Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-09
THE MAN WHO TALKs

Sometime ago the statement was made | in one of these paragraphs that no formal | action had been taken anywhere in the United States toward prohibiting the use of tobacco further than that by some tos bacco growers themselves because of the unsatisfactory price the preduc- CT received Quite lately there has been a very lively discussion in the matteF among the leaders of the Wennan's Chris- tian Teulperanca Union. And yet, as far as the writer knows, no appeal has been made for legislative action in the matter Still the idea is rapidly gain- ing ground that the attention of the American people ought to be called ia a, a,convincing way to the appalling amount of money that is spent every year for to- bacco. Is not this an economic. waste when 50 per cent of the money spent for tobacco would meet all the expenses of public school education, as bne inc vestigator has stated? Think what 1a ward relieving distress in Europe and Asia! To this must be added the thoughtlessness of some smokers in let- ting the ashes fly into a1yene's eyes. That does not add to physical comfort The lighted stub also enters into the econou- leal argument.
 From all accounts there seems to be positive epidemic of marriages through out Europe since the ending of the war. , According to statistics more than double of the number of weddings occurred in Paris in 1920 than in the preceding year One need not look far to discover the cause: it is the attempt of nature to re- store a lost balance. Now war Is the most devilish of all agents of dismating Strictly speaking divorce Is not process of dismatinga it is simply putting the off hcial stamp to what other things have l dismated. The social order demands i that this lost balance be restored, and hence the result. In a striking article in a current magazine on Shaking the Moths Out of Marriage" the writer con- | tends that 'girlhood was once spent in accumulating feathers and married life | in fighting moths" The gist of the ar 1 gument is that many of the pre-var frills 1 of marriage preparation have given way l to more sensible ideas, thus taking mar riage out of the romantic and putting t into the economic column. Stock brokers in the printed commua- 1 cations sent out to their clients are hav- | ipg much to say of late about 'ethe zeFs hour" By this term they refer to that
 'breathless moment during the cold gray dawn when our soldiers crept over 1 the top rampant of the trenches and
 launched their attack on the enemy" Ii | is very fitting illustration of the bat | tleground of the stock market today aH | which is staged mighty conflicts between the pessimistie bears and the optimistic
 bulls. From all accounts it would seen
 that the tide is turning against the form
 CT with the revival of business. AS the
 'rock bottom" of standard stocks seems to have been reached. fnanciers tell us
 that now is the time to buY-which is god advice for those who can. sayt
 enough after-coal bills have been paid te
 buy anything. Isn't there zero hour
 in all phases of life? A time when the
 schoolbey gets the lowest mark on hi. 1 card? Perhaps you have just reached
 yours, and from this time you are going
 to climb up hill Are there not time:
 when your business looks not only blue
 but the bluest? Very likely that you, too
 have reached rock bottom" The 'zert
 hour'' is the darkest hour, and that is jus
 before the dawn. Now . the will powe has much to do in putting these "zeF I hours out of commission.
 Hon. Robert Lansing, ex-secfetary O state, has made notable contribution to our knowledge of the inside working O the peace conference at Paris in whicl } the league of nations was. born. The titl | of his book is, The Peace Negotiations A Personal Narrative. MT. Lansfni
 seems to justify the president in his as
 Sumption of power relating to the nego tiatien of the treaty. As a. constitutions .llawyer,-ine upholds the legality of MI 3 Wilson's actions. The wonder is thai
 under the circumstances, MT. Lansin f l could write with such little bitternes of spirit. The manner in which he him 1 self and the other members of the com mission were belittled by Mir. Wilson ar . 7rral+ 1,11np in dionifiad roonror El1f fr0r l the criticism the book has aroused, bot ] in congress and out, was MT. Lansin = justified in submitting so long and s e suibmissively to MT. Wilson's impeFiau ,. treatment? Every human being ha : rights that every other human being
 | morally bound to respect. It is 8 growth :, wonder that Mr. Lansing did not resig u at Paris. There is point beyond whic we ought not to swallow our resentmen
 One of the most vital questions ths e come up for discussion today relates $ some form of personal or national ecol It onics. There has never been a time + our national history when economi1 e have been so cratic as now. There e such an upsetting of standard valu' e that both retailers and wholesalers knowing how to buy and to fix reasonab l selling prices were puzzled But u one who is vastly more puzzled ths y either is the consumer, upon whose inn
 cent shoulders always rests the bene a of the doubt. It is he who must pay le any lack of judgment in buying and se E. ing. Therefore it is he who has a pc If feet right to ask some straight questio
 in the matter. What he wants to knc
 is this: Why is it that in the city of
 a certain article costs 50 cents? But
 the city of B the same grade of artiC 1 fc 111t2 nd in fC m h. This has been repeatedly shown
 be true in three places where rents al
 rates of taxation are about the san
 Has it conNe to pass that the only stan ,o ard is the degree to which the public V III allow itself to be bled?
 What is the power of man when he
 pitted against some great eleEnen ns force, whether fire water, electrici I'd wind, snow or ice? If he wants to
 just where he belongs let him fight 1
 elements! Sometimes long accumu su tions of ice and snow on the high mot p tain slopes take the notion to visit tn oo relatives down in the valley. Instead lg. chartering taxicabs they furnish their O
 mode of transportation, and woe be do anything living or dead that stands Lat their track! If man wants to know j ,rs what water can do let him paddle his
 noe up the Ohio river when the mounta
 of West Virginia send their spring D
 ducts to the Gulf of Mexicoi Quite at gently Tokio has been in the grip of 1 he At one time the destruction of the wi er- city was threatened, but it was sax
 not by mans efforts but by the cha
 ing of the wind. There are some thi -.,, whose mastery even man must acln' 'A. Hedge.
 There is always something comments Are in boy who loves to fish. It must
 admitted that it is H1ard to give the l