Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-14
THE MAN WHO TALKS

radiator. It is not sign of any un- usual sinful propensity that one loves to stay in where it is warm and comfort able rather than get out and hustle in the cold. Now the best things n life are not always the things that ara most agreeable to do; the things that vel ought to do are not always the things that we want to do. Did you ever hear person say: T really ought to go to the dentists but l keep putting it off" Why do you put it off? Simply because you don't want to do 1t. You know that you ought to and that the longer you put 1t off the harder it's going to be. It Is simply human nature, high and low, strong and weak, to follow the line of the least resistance. The hot radiator looks good but the woodpile ugly. But remember that kidneys, heart, lungs, liver and brains have some rights which the warm radiator cannot give.
 Just think of it, this old reliable so- lar system of ours that has been plod- ding along at a uniform rate for Q bdl lion years or more, at last Is showing signs of fatigue and is slowing down a bit: The earth in her daily rotation s beginning to lag, and there is no doubt about 1t. However, the American Fed eration of Labor will not be called upon to readjust it's hours of labor, because the old planet is not tagging behind more than one-thousandth part of second year. The young Methuseiahs who are just born may feel 1t bit at the tiTne of death. but it will not affect those Of us who have already cut our wisdom teeth. But, gentle reader, why should you and I worry, for If the Chinese the- ory of the transmigration of souls Is correct, by the time this old world stops you and I will be crawling about in H. gard bodies. while the better boys and girls will be hobnobbng with angels. If the present rate of slowing down con- tinues, it will take about 50 billion years to go out of commission.
 For pure fleI1leness man in politics puts it all over the weather. In evidence of this may I caM your attention to some of the changed positions that have taken place in the attitude of many Of the delegates at the Washington confer ence? At the first session of this gath ering Secretary Hughes threw a bonth- shell into the diplomatic customs of .he past by stating what ought to be done by way of disarmament, and with ore accord the world acquiesced In the next move MT Hughes was quite for gotten in the far eastern question. Po- sitiOns shifted nearly every day. At the close of November, it was feared that the conference would split on the rock of Shantung and other Chinese boulders. At the close of December while all dan ger had not been removed. yet all mis- understandings lad been enormously re- duced. Since then there has been Q shift to the question of subma- tha was all at sea over this question. At length Jeran yielded and all was bright again. The spirit of. friendliness has overcome fclzleness.
 What next will he laid at the door of poor old Irelandl As though she. did not have her hands full of mundane trou- bles. If you will believe me distracted Erin is now being accused of causing planetary irregularities. and the accu- sation does not come from her political enemies but from cold-blooded saen- 1 tlSts who don't care a picayune whether the Emerald Isle become a republic, 2 i free state, is dumped bag and bag 1 gage into the Atlantic ocean. It hal 1 been known for -a long time that some 1 thing has been dragging the moon from i her beaten pathway and at last it 'ha! been found to be the moons tidal frfc | ton on the coast of Ireland Poor un ! fortunate country! The only thing tt | do is to have the following introduced il l the dail eireann: Be it resolved tha l Ireland no longer meddles with tn, | course of the moon but hereafter con 1 fines her disturbances to the nations O
 the earth"
 Have you ever observed that there f.
 Q sort of witchery in skill under what
 
 | approach to perfection, however It fl 1 outwardIy expressed? Sound, color 1 form, action raised to the nth nowe always 9leases US. It makes no differ 1 ence whatever whether the gsrima donn; | sings in Italian or Hcftentot we vii | caQ her oort again and again. if she cal 1 do that difficult thing which we call sing l ing: Why is 1t that a genuine work o { Titian's always brings an enormous bu
 never an unmerited Drice2 It fs becaus | his colors are absolute perfection Wh, l is it that the form of some of Europe
 cathedrals make us feel just as the ric1
 tones of their organs do? Because ex cellence of sound and form produce tn l same emotions We see exactly tn i same thing when ten thousand basebal I fans shout themselves hoarse as 'Babe Ruth sends the center fielder on a fruit
 less sprint. Great display of skill in ev
 cry form paeases us.
 | We all know that we have work to d
 because we are equipped with brain an
 muscle for doing if, We know, also, hoy to work because brain and muscle ca
 be trained for it. It is not quite So eas
 to decide where to work. We may ex
 ert brain and muscle most admirably f
 the wrong place, and for just that req son We have so many misfts in all tn
 occupations. Ones life work cannot b
 done in places that call for only tn l transient; 1t Is not in the parade, tn | carnival, the pageant. or up In the de
 lectable mountains It Is not on som nigh peak Of the occasional where fo
 few hours We may be on dress narad
 Where our manly forms show up to per
 lection, but In the place where by taste
 temperament, and training We have
 chance to do honest and successful work
 No nafter how fine the steel is out c
 which a round peg Is made or howeye well It Is made. 1t will always be a rnIs : Tt in square hole.
 presume that nearly all newsDape
 reaoers have read Gov. Lakes excellent 1 ly Well-phrased New Years greeting f the people of Connecticut. We were g,s , to. learn that there are t'unpnis4asSsb1
 signs which foreshadow more normal sr
 tfvity." It was also good news that stat
 as well as national authorities are e
 operating to bring the price of coYnrnod ties to the point of fairness to all cor cerned. All this points to increase ! thriftiness on the part of tho peopi
 There are also other and higher thtns
 that the people ought to strive for an 7 that Is tl1e cultivation Of g purer idea, 3 Ism. We need today more of the poet a and esthetic in common life. Characte
 Is even more important than 8 big ban
 account. We all rejoice with Governr