Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

have already been published, they are | showing the same degree of pains-t taking | care and accuracy that marked the 1 work of the zone finance comnE ttee of the 1 war department which dealt with the l soldiers allotment. It was the custom of this committee to demand payment on dues already settled as evidenced by, the cancelled check. Of course. we ought to pity rather then censure the. confusion of the war department under the late admin istration, and yet it was rather hard for the soldied to bear the brunt of this in competency. Now in the lists of slackers being published, why not take time to- verify the record of each man? Nothing can be nPre clNA and unjust than to publish the names of some who have been awarded medals for bravery and others who have been claimed for life. It is no excuse to say it was a mistake. A blunder like this is absolutely inexcus- able.
 In statute law no penalty is attached to forgetfulness unless it can be proved carelessness. And yet under moral law it must be regarded as criminal One cannot help comparing the status of wo men in England during the war with what it is today. A well-known English newspaper writer has expressed her righteous indignation in a recent issue of the Review of Reviews. She shows the wonderfulness of her compatriots when the country neded them to take the places of men called to the war-and where so many of them remained. The women of England saved the country from bankruptcy during the war, but now that fact is forgotten, and they are be- l ing displaced by men, and those that | still hold their positions have had their wages reduced to the pre-War basis. An l intense feeling of ingradtude is taking 1 possession of the nations womauhood. i and can anyone say that it is not justi-
 fled?
 During She latter part of May people l living in this locality must have been | impressed with the prodigality of the l cherry tree blossoms, especially the wild
 cherry It seems probably that not more
 than one in three or five will develop i fruit. Why this waste of natural forces 1 on so large a scale? Or are we wrong | in calling it waste? Possibly if we un- derstood the working of natural law bet ter we would use another word. Prob ably more than one-half of the fruit
 produced from the blossoms drop off Why? One of the fundamental laws of nature is the indestructibility of matter.
 Forces may change the channel through
 which they operate but they are not de- stroyed. May we not learn a very inn portant> lesson fro mthis? We do a great deal of hard serious work every day
 that seems to be entirely barren of fruit age. As far as we can see it is labor ] lost But is it? Isn't moral force just as indestructible as physical? Because we cannot see results is not evidence l that they do not exist.
 According to a long g-established re. ligious journal the public is. to be afflict. ed with 8 new denomination to be called the fundamentaIists. As though w were not already sorely pressed witt
 strikes, financial depression, the problem
 of unemployment, the question of hous
 ing, the propaganda of bolshevisrn
 China and continental Europe starving
 and the double burden of high taxati0I } and hope chests-now to this long list 0 woes we must face a new enemy in tn, 1 shape of another religious denomination Isn't our Professionalism already sho
 through and through with isms? Wha
 have we done to set another imp stirring up the theological kettle. Haven't exist ing denominations more Fundamentals
 than most people have understood O 7 worked out or actually lived? As mat ter of fact it is nothing more than tn
 attempt of reactionaries to foist ont a this scientific age the dead religion formulas of the Augustinian age. Nez
 in order will be the attempt to exchane
 chemistry for alchemy, and astron5 m
 for astrology.
 Is the old New England hospitalit
 disappearing with the old New Englan gentleman? Those in middle life ar . quite familiar with this type of man; h correspofded with the old Englis l squire" the uncrowned autocrat of tn l village. He was tall, straight, broa o lshouldered, massive, well-dressed, (usua . ly in broadcloth), wore a tall silk ha o had side whiskers or was smo0th-shavel
 was always stiffS courteous, kindly live 5 in a fine old colonial mansion the fnes l. in the place, and was descended frol l. Mayfower stock He had property an t generally represented his town in tH d state legislature. But he, has passed an is with him has gone the fine and generor T hospitality that was the charm of .tf
 older society life of New England. Thel
 are reasons why it has gone. The streI II uous life of today does not admit the e " egant leisure that belongs to hospitalit e The con1plexity of our modern life fo y bids it. The high cost Of living is nalzr le it more and more prohibitive. It is n
 due to the dearth of generous impulses.
 The wise farmer in these days "
 soak his potatoes in formaIdehyde befo 1t planting. It will prevent the tuber fro ,e getting scabby. It serves the dOub
 purpose of a germicide and fnsecticid
 This unfortunate vegetable has a ha ,o time of it. for it is exposed to verm - in 'the heavens above" and to disease l. ''the earth beneath against both
 which we must fight. The virus of t
 scab turks in the soil ready to attal Ill the fair face of the Irish Cobbler CT [ h. Green Mountain. but if the eyelet h It. been soaked in formaldehyde it will
 able to quench all the fiery darts of | to wicked Now listen to the parable et the scab Once upon a time a lit "a school boy went along the street sayi " things. And his teacher heard it a
 knew that he needed to be- soaked ~. .S formaldehyde, and he got it. But t "l little human potato was not wholly h. blame for the scab. The spores of t
 bacteria were in the home soil There t
 teacher went and with authority. A ne the way in which he made the fornalC he hyde fly was a caution, but it rooted ( c- the scab from that home He u
 hath ears to hear, let him hear''
 God bless her!-the sweetest, the pl d. est, the loveliest flower the month re June has to give to the world-the brf ar She has looked forward to the hour
 orange blossoms with joy ineffable T
 wedding day is hers by divine right. 1 - her reign in this little world of lirni @9I @ tion as an absolute queen for, to l. tn It means as to no one else, the transt to uration of the whole of her exister nt. physical, mental, moral and spiritual
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