Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-05-06
THE MAN WHO TALKS

very true DuI 1t is not q whit harder
than TO endure the humiliation Of slump
Ing down to the mud howell In the val
ley. How many roses do you think were
sent to the young prodigal after his
money was gone, when he was not en:y
poor, but hungry, sick and disheartened?
For some reason bouquets don't get
into the swine herds hutl How much
sympathy do you think was expressed
to the young nobody from those who
had enjoyed his bounty and helped to
spend his money? I tell you they drop
ped him like hot Goals, and they will
drop you Just the same if you allow
yourself to get down and out" We may
whine about the world being cold, hard
and unsympathetic, but you may rest
assured that when it is there. Is some
good reason for it, and that reason lies
largely in yourself Mature abllors a
vacuum and society hates nobody.
To amount to something In this world
does not depend upon extraordinary ex-
ertion. If it did only here and there
would be a somebody Simply make the
most Of your material just where you
are. Ordinary intelligence plus a real
desire and reasonable effort will turn
the trick. A coal HEAVIER can be some
thing as we'll as statesman. Your
worth to yourself, to your family, your
occupation and to society is not meas
ured by the figure you cut in swell
society but by your character. Melodies
1--we in high life, as truly as in the
slurns. To be somebody there must be
a deathless passion to rise above the
dead weights that tend to keep one
down. There must also be a fixed pur-
pose to carry that desire out. My friend
it matters not what your neighbor thinks
you ought to be, Or what your good
grandmother has urged you to be; at any
rate be a man of your own making.
You must settle that question yourself
Shall 1t be somebody or-nobody? If
you have not tended to that matter
do It now.
"Insignificance is wholly inexcusabIe''
IS the remark of some English essay
list. I dc not know who the writer was,
but it has the air Of omnipotence one
Is apt to find in Matthew Arnold.
While the statement has some founda-
ton in fact. It is altogether too sweep
ing. A person can live a respectable life,
and be approved by his own conscience
without being celebrity. He can be
somebody without being conspicuous.
You will find in the smallest hamlets
men and women of moral worth who are
nifty who have nothing more than local
reputation They are the flowers that
are born to blush unseen" He can easily
see in how many cases insignificance
cannot Be possibly avoided The poor
child that is born an idiot is handicap
ped from birth. It is unreasonable to
expect anything significant from him.
But children not born idiots with av-
erage minds who have only meagTe ed
vocational advantages, who are kept down
by circumstances are never in a po-
sition to do the significant.
There has always been a tendency in
the human family to discredit the I'M
known; that is, to turn down what car
not be actually proven The human mind
is apt to shy at things that must be
taken on faith If taken at all. Benight-
ed races believed more readily than
the enlightened because they are more
superstitious, and superstition always ap.
peals most strongly to the weird and I'm.
reasoning imagination. But believing
may become a habit capable of great
expansion, and if backed by reason may
be productive of great results. The
startling revelations CT modern science
show clearly what faith will accbm-
plish. When one realizes what wireless.
telegraphy is doing Today ones faith
need hardly stumble at anything aIont
scientific lines. Many are putting int
their homes radio equipment whereby
they can hear concerts and lectures
thousand miles or more away. The great
est the world has to give us come:
knocking at our doors. What a stimu
lus to faith
No one can question the desire of ouI
country to deal justly with all our peopl,
But the action of some officials anC
some of our so-calIed courts of iustic,
makes our blood boil with hot indigna
ton. Innocent men and women ar
sometimes made to suffer outrageous
ly to corrupt laundering Incompetence
Take the following as a fair sample
The brutal murder Of on old man oc
Cured last year. circumstances pointet
to young married man-not of tn
best reputation-as the guilty party
A grand jury found sufficient cause TO
binding him over to tina next term o
the superior court OF course he had t
pay the penalty for being a suspect
He languished in jail for five month
before the court convened. But whe1
brought TO trial 1t was found there wa
net a shred Of discriminating evidenc
against him. He left the court house t
find himself job1ess; his little bah
| his wife sick and supported by charity
For this cruel Injustice he had ahsoI,1te
Nv no redress.
Des no" can such thlngs be pulled u
outside Of Turkey? YOU ask 1t is cas-
enough. When a brutal murder has bee
committed the outraged public demand
ne hili.euiate arrest ao summary pr
t.isnnlene OF me o1Ienoer. Policemen an
uesesl1Ves nus MAKE some snow on az
Nv t.siss oo.lieDooS i..us. De accused 0
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