Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-17
THE MAN WHO TALKS

menus OHereu IOF JOinlng the navy was the opportunity ito see the world" These words were printed in heavy black type to attract instant atten- ton. The psychology of this ad was misleading. It appealed very
 strongly to the rowing impulse of the growing lad. He loves nothing more than the excitement and, novelty that travelling from place to place fur nishes. It is for this reason that he runs away and joins a circus, or becomes a st0waway in an ocean lin CT. Such an ad as the above is all
 wrong, because it takes undue ad- vantage of curiosity that is well night irresistible. The main idea of joining the navy is not ito see the world for that is merely incidental but to serve ones country. To put such a false idea before our youth belittles the service and betrays them. It is getting goods under false pre- | tenees.
 There have been five thousand ] strikes since the armistice was sign | ed a year and a half ago. Whose fault l is it? Somebody's of course. for such
 serious industrial disorders are not | spontaneous. They must come un- 1 der the law of cause and effect. When | hostilities were suspended it was sup | posed to free us from strife, but as
 a matter of fact, it plunged us into
 deeper, and possibly more serious,
 warfare. But why? Especially in ] this country, where wages were never
 so high and labor so greatly demand I ed. It is very easy to talk about
 the greedy laborer, the unfeeling en- | ployer, the avaricious tradesman, and
 this and that one who are feather | ing their nest" at the public's ex-
 pense. These parties are only mak-
 ing their personal contributions to 1 the general mess of living we are all making today. This nationwide l hysteria comes not by accident; it is not the. development of some dark and mysterious influence It is the
 logical, inevitable outcome of the ac-
 tions of the whole crazy set of us:
 The Great American People!
 What is it that gains great mili-
 tary victory or succeeds in a naval 't campaign? We have not yet ceased
 to wonder at the Meuse-Argonne se- ries of battles. We think of our
 boys fresh from the farm, the work
 shop and the university in their suc-
 cessful strife against troops and of-
 fcers who had profited by the na- 1 tional draining. of half century and
 by the actual experience of four years of tremendous conflict" Was 7 Pershing a great military genius, or merely a good commander? We can
 not say, because there was no chance
 to bring out the highest military abil-
 ity, but we do know that he believ- ed in the possibilities of his men. and they knew it. o for the high of } fcia1 who is big enough to see the } possibilities in other men, who be- } lieves in them, who trusts them [ without limit, and will give them every possible chance to bring out
 their latent bigness!
 How easy it is to persuade our
 selves that it is not necessary to dc
 a thing when we dislike to do it. Wt
 can always see the importance of tho desirable; but not always the urgen- cy of the needful-O -Of-eourse. we be. l lieve that good health demands exer- t else in the open air, especially wher VI long, hard winter vanishes and tht f trout season opens, and the golf link. $ look so smooth and alluring. wonder if most men-outside of Con. l necticut. glory in the springtime be
 cause it gives them a chance to ge [ needed exercise in beating carpets 2 or taking down and putting away tn f parlor stove, or, saving up a cord O n hard wood in the back yard. Try if f my brother, and see how. desirabl such exercise isl 3e
 The piping of the frogs is a part o n natures spring carnival, and it. fur
 nishes real music if your imagination
 is only cultivated. To one who ha t given it close study it is not so mo r notonous as it is to others. Ever, h body has noticed that it is not tn 2 same, night after night There ar 1t lines when special programme i . offered. One pond in our midst ca . boast of an old chap with a higl . i tenor. He does little chorus worl . but is often heard in sextettes Hi Q voice quavers a little with age but i $ still powerful He always tries t | drown out the others; he is the Caru e so of the cast. There was on d sweet contralto voice that was sud
 denly put out of commission one nigh
 by some ienvious Schuman- -HeinE The chorus work of these frogs al
 ways make me sad: It is a reminder ( tt a church choir I had to listen t s when child.
 Ie Why is it that so many of our pee pie, especially young people, are join 1t ing the ranks of materialism? It l. really more serious than it seems 2 d first thought, Is it because soeiet 10 penalizes the educated man and we
 man? Ministers are leaving thei
 pulpits at a rate that is positivel
 i alarming, School teachers are turr
 ing their backs on the class room Id all the, way from the Kindergarten | d the university, as never. before. Oily,
 college, that has turned out sue
 splendid graduates, still buried er snow and silence, seems to say, C of the day of work over ''Am I pel '- manently closed because the sheckl,
 have run out?p Close our church, and school houses and in fewer yea, = than we think there will be no worl u shops to be manned.
 According to a recent article in ol IS of our current magazines the pre- " ent world unrest is due to the fai
 ure of Christianity. It is quite il
 teresting to see how easily Il le writer makes out his case against u Id greatest of all world forces. The m are omethings-things that are re;
 ably important-that this writer el
 tirely overlooks. He does not a
 i tempt to explain why it is that nj T. tions confsesedly most Christian a al materially the most prosperous TT ve American people are by no meal
 saints, but they measure up to u
 standards of Christianity as well ne any. And. while our economic col or dition is far from what we would lik of still we are incomparably better than any other nation. China al " Japan are still pagan nations, n ,d more than one in thousand beil Christian. What explains their acu III troubles? Is it Christianity that h T. failed, or is it the failure to gi [ Christianity fair show?
 in According to the latest reports a better feeling is coming to Euro