Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-25

also responsibility and We cannot have the good things of opportunity unless we face the responsibility. The great spec tacuiar periods have always been those that followed struggle.
 Speaking of his attitude towards the 18th amendment, Governor Lake said that he did not believe the policing laws should be put into amendments to the Constitu- tion, but as long as this had now been put into that document, We have got to | obey and enforce and revere it. He | thanked Mayor Lerou for Norwich being one of the bright spots in the state that is trying to live up to the Constitution on this point better than most any other | Liberty has been given it's great birth ! in our day. Our country has proved it. self. but we do not yet know what has | been the justification for our sacrifice. One of the lessons that has come out of that has been the realization of law and ! order. Perhaps the lesson of the Boston no'i"H "'~''-n has been just as valuable as the battle of Lexington.
 We nave received a new idea of philan- thropy in the past four years. If we | formerly gave something once in two years We used to pat ourselves in the back, but now if they don't come around once a week with a drive we feel as if we had been abused. We are working for our own and for the world.
 There is a new responsibility felt by men towards government. q higher and better citizenship coming out of this world 1 war. You are demanding more of me. There are new ideals for me and for ev- cry man holding public office. You are responding to realization of responsi- bility in these days. There is one thing to refnember-our boys showed the world that we produce the hest fighters. Now | it Is for us. as followers of them, Co meet the problems today industrially with the same courage. hone and confidence and prove ourselves the same true American' In peace as they proved in war.
 The Business Outlook
 Senator Brown introduced Mir. Ham a
 the next speaker with reference to hin
 as Dartmouth graduate of 1900 an'
 worthy of much respect in the mind O i the toastmaster because of what Dart
 mouth did to Brown, the senator's col
 lege, in defeating Brown, 62 to 0. In
 certain memorable game.
 2 MT. Ham won the favor of his audi ence with a humorous opening when h
 told them that they were the finest look U ing body of business men he had eve seen and If they could not get the aC commodation they thought they ought
 have from No-wich banks, they cJul
 come. to the Citizens bank in Bosto
 where he would lend them all the none : they wanted-on satisfactory collateral He said he felt somewhat backwar = about posing as a prophet since he ha n lately turned out to he bad one. ar IL referred to his experience in raising p'
 tatoes on the advice of the governmer l to prepare for a hard winter. He bougl '- seed at s5 a bushel. paid S16 a day f, l. having his front lawn ploughed up ar J: when he dug his crop in August he brol d the market for the price dropped to T cents a bushel. It was the same vii
 raising pigs. which he tried on his far o on Cape ICod. watching $hei- enow' a from day to day with pork at 2s cents = pounds. but when he killed them 1t Thanksgiving day again he broke tl e market and pork dropped to IS cents. e We cannot expect a return of prospe T Ity until order Is restored in the worl d with or without our help. but the favo 2, able circumstances outweigh those tn # seem to he adverse.
 He declared that the excess profits ia l. had been a failure and hundreds hs e lost in the past year all the profits the J. had made in the preceding years. The il 1T come tax law will not bring in the rev,