Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 for doing them. Some things We can do at any time, others we can not because | the capability for doing is gone If you | have never played football, baseball, or ridden bicycle, try to do so at sixty five and see how you will enjoy it. How many persons in a thousand learn to read and write when seventy years of age and older2 Not only has the desire gone, but largely the aptitude. It is wise i saying, that there is a time for every | thing under the sun" The farmers are realizing this in the backward spring, 1 for the time has come for potatoes to be planted. There are certain studies that i ought to be taken now. I will not say that they cannot be taken at a later pc riod, but if not taken now the most fa- i vorable time is gone forever.
 The banks are telling us that crash is coming, At least that is what they intend to convey although their state ment is not quite so bald They remind l us that our credit is fast approaching the danger point-that thea limit is within sight. If we have to pass through one of those periodic spasms of money stringency those who will whine first and loudest will be those chiefly re- sponsible for causing the panic, i. e., the Wasters. Money shortages are hast ened, if not actually produced, by reck- less extravaganza. The rank and file have not conserved their extraordinary wages. They have gratifed every whim by the most reckless spending in the history of the republic. They have paid unreasonable prices for things they did not need, and when the '1ean years come, no matter if prices drop, they have nothing to buy with. These are they who invariably head the bread line, for if a panic comes, there will be no | jobs begging to be taken. Making hay while the sun shines never had a, clos CT application than to the days in which We now live
 l "Jaehin'' and "Boaz" were two of the most conspicuous pillars in the porch of l Solomonss Temple. Their combined meaning is: "He shall establish it in I strength The reference doubtless is to 1 the edifce itself. Now it would seem l that Solomon, in spite of his pronounc- ed matrimonial bias, was a man of fine artistic temperament and cultivated ] tastes. When he saw those two massive stone pillars, Jachin and Boaz, while 1 he admired their strength, he noticed | that something was lacking, and that
 something was beauty and hence he or
 dered that lily work be engraYen up- on the top of those pillars, "so was the
 work of the pillars finished" How
 many people We see just ike Jachin and Boaz before they were completed. They | exhibit strength but they are not at 1 tractive-in fact they repel rather than attract There are men in public office today who are strong enough and who
 ought to be more influential. If only lily work was combined with their strength. it would add to their effective ness and popularity.
 Win some one explain why it is that most people hasten to get their buildings and household goods insured. but will not take up life insurance until it is driv- en into them with sledge hammer: II Scarcely are they settled in their new
 home before they go to an eleven story
 office building, climb up all the flights of stairs-if necessary-test to get pro- lection from fire. But it needs almost
 the point of q bayonet to persuade them
 to take out a small life insurance policy | All evidence goes to show that ones | property is far less exposed to the
 flames than his life is to disease and ac-
 cident. Are We not all tangled up as to
 the relative value of things to be en- phasized? Fine clothes are sometimes worn at the expense of q hungry stomach
 Automobiles are bought while big groc- CTS bills are unpaid. Don't we nee6
 to pray: Lord, let me see things ir their right relations, and act according Typ
 Is there not in these days a pressing demand for a revival of good will? Fic titious values attached to all neces sary commodities have brought about widespread ill-feeling Strikers are al swords point with corporations, the
 consumer is dissatisfied with the retailer
 the retailer with the wholesaler and he
 in turn with the producer, and it would , not be very strange if the Almighty was ] not dissatisfied with the whole lot of us , Is there not good reason for believing that an era Of good will toward ont
 another would go far toward restoring
 the confidence we seem to have lost il one another? If there had been th, 5 feeling of good will among the nation,
 of Europe in 1914 and earlier there 7 would have been no world war. The al , 1 most continuous succession of strike
 that we are having in these days, al
 of which have a hearing on the higi cost of living, would be cut down one 1 half if good will could be substituted fo
 selfshness.
 : What A strange whirligig is Time a For illustration take May Day. whic : was once day devoted to all the sim s pie joys of rural life. Youthful Eng : land of yesterday gave way to natura exuberance of feeling. Merry sport e marked the days festivities as a tim b for the hanging of May baskets an l. dancing around Maypoles and other joy 5 ous pastimes that appealed strongly | # youthful Yigor. In spite of Puritan SC :, verity May Day was celebrated in liI . fashion here in America and to som F feeble extent has continued. But wha : a change Instead of happy boys an : girls having a good time. the day ha
 been captured by the Reds" the 'f n ". WIS" and angry socialists for pa :, rades that arouse opposition to good ol y der and constituted government; tha E threaten to burn. loot and murder an e if police protection is weak resort # criminal violence. Upon what evil day e has the old May Day celebration fallel s- for return of that season of joy o ous pleasures such as inspired Tenn, v son to write You must wake and ca , me early, call me early, mother dear We are all familiar with the story
 the boy who cried wolf so many time
 when no wolf was about that when or
 really did come, no one he fled his CT s. and he was deyoured, It may be som io thing like that in the cry of Tow prt y duction.'' But where there is so muS
 smoke there must be some fire" Sul N, pose the farmers of this country shou y go on strike with the reckless ar rl selfish abandon that railway en
 ployes do (and we must remember tn;
 these men have had their wages il Id creased 90 per cent. since 19141, wh; IS would be the result? The farmer h; a the same right to strike as the brak
 man If manual laborers refuse to V, farm work. there will be-to all inte, r and purposes-a farm strike with it's r u- sultaNt food shortage. This question xt more serious than it was during the va
 and the only antidote is for each ol
 of us to make every square inch he available land productive.
 O. We are on the verge of another Mer he oriaI day, a season rich in it's mem