Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-06
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 MT. and Mrs. Successful Voter! No act [ of uniformity was held over your head | like a cudgel, so you presumably went to | the polls and registered your honest con 1 vctions. The majority of voters rightly l or wrongly, were on your side. Don't let ! your enthusiasm end in bonf1res, red 1 lights and brass bandsl Bare your sleeves !! to the elbow and work harder for your | party elected to office than you slid in 1 prediction daysl Secondly, mean you also MT. and Mrs. Unsuccessful Voter. If you voted as you pleased, without undue pressure, and as you honestly thought for the best interests of all concerned don't be a cad and sulk in the camp, but a good sport and take your medicine without gri,nace. Carrying a grouch will not reverse the judgment of the peo- pie. Just remember that no man in the white house and no party in power are big enough to send the United States to destruction Let us all do a little simple addition: Your efforts added to mine and
 to the other fellows will keep Uncle Sam where he belongs in the leadership of the world. One of the fundamental claims of science is the conservation of energy: that is, force may change the form of it's operation without losing one whit of it's
 energy. A drop of water may appear as i ice or steam. but in either case has not been robbed of any of it's original poten- cy. Let this scientific law be applied to 1 the recent election. Several parties have 1 been striving for the mastery. All but
 one have failed, that is, have failed to gain the object immediately in view But l have the forces put forth by these de- l feated parties really failed? They have
 sent broadcast tons of literature have spent thousands of dollars on speakers :;
 have spent much in newspaper ads and | in other forms of propaganda. Of course many lies have been told and not wholly ! by the defeated parties. But knowledge also has. been widely disseminated The lNeople at large have been studying the ! league of nations who otherwise would have left it serenely alone. Defeat has tended to fix the minds of discredited party more firmly in it's belief. An elec- ton in itself rarely makes any converts |, |, it rather tends to strengthen one in his
 belief and that makes for independence. Il No single avenue of national expendi-
 ture is Wholly responsible for the high
 cost of living. Neither is the large buy
 ing habit of the people, though running : too much in the line of needless luxury, alone to blame We must remember that the nation still feels and will feel for 7 long time the awful costliness of war. , The situation may be likened to a1l C1Jl iilDuS lcllA NGI IliStd NllH water
 from which the water escapes in thou sand leakages. No one of them, nor any } considerably number of them, as long as . the present inflow keeps up, will drain 3 the tank. We know not how long the I present inflow will keep LID, or how many l new leakages will be made, therefore stop as many leakages as possible. One reckless kind of wastage is in the use v or misuse of paper. The writer in com :" mon with others has had exact dupli. l. cates of all kinds of literature sent him. : Most of it anyway goes into the waste r basket, But why so many duplicates . Why so many circular letters printed i i only on one side of the sheet and of
 tentimes on expensive paper? A hue anc
 cry is raised over the scarcity of paper
 Why then this reckless expenditure? , One thing we claim in this countr. T. at all hazard is liberty of conscience > that has the inalienable right of self-ex pression within the limits of law. It j s one thing te defame ones country it i $ quite another thing to denounce an un d just law and criticize the actions of ,- law-naker. Tie only way to get an un. , just law repealed is for the people tu ex
 press-their indignation against it. Tax for instance the war tax that was doubt s less necessary when the nation Wa T. straining every nerve to meet it's tre in mendous obligations, such as sendin l. several million of sailors and soldiers | m Europe. Their clothing, arms, transpo1 ,b tation and pay had to be met, and
 united people made no opposition in dC ing their full duty But there has bee Fl no fShting-for us-since Novembt CT 1913, but the war tax grips us as fierce 'h ly as ever and what utterly senseles T. discriminations does it make It is n, r. so unjust that theatres and motion pic n tfre places should be taxed, for ths n comes under the head of luxury. Bu . why tax medicine? For instance, WI , should there be a tax on all kinds c lu salves and none whatever on toothpast on Is it one way to make up 3es in th or sales of the war department!
 Life is made up of a succession he events. One duty follows another mol to or less rapidly. Were it not so nothi1 re would relieve the dull and continuo es monotony of our existence Only ye e. terday-as it were-it was the gre ir, world war that claimed everybody's a M tention and service. Then we had to r oH : adjust ourselves to the condition
 ne peace. For the last several months on has been the presidential contest ov at the league of nations, and now after g l. the truth, the falsehood, the right al
 wrong interpretations of this covena
 i has-for awllile-come to an end, wh - shall we take up next? How would it I - to help the city of Norwich bit? Gi1 ei sympathy and help to the work pr
 posed by the chamber of commerc
 Make it So wca while it would be mo fH- attractive for residential purposes. Ht in would it work # many of us after ol
 hard political work, should turn over
 new leaf and go to church?
 ere The apt and familiar Oppression. q oh tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,"
 seen along every walk in life every da
 We need not look far for some concre ,or evidence of this saying. In these da " of coal shortage and high prices how fC
 tunate to have such September and (
 tober! Those splendid days kept t
 bugbear of empty bins in the baC len ground. It was quite enough for t is average man to wrestle with the leae
 of nations and other national issl
 without bothering over how to ke co., Awarm in the coming winter months. T to heat of this presidential contest and
 exertion of finding job will keep sol
 men warm for months to come. Is
 all haphazard that fur-bearing anim m are lightly clad for the mild winter, a ie- heavily clothed for the severe winter?
 it all mere chance that the deaf a
 dumb have unusually sharp vision? H to do the migratory birds know just wi it to go south in autumn and north
 spring? The birds do not fret, W
 should we, if we "are better than ma sparrows." They are helpless, so axe we, and yet the wind is tempered hat the shorn lanlb'
 inc The most copta,,n+;b1. f.e+r,a If f
 cial life is officiousness the antics of
 tie men in magnifying their office. ] ,;oo higher the office and the higrar inc m