Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-29
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

oI ynem-a man was arrested Tor making |. out bills on a recent Sunday. The court ln which the case was tried. discharged the man because the evidence submitted E was insufficient. The event, though | trifmg in itsek. has more than pass tng interest. It was strange, viewed in | the light of the Beth century, that the of fence seemed to warrant arrest, but | stranger still that the court should take | 1t seriously. The papers have given only | scanty details. and hence there may be | unknown reasons that make the affair | less absurd than it seems. As far as we i know it was man doing small busi- | hess whom economy compelled to do clerical work on the Lords Day, as is done in thousands of cases. On general principles we believe that it Is best for | a man to rest one day in seven. But to thus interfere with the right of personal judgment is something that the American people will not stand for, The old 'blue fawS' cannot be brought back. Why al- low any trade on Sunday? Why allow II man to drive his car for work or pleas- nre on Sunday? o, consistency, thou art still a rare jewell
 Every real boy knows how slippery an
 eel is. He doesn't bite worth cent. He is as wary as fox and a good deal quicker. You are just as likely to catch Il him by the tail as by the head. But as soon as you get him you are mighty sor- ry when you come to take him of the nook. He is just as troublesome out of
 the water as in. But that isn't all, the
 very thought of eating him turns your
 stomach because he looks so much like
 a snake In many ways ambition is like an eel; rather hard to hook but much T harder to manage when hooked. You think there is something you want but don't see, and you angle for it. and, as the thing nbbles now and then, you keep on fishing. At last getting sick of you it grips the hook and you pull it out. In disgust you throw the pole down and let 1t wriggEe Then you give vent to indig- naiton-perhaps to something else--'I
 have been fishing fifteen minutes and caught that thingP' The things we pull ; out of this human sea never quite satis- fy US, and we speak of disappointed
 ambitions" We are after salmon, trout, pickerel, and don't kick at good honest bullhead, but to fish all night and get that thingi" Now ambition never quite ) gets us there.
 Aprepos to this learned discussion of ambition. a question is raised why should one be broken-hearted when ambition fails? If a parcel of boys is fishing in a l mudhole 20 feet in diameter they are not t all going to catch lcng strings of fish. k If 50 men are after % legislative pluns
 some of them are going to be disap-
 pointed, simply because the objects of
 ambition are so slippery as eels It by
 no means follows that the mn whose I ambition succeeds is the best fitted for h the office secured. There is a good deal 0 of slippery business ip~ dealing with the : aims of ambition Another thing thai a brings disappointment is aiming too . high. One had better aim at visible z target and hit it than to aim too high ' and hit nothing. Emerson said, 'F1itct 2 your wagon to star" meaning "ain f high" but not too high. Napoleon clearl, g overshot the mark when he attempted l, to conquer all Europe. What he got va. > not Europe, but St. Helena. And Kaisel ,e Bill with the same kind of fnicrobt if in his brain made a stin wilder snot { and instead of hitting the world only hi a little place Yn Holland and wood pile
 tAmbition divorced from character st dangerous
 ,fl More and more emphasis is being ru " on the value of a technical education. w are beginning to see the difference be tween a college and grist mill. Yc' m cannot educate men as you grind GU E. grist. It is folly to make boys or girl t. take a four years classical course if the m have no classical taste Years ago the ,s were all put into the same hopper. If q boy has some decided bent in these day =. there is some good technical school read he to develop thai bent In 1916, of the 6 fe boys who entered the apprentice course on of certain great plant, five entered til T- service of the United States governmen if and over 50 are still working for ths nd plant earning rom 40 to 55 cents g "a hour. The plant paid all the expenses - their instruction, at the same time givin 10 them employment. The value O. this 'ie seen in the following quotation: Prof. or G. Wall, in recent address, said he Imagine 100 men, all 25 years old, ar d. fully equipped mentally and physicaIl a Tell them to seek their fortunes in tl as world and report back to you at the a,
 of 65. In 40 years time 34 of the :. men will be dead, 56 will be dependent , relatives or charity, five will still 'aI earning their 6aily bread, four will nd wealthy and one will be rich These fac 1r- are compiled by the insurance conpa ,ed ies."
 ed What part of the world is best for n ven~ chinists to live in may be gathered fro It, the following statistics: The avera ess wages per hour for machinlsts ,.., Italy is from to 13 cents; in Switze
 to 15; in Saxony from 13 to IT; in B,
 lin from IT to 20; in Great Britain frt
 Is to 1S; in Belgium from Il to IS. in is stated that on piecework these raj low may be increased 30 to, 5o per cent '
 must also recognize that living con
 tions are not so expensive as in t ard country But after this deduction I h. been made when we remember that bt
 Is years old who have taken tn
 courses, having had only a gramn school education, are making $4.5o iiar day. we ask what country in the world 10 best for the manual laborer?
 Just another word to show that ms A, corporations are doing more for tt But reh.n lnH1 is seISS sgppoSo' the niacAs a ereat cornoTatSor he e-tesoI;
 ed municipal schools using school bu
 ings of their own and also high sch fght buildings for night work. According get the compulsory education school " a boys between the ages of IA and 16 m
 attend 50 nights year.. Englishs SD ing, cfvics, history and arithmetic .,,,a studied here. For more advanced pu ouiu ~ there is high school grade: Span iuon French, German, algebra, plane and or i'd geometry, trigenemetry, mechan
 applied electricity, electrical engineer
 chemistry. mechanical drawing. archi but tural drawing, shop mathematics l its united states history: Tuition and +,. of books are free Because of this
 couragement, SIT employees of one D
 were enrolled as students After all,
 old world of ours is moving in the ' dded direction.
 de- There seems to be . dispositi0n on ut a part of some manufacturers to cut vi
 from 10 to 25 per cent. In the ]
 of phenomenal business success du ahr-. the war and since is this quite fair?