Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-25
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

world," more rare than day in JunA," t is more days in June exac.iy like those that we have been having right along Such cool nights ~ at let us s,lore from 10 p. m. to a. miI How delightful it is for people to sit in p6rcEes in the late twilight without siapping their ankles and digging their necks in the elusive hope of eliminating the coId-hearted mosquito [! How pleas ant it Is to go along the streets and l see real Christians without the look of the "last hope" on their faces, exclaiming to every acquaintance they chance to meet: "Ain't this weather awful! I guess 1t will kill ali crops" It is a good thing to have these perfect days when there Is no excuse for keeping such fu- nereal gloom in their crops. It issalso mighty fine weather for getting down on | one's knees to weed onions, for nothing brings out more forcibly the perseverance of the saints than keeping weeds out of | the garden.
 As one follows the lines of discuss | sion in many of the debates in con ventions regarding every phase of the | social question, also as. relating to ir- | dustrial and economic que stcns, men | are having very much to say about what ] they call their rights They seem to look upon all human ace ety as an en- emy as though there weAe S chnsp'raG cy to defraud them of what was legiti- mately theirs. Every movement that capital makes with business changes in view is met in many quarters as an at tempt to injure the prospects of the la
 boring man. And the efforts of labor to self-guard it's interests is met with the same sinister spirit This is all due to the fact that men are over anxious about their rights" Wouldn't it be a relief i to note g change in mems attitude to- wards their various associations? Let i us hear them talk about their duties" | to their associations than everlastingly ! yapping about their rights from oth- l CTS. When two parties to a contract | are forever on the defensive that con | tract cannot function properly. There l is nothing that this old world of ours
 needs more than revival of faith in l one another.
 | There seems to be a deep yearning fin human hearts today for peace through 1 out the earth. All nations, even those 1 that are up in arms, would like to "beat
 the sword into the lplowshare and the
 spear into the pruning hook" It is
 something more than desire to return
 to pre-war conditions, which had an un- 1 dercurrent of belligerancy in them II | is an earnest wish to take those stems ! l wars. There are three more or less | recognized ways in which this may be 1 accomplishment: By a league of na- tions, not necessarily the one that was formulated at Paris, but some associ-
 ation that shall take in enough of the leading nations as to ingist on peace. 2 By the slower process of education by
 which all the nations will see the utter
 futility of settling disputes by war B.
 By the second coming of Christ with
 power But nobody knows when Christ
 will como. If He came would not men
 put Him to death a second time? If He
 comes with power would not that con- tinue the Kingdom of Might? It is l evident that the question of peace must
 be settled by the nations themselves
 Have you ever experienced that tht flowers, especially the rose. tend to the
 refinement of feeling. that is the develop. ment of the esthetic? You may say I an } putting the cart before the horse" tha . love of flowers only shows that we hav' refinement of feeling But I shall s-;cl to my original statement, that the flora world actually develops a love for tn, . beautiful The trHtd of th,s statemen is seen in the fact that attention to flora
 culture does deveiop ! love for beaut! [ in general. It opens ones eyes to wha - is beautiful in art, liter aEu:e, poetry. nu r sic and wherever it is displayed : study of the flowers teaches us tha : they have habits as well as animals. Tine s have habit of protecting themselve
 from the cold. from storms, from the es
 cessive heat, from DO m lcn moisture Q '' too little. Of course they cannot sav a themselves from extremes, and do often = times die from these causes There Is | | sensibility in flowers that communicate f itself to the human personality. All thi Q tends to refinement.
 ,- The question is constantly recurring 2 Can anything be done to lessen the nun s Der and horror of automobile accidents
 To put it mildly it is getting to be . national calamity. Statistics shoWtha e the automobile has been the cause e more deaths than the World war fc s Americans during the same length e time. It is all the more provoking bt l. cause carelessness on somebody's part
 responsible for more than nine-tenths (
 these accidents. The rapidly increasin
 number of motor tractors as well as tou '0 ing cars increases the liability of co to ilsion. Another element of danger, ar Id perhaps the greatest, is the dispositio to speed far beyond the limit of safet i- Of course heedlessness on the part c ,g pedestrians has much to do with u
 number of horrors. The boy on the m II = share. But investigation clearly shov '' that careiessness plus speed on the pa e- ofthe automobile driver explain the mi B. jority of accidents. The laws regar f. ing the traffic and the speed must n-i overfauled and braced up.
 ts There are many people of small i ell comes who tlnd 1t necessary to run a ga n- den to eke out a decent living 1T l, ,,t find that it is not an nnailoyed pleasu
 to take care of garden. If anythi.
 at ai1 is realized from it a person nnu
 do all the work himself. To hire il e work done would leave the person hi; hA and dry financially. From beginning :. end he has to contend with frost, i;
 much rafn then too little, weeds, bus
 lice. fungus, flies. rot. scab, blight yo
 neighbours dog, COW, cat, and, worst ls all, his children. Have you ever thoue to how strange it is if you destroy a SOTO
 of potato or spray of corn, it will ney
 grow again? But you can cut and ha elk to pieces the weeds at night and in f ny morning each piece seems tohava talk
 root aIK invites your hoe agaln. A cs
 den is as elusive as ships that pass
 the night" And still thers is sor na pleasure in it and about one per cer at of profit But best of all it does yr I? you relish for the codfsh which ava
 l your return from the garden
 ,e- Do net our colleges overestinate fl ng value Of the entrance examination as
 real test of scholarly ability and !:
 tainment7 Does it not generally VIC
 the greatest hardship to those who E m- the least deserving of 1t? To a certs 'y- type of mind-the most conscientious on 1t is a sort of inquisition. The i'm
 scholars are usnally those of the D.
 vous temperament, and when they