Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS


mittee goes into executive seSsioh and
passes resolution to the effect that the
defending parties are to consider them
selves thoroughly and legally investigat-
ed according to the purposes Of the COM;
nftHeeshEp. And then they report back
to congress that the purposes which hay
back of the appointment Of the commit
tee have been complied with This meets,
the approval of the supreme legislative
body of the land, and the news is spread
far and vide THAT the committee Is
through investigating. This picture, to
be sure, Is overdrawn. but Is hardly q.
caricature OF congressional attempts to
right certain existing wrongs. I mAreiy
point to the N0wberry case and the coal
strikers as evidence of the real value Of
some Of these expensive investigations
One great difacuIty against which the
American farmer has had to contend,
and Is still eoRterlding, Is the high price
of commercial fertilizers. As the barn
yard products have not been equal to his
need, he has been forced to supplement
his need by using comm erciai fertilizers.
The manufacturers of the Same, under
standing the farmers predcament, have
easily crested monopoly IN Ilese prod
ucts, wfrAch have added to the farmers
burdens. But irdtcations of release
-
status of reality. The relatively recent
discovery of baoter1o9ogy is offering the
solution. The four necessary elements
of plant production are pfIosphates, pot
ash, limestone and nitrogen compounds.
Potash in large amount is ever present in
the soil; nitrogen is ever present in the
air. The only things needed to be APP
piled to the soil are phoaphates and lime
stones. Bacteria enters and performs a,
gen of the air with the phosphates pro-
ducing the acid phosphates. As crude
phosphate is cheap. the morning light is
breaking for the farmer.
Rock phosphate compared with COM
mercial phosphates is very cheap, and
bacteria, not belonging to any labor 'unr
ions work very eheaDly. In fact, they
delight in introducing the nitrogen of the
air to the rock phosphate, doing precisely
the work of the manufacturers labora-
tory. But don't fatter yourselves that
| this great p ctAca1 scientific discovery
is going by hallenged by those whose
are terribly >a5set over the manner in
which the poor farmer is hoodwinked by
| fake ~ discoveries. This hoodwinl1ing
| business has been carried on to the ex-
| tent that fer every dollar invested by
the new process dealing with rock phos-
| phate, limestone with manure). there
! has been a gain of 2,000 per cent, as
| proven by the experiments of Prof W. B.
Esten of the Connecticut Agricultural
| college. AS a matter of fact the fntelIi-
| gent farmers of the state are longing for
just this kind of hoodwinking. Demetrius
| the silyersnfth always howls when his
business is affected, even if good has
| been done thereby.
If we could only photograph the inside
| Of a mans head as easily as we can the
outside, the effect would tend to aocemu-
| ate the fact of differences. 1t certainly
would arouse in us a great variety OF
emotions. When We see the outside OF
his head as we pass him on the street
! in some instances we are inclined to
! laugh, in some Instances we wonder and
| admire, but new and then we feel like
| crying. If We should look into the in.
| side Of the human caput we would be
likely to smile more broadly admire
/ more profoundly, or sob more loudly. Il
would be bad enough if We ali looked
| alike but it would be infinitely worse il
! we al thought alike and did the same
| things. If there were no mental individ
ual5ty there would be no variety in liter
| AZURE. Wouldn't it he perfectly stupid il
all literature were fiction, or poetry. Of
history, or science. or philosophy? Great
scott, what would happen if every mar
| were politician, or a lawyer or a doc
| tor, or a minister, or a stock broker
Let us thank God that no two noddie.
are just alike!
I have spoken of nature perpetuatIne
diversity for the purpose of utility. With
| out diversity, man could not be mate
rally supported. But nature does iii,
same thing for the purpose of beauty. L
all men were Apollos and all wome1
Yenuses, Uniformity would countera6.
the effect Of perfect symmetry. It il
the privilege Of comparison that gives t
beauty its appreciation. What fde;
would We have of a pretty face if WI
never saw an ugly one? What woult
perfection of character mean if now ant
then We didn't bump up against the be
devilled? Tae beauty of landscap
is usually measured by its diversity VIII
would care to see the Rockies or tn
Andes if they were exact repiicas of tn
White mountains or the Adirondacks
il London and Paris were in all point
like New York and Chicago. VINO wou
travel 5000 miles to see them? 1t is tn
fact that every mile brings into on
American landscape new features wort
, looking at that encourage us to becom
tourists.
Public opinion Is more and more in
| sisting that men and women called t
responsible positions must have adequat
education The ministry. next to colles
professorships, was the first professfo
to insist upon a college education TIL
work of the ministry was being findere
by men almost illiterafe who posed a
pastors and preachers. Today no youn
} man can be ordained who has not RI
ceived a college education OF its equivs
lent. Medicine was the next professio
to make the insistence And recently I'll
: American Bar association, under til
powerful advocacy of Chief Justice Tai
: ex-Secretary Root. President J. B. Al
CELL Of Yale and other leading barrister
is headed in the same direction N
profession needs men Of liberal educatio
more than the law, when we conside
3 that they are the administrators of ju!
t tice. There can be no doubt THAT man
an innocent one has suffered becauz
those who handled their cases blundere
wGlicil might have been obvtated by til
higher edaJcation-
u Say. fellows, right down deep in yor
hearts, do you like to see women smoke
OF course, on ethical grounds there
nothing to be said; or rather. there
not quite 50 much to be said. Wonns
Q has just the same moral right to frdtt
IL gence in tobacco az man. and yet can at
do It with the same degree Of tmpunttS
Little boys can play marbles on Il
streets without any Toss Of prestige, bl
professional men and dtgnifed either
: couldn't do It without loss OF repEE alto
Some can do things which others cannl
get away with. Let a boy who us,
cigarettes see his beautiful sister on Il