Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-16
TEIE. MAN WHO TALKS


 big jobs; in constructing buildings and l bridges in removing even mountains and dugging channels in the sea. his machin- cry overcomes all the obstacles of nature l But when nature sends one of her storms 1 our strength pales Into insignifcance, and we are inclined to say: Lord, what Is mani" A good illustration of this idea was furnished on Sept sth, the last day of the county fair. when the forces of nature went on a little rampage and made the fair grounds with their contents look like a sick hen. Some of us on this same day were in automobiles and trolley cars when that sudden drop in tempera- ture came, quickly followed by a dense cloud of dust. filling eyes, nose, mouth and throat with irritation Suppose na- ture had taken it into her hclSle head to be three or four times as disturbing-as she might easily have done-where would some of us poor nortais be today?
 While dealing with what seems to us the eccentricities of nature, the mind nat l urally reverts to the effect produced along the entire line of vegetable growths
 Taken as a whole, the present season l has been wet one. certainly a very cloudy one the influence Of which is l clearly seen in the products of the field. | All soil products this year have had a thin, insipid, watery taste. largely lack l ing the rich flavor of normal seasons, due of course to insufficient sunshine. A I great lesson Is taught here by analogy, and that is if we do not live in the sun shine our lives will be thin and watery 1 also. That is, we shall be dissatisfied, complaining, gloomy, grouchy men and women, disgusted with ourselves and l everybody else. It makes us look through | blue glasses at everybody and everything. Il Such a spirit as this is not calculated to I generate those common graces of person. afity that are attractive to others. If i've smile others will smile with us, if I we weep we shall weep alone" If we are I after happiness, Eve must walk in the Il light"
 I Good old pr. Watts was responsible for deluging England. and subsequently, Il America. with hymns. He not only wrote
 a lot of "stuh," but some mighty fine stuff" Among the latter, take this: Il T must be measured by my mind. The
 soul is the standard of the man" This is perfectly true in theory, but 1t is far : from being a universal standard by } which men are measured As there are
 so many different conceptions of great
 ness. possibly it Is not likely that we shall ever have 3 generally accepted \ standard of greatness. No one but an i. immature child would measure real great l ness Uy dVOAGuQOlS WelSnL. E3OL other : yardsticks are used beside the mental and moral ones. It must be painfully admit l ted that the only yardstick many people
 use is the almighty dollar Men and , women are big or little according as they . are rich or poor. When shall we learn
 that there is neither merit in poverty nor
 disgrace in wealth considered In them 2 selves alone? We ought to have brains U enough to realize that the mere posses : sion of worldly property is not evidence Suppose. for moment that other peo. n pie make great concession and measure r us by our minds, it still cemains to bs - answered how we measure ourselves $ We. the great American people, who art n supposedly the top-notehers in civiliza . tion, are past masters in the art o : growing, and accordingly we measur, . ourselves by our felings. We are big o, 2 little, just as we feel Some days W, g are great and other days we. are small
 and hence the standard of measurement
 is as variable as a northeast wind Le
 1t be admitted. then, that we measure GU capacity according to our feelings. Ina Y it is low measurement no one vii r. question. We see this in the fact tha D the mind once in a while asserts 1t 10 rulership and determines that we shal l. rise above our feelings And then, fo or us, big thing is done when the min t really triumphs over matter It show ,- that when we are not in the best work !, ing trim. If we bone right down to ou !. task with grim determination the pre- . sumption Is that we shall succeed.
 If we carefully anaIyze the attitude " | often have toward the daily task, it 10 enough to make outsiders wonder wher oi we got our reputation for being red or blooded men. Now the way to slum he down on a job is just the way we talk r. 1. e., to cave in before our feelings whe he the feelings say You can't do it, an Id had better not try" the presumption 5o we will not put forth the necessary e 1s fort. But if the will power speaks
 louder tones. 'tOf course you can do 1 r 50 go at it like man" 1t is then res an sonable to expect that the thing will I IT. done. If the feelings are allowed to l " pampered and coddled they will at lengi
 cajole us into the belief that we can ( en nothing that we don't feel like doing. l sw on the other hand, we put the reins n- government into the hands of the wi power, we will really astonish ourselv
 by the amount of work that we can a ea complish. If we slump down into we chronic condition of ineficiency we ha7 " only ourselves to blame; if on the oth lat hand, we do really meritorious work, v Ire have only ourselves to praise.
 'k- In the world of natural productio ste May and June are the season of scatte a ing, while in September and October V on, have the period of ingathering Tn t Tor human economy the reversal of this ord
 obtains. Particularly Is this true in t
 educational world. June is usually t
 month of ingathering, as that is the SC
 son in which academies and colleges ha Is their commenceme exercises Aft be 1aA& "A
 fore, the trunk is sent by express and t
 boy and girl cannot leave college ha ef too quickly for home How cordial is t c, greeting, and how satisefd Is the pare
 to see that the general effect of t
 school life is telling in the personality
 the student. How rich with the r1t ma glorious fel1owships is the painfully sht DC interval between the middle of June a
 the middle of September. Again the tru
 is packed, farewells are exchanged, tes os glisten in the eyes of both parties a .o- love follows boy and girl back to the c " lege life The life onward from this til
 to the middle of next June is a rich C
 provided the student throws his wh ex- soul into it.
 put This world of ours is old, but not in old that 1t has outgrown the heroic spiI
 If this hour should ever arrive, we shol
 know for certainty that the time
 final collapse was not far distant He ne ism is one of those fine siIken stra1 ut- that runs through all the centuries, bh ses ing all together into organic unity. He
 ism does not always display itself alc
 the same channels, In the ancient vol ave war was the medium of it's communi b.+ tion in the middle ages, fidelity to ,e man dogmas was considered to be her " Today, anything strong, manly and dis
 tered that requires faith and courag ge
 considered heroic There are very