Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-30
THE MAN WHO TALKS

tlte capacity 10 LOOK beyond tne pxSScnl ] and read the future correctly. The man l who applies this asset to his business personally, or the representative who applies it to government work officially is bound to be suceessful-other things being equal Our country can boast Of brilliant illustration of this capacity. In fSb7 when William H. Seward, then sec rsaary of state, purchased Alaska of the RusssaY government for the then sup posedly outrageous sum of $7.2ee,soe. ne was called 'sdupe," a visionary, an idle drea aIcs," and many other pet names fully as complimentary. But time has proven it to be one of the greatest bargains that any government ever made. It has nearly 591 oso square mics, not a vast area of only perpetual hnA and snow Up to Dec. 31, 194S our n.2ple had realized $S49s9e0,06o out of Stewards dream" Would to God our government had a few such dreaulefs to- dayi In 1918 the fisheries alone brought ns Sse,9 ,9eo eco; and last year the output of coal was almost $5o.0ee.0eo. Moral: don't be afraid of your dreams but test them in the light of reason.
 Whatever ke our political affiliations, wS have right to examine the issues at stake Very little has been said in this campaign thus far about the league of nations as working hypothesis. Up to date forty-three nations have become signateries, enough-one would suppose to test it's working possibilities. Great Britain, it's most ardent supporter. has repeatedly gone contrary to the spirit of the covenant. She has shown marked sympathy for the soviet government of Russia which is not a high contracting party She has let Poland fight for self existence without sending troops as pre- vided by the covenant. Poland herself plunged into war without the consent of, or protest from, any of the forty two members Of the league. France and Bel gium have formed the Belgium Miil- taire: a force of 100000 as a guard against another invasion which is con- trary to the letter and spirit of Article IS of the covenant. Again, Rumania, Czechoslavakia and Jugosiavia have formed what is known as the little en- tente," whose purpose is to prevent the rebiTth of Hungarian revanche, but is a great menace to the Adriatic. But no l protest has come from the league, and VIC have right to inquire if the league proposes to function, or is it already a | dead letter?
 l Of all effective equipment for teaching nothing is more important than person l than the art of impafting information; il is also the power of exerting influence To be a great teacher depends fully as much on what one knows, One may have q very wide range of knowledge without being personally great. Many men wh. can boast of a long list of academic de- grees would be failures as teachers. The, might write books that would be admired on two continents for their learning as many have-and yet not be fitted fo lclass room work. That mysteriou something which baffles analysis and de
 finition is personality; that which som lpeople have and others have not :, Wherever it is present it exerts an in f1uence and it's possessor is recognized a a person Of power whatever position h | occupies. It is personality that make one great in law, medicine, theology
 statccraft, letters, editorial work an most of all in the school room all tn, way from kindergarten to university. Il Any person who has had experience i s school work will recall many concret facts concerning the pewer of personalit q within and without the scheolroorn IT
 great teachers in our American college have all of them been persons of stril
 ing personality: Mark Hopkins of Wi
 
 E. Francis Wayland of Brown, Theodo I Dwight Woolsey of Yale, and many lil l. them, were all men of amazing persol e ality, and impressed themselves as . mighty influence on many classes of st ,a dents. You may take two professor 7' both of whom are learned men, in u n class room of the one is lfstlessness ar l. confusion. and in the other perfect ord J. and attention. Now this difference
 correctly explained by the word "pe D. sonality" We sec this in the grad ,o where the little ones are taught. D !, you ever see little children waiting f II their teacher to come from her home ju IL for the Joy of walking with her IT. school? Personality explains it. T l. teacher who can win little heart Il as no trouble in setting to work the m 1e chinery of a little mind
 'i As time goes on Oct. 27 will becos a. more and more associated in the Amei T. can mind with Feb: 12 and g: Neitf li- Lincoln nor Washington was apprais w at his real value in his own day. It w h. not the Tories only who abused Washif w ton. Men must be dead long enough 1 .v the anmosities which they aroused to c o,, down before Fhey can be seen in tn
 full light No man can get into the H
 
 uo five years, and the rule is wise ol es Were the matter to be submitted to be popular vote on his birthday, Oct. he there would be g perfect avalanche w. ayes, from Plymouth Rock to The Golt h. Gate and from tho Lakes to the Gulf rA favor of putting Theodore Roosev 1,+ there at once. No man in our history
 more entitled to be called "The Or
 American" than he. Like great mo,
 tain, a great man must be seen at a d
 tanee. so that comparison with les he peaks may be shown to advantage. Tn
 dore Roosevelt was probably the n
 versatile man that America has yet ? jet duead. To what noble use could jed country put such man in this hour
 political distraction
 Whatever may be enc's party affi oi ton in the present campaign if he Ice sincere and patriotic, he will not obj
 to having the probe put into the cha
 of abuses, even if thdt charge is agai Not his own party. In this respect The \ tey Ysrk Herald has done piece of Vt
 that merits the thanks of every t
 American. It was a bold, nsn pafti The f+nvestigaten Of contracts made by ,a,, wal department which ought to make
 cry real American insist on change
 administration. Among the char
 proved are: food clothing and other I ie- essities were sold by the government ons sone cases at A lass of mare tnan |. d. per cent. 300,e overcoats bought f
 the government at 25 cents each and
 for $2.50 each making profit of s6 -rts 900, or 900 per cent The same conc nee bought back 1000, ,0eo yards of olive '
 shirttng 1t a loss to tho government
 12 to IF cents yard. Suppose this ( nor met officer conducted his own pfi'