Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-05
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 our natural resources ws think first of l all of our constantly diminishing tim Der supply. The need of conserva ton | here is chiefly due to the fact that we are using up our timber so much faster | than 1t grows. If one studies a sketch map of the world areas devoted to tim Der growth he will be surprised to learn how large a part of the earths surface is already devoid, of it.r It Is perfectly safe to say that we are very unlikely | to get any more. from other countries than we produce at home The mos encouraging phase of the situation is the fact that the largest consumers of timber are keenly alive to present con ditions. If we can only reduce dest tlc- ton by needless fires, and stop the vast age that has marked the past, and en- ter upon. some general plan of reforesta- tion, our alarm may at least be abated for a century. Judge Gary. in a remarkable bacca- laureate address, last month, handled without gloves, the question of disre- garding moral principle in business prae- tice. He sees a. braeing up of ethical standards in the great business of the country. If men should do tha things today that were generally done twenty five years ago they would lose caste with their fellows Alth ugh there is still bitter contention now: and then be tween capital and labor, yet as a rule there is q better understanding be-. tween the two much less of self1shness and a larger disposition to act justly. Judge Gary, however, is not blind to present evidences of indifference to nor | al principle involving much erookedness. !! The widespread evasion of the income l law in making out false returns, and 1 the concealment of. other property of ] which every tax collector could hear abundant evidence He also makes ref erence to the imposition of the producers ] in disposing of their. goods at exorbit- ant prices. But he reserves his chief wrath for those nations that regard in ternationa1 treaties as only Scraps of paper"
 l Judge Gary is eninentiy fnir In deal 1 ing with this subject admitting freely l that business men as a rule have not | been faultIess in the conduct of their af- 1 fairs. In so doing he feels that possi- bly, they have been just as pure and | honest in their motives as some others who have so relentlessly, and unjustly. criticised them. Some of the critics of business men and business methods arc not likely to be canonized as saints for I tsone years to come. They have doubt less had selfish motive in making cap I itaIi out of the errors of a business sys- tenn that is now largEly corrected. Some years. ago the people developed a per 1 verted taste for undertaking. The mag azfnes saw the opportunity for big sales, and, of course, had no trouble in finding nuck-rakers at five cents a word The : longer the article and the blacker the muck the more did the contribution com rnand in the market But the public
 soon wearied of such ciiean fodder and aSS~~ ican people, however, to inquire into the crtticise men and methods
 The daily papers have recently made
 the statement that the United State: ; government proposes to pay the first fri.
 staIlnent of the Panama reparatior
 fund It is certainly refreshing in these
 days to learn of one nation that doe: I not propose to sneak out of meeting it:
 just financial obligations Why shouldn-
 nation be expected to pay it's note. ;, when due as much as an individual is The subterfuges, /resorted to by n'any T European nations in trying to pare down | lop off, and squeeze out certain features
 of their obligations have tended to weak h en the integrity a the governments il |, assuming these financial burdens Sucl
 things tend to put nations into the Pon Sel s stocks and bonds that have only a pape
 value. It Is bad enough for hankfns
 houses that once had respected nam
 to sell industrial stock that Is a pur
 swindle, but it seems worse for nation t to adopt the same tactics. We hop IL that this action on the part of our gov
 ernment will have a salutary effect ol
 the other nations.
 n The immortality of a certain Roma, It poet does. not rest on this verse: "Parvi scintilla magnum ignem incidit" Ca lit tie spark kindles. a. great .fame),~ b3l l. It is very suggestive of what commonl -sI occurs, The machinery of great fac
 tory was once stopped by a few eel
 getting into the turbine wheel, but tn f. eels were beyond the twisting an ,+ squtrrning. Frederick the Great was nc - very discreet when he called the power
 tul Catherine the Second of Russia, "a
 old cat" The cat seems to have hs 'n claws and it was the beginning of Tn 10 Seven Years War. In 1871 a COW kics
 ed over a lantern in Chicago and eve
 today one can see where the lanter in went Today some boy is doing an ar d parently little thing which. will Ieay
 a black mark visible fifty years fenc
 little mosquito. raises a big lump. an ,N if in good working order several lump II- If you go into the lowiands at this ses IA son of year to pick biuaberrfes you wi
 find this out. You will have as rnsu
 Jumps as blueberries and nearly as At De Look out for the little things.
 @s GA Polling stone gathers no rfossr n- an old and familiar platftutSe I tn:
 sounds well, but does not contain ar
 self evident truth. To say the least ed is open to careful examination. Is the any J1ofrfir5IIsr rAa.aop kaTts. ce stone should gather moss? If were
 rolling stone should not care to
 moss covered because it would hurt n raj rolling. If 1t were my business in life -. roll, and it was expected that I shou '-N pick up something by rolling, why II 'o- rake in something of greater comre
 cial value than moss? Why not pi
 up gold, silver, diamonds, rubies or dC ne lar bills? They are worth rolling 1t .a- but not moss that has but little 1jtifft Ter A round stone covered with moss vvou he be looked upon as a failure as a roll
 Probably the saying is intended to tea
 this: A person that fits like a butter ,5 from one thing to another will ID: L thrifty, and be successful as the vol measures success It must be admit TOT that success requires the concentrati ise of the best in. us.y
 cannot quit this rolling stores D,
 mess until justice is done to the of = side. Isn't there occasion for devc ods thanksgiying that there have been n we who did a, good bit of rolling, and u they gathered no moss while they v,
 at 1t? Many young person is So e
 stituted that when he enters active est he cannot tell right off the bat vi inc he Is most fitted for Were he sal is flied with the first bit of green m