Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-18
THE MAN WHO TALKS

ttthtELs cApNSSoES liti5 tftOuSHls ffO must go put and really ourselves with
 Nature every day. We must make root, send out some little fibre at least. every winter day. I am sensible that am irn- bibing health when I open my mouth to the wind" Are there not many, far from the age of seTile decreptitude. who hug a little too closely the coal stove, or the l steam radiator, in these early winter | days. when it Is not cold, but only raw, outside? Thoreau, whose love of the open | brings him to the borders of fanaticsrn i 1 goes so far as to say that staying in the | ! house breeds a sort of insanity always l Every house is, in this sense, a sort of | hospital" There is no question but what l l foul air chilly damp or averheated is a i 1 fertile ground for colds Saving wood | l outdoors is a better producer of warmth l 1 than 9 steam heater. In lumber camps !! l sickness is very rare. If you have no l wood to saw, nor lumber camp to work ] 1 in, leave the wards of your hospital and walk two miles every day with your
 mouth ahut--if possible. l Plate says somewhere in his eRepub- lie" that the motto of life should be mot 1 to live but to live we'll" And in order to live well we must have leisure to live l rightly What are four score years, hur-
 riedly and coarsely lived, to a short pe- ried of divine leisure, in which your own l life is an organic part of the universe? Coarseness and haste are the assassins
 of right living teday. We do everything too hurriedly to get the most out of life I Our ideals are patterned too much after
 the mess of pottage to give our living the
 richness and beauty it deserves. We live too fast to get the lingering sweetness
 that normal existence has right to e1- II pect, just the same as we eat too fast to know the true sager of our food. In this way we impose on ourselves tasks impos- sihle of fulhllment, and if they do not crush us completely they invite eil sorts , of nervous disorders and fill insane re- treats, Why not little more diys se leisure this wiuter7
 A eertsin writer has recently said: sWe have preaefled the doctrine of the 1 tardshiP of toll until we almost believe in
 1t ourselves, and yet toll gives to life all { that there is to life worth while" Doubt less the topic has been considerably over
 done. But in the old days when mill
 hands worked sixteen and sometimes more
 hours day. toil was 9 grinding reality. It came as near to real hardship as any P thing in this country ever did. But in
 the reaction from the old regime, to talk : about the hardship of work is an ah- . surdity today. Nothing in itself has fur 2 nished to humanity more happiness than { 1 york. Without 1t life would be clearly : liIbearahle. But in order to experience 2 1 this happiness the two extremes must be avoided: First, the grinding toll that, on n the one hand makes it virtual slavery
 and, on the other, the farce that makes :, i It mere play in both quantity and qual- e ity. Is there not some danger of the lat n ter in these days?
 Il Some time ago the common topic in our I newspapers and magazines was the high : cost of living, and those words were
 spelled with capital letters But the main
 subject of interest has shifted. from the
 high cost of living to the causes of busi
 ness depression. As cold matter of - fact, is not the present business slumI = one result of the high cost of living $ During the era of cost imitation there was l. to meet it. the era of wage imitation l. which was perfectly right. It was neces A sary to have a wage big enough to buy b the commodities of life But at the sam,
 time there was 2 reduction in the hour. Y of tabor which resulted, of course, in less ened production. In this way the ameun Y of money in ciFculatiun was restricted II e an article on Economies" writer say, le the H. c. l. may be represented by 5 pe
 cent prOflteering, s per cent. increased ,e wages and 70 per cent. decreased i,roduc tian and incam2eteney. He says: Al
 honest and efficient days work withou | U cent of eur troubles"
 a The General Electric company has jus Fn issued 2 very attractive volume settinl Y forth the social and educational side o p their vast enterprise One chapter is de q voted to the psychology of accident 0. which brings out the following very il, ic teFesting facts: A workman is most care to ful when he is S7 years old, this hayin; h been determined it is safest for him t.
 always remain at tEat age The age
 showing most accidents were between 2 ], and 26, and oyer 50. therefore it is bes Y to lo1 off both youth and old age Tn 70 hour showing most accidents was from 's to ID a. ID. Would it not be well to spent IS that hour in recreation (not footbalD, s, ,e as te lessen the liability? Fifty per cent a of the accidents ooccnr to the new em st ployes or those who have been less thai
 six months in one position Why no |. wait till six months have passed befor joining the works? Foreign born em v ployes are quick in acquiring the safet, II habit, if taught, and most of us are for k eign born or of foreign born parents st More accidents occur on Monday than an, es other day, which is not attributed to tn ,a church going habit. Doing the same kin, ', of work, three men are injured to on z woman. Alas, how many of us will hay \ to put up Fith the humiliation of bein C. men
 The manner in which the league of na ld tions is functioning at the Geneva confer 1t ence shows that radical changes will hay E. to be made before 1t will meet the aims O " the signatories. It is now admitted O Id all sides that Article x will have to b
 greatly modified before it can become
 working hypothesis in any nation. Gu
 near neighbor, Canada, has put N
 strenuous opposition to the article as e now stands. That is only one of the nu a. Herous questions that are coming up fo
 adjustment. Another is the insiste.ice c
 Norway and Sweden for the imnediat SC admission of Germany into the leaeuf ut The effect of this move on France, whic
 suffered so terribly. can be easily i,nae
 insd. Then, again, the dramatic with os drawal of Argentina from further partic patton in the proceedings only adds t '" the confusion. Surely the league is tray
 cling over rough road.
 oyI It may not be generally known but st little financial magazine is, or was. nut
 llshed in New York entitled Now It cor
 tained bright, suappy paragraphs on th burning questions of the hour. The fo V lowing quotation is taken from a sho, Q article on '.Driyes": Have you bee
 rounded up in any drive this morning
 If not, 1t is because the canvassers haven as reached you yet. But don't think yo he will be able to escape. The organizatio ,. committee has your name and number
 know. and will tell you why" Tn e. writer then goes on to make a fair an ,al just discrimination between the two kind a of drives Many objects are brought