Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-20
THE MAN WHO TALKS

lated train I tried to improve my mind with what intellectual food the place af- 1 forded. The walls were bare and dingy ;; a single billboard was these whose Nno- ttices were almost illegfble with grime and
 dirt. This one, however. struck my no
 tice: When you see it--do it-STOP! 1! This sign means just. what it says. Don't
 take chances with a railroad train. It
 runs on steel rails-and can't dodge yon r' Wasn't there a great deal of com mon sense in that notice? When a rail- l road signals to stop, there is but one thing to do then and there, and that is | to stop We would do well to heed that l sIgnal along many other lines When the l little hacking cough comes on and it per- I sists in hacking then do tt-that is, stop and realize what the end will be if you | don't tend to it. If you have a cavity
 in your tooth. remember that it runs on
 steel rails and can't dodge you with its l pain and discomfort. Are heart, lungs,
 liver. kidneys and blood all right? Look out for the signal!
 | Underneath this, and equally dingy, was the following: Every time is train time at grade crossings. A moment of
 carelessness may mean lifetime of re- gret." That simply means one can't af- | ford to be off his guard a single moment | in these days when life is at high pres l sure. It won't do to say T didn't think l it was train time" when you try to make a grade crossing. You must use eyes,
 ears and all your faculties when you are I in danger zones. And these are almost i everywhere today. We have heard it so many times that now 1t sounds almost 1 idiotic: T didn't think it was loaded !'' But you find that it was, and the in- i jured hand or the dead companion is an | awful price to pay to find it out. Every | gun is loaded that is handled carelessly ] Another grade crossing is thin ice that | you thought was safe, so also is water \ ten feet deep that you thought was only | five. As we cannot banish all of these grade crossings from human life, we can I display 8 little more intelligence in avoid
 ing their dangers.
 I Just before the train came to the sta tion my eye caught another poster: "A | $2,00Q,000 cigarette p That didn't mean Il that 1t cost two million dollars to make Il that cigarette, or to light it, but it did | mean that it cost two million dollars to l put 1t out A careless smoker threw the l lighted stub of his cigarette into some l rubbish and the result was the destruc- ton of a big warehouse entailing a loss of two millions In a trip throughout eastern Connecticut some time ago I was amazed to see so large an area blackened by the frehrand. The loss to standing timber and especially to young trees must have been considerable. Some of
 these fires are unavoidable, as those fl caused by sparks from locomotives But many of them come from pure careless
 ness, like those in Holland county, miles
 away from any railroad. In this respect
 we can learn an important lesson from
 Germany, where forest fires are practi-
 cally unknown. As the price of lumber advances, possibly we may learn lessor ) of caution
 Among the beautiful thoughts of pr Henry Van Dyke Is this: "No matter how cruelty you hack a sugar maple. you Fl : get nothing but sweetness from it: gashes." A much older writer expressed the same idea in these words: 'cRetura
 good for evil" It was the greatest O
 all who said: Love your enemies. l which was a supreme test. There ar,
 but two ways of dealing with wrong. I
 is either 'an eye for an eye and tootl
 for tooth," or it is ''do good to them tha
 hate you" It is either to avenge or tt | forgive. Both methods of procedure ar s in vogue but We fear the former is nor ] general than the latter. We see it in tn . awful feuds of the south that have exist . ed In some cases more than a hundrei : years. where no one of the contendinj parties has died a natural death But
 am inclined to think that the latter more common than we think because it i ' always less advertised. The sugar mapl . is common and now and then we see tn
 sweetness coming from it's wounds
 -v I saw Shin flat rock the other da, whose upper surface was concave. Tfer [ had been a smart shower and this hoIlo1 [ was filled with water. I turned the ston n over and found the ground undeTneat e both dry and dead. I could not bel f thinking what mean, stingy thing tha n stone was; receiving the gracious bount
 of nature and keeping all of it for n
 practical purpose, and not passing it O.
 to the dry ground beneath, where
 would have done some good. The gras : around the stone was growing luxuriant t ly because it received the rain and use v 1t. Two lessons here: 1. The tightwa s who gets all he can and gives fort l. nothing living in a physical and socia h Sahara. 2. The necessity of absorbin if we are going to produce The ston :, collected the rain, but neither used it no " IT gave it. The green grass received
 and gave it to the producing earth an was receiving large interest for doing st Z The man who absorbs also produces, an ! the reward is more life.
 el The statement has been recently mad i that syndicate of American bankers ar @ considering loan of $2,OO00O0 GOO f e Germany. Thus far we have receive n nothing in the way of reparation for os Is cupation of the Rhineland by our soldier -si which was promised. What does Gel
 many propose to do with this great sum
 She is not paying any of her debts. Hay
 we not right to inquire whether or nc
 this money is going to be used to prt ,f pare her for another attempt at Europea B. assassination? Since the war close
 Germany has not given the least sign
 l repentance flor her awful primes She living low because she hasn't strength l. spring far enough to clutch the throat ( g. Paris Money is all she needs to resun
 her role of assassin. If American banl
 CTS loan her money under such condition ,e few tears would be shed ie they lo every cent.
 V. Columbus is 2 name that will nev,
 die A man who by 3 great practical e, pertinent settled for all time the moote question of the earth's sphericity is bour s'1 to be immortal. Ii, is we'll for us who . le fully enjoy the fruits ot his discovery
 recall something of the man on this al
 nfversary day of his death He went ,ol his great reward Ma8 20, 1506, at Wall
 dolid, Spain. Columbus is a conspicuo II Illustration of what may be accomplish, oi by persistently following the urge of
 mighty purpose. His ideas of geograpl
 1 were those common to the day By sa, y-l ing westward from Spain he expect al ultimately to reach the East Indies, b o- something lay between of which he h;
 not the faintest conception To the pc
 sistency of purpose was added the exa1
 ation of 3. religious faith. If he soug Tt to ind material treasure he desired al 5 | tn %1aa rI