Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-25
THE MAN WHO TALKS

TO burst forth into doWny blossom as
soon as put into water and kept In q
warm room The other sign is the boys
plunking themselves down In the mud
playing marbles. Notice this. If you
please: the pussy wallow must be put
that spring Is not far away, and boys
must get down into water and mud to
bring out the marble propensity. But
we notice still farther that pussy vii
lows growing In muddy places must be
brought into clean homes where thsy
show q great attachment for water but
boys in order to blossom must get out
Of clean homes where they hate the wa
ter and mtngle with the mud. There is
no slirer sign OF the coming Of spring.
Even the vernaI equinox, which IS as
regular as anything, fails as q sign of
spring, but marble playing never makes
q mistake.
Fer long time our churchee-or
rather the more Intelligent Of them
have been anxious over the conspicuous
shortage OF ministers. Today 1t Is the
exception for q graduate Of a leading
college to take up the ministry. More
| recently we have had our eyes opened
to the appalling shortage of teachers
| especially In the rural districts. This
serious fact gives women a compelling
occasion to use their newly-acuuired po-
| fitica1 power and let US be thankful that
! IN the hustling intelligent western states
| they are using this power. The teacher,
| like the preacher, has been compelled
to abandon his profession because Of
! non support. In some states the situa-
ton IS relieved by furnishing teacher
ages" as churches furnish parsonages.
| Such buildings serve as community
81 H.
not make this q general custom OF fur
nishing naanses for school principals?
It is very difficult to make Just COM
1 parsons between people because there
| is no basis to begin with, and hence
| justice is not done to either Of the par
ties compared. For instance, il we
hold UP one mans poverty over against
another mans riches. we are apt 20
| make the former too much Of z handd-
/ cap, and the latter too much Of an aux
Hilary. AS their birthdays come so near
together. we are very apt to compare
Washington with Lincoln, and no two
/ men were ever more completely uncom-
parable. 1t Is fatal to any writer's pur-
/ pose to even make the attempt. Why
this should be so Is easily apparent. be-
cause the higher we ascend in the scale
Of being the greater are the unlike
nesses. Any forty-eight Hottentots look
very nearly alike, but not so the forty
eight governors of our states. Nature
revels in the human personality and
the more highly it is civilized. the bet
ter it is educated. the more finely it Is
cultured. the more distinctive does it be
come. 1t Is not easy to compare the
falls Of Niagara with the cataracts OF
the Nile.
There Is just the same urge to say
something now about the Father Of his
Country as there was two weeks age
TO say a word about the country's greai
Emancipator Like the latter, Wash
7 ington was SO many sided that differ
ent writer's and speakers may take hin
, Cor their theme and no two Of them SAY
. and write the same things and yet VIVA
they say and write may be absolutely
correct. One phase of Washington
character that has impressed me from
. boyhood days was his patience. How
calm and unruffled he was when q
times he was seemingly doomed to de
feat. When the Continental Congress
murmured and his own generals growl
ed, at his continuous Fabian policy .
retreat, he alone knew that open ties
Of strength between his raw, untrainet
troops and the finest disciplined arm!
= IN Europe, would have been sheer mad
: ness But his constant retreating LEI
: the opposing forces to recklessness
I when Washington struck with resistles
$ power. This viniicated him.
I Il goes, Of course. without saying tina
Washington was the reflection Of hi
: times; he was in fact the personifica
: ton of the very best Of his age. That i
the reason why he ought to be looked a
AS every man ought-in the life an
colo~ing of his times. The attitude of tn
wealthy and educated in the 18th cen
fury was naturally and instructive;
: sristocratc. Very much was made Q
: family name especially if it had rise
: to prominence by doing things out Q
81 the ordinary. Especially Is this true /
/, Europe today where a titled nobility I
recognized as an organic part of sc
ciety. As we might expect, Washing
ton, being a scion of an old and respect
" ed family, ran true to traditions. II
I was eeremonious in his manners an
: punctilious in carrying out the code c
= society etiquette that was then in vogue
4 Eng artist gcratic does not imply that h
: was gnobbish. It could not be concea
sd that he was natures nobleman
The *ez.e Of Washington as . gerers
: arose in z strikingly unusual name
SO unlike that Of Napoleon or any pr
sessional warrior. Attention We
drawn to his capacity to lead an arm
q from the defeat. not the SUCCESS,
IS BraddccR, with whom he was allied
& was known that he pleaded with Brat
!e dock TO change his tactics IN dealin
v with the willy Indians whom he did n,
understand, and on territory with whic
he was denseiy ginorant. The ear
popularity OF Washington was not Il
result OF brilliant achievement nor si
J. nal success; on the contrary, It ro
B. among trials and reverses, and may a
most be said to have been the fruit
defeats. Il certainly goeaks we'll
Virgtnlan intelligence that the ''ster
3 Ing. enduring. but uridazzling qualities
in Washington were thus early discern,
" and appreciated, though only herald,
by n1isfortunes.'' But the manner
which he showed up under rnisfortun
rs and the sagacfty and wisdom he di
= played in dealing with defeat were ur
y versally acknowledged. TO uss defe
8 wisely is better than to bungie with vi
a. tory. % = "
There are some great men yhs see
70 nave q peculiar faculty OF siippil
to away from continuous recognition
n their worth. One OF those men Is w
Id liam Penn. Is Il because he figured
- the pioneer stage Of this country's d
veloEpnent, or because he was oye
Swallowed BY the brilliant Bentan
Franklin who built upon his well-is
tn foundations? Never ought such a m
nd as William Penn to be allowed to va
al ish into obscurity and forgetfuinel
n Two hundred and thirty-nine years a
This month Penn founded what is nS