Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 cealing ones real opinions During the summer ran across a fine piece of ann biguity in the historical Burial Hill in | Plymouth; On two companion stones l was this inscription Mother united | above" and Father parted below" Now that might mean above a certain line l mother was united, and below 1t father | was parted Probably the inscriber did | not mean that but it might be so in- ferred from his language. Does it mean | that father was parted about an inch | below his chin where a good many men | would be parted if they got their just | desert? Does it mean that the parting | was lower down as the result of con l tact with a buzz saw? Or does it mean | that father, being parted, is below; way l down and out, in what is sometimes | called the flower regions" Any one of these interpretations Is admissible. Moral: | Don't look to inscriptions on tombstones for accuracy
 The writer has taken two automobile trips to historic places in eastern Mass achusetts and New Hampshire this sum mer. Some of the homes seen have been restful old mansions, in which men and women liver quiet lives. But how cramped those lives were compared with ours! No railways, trolleys, automobiles, telephones. wireless, gas, electricity, and a thousand other things that enlarge the comforts of living. Talking this matter over with an ex-secretary Of the state of Connecticut, I asked him this ques- tion: Has the increase Of the convent , ences and pleasures of life been attended with a corresponding increase or hu- man happiness? Without a moments hesitation he replied: Absolutely no Our desire for more conveniences and ic i1 iah1 ha on to say. As a people we never grumbled so much as wa do today, and were never so impatient with inconve- niences, was one of his pregnant sen l tences. Unless the source of comfort and satisfaction is found within it will never be realized.
 | It is not necessary to have one day set apart in the year merely to inform 1 us that we are facing great industrial problem. Labor day is but the mildest suggestion of what the American people are up against today. It is well that we have such a day, lest we forget" And we stand in danger of forgetting some grave things that we must not lose sight of. We must not forget that there are thousands of returned soldiers that are out of employment, and are asking | themselves lis this the return we get for offering ourselves to save civiliza- tion?" We must not close our ears to the growl that comes from the mines of West Virginia. We must remember that an industrial problem is here and that it will not down until it is settled right. But where is the key to the situation Reformers claim to have it. Welfare work, profit sharing, collective bargain ing, shop committees, boards of con ciliation and arbitration claim to have
 
 laid down in the gospel there will be no solution.
 As we get farther away from Armistice day, Nov. Il, 1918, we are more inclined to ask what did it all amount to?" No body was really defeated, nobody was actually victorious, and nothing was per manently settled and nobody has been converted. Germany is just as anxious to spring at the throat of Paris in 1921 as she was in 1914 the only difference being in 1914 she thought she could get the strangle hold, but today she knows she cant. You never change the nature of a panther by holding her at bay, | Read what Ludendorf, Non Goltz anC Waldersee said in a meeting at Berlin recently in an attempt to revive Par
 Germansm. Millions of precious lives r were sacrificed, nations made almost bankrupt, civilization thrown into the widest confusion, Continental Europe or the verge of distraction if not actual star vation, with no league of nations tha seems to have any power of functioning l Again I ask what did this awful worl6 war amount to?
 It was expected from the start tha : all sorts of devices would be resorted tt = in order to defeat the spirit and ain
 of constitutional prohibition. The pres
 ent hue and cry about taking away tn
 peoples liberties in prohibiting the man ? ufacture and sale of beer for medicina s purposes is quite amusing. It is a rar r piece of comic opera. The brewers seen n to be quite upset over recent con h gressional action in declaring that bee il is not medicine. They are shedding croc odile tears over such infringement 0 . popular rights. Now as a matter 0 II fact beer was never considered a med
 icine. Long ago thirty eight common - wealths prohibited it's prescription. Tn r federal congress was wise enough tha l. the declaration that beer was necessar t as a medicine would reopen every brew if cry in the country and permit them [ = work overtime. The vast ma jority C
 druggists do not care to sell beer, an |. physicians do not care to prescribe i u It was expected that this bill woul 5 perish in congress-.
 e Every schoOIboy knows that there s a famous spot in Charlestown, Mass called Bunker's Hill. He may not be fan
 iliar with the fact that on the edge (
 Hampstead Heath, an open field nea . London, is a little hill called Bunker '0 Hill (please mark the difference). B,
 cause of the near coincidence of tH
 names a notable group of English peop 7 has taken steps to purchase the spae
 for< the purpose of making 1t a memt
 rial park and placing thereon a 1honl .e ment. Upon this monument will 1 at placed a tablet containing the names
 the British soldiers land the Colont;
 troops which fought side by side in tF ,r famous historic battle in the early pa s kof the revolutionary war. We beliel ~1 that all such devices tend to cement u
 good feeling that exist between the tv
 great branches of the Anglo-Saxon fan 1e fly. The suggested inscription is vel lg felicitous: '"The one Bunkers Hill tel
 of division; the other BunkTs Hill wi tell of union"
 IS The Christian press has been sayif es good deal lately on the scope and cha h. acter of preaching. And it is just
 united on it as it ever has been on an
 thing it ever tackled. Some journa ,- seem to think that the minister ought :. confine himself between the Creation al the first century A. D. To be later tn: oI this is to overstep his natural boundarie
 To be later than Josephus is to impe
 the profession. To introduce any mu mt dane subject is to besmirch his reput tn ton. Other periodicals are just as I re sistent that the preacher shall live co
 siderably this side of the Deluge, al
 shall make vital the things in whi O. people living in this age are intereste