Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-19
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

1uc lcdfy S&AoW SlOIlu tU6b oWSfh t4AO northeastern part of our country on Feb. IS and 20 was not merely spectacular, but useful It served 9 purpose If not along practical lines, It was neither one thing nor another as far as sleighing and wheeling wene concerned. It is question | whether it gave enough ammonia to the soil to amount to anything. The value of snow as q fertilizthg agent Is being { looked at askaIicA today by agricultural experts. But 1t did furnish g powerful objective to the school boys energies. + fully atoned for all the Inconvenience it made by exercising the boys muscle. We | are all born with the conductive in us; | it is the basis of the power of self-de- fense. It made our hearts leap with joy 1 to see the -youngsters peit one another. An unusual number of girls engaged in the sport this year. Why not, with the nineteenth amendment staring them in the face? Snowballing is important be- cause it breaks up aimlessness. Later on may they aim at other things definite land hit them Il l The very beat thtne that can be saSa about d soap bubble is that 1t bursts. It looks pretty sailing up in the air dis playing all the colors of the prism, but you are perfectly satisfied to have 1t
 burst for that Is what you blew 1t up for. Pride is very much like a soap bub- tUlo uA IlletI IL IS MfOStly .WHl0p anu as soon as 1t comes into contact with any
 thing real, 1t at once passes into eternity. A boastful man is compound of brains and gas, the ratio being about to SS. Now the greatest kindness you can show l that man., and also the finest service you can render the community, is to price
 him. After the gas has escaped the Ter
 mafnder will be harmless. Are not we Americans just q bit troubled with mem , tai gastritis? It Is our. big lakes, long , rivers, high mountains and vast areas, that obsess us. We have vaunted our l wonderful educational system to the dis arrangement of other nations. An expert, in The Scientific American, tells us that
 10 per. cent. of the adult population of 5 this country cannot read word in any . language; and of the boys drafted into to understand the plainest military in- s structions Let us be thankful that the t bubble has burst.
 . While we are on this subject of illi-
 teracy perhaps a supplemental word will l. not be :amisse We have been somewhat q boastful of the remarkable literacy of the : people of the United States. We have . taken 1t for granted that almost every. r body not a. mental defective, above ter + iyears of age, was able to read and write Is tOf those -Vvho were drafted there were
 
 e.l right hand from their left, and these in l. Icluded native-boTn whites and negroes a! !. well as foreign born. If we take into ac s count the near-illiterate; those who witl v difficulty can barely read, we lift th .s mental pauperism of the American peo IT pie to nearly one-fourth of the entire pop le ulation. Seventy per cent. of industria ie accidents are caused by inability to rea IS danger signs. It is conservative esti il mate that a quarter of million dollar ,a daily is lost to industry in the Unite
 States through illiteracy Is any stronge
 agument needed to show our young peo oI pie the great necessity of education? .a It was g timely and beautiful sugges ' tion on somebody's part that between
 o'clock and 1 30 D. m. on March the pee
 pie of this country pray for the tncor
 ing president, that he might have tn ct health and strength and disposition sh meet the duties of his great office in ,s satisfactory manner. He needs fs bt ,s .',, cause the presidency makes great d. 7" mands on all of it's occupants. As it re the most conspicuous office in the wor ee it makes the president a famous ma d. Whether he cares for 1t or not glory Ter thrust upon him. But tfie cost of giol r- must always be paid by the man who r ee ceives 1t. No man in the country VI Ia. work harder than he or be moro bitter e. IerftlClSeQ. The manner III WnfCA po' stands opposition will be his greate Int claim to affection and immortality. II es. noble Lincoln never seemed SD great ort when through sacrifice he paid the pri ed of his iabofs for humanity. MT. Hardil om had a right to expect the prayers of it's. people. As one reads of President Hardin, md occupancy of the White House. and ent real nome-iike comfort he will probat .'a enjoy one can hardly help comparing ' situation to the less fortunate vice pr, No No- ident. Why not vice presidential ma the sion at the national capital? It surt in- would be in keeping with the wealth a lild dignity of d great people Why should ITS look on the vice president as mere f be urehead? But this office has many tin n,s been filled by men of the highest order ..s ability and moral worth. To give { Ss president fine mansion and his riinni ma mate only few rooms iH q hotel Is ha less ly fair. What change it will be for Tith Coolidge family from the spaciousness
 Northampton to a few rooms in ,er- crowded eapitali The Coolidge boys uch fond of making hencoops and squir o, cages. If they do it in swell hotel so
 =. nervous woman is likely to complain. oi besides,- hotel proprietors as gene ha- thing are not inclined to encourage s' tre- kind of juvenile activity. Let us bl end "the Blue House. in Washington for the vice presidenti
 No One of the unusual leatureG of the for cent Inauguration was the aim at ec ans omy. Out of respect to the presidel f is we'll known wishes, and in accord W
 of the general desire to cut down expen +h. as far as it was reasonable, the cerem
 ies were marked with a quiet yet dit c"s fled simplicity. This tallied well V are tho presidents character and the pfe, TOT tions of democracy. The taxpayers ieed the country were probably pleased to na- this honest effort to be economical V fn- oht Deing parslnonious and mean.
 eliminating some of the ''frills" sev,
 hundred thousand dollars are said to h
 been saved. Taking their cue from
 some papers are advocating a general the turn to "Jeffersonian' simplicity I -es. cannot De done. You cannot put tho C
 plex life of today into the simple garl
 no yesterday. We arc not going to give arv. the automobile for the horse and bu,
 nor electricity for the old tallow can
 nor the trolley for the stage ceaeh
 a cut out extravaganee and wastefull
 let us all hasten. but b go back to y III simple life of the past, let us go hghi
 It matters Ittls whsther yea aa .,s. were for or against the eighteenth ann s ment to the Consultation. It has bee ol A part of the organic law Of the nal
 It is your duty and iaiiae t6 see that
 law Is enforced. This is the purpose h to aim of the Volstead act. If this as . in- carried out the spirit and purpose
 prohibition win he achieved. Nothin;
 the sound judgment Of the country, into hurt the ,volstSaa Act more than to |
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