Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 highway Publications of every con- ceivable variety are taking the matter up and suggesting panaceas all of which have some merit But the root of the trouble has not vet been touched, be- cause accidents of all kinds are alarm ingly on the increase. Would it not be feasible to have a federal law enacted to limit the speed power of all ma chimes to 25 or 30 miles an hour? It will be noticed that by far the larger part of the trouble comes from speed ing. This would not preclude collisions altogether, but it would probably cut them down at least. 50 per cent. But the toughest part of the problem is hard to handle how to cut out the fool driy- CT. The only approach to this will be by making it exceedingly hard to get a drivers license.
 During these uncommoniy fine days, the good housewife has preftably spent her time in picking. Now this latter word simply means preserving, although the thing pickled Is not always pFeserv- ! ed by the process, especially if the ob- ] ject pickled is human, and the agent | used is moonsnine whiskey. Of course the good housewife does not deal with 1 this branch of the trade. But when I fruits and vegetables and not human be- l ings are subjected to the process 1t Is l one of the fine arts of the household economies. It is an excellent way of using up odds and ends of the orchard and garden that otherwise would be wasted And the relish 1t gives to our | food in the long cold. season when the fields are barren of production fully 1 justifies her work. Sometimes she may l balk at price of spices and other condi- n1ents but the results fully justify the
 expense. Please take down another emp Fly jar from the top. shelf
 l The mid-auturnn season of pleasant l days is the time when the neat house 1 holder gets busy and clears away the 1 rubbish from his premises. There may l not be anything particularly unsanitary 1 in dry litter but it hurts the looks of 1 8 place and does not improve the ad- | joining property of your neighber who 1 has been unsparfng in the use of his rake. It is amazing what tFansforma- tien a few hours of well-direeted labor will make along this line. You can tell something of a mans habits by the way he treats his property. Are there not times when it is expedient to rip out a 1 lot of junk that has been aecumulating inside the house for many years? A man never realizes how poor he is un- til he finds out how much he has-to move. We save this thing and that,
 saying: "0h, 1t will come in handy
 some day" until cellar and attic look like a regular junk shop. Why not be
 brave and censign the whole mess into
 the junk cart of some itinerant Solo
 mon,
 Have we any explanation Of the pres ent revolt against the spirit of author ity? Of course we must admit that law [ laESnRSS a nh hTJt
 we are now passing through wide Ispread and exceptional revolt against i the authority of law. This is indisput-
 able as judged by the court records oi
 an unprecedented growth in crimes of
 recent years. Just to indicate the pres, ent downward trend take the followlng for illustration: there are now pending ! 5000 cases of violation Of the prohibition statutes; in the case of burglaries, the , amount of money repaid by casualty
 companies has increased from nearly
 $500 900 in 1914 to over s10,000 ,O00 1T 1920 to this must be added the hoid-ut of railroad trains in all parts of the United States; and in Switzerland thi: | has become so notorious that all train! ) are now run under mi itary guard. Tht frequency of murder must be added tt : this long black list.
 [ . tconditiQns has been made than by, tn r venerable pontiff of the vatican in hi 2 last address to the co lege of cardinals He puts great. stress upon the presen unprecedented challenge of authority The pope does not hesitate to call thi,
 revolt universal because it is not con fined to any one country, nor is fl con fined to any one country, not is it con . fined to the political slate alone He re ? fers to the terrible fEwelter of anarchy 5 that is seething through two of thu largest, and one of them the oldest, em
 pires in the world, China and Russia, in velving ene-half of the worlds popula
 tion. The whole Balkan region, like , volcano, is ready to explode. Mesopo tamia also is feeling this undergrowl 0 discomfort. India, Egypt and Ireland ar - nearly as bad It is a well known fac P that the Italian government was kep $ from overthrow by 8 vigilance commit l tee who took the law into their owl
 hands. The pope is right in calling i
 universal disorder.
 Another evidence of Pope Benedict' v acumen is seen in the statement tha = there is an unfortunate hatred betwee man and man that has visibly increase U since the war. The strife of the worl [ against Germany settled nothing. Tn because thHi . dreams of world conquest were thwart 0 ed; the French ineurably angry becaus , of the unprovoked assault that ruine : l their fields and decimated their popula :, | tion; Great Britain resentful because c ], the damage dene to her commerce, an e the unsettling of her internal relations
 and thus on among the nations ther
 are grievances growing out of the wa
 that are not in sight of settlement. Nc
 since the close of the French revolutio
 has there been such hatred between na T tion and nation. class and class. ma 7. and man. Workmen in this countr,
 never. paid for their labor as now, are 1 a an angry attitude, and while these nne 2 are written, 800, 900 railroad enploye
 lthreaten to paralyze the country's trans
 lpertation. It would seem that hatre l. was reaching the zenith of It's power. e There would seem to be a very clos relation between the third and fourt
 points in the popes indictment Tn .a third charge he makes against presel society is the unprecedented aversion
 work at time when work was nev, more inperatively demanded than no'
 The natural effect of war is to waste
 nations resources and hence the fir et great postwar necessity is to recol er struct the foundations of prosperity ar "a this can only be done by restoring u
 nations industry. This is only dol
 when the whole nation sets itself { es work. Instead of making larger ou rs put of labor the objective, there is .4 insistent demand for larger pay ar
 shorter hours. In the judgment of mal
 competent observers the economic e
 tastrophe of 1921 'is far greater tn: