Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The local chamber of commerce is to be commended for it's activities in foster ing the armory exposition of the indus tries of Norwich and vicinity It was probably an eye-opener to the majority Of the people that our industries were so numerous and varied. The real in dustrial worth of ones own city is a matter in which both optimism and pessimism are likely to function. The extremists on one side are apt to claim an exaggerated merit for the home town or city, while on the pessimistic side, others are ready to make an invidious comparison between the home city and almost any other place in the state It is not a question whether New London, Middletown or Meriden could have done better or not so well, but whether judged by its own merits it was not an excel lent exposition. From the comments heard On all sides it must be pronounc- ed success. This judgment was based on it's intrinsic merits Our industries are as varied as they are. excellent.
 Undoubtedly public opinion is very powerful, but in the last analysis it is doubtful whether it has any value what eyer. The reason is that every con- ceivabie question may be viewed from as many angles as there are people, and no two opinions are just alike. Besides that opinions on different matters change with the progress of knowledge. Views in one age of certain matter are mod flied in the next as more is known about it. For illustration take the innocent, slowly-falling snowflake. Is it bane or blessing? is it to be welcomed or spurn- ed?. Fifty years ago the scientist would have said: Snow is to be hailed with delight; it is the poor mans manure ?" Today the scientist says: '"The fertiliz- ing value of snow is all bosh! p Ask the school boy with his new sled and his glowing face answers. Ask the boys father with a hundred-foot sidewalk to clean, and his seowl is significant. Poets go into ecstacies over its spangled beauties, but not trolleymen-as far as heard from
 Once again the Armenians are becom- ing the exposure of all human eyes American eyes as well as European eyes
 They are the chief race of the Orient upon whom the Turks seem to wreck their most diabolical wrath. Territory l is most responsible for Armenia's mis- fortunes, although politics and religion have much to do with it. Armenia has
 been Christian nation since the days of Gregory tie Iiiuminator in the latter
 part of the third century, when the better part of the people were converted Under the reign of King Tiridates the
 whole nation became Christianized in the beginning of the fourth century 1 Ever since they have held most staunch, I ly to the faith, and because neither ca joling nor threatening can swerve them ] they have been compelled to endure th' utmost crue1ties from the Turks. Mu l tual jealousies have kept the European
 nations from speaking with authority Gladstone was the only man in the nine teenth century whom the Turks fear ed. But leaders with Gladstone's nor al power have not been numerous il
 Europe in this century.
 "A city that is set on a hill canno
 be hid," says the Good Book. Neithe
 can man who occupies a big place
 provided he is big enough to fill it We have repeated evidence that a maj
 of real power to benefit his fellows can
 not long remain in obscurity. Some tim ago when Greece conceived the idea tha her deposed king could do better thai I the great Yenizelos, she relegated tn latter into obscurity. But recently wit her amy overwhelmed in Asia Mino through incompetent leadership, ant with the home ministry making a ba
 mess of it, then they cried unto Veni zelos in their trouble, and he delivere them out of their distresses"- leas he gave to the nation something like in I Itelligent direction. The same is true ( | David Lloyd George. He fell from pow
 CT because he could not have accon plished the impossible. But he was a
 together too big a man to be shelvet He is returned to parliament unopposet and although the leader of an insignif } cant party, whenever he rises to spea he is greeted with a prolonged ovation 5 Some things cannot be hid.
 } Strange things happen every day, an |, iamong the strangest are the freaks |, motor vehicles. Usually they vent the spleen on telegraph poles and stone wal
 and other things equally soft. Up 1 Dec. II they have respected the ''cloth and let churches alone. Had this vel ? erable building been sentient being ! tmust have felt that at last, under tt : terrible impact, "the gates of hell wei f going to prevail" In this case, howeve
 it was only the gates of the chure that were not prevailing" Surely u lappearance of the damaged truck ind : cated what it means to butt up again 3 real orthodoxy. This was no ordinal . stone wall but the walls of Zion. . would be wiser for trucks, when bel
 on rampage, to strike something mo
 yielding, as, for instance, : the Grotc monument, Fort Trumbull, or the Va 5 bowl. We are glad the truck was lads ' with oil rather than booze, otherwise V 7 might suspect some sinister motive. 4 e it was oil perhaps it will smooth out u : troubled waters.
 Si The above event is a reminder of tl . historic fact that the church is CO
 Stantly getting knocked" In the pa.
 every conceivable instrument has be-
 nd in h
 Ito come it is quite refreshing that y could be done by a motor truck whi II has all the glamour of novelty. T
 knocking is not usually against t
 walls of Zion," but rather against [ T, Zionist who operates within. He sometimes knocked because he is not s sound" as Jonathan Edwards was
 lcentury and three quarters ago, or soI
 will call him a "mossback'' because s ldoes not belong to the extreme rat v cal wing. Some will knock him becau
 The is not a replica of Pastor Russ
 which is the "unkindest cut of al tSome will attack his fidelity to Scriptu unless he hears the voice of Daniel 's every human event. The church spir
 uai and material are alike knocked. T
 lehurch has failed in it's mission. T ye church building is too hot or cold. i c, damp or too dry. Such criticism
 rarely made of 2, theatre.
 Whatever doubts we may have abc
 progress along some lines of human ! !" tiyity, there can be none whatever K regard to interest in the welfare of cf n dren. This is not due to any radio
 I social or economic changes that m
 ihaYe come from new conditions follo ing the war, but doubtless as 3 res of the war, the child condition in EurC te has aroused 9 larger and deeper inter Y in children generally. The reports
 sufEering of children in ,Armenia
 phaned by war and the unspeaka