Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Some time ago somebody said. Let's | knock the underpinning out of the high | cost of living by wearing overalls." It may have been said in jest or it may not | Anyway, it started feasible idea that seemed to take. At first it was regarded as one of these numerous fads that sol ciety quickly takes fup, and as quicklyi drops. Interested parties simply sneeredl for whiie-and said Tt is like thet grass of the field which today is and to- morrow is cast into the oven." Very soon, however, they began Ito sit up and take | notfce-" Blue denim was selling betteri than blue serge. The energy they put into sneers was now put into marking down shoddy suits from se9.47 to $37. .13. But this somersault touched the reason ing faculty of the general public and it began to argue in this way: 'If goods can be sold at a profit for S37.13, what must have been the profit when the same goods brought $6S47?" This conclusion has not left pleasing taste in peoples mouths. and at last account blue denim was stin selling.
 It Is an old but true saying that murder will out" This does not mean that every murderer will be. brought to capital punishment, or even to justice. But it does mean that, sooner or later,
 
 self-revealing. Possibly some other. things closely allied to murder will out also. The following story of the expert ence of we'll known shoe manufacturer of eastern Massachusetts illustrates this point: Travelling in the middle west, he went into a shoe store and bought pair of his own make. When he inquired for the price, the dealer told him they were $15. Now look here" said the manu- faeturer, why do you charge such a price? I sold them to you for $5' This of course, is not murder. but a hold-up It is doing today what Robin Hood once did in Sherwood Forest. Can't some in genious American do for our footwear what overalls has done for our wearing apparel? A little twist of our inventive wrist would give these and other things a toboggan slide
 It is not easy to decide just when len iency ceases to be virtue. It is much harder for the judges of our courts to be ! just than appears to the lay mind To strike the golden mean between severity and sentimenta1ity is more of a problem than it seems. Where shall we put up the halfway house between kaiserism and Quakeri5Tn? In our Christian revolt l against Russianism we are swinging to 1 the opposite extreme in dealing with Rus ] sian criminals in this country Bolsheyisn1 has spread in this country because the | propagandists know we are a long, l suffering people. A year or so ago the people of Rochester, N., Y, in their de. sire to be friendly to the stranger within l our gates" offered the use of the city's l schoolhouses, lighted and heated, to theil | Russian neighbors for the study of Amer
 icanisn. But these immigrants uset
 these buildings for teaching the duty O
 overthrowing all governments. All Rus l sians were urged to burn, loot and mur | der as the opportunity arose Their ob
 scure native language protected then 1 from the police. In case like this, hos
 far ought we to be lenient?
 ] have a great admiration for Sis
 Nitt, the present head of the Italia
 government, not because he was ono
 professor of economics in the Universit
 of Palermo Sometimes notoriously lit tie men get into the professors chail
 but Nitti was successful as teacher
 Neither is it because, for the time beins he chances to be prime minister, for tn
 premiership, like the professorship, is nc
 always proof positive against mental an
 moral inferiority. Sometimes pull and sometimes bull luck get men int positions that make angels weep an devils laugh. But not so Nitti he where he is because the good sense (
 the Italian people demanded that he | - put where he is. Nitti's leading claim
 greatness is his capacity for makin
 friends; it really amounts to genius.
 disgruntled politician went to his offic . to censure his policy. but he came o, :, and told a companion that 'fNitti's- u 7 stuff. after all !" His magnetic perso1 ality has held Italy together during tF : Plume controversy and he has done by making friends. A man who can C that needs no throne to make him kin He is born kingly, and it cannot be hi q This world of ours is, and always hs : been, chock full of contrarieties but all things. Nature herself is the mo
 cratic. She displays her spiteful temp, . in the weather she is giving us in the: e days; beautiful and bright for about te t | consecutive minutes, reminding us f roses, early peas and surf bathing, ar , | then, without any warning, the clout ;. overcast the sky, sending down cold ra ' or slect. p'3l;ing us think of empty co e Lins ard atcam heaters as dead as o 8 Marley's ghost. Nature Tevels in Il - cratic, sending up crocuses through u l. snow, and sending down hailstones in n an oven as hot as Dante's Inferno. Sl d laughs at us when We stop the low
 I ' furnace. Nature, in the garb of Fo ? tune, plays the same strange tricks wi E her sons and daughters. She let the gre t Mozart die pauper and be buried in t l. potter's field but scarcely had the prin Il of musicians grown cold before statu l. and concert halls over all the earth | f. gan to spring up in his honor. John T :. Ter, president, on one occasion had 0 political gang in the east room of t
 White House singing "Hosanna." and rS the game lime mob from the oppoSi n. tsrty on tho ffb':t lawn bowling "Cruci If him, cruelty him !" Let us, then, comm
 men, bow gracefully to these freaks, f
 it is all in the game. Nature is de
 old girl, after all, but she's funny.
 In Nothing indicates more clearly t
 trend of character than wanton cruel
 Somebody has made the astounding ae mark that the men who stand in the fro ,n rank of greatness were all of them m ' ciful. Can you think of any great m
 who was cruel7 It is a bad sign wh
 a boy loves to torture insects and m
 treat animals. Not far from a cert: 0v street is a small frog pond where
 frogs no longer peep. If you pass
 that pond you will find most of tn to dead. The other day some of them " H. just crawling along with broken le
 They had been stoned Dy boys. For
 good of society such boys need to he watched as closely as lunatics and cri in inals. Here is a great field for the pull
 school teacher.
 We sometimes see things among e IT, dren that completely offset such thi to as the above. A beautiful sight came
 my notice on the street the other q
 A little wee mite of a boy had fal on into the mud. Just behind him wa. to young miss not very much older