Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-20
FAILING TO TREAT OUR FARMS RIGHT.
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 osFritten Specially for The Bu.letinl [, IS "parsing'' any longer 2 part of grammar-school work When I was a sr5sil boy and the teacher was trying to- drill me into some sort of intelli- sence. she seemed to rely mainly on two text-books. One was Colburns Men tai eArithmetic; the other was Popet essay On Man.
 From the one she required me to tell, off-hand as 1t were and with ( any uSes of slate and pencil. what three- sineteenths of pound of butter was worth if bananas cost thirty cents ioEen. From the other she demanded hat tell her what part of speech 'Lo!" was in the phrase, To The poor h dian" Not only what part of speech it rss but why it was what it was and wasn't something quite different
 As a result of her gentle ministrations [ gradually but certainly came to re- gard everything associated with arith- metic or grammar as an abomination of desolation Especially did 1 mark down those two books on my private Index Expurgatorius. used to dream of being able, when I had become a man, to collect all there were in the world into one huge bonfire and dance Rnds whoop around them like a wild In aianf till they had consumed to ashes.
 Later. I somewhat changed my Opin- ions. now have Pope's rather remarka- ble Essay in my library, and occasion ally read parts of it with real interest ana no little amusement. As am no longer compelled to bother about it's grammar. I can find some satisfaction in it's hmpid English it's easy versifi- cation, its vigorous philosophy, and its lurking irony. But there's one sentence in. 1t: perhaps the most commonly quoted of all that still causes my gorge to rise. In fact, I've got so that when l see those four words looming up on thetnext page. I usually skip that leaf tnrn, it over and pick up the route veil on the other side.
 Whatever is, is right. There you have 'ern.
 AbstractIy and theoretically. much may doubtless be said in argument for that dictum- But it is different when you Epply the somewhat flat-footed asser- rion to actual people and things and aaspsnings
 Bolshevist Russia, for one example The Herrin massacre. for another. New forks underworld and chicago's slums .orttwo more. The horrors of burning smyrna, the ghastliness of the Flandert trenches, the interminable rows of grave Its6es gridironing Europes battletields Allpthese and many other like thing: ers; are they therefore right?
 if you say that whatever God doe sfBikht, you're on solid ground. For hi judgments are true and righteous alto gefKer. But when you or MT. Pope as ler3s that everything men bring to pass nskentravention of Gods laws and de 1Snce of His will, is also right, your sotkg too far.
 Kew what has all this got to do witl eathning? hear some one ask. Well far1hers are just as much human be inEs as other folks. According to Scrip tune, ''tne heart of man is dAceitful an, desperately wicked''. That includes u farmers as well as New York commis Sioh men and Chicago whea1-pit gam Slefs. We're all in the bunch and nor Pr less tarred with the same stick. Som ms admit-on Sundays and in churcl that we're all miserable sinners. .ocd many who don't make a brag 0 t know it, just the same. It is quit Iossieie that farmers don't run to tn