Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-24
THE MAN WHO TALKS

newspaper get more than ten feet into his study" By that he meant that he could give the daily press only minor consid- eration. If a man wants to be a genuine fossil and live in the atmosphere of tombs all he has to do is to turn down the daily newspaper. We no longer regard man as profound simply because he is stuffed full of canned philosophy. His claim to liberal education is challenged if mind and heart are not in vital touch with the joys and sorrows of the present world. Where will one find such vivid picture of the worlds doings as in the daily press? To shut our eyes to the conditions of this mottled landscape is unworthy of red blooded man. And where shall we find such range of information as in the daily press? Let us give the newspaper it's due.
 Was Milton right in claiming that fame was the last infrmity of noble mind"? It may be questioned if it is in firmity at all Fame is simply the product of ambition and infirnity comes in only when that product is unworthy of it's pos sessor, and has not been worth the effort of getting To attain distinction in a no- ble cause is fame which is not the infirm- ity of noble mind. The end in view settles the question. There is, and can be- no success. in life apart from the ambition to make the most of oneself The fulfill ment of ambition is success, and if the end sought is worthy of the forces used in attaining the inevitable result is fame Let the boy or girl of ordinary ability go to college with the ambition to make a mark and are willing to pay the price, you may rest assured that some conspicuous mark and be willing to pay the price, you of the workshop and it will soon be in
 
 tion would the diamond or the gridron have with ambition to succeed cut out?
 In that excellent periodical, The Farm Journal. edited so long and ably by Will Der Atchison, there was some years ago a trenchant series of articles on Peter Tumbledown." It described the condition of a farm under shiftless management, or, rather, under no management at all, Peter Tumbledown,' however, is not eX- clusively owned by the farm You see him and his work on every hand. He is neglect and disorder personifed. To say nothing of how much Peter Tumble down" offends ones cultivated tastes and sense of beauty, his presence is a decided money loss to the community. If my neighbor keeps his lawn cut, hedges trimmed. sidewalks repaired fences up, house painted, and premises free from litter, and don't, my neglect injures his property. Suppose he wants to sell, and the would-be purchaser sees that Peter Tumbledown' lives next door, will it have any effect on the sale? It is we'll for us all to remember that The Golden Rule has not become obsolete.
 Gods natural world is attractive to the initiated-that is. to those who are re- sponsive to it's call In the dead of win ter when we are shovelng two feet of snow from a long. wide sidewalk the at traction is at it's lowest ebb. But when the spring arrives with it's warm. sunny days and the law is off on fishing, the lure of the wild' begins to tug at the heart strings, especially if we know where all the brooks of the vicinity are where fishing is positively forbidden" But that form of transgression is all over by July, when the siren sings another bewitching Lorelei in our ears. It is the call of the berry field with it's numerous attractions. Most of us recall those younger days when in July we sallied forth into the green fields with the bright tin pail after wild strawberries that just lapped over into the period of blueberries. The fresh incense Of the morn, the multicolofed flowers, birds of rare plumage and song, the vigor of the air. and-a few blue | berries, are written deep in the memory.
 Do any of my readers remember when i a journey from a small baekwoods New England hamlet to Washington was re- garded as an event of a lifetime? In those days how few people thought of travelling to a distant state merely for pleasure To visit ones relative in the next town with livery team was con- sidered a days journey. Think of what can be done today with a high powered car! The writer ate a late breakfast in Norwich and not very late dinner in Waterbury the same day, and by no stretch of the ina gina ton would anybody call the car high powered. If one has 1 the time and enough of filthy lucre'' tc go with it, and a car that isn't con- stant reminder of the Spanish Inquistion how can one spend a vacation to better advantage than by exploring the dangers of the Mohawk Trail, Saratoga, Lake George? Put into comparison with Inter. | laken and the Riviera they need not be ashamed. AS to the expense-weH nc comparison.
 Some time ago reference was made ir | this column to the cruelty of boys in ston- 1 ing frogs. leaving them maimed and half. | dead. There is another way in whicf cruelty to animals is shown by those who l have long since passed the childhood
 
 1 to shift for themselves while the family 1 closes the house for the season and spends
 a month or six weeks at the seasnore anc mountains. Of course, we are very glat | to believe that this is far from the uni l form custom, and here as elsewhere it il 1 the exception that proves the rule Bu
 on the authority of the police complaint il | this matter is made oftener than we thinl l and of those whom we would expect ia : better things of. That person is not { | consistent Christian who will send ter 1 dollars to save some Armenian iron
 starving, but will let his own cat anC l dog go hungry while he is away on tn,
 annual vacation. Science has discovered | that hydrophobia is caused by malnutri
 tion of dogs. Besides their. personal sui 1 fering this neglect causes annoyance il | the neighborhood.
 l As a responsible people our lives mus i be governed by some accepted code 0 ] ethics Can we be consistent if we fol i low one code when at home and anothe 1 of a contradictory character whe, abroad? When you are with the Ro mans do as the. Romans do'' is a sayin, | that needs some reservations. If tn, | Romans break every law of God and maI l then the only thing for us to do is |,
 break with the Romans. This applies t, l ones conduct while away on vacation
 Some would not think of living at hom,
 just as they do when released from tn, home restraint. Some years ago a clergy 1 man went to the Rangeley lakes for hi
 annual vacation. When Sunday came h, politely declined to join a fishing party | Tourists and guides looked at one anothe, | in astonishment at such .unheard of con duct, but secretly came to the conclusion