldn't supply him?
 is that he has failed to order said ar ti- cle? At any rate the word "sho;
 age" is godsend to him. H
 Shortage" anything to do in brea 5a- ing up the standard price of giv sS article? Ask the retailer for sus 1t7 and if he is an old hand at the bl et- mess he will say very pious
 There's terrible shortage. fn su.
 but I can let you have one pound ole 23 cents." Another man with | Icb 11Yotior, will --olI 0pa