Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-19
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

things in our national life that must be |
corrected before we stand up before the |
world mo&el for universal imitation. |
We must get over the silly notion that |
the only blood worth preserving is that |
which dates back to the Mayaower The |
Pilgrims were strong, virile people of |
noble ideals and with courage great |
enough to try out those ideals. The Pill |
grims were the progenitors of remark
able people. But they came to our shores
800 years ago. and in that period many
changes have come. If the New England
soil hat not been enriched in that time
1t would now be wretchedly poor. If
there had been no infusion of new blood
in 300 years the old New England stock
would be equally poor<and thin. What
Americanism is to be in the future Is
going to depend on how the melting
pot" functions.
The things that make the most for
permanent peace among the notions are
not the routine acts of congress or the
deeds of parliament. for these are the
expected things that must be done It
| is rather some unconventional and spon-
famous action of human hearts because
| they deeply feel for others woes. Moth
| ing since the war has done SO much to
cement the bond of friendship between
the French and American people as the
mission of General Pershing to deposit
a medal Of honor for the United States
on the grave of an unknown soldier at
tho Arc de Triomphe in Paris This was
| his Seautiful apostrophe "Cemrade! In
your heart there is malice toward none,
but charity for all. You fought against
a great calamity-war but your work
will never be ended till all people have
rid themselves of the burden which pre-
/ paration f'r war imposes. You gave
everything for peace; but your sacrifice
will be sterile unless a generous senti-
ment Of DISTINGUISHED cooperation replae-
es all hate" This is the spirit that kills
war.
/ The age in which we live is marked
with preciseness due to our reverence
for scientific pursuits 1t is the day of
the enforcement of the tangible We
accept things as real that submit to the
yard stick and the scales. Mathematics
is crowding poetry to the wall, and the
mining engineer looms UP bigger than
the musical composer. Is not such a ma
terial atmosphere fatal to the cultivation
: of great dreamers? The world owes
much to its dreamers, and it will be a
t sorry day when the dreamer disappears
, John Bunyan dreamt and his dream
gave Pilgrims progress to the world
!. Columbus dreamt ard its realization was
America; Gees Rhodes dreamt which re.
suited in the civilization of a continent
In our day Henry Ford Is dreamer an6
some of his visions are mere fantasies
L and we might laugh at many of this
4 mans dreams if we did not know his
: record of making dreams come tue
What we want is more men of rich IN
agmation with the ability to make tn,
things they imagine come true.
.. We are told that optimism is a franz
. of mind. /. e. it is something that ex
= lists in the person himself fully as rnucl
= as in the objective world that is abou
: him. Optimism is very beautiful thin,
to have and we ought to have It just s.
y far as it is compatible. with reason. Prob
If ably business conditions have somewha
d improved since midsummer but to sa
n that the outlook seems to favor speed
!, return to pre-war status is a kind Q
optimism that is not warranted by tn
. facts. The argument that SUPPORTS thj
q position is as follows: Full prosperft
will not come until commerce with tn
ID various nations has been .re-establishe,
E. Most of these nations have no money
lg buy our goods, nor have they commod
ne ties to exchange for ours Money to blu
,v goods with, or commodities to exchans
e for them depend on labor and In thes
- countries there is little labor becaus
le the laborers have been decinated by wa
Mt Full prosperity will only come when Ii
rs borers are equal to the demand
- Probably most of us have realized
~ If We have come to maturity and hay
CT been observant-that peokle may be rea
e ly honest and yet unreasonable; tn;
he they may be Christian people who star
is high in the church and still may be Il
consistent. 1t seems to me that the a
or titude of Christian people or at lea
r. many of them toward the Japanese e,
- poses them to this latter criticism. r.
"a instance, missionaries are sent from OF
~ churches to Japan to instruct the n
us tives in the facts and principles of Chri
re tianity. They are taught that God
re- | our Father, that we of the difYere
1T races are brothers, that we ought TO 10,
one another, that class distinctions a
he cruel and unjust and that God is :,
90 respector of persons. But if a Japane
81 family comes into the same apartme
ell house in which we live here, we at on
10 move out, no matter how respectable til
on family may be. Is this consistency or
Use it not?
ne Who was the dead soldier boy buri
De at Arlington on Armistice day with t
II highest military honors? 1t matters y
m
en- separate one human soul from anott
ed while living are entirely swept away.
might haye borne a distinguished mar
and enjoyed all the advantages of ee
cation, refinement, culture and positio
rit- he might have been the son of a soc
put nobody and reared in a tenement hot
and factory he might have been a r,
resentative of the so-called backws
races negro, Indian, or mountain viii
IN he might have been one of the many r.
as es that claim America as the home
for their adoption; he nights have been
pure Anglo-Saxon extraction with
ligious trend or with criminal instint
Had these particular facts been .clea
are and universally known, 1t would not h:
ca detracted one iota from the impressi
cen ness of the scene, or silenced one pra
that the dead boy might realize his
reward in the kingdom of eternal day
the This is the anniversary week of
low awful battle of Lookout Mountain 6
ess Missionary Ridge, fought Nov %.
1868. Lookout Mountain was captu
by the Union forces Nov. %. These
nm mountains are parallel, not more II
ire two miles apart, located in noxth
the a se- ga ny 20 t.ies I'm Una
Tennessee. Gen. Grant had recer
been promoted to the Supreme comma
as and was being feebly resisted by
put rebel General Bragg. Knoxville was
for hundred miles farther up the river
der the charge Of Gen. Burnside Brat
main army was strongly. fortified in
the Businesses of Lookout Mountain
1sy missionary Rldse. Bragg, feeilng sec
nay Burnside out of KSoxville, thinking +