Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-28
THE MAN WHO TALKS

and died :" Does that refer to the place
of her death? Was she up" in the at
tic up" to her mothers or somewhere
up" IN the country when death eanIe2
Does it refer to the condition of her miad
at the time of departure? Was she up
on her ear, up on her dignity, up" on
her muscle, or "up" on her family pride
when she passed through the golden gates2
1t might mean that she was up" and
dressed attending some missionary meet
| ing rather than DOWN at the time
| playing bridge whist One can see that
there is a certain social advantage in be-
| ing able to say: 'eAfy wife is up and
OUT while On the other hand it would
ruin all social prospects to be compelled
to say: my wife is down and out"
| What does It really mean to ''up and tfie?"
| Speaking of colloquialisms, have
one that puts the above completely into
the shade. Making the acquaintance of
a, new conler-a foreigner-aIrd inqufring
about his family was completely set
back by this entirely new Ito mel mode Of
expression Referring to the death of his
wife, he put 1t this way: Last year the
cid woman went and died on me" A
| once several perplexing questions arose:
| Did she go before she died on him? or did
she die on him and then go? Judging
from the general make UP of the man
| innate if she went first. His tone was that
3of a man VINO had lost valuable cew
! 1t IS expensive to lose either q COW or
| wife. When the wife of such man dies
he loses oglfy a drudge. The drudge re-
ceives no wages and is less expensive than
| the paid housekeeper Women ought not
to be so thoughtless as to die on the
hands of their old men like COWS. But
whether they die UP or down in or out, on
or off thew are mighty 14yY5ISv
J. The late siIas C. Herring one of the
pioneers here in America in the manu-
facture of safes. once said that he could
not keep more than twenty-four hours
ahead of burglars. This is. his burglar
proof devices were mastered by burglars
4 soon after alglGicatiOR. Is it not true
everywhere in life that things seemingly
insurTnountable are constantly being sur :
| mounted? This is nowhere more appar-
| ent than in the field of science. The latest
device is to keep open waterways that
are usually frozen up during the winter
season. We can easily see what loss +
is to the worlds trade to have the larg-
est waterway in the world closed to
traffic for months at a time. It has re-
Gently been discovered that rs water
: freezes at exactly 80 degrees Fahrenheit
, by raising the temperature one tllousandth
Of a Gegree above 50 Win prevent freez-
ing. In this way 1t is both possible and
feasible to keep the whole ST. Lawrence
system o2en the year round,
One Of the striking characteristics .ol
: the present age is the passing of en-
= thusiasrn. We do things, to be sure tha1
are important, some of them at least, bu
they are not done with burning zeal
: There is a vast difference between hot
" headed haste and the flowing fires of con
4 vIction. The real motive power of al
6 human conduct ought to be the human
=, reason. We seem to be afraid Ct zeal be
| cause 1t has done SO much damage in tn
!. past. Mere emotional passion undlitehet
u from intelligence makes a torquematia,
II cruel bloodthirsty inquisitor Or II i
g mingleS with gentler qualities makes
l. Peter the Hermit who fires all Europe no
by a brilliant mind but by hanin
heart Unite q greet intellect with yea
and conviction ard the result Is the high
>, e4- corfg11ae)aa 51!nlgsjflment. L
il our modern life it S. ems to me thai W
# nave too many vast areas burned over
w zeal is a dead passion and logic is n
IS | longer on fire.
lg From the economic standpoint there ar
S two classes of people the producers an
At the parasites, or those who make or rats
tbs nee 7ssities of life and those who us
70 what other hands have made and ca
:, what other hands have grcwn. tn
i parasite then is the person who lives an
r fattens on What the other fellow pro lux
G S. The possession of wealth is no e.
ii cl]se for non1groducticn. Silver and COL
NJ stocks and bonds carnot make a suit {
a. clothes or raise a bushel of gsotatoe
- "But' says the wealthy chap, does n,
- the money 1 pay for these things furnis
:" the labor by which clothes and eatabl,
sy are Iroduced?" VERY we'll" saws roll
e. ical economy, while the other mans Il
Dor is furnishing these things what a.
re you doing? II you are in some pradu
nh tive employment, we'll and good, hut if W
are nothing but a sportsman, you are
v parasite, pure and sims4e"
la Apart from morals and religion.
greater question confronts the America
a. people at present than the economic
ne spite If continued unemployment tie &c,
ed question is not acute with us While '
he always have the poor with u.s. We a
never confronted with such abject power
wv and squalor as is quite common in sc
-, tons of the old world. As an afterma
: Of the war suffering in these sections h
4" become unprecedented. Unless outsi
ss- help Is rendered in large measure t
Oh population Of some countries will be de,
N mated. And this is notably true of Ru
led STA, and in a lesser degree OF Austr
a Now as We are by far the greatest Or
bs ductiye nation in the world we are me
ally bound to help the suffering on
This can be done by greatly fncreasi
the area of production. Let US repe
the old wartime activity. Let eve
ng able bodied man who can find a match
ce. available land be producer this wear
The future is the period of great u
sh- certainty as to its details, but if it
md true that coming events cast tn
shadow before we are just as sure
one thing coming to us in the future
al 1t has come to us in the past-and Il
eed - oul "oih- " ilateVer else may OF m
ly We'll that We shall have our work
do. AS. the activities of life expand
ave have been compelled to enlarge the ap,
de- cation of salvation. Not very long {
ack 1t referred only to the saving of on
soul; today We feel that If it has Z
meaning at all it. must refer to the saw
ose of the whole man. We must believe
cen t;r,7 a,,d H. &c, a.. eeoironne sa
'Ih- entire man ara not merely one distinct
feature Of him. Salvation is the o
growth of faith and crooks. In 1892
av, us haar Paul saying: Work out Y
AXIS '''0'' WIN io't @iio efeifseffhg.
find If the integrity of the American
me, public is to be preserved we must
sist on continuing the equality Of citiz
iur- ship. There must be no class legislat
wed that shall be favorable to one section
Go party and detrimental to another.
ors must sternly prohibit all Legislation I
would confer special benefit on one
tfonafity IF SOTna man of high sae