Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS

HE. MAN WHO IALNS
 That character is influenced by en- vironment admits of no possible doubt Let anyone, however good the stock he comes from, be put into a bad moral at mosphere and he will soon reflect his moral r in every fibre of his being. But close observers tell us that even topography and climate have something to do in the production of personality. It is certainly true that rough, noun | tainous countries rear men not only Of physical brawn, but of mental and moral l ruggedness Soft climates are the para l disc of soft people not those who dis | cover continents, or build up vast bus mess enterprises The hard, raw eli mate of New England produces white oak trees and white oak men. Countries that boast of their climate seldom have occasion to boast of their men. Noun tains particularly are associated with loftiness of mind and soul. Scotland. Switzerland and New England are re- markable for mountain majesties' and for men and women of the highest rank No race of men have ever surpassed the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers
 As one goes about and listens to the conversation of different groups of men here and there he is appalled, at the ire quency with which Gods name is pro- famed. To insult the Deity or even to use His name frivolously is no small offense. It is no excuse to say, "Oh, it is only thoughtless habit don't mean anything by it." We cannot get into the habit of doing some things with impunity.
 If you should knock man down, would you plead as an excuse that it was only a "thoughtless habit you had gotten in to? How would the judge or jury in any court treat such an excuse? And yet every time you swear you virtually 1 strike your Maker in the face, and do 1 you think you are going to get away l with it? What does your reason tell 1 you? Suppose you get into the habit of 1 traducing your country and shout your l treason on the street corners and in the
 market place, in all probability you will
 get a free ride to Atlanta, Ga, where l you belong. Most painful of all is the
 profanity of a little child Parents, what
 are you doing in the matter?
 The identity of man with the natural
 world expresses itself forcibly in sum- mer. If this statement needed any
 proof all one has to do it to point to | the exodus of city people into the coun-
 try during the summer months Why is
 it that country resorts make a speciality of Cascades" Roaring Brooks" Noun tain Glens," Ice Caves ''Lover's Re | treats Sylvan Shades Bear Noun tains," and spots where the early set tiers were killed and scalped by the In- dians? It is simply because such places | appeal strongly to mans instinctive love | of nature. It is refreshing to cast aside for the time being the eXacting conven-
 tions of our social order and get back
 to primitive modes of life The seant attire demanded bv life in woods and fields and lakes shows rs t7at some trace of the cave man still fingers on ou
 blood. If human society is to continue | virile it must not get beyond the touch
 of Mother Earth.
 weII-knowr Scotch divine now tour ing the country is reported to have re marked that things worth having al ways lie beneath the surface" It ma! , be that this assertion would need to bt l modified to meet isolated cases, but i l is so generally true as to provoke ou thinking. Most of the enjoyable thing
 of life are the fruit of individual ex s ertion Nothing vitaIly important come , to us, not even sunlight and air, apar
 from diligent searching. Generally tn
 more valuable a thing is the harder i is to get. We can pick up cohble stone t almost anywhere, but not diamonds T { get them We IT ust cross the ocean an ! dig into the depths of the Dark Con . tinent. I once asked duarryman i 9 Rutland, Vt, why they went down 40 9 feet after marble when marble wa
 cropping out through the surface every S where His larconic reply was: 9Th . deeper We go the finer the grain" Isn I that true of all our endeavor? To ge
 an education one must dig. not for . week or month on'-.-. but for years. an must put his very biood into it. The greg :, 1 inventions and discoveries that hay . blessed the world have come to light bt u cause great spirits have dug long an " hard to get them.
 There was a very significant elitorit Il in The Boston Transcript of Aug II. n regard to the convention of the Be st Scouts in London All England WE
 amazed over the showing of the Anne 1t ican lads in the efficiency tests. It w. ei very easy to see that they were youn ,s CT brothers of the doughboys who asto1 ished the world in driving back the a l, sassins of civilization from the Meu 'l to the Rhine. The blood relationsh t, was frequently commented upon as | I'd lads went through their stunts, and t i- great metropolitan press with singul a. unanimity lauded the safety of O I country with such boys to defend t -. national honor in the future It will 4o many long years before an Americ; 'o treaty will be torn into shreds becau
 I y. den-Powen has done noble service, but ly will be best remembered as the originat in of the Boy Scouts.
 9lf There is growing tendency in gre ms religious conventions to utilize all avai
 ble material There is a fine psycholo
 cal effect in introducing features, tf
 do not counteract but supplement
 heavy, thoughtful addresses. It is ve ,es tiresome to listen hour after hour
 great speeches, however instructive a
 interesting they may be. One convt be tion recently introduced a junior oh we of children ten years and younger a
 when the little ones sang Precious Je
 els it was the dramatic climax of a V, ,., notable gathering. Very much like t i' was a pageant given in a great Bos ne church recently bringing out some ph;
 of the life of the Pilgrims. There
 no better way in which history can zen taught to children than by pagean oe it makes the past a living thing, 2 ok