Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-03
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 As our age becomes highly spec ialized, and scientific training for all skilled pursuits is more and more de- manded, men are less and less likely to bIunder into success and fortune. The story of real achievement in the past seems more like tales of romance than actual history, The discovery of gold in California back in the forties; the building up Of our vast railway systems; the growth of the gil indus try and electricity; the expansion of manufactured products like textiles and all sorts of vehicles will seem, at | some distant day, like a second Ara | bian Nights entertainment This ] has all come about by brains plus op- portunity. We shall have as much i brain power tomorrow as we had yes terday but net such opportunity. It | is only a great. undeyeloped country | like ours has been that thrusts op- portunity into mep's hands. From now on we must go out more and more in quest of the opportunity. We must put more value on real labor that gets there.- Stop calling the far mer "hayseed," and stunning the mill boy whose hands are grimy. It is far l better to have these things on the outside than laziness, hypocrisy and meanness in the heart
 There is something 90 fascinating
 in motion that it appeals well nigh iF- resistibly to the innate in us. We like things that have the Ego" in them. 1 Evil would lose most of its charm if 1 It wasn't fast. Dead things don't ap- 1 peal to us like the living. The "mev- l leS'' are crowded, net merely because l pictures are thrown upon screen, but because they are moving pictures. 1 Everything is aglpw with action. Most .<z1r n1v,ofr ion at Q 4 railway train or g battleship under Il full steam. The greatest recommend I any young person can have for po- sition is abundant energy so attrac- \ tive in the nursery, the schoolroonl, ,i or the playground as liveliness. If
 then the world everywhere puts such premiums on activity, does 1t not be- hooye us al. to put more real life into what we think and say and do?
 I If "cIeanIiness is next to Godliness'
 then neatness can't be more than a Neatness is at the very least one Of el the secondary graces. A person can't
 be very untidy if he is a candidate 5 for responsibility. In regard to the 1i care of our bodies, sanitation has Q made neatness sort of religion. Fly / giene has no use for a man who prays and doesn't use the scrubbing brush
 at least once a week, and now (since Q July 1, 1919) they are talking up the
 value of the internal bath. If then
 there is some reason why the body '.i should be neat, there is no reason why the back yard, the front lawn and the 1 sidewalk should look like pigpens. Of . course we are up against the wreck q age of an unusually hard winter and
 In dealing with it let us remember the
 man who said its no disgrace to fall .T- 1z,~& sr. rJ Jte4rr- 0 -fraN y down." Safety demanded that we e scatter our icy sidewalks with sand t and ashes; but it's a disgrace if we t let them lie there all summer.
 e Nature teaches us the lesson of l, reaching the higher levels. Every l, where in New England the swollen d rivers are rushing on to the sea. and a the papers tell us that high winds
 reaching a maximum velocity are do a ing damaging work in some localities o It is no uncommon thing for Nature to l. work intelsiyely, making new reenrds l. constantly. In giving his report of lel food production the secretary of agri- l. culture frequently uses the words e "new record" for corn, wheat, oats ,- barley, etc. as the case may be. Ma
 t1re for no length of time is satisfied 1" in doing her work along uniform, dead
 levels Here as in many other ways
 
 le Nature. We ought to strive for "neN sy records" in our line of production sel whether it is in turning out Latin ol "a cotton cloth. We should not strive re merely for a quantitative excellence
 but a higher level of quality. The dea( " level is fatal to success.
 No sane person wants diversity. Tn, o' age is forever past in which to SC, lg any special sanctity in pain, povert! Q io,, ii fN14 M. i. I It Jumping toothache as something to b, J. borne with Christian resignation. Sci le entific dentistry has shattered such ye faulty belief. The person who believe
 there is religion in making himself lin comfortable is an irresponsible fanat > ic; they must be classified with howl
 Ing deryishes who cut and lacerat edl themselves in order to appease som IT, offended pagan divinity. And vet ar f. itself? Is there nothing more to i m than an expression of the law o :, cause and effect? Suppose a perso does carelessly run his hand into 5 gear or chop off toe, do pain an tn inconvenience close the transaction he This world no doubt is under the do 'n, Elnlon of law, but the highest expres pt sion of law is love. In some way per "a haps not defnable, we must realiz a.-i
 of It would doubtless. humiIiate us
 we could see a comparison betwee o% the things we know and those we q cn not. The latter list would be so lon ID that we could not take it in at sin n- gle glance. As numberless eyes wer
 strained skyward Monday nigh
 March P, admiring the unusual dis
 play of the aurora borealis, how man ns were saying T wonder what make - it! At least we are ahead of forme y generations that were nearly fright
 ened out of their wits when it apnea, ed because, to them, 1t was the fort ls runner of some dire calamity. Scien, te- has taught us that the aurora
 caused by fine meteoric dust ignite
 oy friction with the atmosphere. Tf out aurora never appears above the d the inosphere. But why should its great
 displays come in October and Marc
 and the lesser in June, and least er, all in January? How much wa ha lar yet to learn from common phenonnen.
 Do We not all-each tn his ov
 Way-pay homage to power? n ics man or the thing doing big things . eV- tracts attention. One feels like ta
 mg off his hat in the presence of
 Corless engine when realizing it's n of tential capacity. The schoolboy's he ldy IS he who can threw the farthest h lr's the hardest, run the longest and |
 the greatest. Such a fellow ga si
 becomes the gang leader. In coIle ave life the hero is the @sharks in sch, 1ey arShlp, or the leader in the var,o