Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-19
THE MAN WHO TALKS

to measure .he value or man py nIe money-getting ability? It goes without saying that mans ability to acquire property honestly is one measure of liis
 capacity, but it IS one only. Man E a many-sided prism whose capacities ra-
 diate in many directions. That of get l ting money is only one of them and by 10 means the greatest or most imports IL. But this age which is so jbsessed with the money craze sees little eisa to he. gained by struggls in life but the dollar. It overshadows everything eiss. It looks with contempt on all those who look be- yond the collar. It calls . man q
 ~boob," or a ''sinp' who believe that
 mental and moral worth are grandeF things to be sought than neTs dollars. l Do such people realize that were it not
 for these so-calied '.boobs" and 6l1Aps conditions would not have been craated by which the Tnoney-getter could pile E9 1 his fortune?
 One can hardly help observing the different tastes people display in spend- l ing vacation, and making comparison 6e- | tween them. It may not always bo fair to measure a mans capacity by the | things he does, but 1t is 8 perfectly fair 1 test of his taste. If one is not acting un-
 der outward cornpulsion, he Is consciously
 revealing his inner self. The man who | Is willing to loll about all day on sandy l beach in his bathing suit in company
 with others attired like himself has mover struck me as very high type of q man. 1 Of course it comes as near doing nothing
 as possible, and some men are qualified l for that sort of thing. When shall we l learn that the greatest benefit to ns de- rived from vacation does not como from | Av,% nAa S who uses his mouth chiefly for eleven months in the year had better close 1t for ] one month and let somebody else speak and listen to him. Activity ought to
 mark every vacation, but 1t ought to be activity of change.
 What is ths, use of men everlastingly 1 trying to do the big things of life, and fall short of doing the. biggest of all? l And that Is a very' common occurrence,
 we see 1t on every hand. It Is perfectly l natural that big men should be doing big 1 things right along. Nature has endued them with adequate power for that pur- ] pose, and we have perfect right tb ex- pect 1t of them. What a long list of 1 military deeds have some generals ac-
 complished; how many legislative acts | of high order have some statesmen 1 brought to pass what an enormous volume Of business have some merchants l transacted. And yet how many have l fallen down before the bigger problem of
 mastering themselves. Napoleon daz- zled the world with the number and bril- l Iiancy of his victories, but he never | gained the art of se1f-master; he fell down flat before the fury of his temper.
 Disraeli, at one time the peer of Europe i in statecraft, never conquered his vanity And thus all of us fall short of that 1 greatest of all victories, that of master Ling ourselves.
 | One of the toughest problems we are up against is to handle our past lives wisely. The yesterdays of our lives are l persistent facts. Whether they are good l or bad we can't get rid of them Any l who will let the past dominate his present l living is a fool If we want to fail in
 our present duties then let the past be
 our lord. The only way in which yes terday can help today is to make it our | servant The man who sees nothing 1T the past but the greatness of his | grandfather or the superiority of his first wife is lowing down before yesterdays
 straw gods. How much valuable time strength and spirit are lost in broodinE
 over those things that lie just beyond
 our present horizon. If the past is en throned in our lives we stretch forth oul
 hands in vain for the future crown Thus we must not let the past be oul lord but our servant. We must order him to bring out of that old store house of recollections only those things that wil stimulate us to better living. The pas
 must not trample us down, but urge |. forward.
 This world of ours is full of peopl,
 both hard and soft, and which of tn, 1.-two predominates is quite foreign to th,
 purpose of this paragraph. There ar,
 many ways in which they display botl their hardness and their softness, and th.
 difference is like that which disting
 uishes the mountain from the swamp The hard man shows vigor and activity
 the soft man inertness and stagnation The hard man pushes. the soft man leans
 The hard man in surging ahead carrie
 others with him, the soft man An A~sx ging behind keeps other back with him
 The hard man sees the necessity o
 pressing forward to the accomplish
 ment of any great object In other word he is willing to put forward any amour
 of energy to accomplish what he wants b 1t good or bad. The hard man, what ever his other faults may be, is not ap to be weak man. We sometimes won
 der why such man succeeds. It simply because he puts every ounce o l strength there is in him in getting wha ] he wants. The half hearted man neve ] succeeds because he is never dead i
 earnest
 The prizes of life are not containe in the medals or badges which we wear t but in the things they stand for Tn y ability a man has to gain prize is neve
 displayed on the lapel of his coat or hi
 sleeve. In the popular mind thes v things are apt to be confused. Instead c l. admiriflg the real but hidden thing, " t fix our gaze only on it's outward symbo
 Badges and medals have a story to tel
 but they are not the story itself; the 2 are merely conductors designed t - transmit our minds back to the capaeit a by which the prize is taken. Usuall
 the ability for taking prizes is very mod
 est; it is not inclined to vaunt itself froI
 the housetops, but is rather retiring an 2 reticent. Man who have performed ac: u of courage and daring at the risk their own lives are the last to mantio
 1t. How many brave lads in the Worl
 war, when attempts were made to mak d demonstration in their behalf, replie l. with blush, ''Oh, forget it. The re; e objection heroes have to receiving
 Carnegie Medal Is that they are expec
 ed to wear 1t.
 V If the act had been possible, the e1 l. tire world of science and humanity :: Is large would have strewn flowers on u
 grave of Alexander Graham Bell, q
 ve1ltor of the telephone, far and ava n the most useful invention in the entil