Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-26
THE MAN WHO TALKS

giufn, on Aug. 25. 1914. and burned to ashes the magnificent library of the old University of Belgium founded in l425. Still more distinctly will it be remember ed that it was not during a siege that the crime was committed, nor in the midst of a battle as incidental to the fortunes of war but during an invasion as Speci- fically ordered by the German generals The black mark left on Belgium by the invaders showed clearly that the Huns under Kaiser William had not changed from the Huns of Alaric. Nowhere in all the world was indignation keener than in the United States. but 1t was not mere emotion to evaporate, as it often does, into thin air. but it took a substantial | turn, for on the 18th day of last July the cornerstone of the new library was laid by President Butler of Columbia univer- sity. The funds for fully restoring the | magnificent building were wholly furnish | ed by the UlSted States. No worthier 1 thing has been done since the war.
 Are we not fin these days making a | great mistake by everlastingly dangling l before the eyes of our young people that | word ''thrift?' Does it not tend to over 1 develop the sordid in human nature? Of course nobody wants young people to grow up shiftless and inactive But they ought to be taught, early and late, that the supreme object in life is not the ac- cumulation of the material. If young l men put all their strength into getting money, and nothing else, they will inva- riably grow up selfish, sordid narrow, i mean, arrogant. tricky and universally conceited. Wealth may be gained, but neither happiness nor respect, money i is the god they worship. Unless charac- -ter is put above money, moral worth 1 above mental acumen, and a disposition l to do something for ones fellows rather 1 than a desire to do ones fellows, then life l from every raaional standpoint must be a 1 dismal failure. It is just as true in mod l ern America as it was in ancient J1dea that "a mans life consistent not in the l abundance of the things which he pos sesseth.''
 It is only the' minimizing and unfeeIing 1 who say nothing can be said about | Thanksgiving If a person is so dense l or unthankful as not to recognize his blessings, then, of course, Thanksgiving | is a sealed book This subject, however, is relieved from staleness by the glorious 1 fact that Gods mercies are eternally new. | If it is true that mature abhors a vac- ] uun,'' it is equally true that God abhors duplicates because He never made any We are told that God never made two faces that are exactly alike any more than two blades of grass God nal z a mould for each successive year and wnen : He has poured the year into it He
 smashes the mould There is not the same . quantity or quality of manufactured , products or raw materials one year as i another. The things that were made in
 the workshops ef 1921 as well as those that grew out of the ground were new things, and as these things contributed ] to the welfare of man they represent 3 Gods goodness, and hence are mercies
 for which we ought to be thankful.
 Three full years have passed since the e great westward invasion of the Germans e was stayed by the allies armies under the
 masteriy generalship of Foch, and were very reluctantly forced to sign the arti- i cles of the arTnistice4 which virtually
 ended the war. Twice since that great
 and notable day has the anniversary oi [ the event-Nov. 11-been celebrated by v the entente allies, local conditions giving : color to the celebration. Last year the { world stood facing an ominous bl;SA . cloud that had written all over it the - ominous word Progression" That clout
 has not entirely disappeared from the
 i economic sky, but the light is breakine
 1 in along the horizon. This year the lead " ing nations have met to discuss thu | greatest moral question in the world st that of disarmament. Probably no con 10 ference was ever held in Washington T. that was so undergirded with the pray le CTS of a united people as this one Tn
 cry of 8 heart-broken world ought to pu ,- aside the game of politics and give u ' constructive legislation that will event Y, ually consign the battleship to the scra K heap.
 We are glad that congressional inquir
 has been made into the theory and prac 'e tices of the Ku Kluk Klan organization " In the reconstruction period an organiza 10 tion by the same name spread terro It throughout the south by it's brutal pro ld cedure. There are four strong argu " ments against it: l. It puts emphas n on mob violence. What right has an ~ set of men to determine how the Ia, V should be administered? Suppose a "a should do it, anarchy would soon tal 1e the place of law. 2. It ter go increa. rk race hatred Why should prejudice | q stirred up against Catholics. Jews, n re groes and Asiatics, for if they are cit at zens their political rights are guarantet
 by the constitution? 3. It would destrc the solidarity of the American people. d is perfectly clear that future Arneri, or will represent the various races amalg
 mated. 4. It would suppress the fund les mental principle of democracy, i e.. pc of sonal liberty. No man nor set of m d. have any right to assault my religion n
 nationtlity, my politics, or my freedom
 speech.
 You have settled down of an eveni
 to enjoy, or at least to read the Saturd gre Evening Post, when the good lady say |? "Ephrain, I wish you'd pull out t tacks of the stair carpet, for Mrs Sul we van is coming to clean tomorrow" Y to have learned to step lively when M
 Ephraim speaks. That carpet was r
 down by a man sent from the furnitu .v shop and was paid by the inch Tho S; tacks are inch-long. fiat-headed spik driven whole length into the oak flo
 You know now why the man was paid
 the inch. The tack butler is useless, CTS you go at it with screw driver and sled ut hammer. You put so much force in D,
 ing up the first tack that the head fl
 off, and the screw driver flies up and mi soeiates with your nose. In 8 fit of an, ba you exclaim Holy Smoke !" Then uL wave of peace comes over you to thI you said nothing worse and will not compelled to resign as a Sunday sch .he teacher. When you are all through " lea the carpet and two sets of pads. you lt un- so weak and pale that Mrs. Ephraim gi
 you glass of home brew
 t During the period of mid-autu, slst from the fifteenth of October to the qr buf de of November, annual meetings of Vith kinds holds the center of the stage. Boy this season of the year the weather
 uSuaAy grand-for the most mart
 has just enough coolness in it to k
 the hot-headed speaker from turning lf1ts sessions into an inferno; and enc or warmth to prevent the cold-blooded ( in. troy v,Sfo -y,