Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-18
THE MAN WHO TALKS

sstence on settling industrial disputes by the orderly judicial process and re- quiring both parties-to observe the rules of justice and equity" We do not bless this court merely because it has pro- voked opposition. for there is no merit in that, but because it stands for the or derly and impartial administration Of law. We are so constituted in th,s coun- try that we dislike compulsory arbitra- ton. But where capital is obstinate and labor unreasonable, let the matter be nut into disinterested hands for settlement rather than make a whole community suffer from the effects of a strike, be- cause neither side will not give ;Hs That is just what the Kansas industrial court is doing, and. coHseauen fly. tho hot-headed ones in both parties denouure this court It has done another thing worthy of all accepten, and that Is it has decided that where women are doing the same work as men and work the same number of hours they shall have the same pay. This, also, has met with selfish opposition, but isn't it sheer jus tice?
 Here in the north. we believe that an right-minded persons, irrespective of par ty Hnes will commend President Hard ing for the emphasis he puts in his re- cent message to congress for federal ac- tion in regard to the race problem. Of course we can understand the righteous indignation aroused over the Negro's brutal disregard of the sanctity of wo- manhood. But 1t ought to be kept in mind that all Negroes are not brutes any more than all white people are not saints Absolutely nothing can be said in fla voI of lynch law, but almost everything | against it. For any man. or set of men | to take the law into their own hands is | subversiVe of government. Russia s | good example of law overthrown on | large scale. The mob, swayed only by 1 passion and prejudice, always acts un- | justly. Sometimes an innocent man suf- | fers the penalty which the law would 1 impose on the guilty. Lynch law al- ways stirs up race hatred to the utmost which results in many lives for one, to say nothing of those injured and damage l done to property. May the proposed com | mission find remedial measures.
 One of the great d<IfEhts of our lives | Is the privilege of associating with genial companions. This is experienced 1 in a great variety of ways. To mention
 only one illustration, take that of walk ing with another person. Seldom does
 one care to take a long walk alone, par l ticularly through a dense forest, unless | his mind is fixed on some tonic that he
 wants to study If one travels far h any QlreCtlOn neFe Tn New EnSIanQ nc l will have some hard bits of territory to
 go over. And doesn't 1t make the rough
 road a little easier if he is walking witk
 somebody, male or female, preferably | female? Just to have some one to listen patiently to your gabble while walking 1 will relieve the tediousness of the road, prevents weariness, revives your droop>
 ings. and renews your strength. Moral:
 Don't walk alone.
 Why not carry that idea out in the
 larger req I'm of practical life? If 1t is a good thing to walk the fields or the streets with somebody. why isn't it equal ly good to walk through life with some
 body? If walking with somebody is a
 good physical and social exercise, why
 is it not equally good domestic exer-
 else? In the early years when we be-
 gan to toddle we had to walk with par ents whose strorS hands lovingly he'd
 ours. The time will, come sooner thar We think, when in the gathering shad ows, we shall begin to todd,e for the
 second time. Then. perhaps, we shal need to walk under the strong protection
 of stalwart friends or relatives. Bu when we are in the prime of our strength during the intervening days if we arc wise, we will walk with wife and chil
 dren. Without it there is no "fulnes . of Ife' Statistics show that wa1kin, alone through life is a fruitful cause 0 7 suicide.
 Sometimes little deft touch will re s lieve home of the appearance of pov erty. It is dirt that makes soualor no
 clean poverty. If you build a log cab F in in the wilder&ess and plant rose
 in front of it, the rose will kill the
 wilderness for somehow the rose identi
 fies it with civilization and culture. Dur l ing the last few years the Italians hay = been colonizing in different parts of tn l city and in the suburgs. Thei l building has not been according t . any definite plan, and their plots o . ground resemble crazy patchwork An , yet there is something very artisti T about the whole scheme. Tr~ house IL are cheap, but there is something tha N relieves them from the impression 0 = poverty. The rose and other flowers hay
 much to do in making these places at c tractive. Let us make more of the ros, l. Throughout the entire United State j. there is startling dearth of minister, ' So much so that a serious study is be -- ing made into the causes, but at preser e the remedy is not forthcoming The lor , average salary. no doubt. has some. ain
 to do with it, and it ought to have some
 thing to do with it. Of course a minis Il ter must have faith, but he must hay = pork and beans to go with it. To pn e ministers on a living WaTe that woul n make street-cleaners, brab emen and UT ,t skilled factory help go oh a strike ha
 been the crying disgrace of our churche
 With this fact in mind, university trair
 ed men are saying quite universally
 Nothing doing for me in the theolog n cal shop" Other reasons are appa rent "a the rank and file today are seekin
 amusement rather than instruction; tf
 spiritual leader has been displa ced |
 the social entertainer; the pulpit tn; d was once throne has become a foo l. stool to the forum, and the result
 haldly a surprise: 35,000 churches in tN
 United States without ministers, and il . minister is not to be had.
 .r We are frequently reminded that tn
 is a practical age" To tell us this
 only a waste of breath because we a
 it everywhere. Most of the things V lE do express the law of utility and-litt -A else. But in putting the main stress ,, living on utility. do we not miss mar
 of the finer instincts of the human sou
 It is well enough for us to have texti
 schools to teach boys how to manufa ts ture cloth and schools of agricultu le to show them how to raise onions. B' 1t shoddy and onions ought not to kee
 us from planting roses and reading DO
 try Our homes show utility. Do V
 not have cook-stoves, bread-pans, coa os bins and fatirons? But do we have il 'n fine etchings on our walls. books of fl, " poetry and the best novels in our boo
 cases? Why not cultivate the intelle
 as well as swell the bank account? Not es word is tu~he said against advancing t oa useful. but a great deal more ought to ~ said in favor of promoting the esth - tic