Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-27
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

street and said: "Ain't this g beastiy day7" The day in question was sim ply foggy-the first one in that sec ton for several weeks. Now this question shows the trend of certain type of mind: first go easily thrown into the dumps with every unpleas- ant change in the weather. It Is too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry. too calm or too windy to suit their convenience. Secondly they fail to realize what the fog does in furnish ing the atmosphere with moisture to- sustain vegetable life. The only real drawback to a dense fog is, that, for the time being. it limits the area of our vision. For a few hours, or, at the most, for a few days. we can't look off as far as usual One, of our great natural impulses ise. to see things When they are obscured we growl. Do we stop to consider that 1t is as much of a blessing not to see some things, as 1t is to see others? We are just as well off not to know some things. as to know others. Sum- shine has its place in. our lives, so has the fog. In the experience of ancient. Israel. the pillar of cloud by day was as protective as the pillar of fire by night.
 A certain man reputed for great wisdom, living in the olden time, once said, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard!'
 This was for the purpose of getting first aid in activity. Most people probably would rather go to the robin
 for any kind of instruction than to
 the ant. for we welcome the coming
 of the robin more than we do the ant.
 The things we love are better teach CTS than those we detest. The robin that sang the other morning in my or1y -fi toll IL, T only too greedy to learn. It was the song of winter vanishing and. spring approaching. While one may not be able to trace the robins message back to his source of information, yet we may rest sassured that the little creature speaks with scientific accu-
 racy. He somehow gets at the real | facts better than the learned weather l man at Washington. He does not de- pend on the forecast of weather in the New York dailies when to start from his winter home in the south. ] His, coming north is. fixed bY law as immutable as the vernaI equinox Who told the bird? Go to the robin thou sluggard-in faith, and think , At a convention held in this city a dozen years ago or more, one speak l CT had a very instructive address on | some very common facts in a very
 uncommon way. He showed very 1 clearly that almost every enterprise 1 has those that push it, and others that paralyze it. The "Leaner" is the l dead weight, the one who never mi l tiates: he waits to see what the oth- Ter fellow is going to do and tries tc 1 persuade him not to do it. He is the
 fellow who enjoys the life of the en- I terprise which the other fellow fur l nishes. He is the consumer wht
 growls at the food the producer putt into his hands without money anG I without price, Such is the persor
 who will never take any office; nevel I serve on a committee; never volun teer to help benevolent cause Enever does any work save that whicl is necessary to keep body and sou together, and just as little of that al he can and get away with it. As b, I evolution the tadpole becomes tn
 frog, so the '1eaner" becomes tn
 'knocker." To him his church, hi
 order, his guild has the biggest lot 0
 boneheads. in the state" His greates
 delight is in rapping his city. Yol T see him leaning against a lamppos saying to the passersby. This is tn most God-forsakep hole on eartt!" } After months of fiIibuster in tn u senate would it not be appropriate t Il call the document under cross exani aftnation, The League of Procrastina f tions? No other deliberative as. z sembly in the world has generated s : many new maladies. Up to the pres ent we have the reservationists, tn ! mild reservationists, the irreconcila
 bles. and the irreducibles. Not onl 7 have these diseases broken out an II spread but expert international doc tors tell us that more are likely t II follow unless the senators are willin ] ratification. To make ''confusio worse confeundedp a warning voic comes from the white house. wit g the regularity of. a fog horn sayin 1 mot acceptablei Not acceptable : Meanwhile disorder reigns, Europe ot bewildered, the Turks still murder I and Armenians are still slain. "Ol 2 Lord, how long?"
 ! The warmer days that have con
 at last are now causing the buds 0 Ilt some plants to swell. Life in a
 forms is persistent. Little sprigs
 green are often seen in the cracks ? ? rocks, the crotches of trees, and otl CT places almost impossible v growth. Give the sap the lea
 chance and it pushes it's way up u
 pores to express itself in new bu
 life. We can take this lesson in i4 the whole realm of responsible If 't Give the muscles the activity the : are yearning for and the athlete
 easily made. The persistency of u
 brain to function is amazing. Durir @ ones waking hours it is impossib n to stop thinking. Where there IS u
 least opportunity for self expressic
 whether through the pores of u -ot plant, or the muscles, the mind al ;e the soul of man, life greedily seiz
 that opportunity. What might We n
 reasonably expect if only larg
 liberty was given to this tendenc e One also notices that the swellil "a bud does not sacrifice previous lii
 It does not diSlodge an. occupant;
 Imerely takes possession of the ten leI ment the old occupant has left. Ne r. life simply swells the old bud. It do
 tnot take it's cue from Joshua WI
 Idispossessed the Jebusites before m moved in, it waits until the Jebusit ,o have dispossessed themselves. The = are still sermons in running brook 'a Viewed from the standpoint ts economies feeding is the most impo 1et tant and serious question of civiliz !. tion. Strange as it may, seem in u
 age in which machinery for product to food, and facilities for it's distributi ,,l are well nigh perfect, probably mo VI people are hungry today than at a 7" one time within the memory of ms
 Have we not depended too much
 these things, the result of which | ny created the habit of living from ha of to mouth? If cut off from conts