Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

WFlt5 q p1Ok OH IHf LeStLlllale FIoFlnce of Fear. That there is place in our
 modern life for such a book no one who has considered the matter would ques-
 tion for a moment. Fear is one of the
 most compelling of human emotions, not among the noblest let it be granted, but. very serviceable. If this world were made up of human beings of the superior sort,
 the use of fear as a cudgel could easily
 be dispensed with But as very inper-
 feet creatures inIabit it.. fear comes in
 mighty handy in keeping a. certain tyne
 of mind within the borders. of decency. I
 am very glad that the rohher barens were made to toe the mark in the middle ages by holding a whip over their heads, even if that whip was the endless torments of the damned. Nothing less terrible would have held them in check. The robber baron lives and wol ks today and his name is "profteer!!' Such whip as the above he would laugh at But if the federal government would hold over him ten years in the Denitentiary he would soon go out of business. f 1 The public press has stated that in the state of New York a certain church has 1 taken down the lightning rods from it's edifice on the ground that the rods at tract the lightning. Now there is sup posed to he a cause for avery effect-even 1 in church affairs. It may be that as the church had never been hit, the centinu- | ance of lightning rods might seem like 1 tempting Previdenee-heHc the rods had 1 to go. Or it may be that through de- fective connection the church had been
 hit and lost several elaphoaFds. In that case, they argued, the rods were a fake l and ought to go. There is another req l son, and probably the most plausible one, 1 and that is the church had all the light ming it could stand-from within. It would be too much for such a church to II be under the impact of double header 1 a bolt from without and another from
 within. Hence the church acted wisely in removing the less dangerous cause- I the outside bolt. Some churches have al l the lightning they can stand from the ,i pulpit. It is less expensive tef remove ,i lightning rods than to feed ministers with | dynamite.
 Il When we speak of sharks" the pri- mary reference is to certain vicious ami
 maj whose habitat is the sea. When We want to vent our indignation against cer-
 tain land animals of the same propensity
 We call them land sharks" There are ) differences between the two. but they arf Ii insignificant While the one lives ir i the sea the other usually lives near 1t . The sea shark lives for the most part iE , the tropics, where tie water is reasonably
 warm, while the land shark dwells nov mostly in temperate climes, but is goins 3 to have Ia hot old timen in the sweet bs and by The sea shark will hide behinf [ the bIubber whale in order to get his oil 1 while the land shark will hide behind hi, !, oil to get the blubber. And he gets him :, too, by selling him stock in oil that has never sDouted. The only spouting thus ia, 1 has come from the promoters office. It ii ) l wall CI1 fo Ti 25 per cent dividend When oil get, l stale they offer you kronen from whiei s you will realize 2eQ per cent. Both species el of sharks try to swallow everything 1T
 sight
 1 If Nature could express herself vocaIlJ
 these days it would be something in thi. fashion Day is dying in the west" etc D When the sun is in the west the day ot s1 course, is coming to its close, and wher a We look across the fields in these mid autumnal days we see a perfect riot o i, 1 colors among the wild flowers The bud. ! have long since merged into full develop ed growth. The bright yellow of ths ? goidenrod and the intense blue of tn, t wild aster ningles " ith the flaming red ol 3 sumacs and woodbil C. It is the transcen sl Gent beauty of decl5ne. The sap no longer
 furnishes the vigorous green of June. ,l is the beauty of yegftation when it enter . the great western JEldorade. Is not thi ! a reminder of the way in which man, $ people grow old? Ihe color is not aiway. e tlrab because all people do not grow ols ,-i crabby and grouchy. They have takel ti in the right sort of nourshment durin, VI the growing period, end that is the reasol
 when their day is dying in the west" tn j colors are beautiful, not sombre
 ell The publication of another Life o
 e
 \ many years the supreme head of tn ,s i Salvation Army, is iRdisDutable evidenc = If the worlds growing appreciation of hi . sterling worth. Some men, like some ob 'r 5ects in Nature, must be seen at a dis IS tance to realize their ,,bigness. As we ge
 I yway from big man. like a big meur e5 iain,@ We see how he towers above tn !, little foothills that lie at his base, Whe II we realize that from sheer intellectus = force an indernitakie will, mighty chal le E9cter tiaat was built up by a deathles le faith. he mobilized out of a few despise 10 fugiNves a powerful army for righteou, n ness felt the world over, we must plas e. him among the really great men of Il ,o world. It was his mission in life in Y very unique way, to "giye a cup of co i7 water in the name of a discipleH Fhel
 Is nothing in all the world greater ths D. 10 devote great talents to showing Il ct frayed-out ends of humanity how to lip is In this no one has succeeded better ths at tien. William Booth
 De Did you ever think that Nature ney or troduces anything Useless? She may al ly Soes produce many things that we dor e- IndeFstaRd-but that is quite anotn vn matter. Why insects and vernin? WI of sloxiops plants? Why vegetable and mi sral poisons? And why the fog? It
 said that the bottom of the English cha l nel is filtered with wrecks caused most
 by fogs To this must be added the gleo ,xu md discomfort caused by g. fog. And y ,v It is Natures way of relieving many se !. tions from aridity. What makes t .4 tastern and central part of the Unit = States So fertile and the Sahara so ari HI Eimply because Eastern Africa has lef
 mountains that prevent the prevaili
 winds from carrying moisture into | in- interior. fog may be. disagreeable | -as it makes the desert to bud and blosst
 sis the rose"
 Almost every day furnishes fresh e nc denee that the Bible is right when it sa
 that money is the root of all evil" T
 I present scandal in baseball circles she
 how true this is. 1t clea rs up the myste
 is how the pennant was awarded in sed world series of 1919. It also shows h sb It will not go to the White Sox this ye
 Baseball is a noble game it is our
 Sional game, and most of us love it. deserves better treatment than the sii b with which some of the great players : yor ,arge ssIsriss M ara ra a; an iof mn money VI
 gusting part is the yellow streak in so
 If the confessions, laying the blame ose the wife and helpless little 'gkiddIe nth Baseball fans everywhere are calling