Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-08
THE MAN WHO TALKS

the preservation of trees and forests IS
 both wise and timely. As nation We { have been crin1inally wasteful of this im- ] portant product. It is not g. credit to the national government that the department
 of forestry has been eurtailed and crip- pied by the influence of. selfish lumber kings. May we not learn a needfW les son from denuded China, whose barren hillsides will never again E be clothed with veFdure? In consequence of which China has the awful experience of alter nate floods and droughts Unless iii the future we use a little more gray mat | ter than we have in the past in dealing with our timber lands we shall have the 1 China condition here full and strong. | The senseles manner in which the l Appalachians have been slashed of | their products accounts for the Ohio. | floods. Unless better, judgment is used | in the White Mountains the Connecticut | | will not stop at 26 feet above low water i | mark, the present danger point.
 Much appears at the present time in | public speech and the public press about democracy. That is exactly as it ought | to be- After the awful experiences through which humanity has recently l passed, too much cannot be said and
 done to make the world safe for de
 mocracy.' But is there not a danger here of tabooing. the idea of aristocracy
 altogether? One meaning of aristocracy is nobility and some men are born aris- tocrats. As they are then, Natures no- , blemen, they belong to the aristocracy in
 the better sense of the term. Is there f not such a thing as the ariStocracy Of
 decency, that is to be highly commend : ed? A young college graduate once set tied in country town where the gen | eral moral tone was depressing. He re- g fused to have anything to do with low : crowd which an easy-going, community ] allowed to carry on disgracefuly. He
 was sneered at as "the aristocrat" "the o fop," ''the- blue. blood" setc.+ But his
 straightforward course,. plus a compell-
 ing power of personality, gained so many followers that the low, vicious set found l. itself very soon completely ;ostTacised: 1t Such an aristocracy of decency is always e in order.
 o One of the hardest things to bear is r ingratitude. That anyone whom you n have taken great pains to befriend
 should make use of this kindness to in jure you for personal gain is almost in-
 conceivable. But it is done so often as 'i to tempt one to lose faith in his fellows n We can understand. why ingratitude l. should be classified as the meanest of the If vices. A viper will sting the hand that " offers it food. because it knows no bet ,s ter It is overlooked on the ground that . Nature made it a viper Perhaps that M instinct explains why most of us despise III the whole snake family. It is to be re- D. gretted that the vigorous nature should ,h ever possess the human form One of of the most revelting stories that has come
 out of a particularly revolting war is
 the following: A native soldier in
 France, wounded nigh unto death, was ra tenderly nursed back to health by a rich = woman in her fine chateau When fully recovered he deliberately murdered that Ut woman for her jewels. In the annals o4 lg infamy is there anything to beat that? .a,I There seems to be no limit to Amer
 ica's power when she sets out to do big 'at thing. She is somewhat slow in seeing H. that big things ought to be done Bu he when her vision gets clarified when he ry sense of justice gets sufficiently outraged as. then her moral judgment gets to actin, at- on scale unparalleled in all human m history. The quickness with which 2
 OOO,000 men were enlisted equipped ''o trained and transported 5000 miles frer dH their base amazed all Europe and Ger ho many most of all. When the first Lib ho erty loan was asked for running up int les ten figures, many faint hearts cried ou the "We can never do it!' But we did an led put four more on top of it all runnin bi into the billions Colossal as those sun were 1t sent nobody to the poorhous,
 When America says 8 thing ought to 2, the and we'll make it go then it sirnpl in goes. Today America is looking at di, m tressed humanity through the eyes ing the interchurch world movement. Gres Der sums are being souzet and will | ,ad found. The people at large rejoice ths ,,i 30 denominations are forgetting thefr~l Ii
 tie differences and are working togeth, Sa9 for the bigger things of the kingdom. HIS Some revolutions are caused by il lcn expansion of great ideas or natur forces. There was artime when evel nen American home was illuminated by his talloW dip. But the tallow dip gave WE in 10 something better and thus on. 0, in better thing kept coming, until. we Ina yiIl- | electricity. The advent of crude oil q ,nv not destroy the market for tallow al .sa more than gas made kerosene unmarIxe
 able. These are revolutions in the inte
 ests of better and more enjoyable Twin lods The question is. constantly arising the thoughtful minds whether or no t en- amazing development of all types of rn Per- tor vehicles will not permanently croy se1s the railroads to the wall That mote the are doing work that the railroads on oa did cannot be denied but in these da 4,1 the public would suffer more if not 'iie transportation of both freight and ps or sengers by motors What is giving ra
 roads the black eye is mercenary stril
 and incompetent management
 Self preservation is not the great still of human attributes, but it does loC just up big among brutes. I saw somethi
 the other day that has religious val
 at least it was full of human intere, ,nee little black kitten was being chased n a great mongrel cur. At length kitty i. her back up, Qiterally) turned ris
 about face, raised her little black n , and hissed at him. The slobberng (
 stopped backed a few steps. then I Velt- around the little midget, but, mind V talk he didn't touch her simply becausafs IT it was all mouth and no nerve Now IL
 is the moral: My boy, when you are "
 ried by a big bully, just face hin . are shake that little black paw of yours lawn .t10 La1oe anu ne VIII keep ms d1stal ~ Oi but nerve that counts, when dealing "
 towards. @
 Will Did the person ever live who plea lsing hin, oI1iae,, h ao, nooouy ever XII 'i "S knowing, Unless am misinforn
 Shakespeare stood fairly well as a q
 natist, yet Ben Jonson a contempors A once said that the best things in Shal more peare were stolen from him and that be- was, for the most part, Gust think
 ltD very provincial How the co
 mental congress snarled at the gr In he calm Washington for his Fabian Dol crats north ana so',tt, sleiIent l dpusea III a ai111 tN l~