Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

tdtHer tHdn eApands 1tR Oper9I1onS, there is sP1ne ground for thi~ susojci3n. That | this is being done certainly cannot be denied. The little steamboat, both | freight and passenger as a common car Tier, is not so much in evidence in the ] small seaport towns as it was a quarter | century ago. Piers abandoned, and in | most cases dilapidated silently tell the | story of past prosperity. After the | gala day of the small steamboat came the trolley, which made 8 complete net | work of the country's geography. but now with double fare many lines declare no dividends, and show only painful defic- | its. A long portion of the Westerly road is discontinued; the road bed be- | tween Crescent Beach and Flanders Is | being torn up, and the rails removed. 1 Will the wilderness section between Bal l tic and Wzl1imantic follow suit? The out | look is bad for the man who cant scrape enough money together to buy third l hand Ford.
 The man who drives into town from 1 the country says tits awful" What is 1 awful? The clear skies, the pure air, the l supreme beautiful weather that has bless l ed all throughout September, and which 1 projected itself with mighty impulse in- l to October? What is awful? The un-
 usually low degree of mortality that eb- l tains in all parts of our country except | in sections of the south where there has 1 been an outbreak of pellagra? Is it | awful to have our schools all the way | from kindergarten to university crowd 1 ed with lads and lassies to a record
 breaking point? What about the smoke | belching from a thousand Ktacks that
 have been grim and siIeaat in the prev- ous months? What the farmer means is
 the scarcity of water which has been I,s1o tba Ina
 summer period. But December with frost
 and snow is some ways ahead. Don't
 cross the bridge till you get to it.
 The "rain falls on the just and the unjust" By this quotation do not mean to infer that the farmer is un- just, but rather that we all suffer alike under any of the unfavorable condi-
 tions of life because society is an or
 ganism. If you step on a cats tail 1t is
 the whole cat that souirms if the stom-
 ach gets very hungry the brain acts ab-
 normally The farmer is not the only 5 man who suffers from the trough: some times mills shut down from lack of wa t ter. The merchant sometimes finds rath- = CT dry picking. It makes them say: Its | 1 awful" vslen they see the dust gather h on their most saleable goods. It makes
 the restaurant keeper say, tits awful '
 not meaning his tough steak" but the
 few there are to chew it. The minister
 says tits awful" not referring to his | preaching. but to his scant congregation \ But they all know that droughts are y periodic, and that field, warehouse and l. | church, do get the refreshing rain
 l. We hope it is untrue what the papers l. report Judge Lazarus to have said 1T V his San Francisco court when he chang c cd the murder charge against Roscoe Ar 6 buckle to that of manslaughter: "The de II ferdant is so well-known throughout the T :, world that more evidence is required tc prove his guilt, than in the case of many
 who come into this court" Can thi' T mean that if Arbuckle was a poor devil l. down and out little evidence would b. q needed to establish his guilt? But be = ing a great movie star, occupying l. high social position and sporting abou
 in q s45O00 car, more evideTiee is need
 ed to prove his guilt than in ordinary
 cases If this is what the judge meant
 then the dead girl, though far from saint ie ly, has been treated uniustly. If in tn T. judges opinion the evidence submitted g did not sustain the charge of murde er he was perfectly justified in changing i @ to manslaughter, but on no other ground Ia Socialism has long maintained that > man without dollar in his pocket ha
 no show in criminal court. We stil
 hope that this is untrue.
 Likenesses between things establish
 analogies, and the great trouble witl e analogfes is the| are apt to be overdrawn d This is parties lrly true of the lesson le drawn from Nature as applicable to tn l3 phenomena of human life. The facts o D. generation. growth, decay and deatl Id cease to be analogies after certain point at We make a great mistake in holding u h. the lives of ancient Israel as pattern ,+ for orr imitation. because of the radi as1 cally different conditions under which W u live. To try to make our lives squar IT. by theirs is carrying analogy too fal ns and in reading into the Bible what IS was never intended to teach. The fol al lowing is a good illustration of wher
 Nature fails to teach by analogy: A ar this season of the year external nature i ,e dying, the beautifully tinted foliage i ,a the forerunner of death. At this sea I son of the year, at the close of vaca = tioE man returns to his work with re " newed energy. While the strength C H. Nature is waning, that of man is waxins nj Of one thing we may be reasonabI os well assured, and that is, however muc
 they may contribute to relieve distres
 abroad, the Ame1Man people will alway sh be able to take care of the poor withi
 1 on undeniably due to the fact that pet in pie here are not in the habit of adverti ed ing their poverty. Somehow they stan
 up under severe privations, and wouI
 be justified in complaining more tha
 they do. Some of the magazines la
 month called our attention to the ia to that failure of crops in some sections. t a gether with low prices, had brought (
 a condition of suffering comparable
 some of the people of Europe. It
 not however, maintained at present tn
 distress has been anywhere so long op severe as in the stricken areas of Ru
 sia. In July The New York Times sta
 ed that 100,500 people of the south we it's attacked with pellagra of which 10 D It cent will be fatal, and yet we have ]
 whining
 Students Of political science and , .as others interested in the science of go is errment will commend the work beg
 this last summer at Williams cole ecu under the lead of President Garfield
 was in the form of 9 summer school
 Williamstown, Mass, and known as t has Institute of Politics. One hundred el om lnent leaders or American thought we cen pi eseII-prolessors, 1ursts' hnancis
 and publicists-and discussed for
 month the great questions of the ds
 Among the great men from abroad " 1an Lord Bryce, who delivered eight addre. yed es on the general theme: Information to Relations of the Old World States Nev
 before were go many of Europe's univ,
 sities represented on lecture piatfo 0,,s in one season. As this four wee