Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-02
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

q {. ed if no effort is put forth to reach 1t. Good intentions never get person any where if they remain good intentions l; only. They have value only as they in spire to action. Hell iS paved with good intentions" used to be said when people knew great deal more about hell than they do today. We do not live rightly unless we plan and execute for the gene ration following. Evidence is all about us that somebody planned for us long before some of us were born. The men who planted the beautiful eins that |, adorn our streets 'sbuilded better than they knew They, died before their trees became full grown, and hence the real heritage was passed into our hands They built schoolhouses for US. They recognized that children are the nations | greatest asset, and hence the best thing they could do was to educate the child | Let us not forget this lesson.
 During the war and since much has been said by public orators, printed in l books, newspapers and magazines in re- gard to thrift. It has been held up be- | fore us as religious as well as polit- l ieal duty. When we bought our Liberty l bonds we received free lecture on the l patriotic duty of thrift. We were also encouraged to buy thrift stamps. While l the word thrift does not occur in the 6lDl6p SIlll we dIO eLCOuIdSCQ tO QO tAAS things for which thrift stands. Exactly what is meant by being thrifty? Accord ing to Webster thrift is economical man agement in regard to property" It Is frugality Ought we not to make some distinction as to how money is acquired before we say that it's management indi- cates thrift? Is there not some distinc- tion between Q thrifty person and g | profiteer who is skilful in the manage af fxro Arn v4r~k fta v4er1 likely to confuse the issues? May they
 not think that the thrifty person is the shyster?
 We are all delightfuIIy conscious that wild geese and other migratory birds \ have returned to their summer habitat. | Who told the birds that it was time to settle their bills at Miami, Daytona and Palm Beach and take the next through | Pullman north? You can't get around
 the question by saying that the birds simply acted on their own instinctive l knowledge. But where did this reliable instinctive knowledge come from? In
 palmer English, who said to the birds:
 GO north. and go now"? They did not
 daily consult calendar; they did not watch the reports of the weather bureau i; they did not keep tabs on the time they had been in the south. The objector may say that the birds sometimes make mis- take and get north too early and then go
 back. Very likely this is true. Human beings who supposedly act on intelli-
 gence have been known to make mis-
 takes. Can we expect instinct to be more
 accurate than intelligence? With all this evidence of a kindly Providence, the fool is still saying in his heart: There is no
 God"
 What is >the ehfiFs capital when he
 enters the schoolroom for the first time And every child, not blank idiot, hai some capital at that important time. |
 is native intelligence that is soon mani.
 fested in the capacity to acquire know ledge. Up to this time the little one hal no experience. To be even moderately 7 successful in life that child must hav. g experience. It is for the great purpos. q of getting experience that the child at v tends public school. In other words. h, . goes to school to learn and it is through
 learning that he gets his experience. n
 be sure, a child may get experience ant
 never enter schoolroom, but it is nc s apt to be the experience that will hell 5 him fill responsible positions, A publi k school is the place where the child get t experience under the most favorable con e ditions. If, then, we want to do the mos a possible for the children, let us provid , for their future educational advantages if In tho matter of the little economic 2 the American people are not adopts ] e Is here where we can sit at the feet c most immigrants who come to us fror = other lands as learners. They hay 't learned the little economies of life, nc a because of superior intelligence, bu
 jthrough the compulsion of circumstances Q They have learned this lesson of econom If because necessity knows no law" A ,s an illustration of this, take the eatable 1t we buy. I wonder if the average house Ia wife realizes when she buys her dime ], how much she pays for that which is ns = eatable? The question is new bein re raised all over the United States, Wh r. not buy in bulk rather than in packages T. It is the consumer every time, and nevt ce the producer, who pays for the packag le The firm that manufactures the empt
 paper package makes profit off i f. wares, and it has a right to. Of cours n the food producer who fills the emp
 package makes a profit on the packae V- and also on what it contains. Now u eo last person in the series to get skinned ne the consumer.
 es The foremost question that Is distur n ing the people of this country as the g. lines are written is not theological, ar moral, or political, or educational b ed one of utility. The profound proble H. that disturbed Hamlet was ''to be, or n s- to be- The Hamlets of today a
 wrestling with bigger problem: sh;
 it be standard or daylight saving tim
 In other words, shall you get up at
 o'clock in the morning or 2? Shall be go to bed at 10 or Il? Heretofore tn
 momentous question has been settled
 the local option of the individual B ;r the state is so imperiled by the ,decisi ... that the question from this time forth i.n to be settled by legislative enactme, The high and mighty general assem-
 of Connecticut has passed law that 'cn it's cities and towns shall conform 7a- standard time Whether disobedience
 this law is to be met with capital pg
 ishment or not has not yet been decid nd upon. With the railroads having C tc time and the people another, we are lil
 ly to have confusion worse confounde
 The question of the investment of pr, as- erty is always vital one to both the
 a dividual and the nation. A mans D
 terial wealth is not to be rated so ml
 by what he earns as by the earn power of his savings. The man who ca or S5 900 a year and throws it right a nge left is not so rich as the man who ea- !? S2,500 and wisely invests $1,00o. 2
 wisest investment is that which yieidi the dividend that betters human society. [ sits reason or tnls IS tnah the petter nun .. society is as whole, the greater will
 the earning capacity of the individl .. There are many places where money n
 be safely invested; their name Is legi oss But for safety and large returns for tho highest individual and national welfs and know of no place that equals edu
 tion. Send the boy and girl to college