Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-30
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

One or ene re1reSnmg B1EntS 70 pc seen today Is girls playing bassbalk h the public school yards, and elsewhere. Is not this perfectly consistent with the |, trend Of modern conditions? The typical girl of today-and certainly more so to- not the white lily, whose chief claim to attention is a spineless sort Of | effeminacy. It is rather going to be a robust mind in healthy, well-aevelop- | ed body, perfectly consistent with the 1 neral charms that we usually associate with her sex. She proposes to rise above | the unjust inputatichl Of the "softer
 sex. We are going to see in the future a ] nearer approach to co-equality between 1 man and woman. The girls seem to run just aa fast, to throw nearly as straight, to bat just as hard. to quarrel with as much intelligence, and to yell twice as loud as bunch of boys engag- ed ia the same e4ered pursuit. It Is a beautiful way in which the girls show
 gratitude for the nineteenth amendment.
 All lovers sf justice and humanity
 must have been severely shocked by the
 revelation of the peenage system through cut Georgia. To us living 30 far away, it Is not easy to understand how any man, or set of men, could work the old slave system anywhere in the United States and get away with It. It certain ly does not speak very we'll for officials in the state who are supposed to uphold the federal constitution. It also reveals the low mentality of the negro victims involved. It would seem to us that com plaint on their part would have forced the proper officials to act for them. It will be hard for us to throw stones at German ihhumanity after reading the deeds of that brute Williams and his hopeful sons. The fair name of Georgia will demand that this iniquitous system
 be rooted out 50 completely that no one will ever attempt to restore it. Of
 course hanging is too good for Williams I and the right thing has been done to make D a life sentence. In order to make may he have no nourishment but milk from Henry Ford's synthetic COW.
 A very th6ughtfu1 artic1e recently ap- peared in The New York Times, in which bereaved families the country over will
 have painful interest. It refers to the removal of the bodies of American sol- diers who fell on the field of honor in the world war. Irving Bacheler and Thomas Nelson Page vividly set forth the Leonditions under which removals are | made They describe the haste with which the burials had to be made, often
 times without the rudest box, and only wrapped in q blanket Under such cir lcumstances it was easy to lose the per Il sonal identity of the buried soldier, and after this interval there is no such thing
 as Identification. To make the recital imore gfewsome. we are told of the pile of bodies at Ho6oken that cannot be |, identified and that burial will be made ir the Petter's field. This shocks our sense of loyalty. VIII our government allow
 the brave soldier to be treated as paup.
 CT? It is thousand times better to lei him lie where he fell-"In Flanders : field"
 Of all those belonging to the gfeat
 army of production the farmer is having the hardest time of 1t. The new secre tary of agriculture is calling the atten tion of the nation to some facts that can , 1 not be ignored. The prices of farm pro duets are much too low compared to oth CT commodities Serious consequence will come unless prices are raised 0 what the farmer raises. In Iowa cor. !. and oats are twenty per cent. lower thai they were before the war. Now, accord = ing to Chicago quotations, the price 0 : fat cattle is from 55 to 40 per cent high { CT than in pre-war times but the farme
 is getting just the same. As the con
 sumer is paying more it stands that tn , profit all goes to the middle man. l . any class of people needs governments protection it is the farmer. from the Ian n sharks who merely sit fin their offices an e transfer what the farmer raises to tn { consumer who eats 1t. Let the farne ,- have more and the profteer less!
 VI In the middle ages, it was neYe V thought that pestilence of any kind eve n came from Slnsanitary conditions bu i. was expressive of the wrath of God fo
 nff ins4f T0 Tooe 70 'i lands vermin and poisonous reptiles al 1- connected with vengefuI deities. But N y living in a scientific, rather than super s stitious age, suffer little from pestilenc j. but we do have to contend with hui. tt ances, such as bolsheyism,, strikes, drive 1. and hope chests We can understan bolshevism as made up of revenge, SUI
 fering and ignorance equally mixed
 strikes are always nuisance althoug lt some of them are justihable; many driv, t are for objects that ve must not ignore B. but the hope chest is the most contemp l. ible imp of today. People who would l m humiliated to come to your back dos q clad in rags and ask for doughnuts ar ,,, coffee. will not hesitate to put on ches Y silk and come to your front door and as e for $25 worth of linen for hope ehes r. The hope chest, paraphrased. means 1e "We are too poor to buy the things tl le rich have, hence we will ape the rich l ip begging" And from this nuisance HGot 1e Lord defend us !"
 ce To put the matter of free speech ups r1 fair and equitable bgsis is no ca! H. task; to put up boundary lines beyoi
 which it must not transgress has baffi the greatest individuals and the greate
 individual governments in the past Ju re how far one can impose the laws of UT ar formity upon the ihaliehabie conseienc or of men has not yet been satisfaotori ed determined. And yet there are limits en free speech, but liberty Inerges so easi ho into license that it IS hard to tell ju r- where the one ends and the other [ gins. The defamation of character a
 U. treason%hle utterances agains gover nu ment are clearly criminal. There is
 Justification of the literature that is I
 ing circulated among the unemployed
 day trying to poison their minds agaii sts our whole industrial system. he ,a that men out of work will not be mis- n by the spacious arguments used. ! =. surprised that the federal authorir have not acted in the matter.
 when this batch of unayfnx pa, - graphs was composed-which will pr, .1s ably change the current future events n we were in the grip of cold, gloon lke northeast storm As the writer gazed ar- on his ample lawn, two thoughts son to what trouble him: 1. As he saw lts. length of the grass his mind sadly ".
 dered to the cellar where his lawn mo as- CT rested peacefully and was mutely c - ing out fer the repair shop. 2.
 thought of his steam heater which
 was keeping just as low as he could 8 sss. still be Christian. His mind W
 about twenty feet fnpfhar fa vba-a