Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-15
THE MAN WHoTALKS

The Worio war mas brought m4 new facts fR regard to immigration. Prior to 1914 the direction of immigration was | almost exclusively westward the object i've points being the United States and | Canada. But the great war succeeded in | stirring up the muddy waters of all Eu- | rope, especially it's continental section. | Our own country is no longer the only alluring one in the eye of the European immigrant. In northern Italy vast num- bers from mining districts have crossed the Alps to the coal producing areas of France. Argentina is now making a strong appeal to other Italians. The Swiss, the most home loving people of all Europeans, are now coming in goodly numbers to the western continent. Such tremendous hordes of Portuguese have made their way to Brazil that petitions are being made to the home government to stop the exodus. This proves clearly that war produces national dissatisfac- tions. It disrupts the home relation. It destroys something more than fertile fields, it breaks the coherent ties that bind the heart of man to everything that Is dear in the home land. Stop war and you will reduce immigration to the normal basis.
 We are very prone to magnify the ills of life and minimize it's blessings. Do we | appreciate what science has done to make | life worth while in the last half century? l Suppose we had to go back to kerosene, 1 or, worse still, to whale, oil and the tal-
 low candle, for lighting purposes! Sup I pose long distance travel depended still on horsefesh as in the days of John Ad-
 ans more than century ago! No won- der his brilliant wife benoaned the ''awful' distance between Boston and New York; Suppose we had no phono- 1 graph, telephone or even tin Lizzie, f what Sahara life would seem after en- toying these scientific luxuries. But greatest of all has been the coming of Marconi and the Wright brothers. One 1 is perfectly amazed at the rapidity with which aerial navigation is headed towards stability if not actual perfection. Some are now living who are going to see greater perplexity in railroad matters than at present. The air mail service was nothing but doubtful experiment no longer ago than May 15. 1915. Today it is the most regularly operated civil air. plane service in the world. What has
 actually been done along this line reads like the tales of Jules Verne. Think of it | A mail airplane leaving New York at 6.30 a. m. and on the third day at 3.23 D. m. reaching San Francisco, without flying nights. May we not expect almost any
 thing along the line of mechanical inven- tion?
 One of the crazy notions going the
 rounds of publication is the restoration oi the so-called 'blue laws'' of Connecticut It has doubtless been suggested by the l crime wave that has broken out of late in , so many parts of the country. No one questions the seriousness of this increase of depravity. But this disease will not be , cured by a dead formula that. was not successful and never generally applied even in good old Puritan days" Legis. lation may deter crime, but it never ere
 ates goodness. It is one thing to put
 man in jail because he has broken thu
 law, but quite another thing to make hin a better man. One of Governor Eaton. regulations taken from the Washington Post reads as follows: ''No one shall reat Il Common Prayer (FpiscopaD, keel e Christmas or saint days, make minced : pies, dance, play cafds. or play on an! n instrument of music except the drum - trumpet and jewsharp" After 150 year f of religious teleration we are not likel, o to go back to any old time rot like this
 To force man into the outward observ :, ance of religion never makes a very shin ing Christian
 ,. We are very apt to refer to the past a II the "kood old times in a tone that woul lt dispaFage the present. If this is true i l. any sense-which may be reasonabl not lnleI6S
 which great corporations take in the gen al erai welfare of their employees. Take, fo -t instance, one item, that of the physics fitness of a man for his work, so tha -o there shall be no overstrain or any othe 10 liability to accident. No one questions tn L. wisdom of the medical examination whe
 enlisting for military service. Likewis sr when enrolling with the armies of indu: h. try the physical examination is becomin re a matter of course. It is a source ( ,a great comfort to the men to know tn: - there is no taint of tuberculosis or an ' other infectious disease among ones bus K hess associates; and to the worker hin he self to know that heart, lungs, liver ar O. kidneys are normal. One hundred yea n, ago they cared a great deal more for or hogs liver than. for mans kidneys. TT r- philosophy is sound that the better sui
 ed a man is for his work, the bett -. suited he is with it.
 M Presumably you are a pedestria :. whether you own a car or not. If " u own and operate car you would certai re ly be a very strange man if you didr IS belong to class just like yourself. .ct all automobile drivers should organi at they would make fraternity bigger tn; et- the Jerusalem Jumpers" and "Ho ,s Rollers combined. But like the latt Ia - see how pedestrians jump back and for 'Ss before their machines, they say thin 'ut that would be out of place in a Presb ,f- terian synod or a Sunday school conve nd ton. But when some of them are pedt sor trians and a great touring car sudden
 looms up before them they act more Ii
 Jerusalem Jumpers" than those W . never yanked a wheel Why this shot
 be so I leave to the psychologist to ( I-V. -I 10 beat mRchine? To save a single st
 ond we tal a chance of losing our live
 Why should you sell those Libel DC bonds? They represent your hard cal the ings, possibly your sacrificial eaHni1a
 because you were patriotic enough to1s
 the government out of tight squeeze. ar- you keep them till maturity it will pro life 8 safe Misunderstanding on earth (
 be safer-and you will get larger r
 of interest than some institutions p
 There would be some little sense in S @se ing if you could get par value but VI
 IS sacrifice at the present market rates ken help the shysters who did not respond
 i the country's call, but out of their en
 nous profits they are perfectly willing han capture your hard savings at a loss of ais- es eeas1 AO pel oent :y ev you :. o", II, DC and give you dollar for dollar at matt ally ty. Don't be fool and sacrifice to
 fat hogs who stand ready to fleece yoJ
 As these lines are written the weat
 so Is unusually mild even for geneP' the mild winter. But as this is New Engla any before they are found in print there I anne De one or lnose s0laelsaults III tempe
 tradition so admirably described by M
 Twain. Thus far these, days, just sna l a enough to lift them out of the realn