Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-05
THE MAN WHO TALKS

StTSSSlul IneSS dIey We ! would not exchange them for any period l in our political past The Puritan spirit I was far calIner than ours, but it was far l more handicapped Think of the ineon- l veniences to which he uneofnpla iningly l submitted! Do we fully realize what in ! yentiye America has done to enrich our times? Fulton, by applying steam to navigation, made quick passage across the Atlantic possible. Morse made the lightning rather than the numbering. old stage coach transmit our messages. Bell has helped us talk with one another when a thousand miles apart Edison, through the medium of hard rubber disks, has brought the choicest singers and the finest melodies of the world right into our homes. Wilbur Wright has outdis- tanced Darius Green in showing us that flying through the air is not only possible but feasible. But time would fail me to speak of Lake, of Holland, of Marconl, who have subdued kingdoms on land. sea and air, and have given us submarines the wireless and automobiles. Let us think of these great mercies when we find it hard to get a pound of sugar
 D It would be rather hard to put your finger on any one thing and say This is the cause of the high cost of living" As matter of fact, there are many appar- ently divergent things that combine to in- fate prices. It is easy enough to see the separate factors that enter into the com bine, but it is not so easy to see how the combine can be broken up, The needless extravaganza of the American people doubtless has much to do in keeping prices up Another thing is wastage. If
 We could only stop the leaks, the whole economic condition would be immediately bettered. The method by which many concerns handle their expenses is as leaky as a sleeve. Simply to@ illustrate: The writer has received certain literature from ;t national office in New York and precisely the same matter from the state and county officers three sets of Iitera- ture at 8 time when periodicals are com bining because of paper shortage! The lack of economy must surely stimulate 1 the H. c. L.
 Because law does not wholly prevent 1 crime is no argument for it's repeal The /, law dealing with murder is severe, and yet murder is of frequent occurrence. Will anyone contend that society would be better protected by having no laws against murder? There is 20 question | that at present and until we get accls- toned to the new regime. the liquor laws will be more or less violated or circum- Fl
 ment against q constitutional prohibition amendment? For while marcenary men | will have their inning, but the day of i judgment is coming becaues it is a tough | proposition to butt against the consti- | tuition of the United States. Statistics i show that within the s:tlle ner od 76 1 prescription fer liquor were written in a certain city while in an adjoining city the number was 2,40o This of course can be explained on natural grounds: liquor is 1 used in pneumonia. and as one city was 1 several miles farther north than the
 other it was somewhat eoldeT and tine ex- posture to pneumonia the greater. But
 when the day of reckoning comes it will
 be fully hot enough in the more northern 1 city.
 \ writer in the London Alias once said i Talent is on1ething, but tact is every
 thing It is for the most part true that 1 tact does more to get a person by than talent. A really talented person who is i tactless is a sorry sight. because his tal-
 ent makes his hlunders seemingly bigger | than they are, and, for that reason, less 1 excuxable Frederick the Great was the biggest man in history who could get | away with tactlessness, but it almost s%amped him. He was the most unGiplo- tnatc of all the sovereiGns of Eurone and | nothing but his sheer greatness saved him. Or one occasion he referred to
 Catherine the Second of Russia as Cath
 du Nord"-the northern cat have never known a woman who liked to be
 called a cat. and leaGt of all queen and the most powerful queen in il
 world Nov: some lover of naace told
 Catherine what Frederick had said an6
 her reply was: Tell Frederick that the
 northern cat has claws" And how shf
 scratched him for seven long years
 Nothing but death stopped her clawing Talent is certainly something and ou~' ) to be cultivated, but there is no req
 success for the rank and file without tact
 My keart really bleeds for the pool grocer these days just as much as m! stoinach yeaTns for the poor sugar tha he can or rather will or will not sell me [ Whether or net he has any in stock de : pends on q thousand and one conditions 5i Possibly mine is the 999th condition thu s turns me away from his store with tear l running do" my fuFrowed cheeks
 There are two reasons why we shoul,
 cease calling him the green grocer: First there is nothing any longer green il what he sells. and secondly there is noth i ing green about his handling the situa Q tion. See him there in immaculate white r
 cileTubs, saying to a bunch of franti
 women: No sugar; there isn't 8 pound il
 the cityr' He has said that 100 time F before since 9.30 that day See thos
 scowling women turn away wonderin
 why President Wilson doesn't produc
 more sugar. Listen to their comments ''Tll bet he's got 300 tons stored up in hi : attic p Don't envy him if he has. for tn
 way to that sugar loft is something nor
 than two flights of creaking stairs; e is the Via Doloroso.
 Someone asked Billy sunday why tn
 churches were not having revivals all tn .. time. His reply was For the sam S reason that a man doesn't spend all hi time in a hathtub, although he needs I. frequently The answer was goo
 one. The revival, as the name implie e must be the occasional. The apple tre n does not blossom all the year round
 | neither do the birds sing. The farme
 does not garner his grain for twely
 consecutive months. He must blow, fel a tilize, and cultivate before he reap There is much in a fishermans life bt :. sides hauling in the drag net. Churc -i life revels in variety like nature hersel
 If the worlds geography were nothin n but tablelands, however lofty, the cart - would be nothing but one continuous s; ct hara- There must be mountains. valley II and swamps if there are rivers suppor
 ing industries. The church revival to
 effective must be the occasional To l rs shouting "Hosanna' all the time wou l. bring on laryngitis.
 Theodore Roosevelt did one thing wht
 president that was sneered at in son s- diplomatic circles as Sunday school ta ties And that was the return of o, " shara of fha RoYar indemnity to