Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-01
THE MAN WHO TALKS

| absolutely nothing good to be said in favor of such depression? Is it only an unmltlgated evil? There is one side | that Is generally overlooked First, it is l only temporary cessation of our usual long run of prosperity. During our 150 l years of national life how many nation- l wide depressions have We had? When l lean year comes We easily forget the | ten or fifteen fat years that have pre- ceded' The lean year helps Us to clean up the long accommodating rubbish: Sec ondly, lean year gives us, as a peo- pie, greatly needed lesson in economy We are the most wasteful nation on l earth. We cast away our clothes be- fore they show any signs of being threadbare and consequently the deal l CTS in secondhand clothes grow rich. It Is the same with ouf boots and shoes l When thrown out of work we learn through suffering that the fat years 1 ought to cover the lean ones
 1 There is most decidedly financial 1 value in the conpuision to hustle Take the lad who has been waited upon from | hand to mouth throughout the early De- 1 riod of youth, and when he comes to his first seh-reliant task in the school room he is brought uD with a jolt. Take 1 the same boy in college with his fat l purse and Pierce-Arrow, who gets along | by the skin of his teeth" becarsn there is incentive to nothing further what sort of a mark does he make in the world? Compare him with the ave- rage boy who has to hustle for his edii- cation. The little newsboy in our great | cities is apt to be very bright because l every inherent faculty is called forth in taking care of himself Take, for ir- | stance, the historic Jew, the most uni versally persecuted individual in the life fo mankind The compulsion to struggle for existence through the long dreary centuries has brought out latent forces of personality that has made him the most self reliant of men
 One of the kings of Israel told his watchman on the towers of Jezreel to keep a sharp outlook on the horizon for he feared attack. At length the watch man spied a leader and his band in the distance, but he could not identify him. Yet he sent this message to the king: "The driving is like the driving ] of Jehu. son of NiBshi: for he driveth furiously' This Jehu was an hostile king who had established a reputation Of going a bit fast--quite common } habit with the general run of kings. Driving furiously' was about all that was remarkable about Jehu He was a product of his age. and because he
 
 bel. ought not to discredit him. Jehu
 had an easy time of it when there were no traffic cops, no speed laws and nc penlaty for running over people While 7 we are glad that Jehu lived at least ? twenty-five centuries ago, We regret that 2 he has left so many successors. We I have no use for them today
 3 As these lines are written, trunks art
 being brought out Of the attic, dusted f packed and strapped to be checked fol
 Wellesley Or Cambridge. Northampton
 Or New Haven I think all the more O. you if you find it hard to keep bacf [ the tears u is a leap into uncertaint! = for which you are entirely justified { admire your courage, because you arr = not overstocked with money; but vol i have health. intelligence, q desire f0l . education and q willingness to work
 You are not going back on father ant ' l mother who are sacrificing just a bi o for you All they ask of you is to nak l. good Yes, they do want also tha l. weekly letter Oh, how much it mean
 to theml Those parents of yours ar
 quite right in believing that there is n investment of money that yields
 sreatar satisfaction than what they pu
 into tue education of children who mea
 busircss. God he with you lads and las
 
 t ways that you know not" r, They were sitting side by side on tn y warm sand, according 10 q preceden r. established by Mr and Mrs. Adam O l. one of the shores of Paradise-befor h they were married. They were quit
 obvious to the vulgar gaze of othe < bystanders-or rather downsetters-il S bathing suits In silyery tones up spsk l. the swain "Ouse be you, my darling l. In voice equally limpid came the ar l. swer: 'Ouse, darling "' And thus the
 continued to "ouse' until the warm su
 hid behind dense cloud and it becan1
 a trifing two chilly for successfr r "ouseing." Now they were not nigh UT IS to death. Their grandparents "oused n before them and perhaps on those yer g sands But they are now hale an > hearty and own their cottage nearby ,r Let only those who have never "oused o cast a stone at them!
 I, Have you ever noticed on the stnoof = hard sand of a beach at the point whel
 the wave begins the backwash, it leave T. fine string-like deposit of foam? " the next wave goes higher it obliteratt s- all markings of the lesser waves. Id the sea is calm and the tide on the et 70 the shore will look as if worms ha SD crawled along irregularly parallel vii
 the water edge. It seems to me tht :" this is like the register that is mat
 in our daily lives. Everything we ( f makes a register. Some Of them al I'd pretty low down among thes pebbles ar Ill dark, rotting seaweed. Then others con of higher and obliterate the lower registe l. If a boy gets only 60 in his first exam
 nation and at the second trial is mark lo 90. it is the latter that counts.
 There are great many branches @ the hog family with which we are Il Ill pleasantly familiar The little grour d. hog that publishes an almanac on Ca
 dlemas day Is the most respected mer
 Der of the whole bunch. The most d
 testable representative of the whc ha 1 tribe of swine is much in evidence du , ing these fine autumnal days. He !
 longs to the species known as the ro
 hog: the fellow who has an insane (
 sire to get ahead of the other fellow ou he is going along at the ratauef 30 mi ay an hour and another machine pulls in
 the highway and starts in al 5 mil
 he instantly sueeds up to 40 just f nd the sake of passing him, and then slo od down to 30 miles. If machine No
 attempts to pass him, he will crowd h
 as near to the ditch as he dares to. IT od is the hog who thinks the whole hie - way is his. We see this same spi i~' displayed in all the walks of life: ar
 thing to beat the other fellow.
 If you are smart enough to put yc ol creditors off yet again, take the nor ne you owe and make trip anywht I'd. through southern New England and
 how nature is putting forth her sy is phony of colors. Do it now for the