Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-07-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

must be regarded at ene of the most i'm
portant inventions of modern times. It is
calculates to afford entertainment of the
highest character. 1t is also capable Of
increasing our knowledge along MANY
lines. For this reason its friends of the
better sort have been painted tessee it
dragged in the mire by those who are
actuated only by mercenary motives. It
has been made to pander to the lowest
tastes and desires because it has readily
furnished the cash. 1t is refreshing to
learn that Mr.. Hays. the new film direc-
tor has taken steps to clean up the mo-
ton picture business It is equally inter-
esting to learn that 80 per cent of film
producers are co-operating with him AT
meeting of the directors last month Mr..
Hays proposals were unanimously
adopted. While they accept full response
biiity for the future, they ought not to
be held responsible for films already
made. We rejoice that the business is to
be lifted to higher level.
At present there is an outbreak Of 4
disease not entirely new or local, but run
ming rather strongly as an epidemic, that
may well be styled AmeFicanitis, not be-
cause it Is wholly unknown in foreign
lands for surely the British isles and the
continent of Europe have taste Of it. but
because our atmosphere and conditions
are most favorable for its culture and
| spread. That disease is the privilege of
everybody to criticize everything on ev-
| cry conceivable opportunity The fever
runs higher in this country than elsewhere
because there is less danger of interpret
ing liberty in the terms Of license. One
| popularity of Americanitis is that it
makes no difference what it is that is
criticized. The Ten Commandments and
The Sermon on the Mount are attacked
with as much RANGER as the soldiers
bonus bill and the tariff NTheFe are some
countries that would put mild curb on
| this voluntary lip service, and it seems to-
| rage most severely with these whose
earlier years were less favorable; than
their later ones. The only known cure
| is a liberal dose of the elixir of Chris
| tianity every morning before breakfast.
Is there not protest sweeping across
| the continent against nachine-made poll
! tics? Theer are some things in eur body
| pelitio that can only be done through
| representation. For instance, legislation
cannot be enacted by the people as a
| whole, especially along federal lines.
| There are many things even in municipal
/ affairs that would be bungleseme for all
/ the people to handle. But there are GER
! tain political matters that the people pro-
pose to manage themselves, and chief
! among them Is the selection of the candi-
| dates they would elect to office The case
| of Indiana illustrates this point Senator
| New was the choice of the machine and
| also his own. choice, hut the people in
their primaries showed decided prefer
ence for ex-senator Beveridge. and The
overwhelming vote in his favor was an
j expression of the peoples independence in
| the matter. The similar result in Penn
| syIvania in behalf of clifford Pinehot in
dieates that in some things the people
| themselves propose to let their will be
known.
/ All right-rninded people viii heartily
/ appreciate the efforts of the chamber of
i commerce in safeguarding the community
/ from being guided by impesters. We also
/ indorse their attitude in regard to stu
dents who have wares to sell from door
| to door to get money to continue their
| education their endeaEers are worthy of
our patronage, .whether we really want
! their articles or not. The chamber of
4 commerce is also right in advocating as
/ sistance to returned soldiers who are en-:
i gagged in similar business But it is the
/ fakirs that we need to guard against, and
i 1t is not always easy to tell who are
i genuine and who are not. Of course, the
imrostor does not hesitate to don the
/ soldiers uniferm. or claim that he was
i wounded at Verdun, but it is not quite SC
easy for him to get away with the claim
that he is a Dartmouth or Williams sophie
/ more. To investigate these eases and
Il give clean bill of. health to the eeserv-
I ing would save most of our communities
from much imposition.
4 Is it not matter of joy if the pOstman
chances to leave a geodly number of let.
i tiers in your mail box in the middle of the
/ month? Presumably they are not bills
j payable because such are mailed the first
day with the precision Of the equinoxes
/ especially the old FOUNDERS with the la.
comic statement; bill rendered please
/ remit" AS a matter Of cold fact it is not
always unalloyed joy in getting a bis
Il bunch of letters in the middle of the
month. Disappointment begins to Greer
in when >you see how fat most of those
/ letters are. Outside of love, there is ne
1 happiness to be found in fat letter
4 Generally the value of letter Is inverse
ly proportionate to it's thickness Their
your joy gets a tumble when by sorting
you find three of the number have only
one cent stamps. When you open sucf
letters you may expect anything that wa,
: ever offered for sale in 'the heavens
! above, or the earth beneath, or in tn,
waters under the earth When the bunel
: is finished you will be glad when the frs
!, of the month returns with its dunninl
. bills
Il The other day I had an awful scare
and only an example in long division re
: lieved my suffering. On Sunday, July 2
| the New York Herald stated that a Cana
dian astronomer had seen a twin sta
capering around each other at a frightfu
E speed, and both together were 3Sa time
| bigger than orr SIN while tho haat Jzfo
about 10000 degrees Fab. Worst of all
this professor discovered that the doubl
!, star was turning somecsault earthward
: As the night of July 2 was very hot,
had a nightmare in which I was sizzlin
81 in 10000 degrees Fab. Next morning
when it was cooler long division shatteT
el ed the nightmare. 1t came about in thi
4 way; Now this double star is 50 quad
I rillion miles from the earth-there was
grain of comfort in that. AS light travel
at the rate of $4,000 miles per second,
had only to divide $1,000 0Q0, 900 900, 90
q by $4,000 land it was the longest e1
2 ample in long division I ever did) and til
n quotient was 174,654, 452, 1853 seconds. or
little more than 1888 years If the ligf
and heat began to turn earthward whe
4 the planet was discovered need not fea
! for more than 5000 years, and by ths
time all now living will be quite musty
The other day, a man said to me:
guess, Ezekiel, that yer turnips are goil
81 t live; I see new sprouts comm out
: tn heart. They were quite large whe
, transplanted them. The big outsie
! leaves had stayed. so long in the old so
that they could not stand being disturbe,
hence most of them Topped down an
If failed to revive but the heart of IL
N plant was sound and in the new soil sci