Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

tion of the world. There were never So many insistent calls for help as today, and it is no wonder that the rank and file get bewildered, but it Is difficult to 1 these appeals consistent with honor and Christian sympathy. Those who were 1 privileged to hear what Mrs Fosdick and ] her co-workers had to say in relation to | the Y. w. C. A. WoFkers abroad, must ] have felt that the people of America can not afford to have this important work 1 ianguish- But the funds that were ae- ceSSible during the war are now exhaust ed, and the people at large must furnish 1 the sinews of support or seventeen of these courageous women secretaries must Do recalled. We must remember that it was not only the Y. NJ. c. A., but also the Y. w. c. A that did important work i during the war. The war is over but l the tender work of the Y. W. c. A. is needed as much as ever. Let the work bc supported.
 We have new quarters fer tAe '. M. c. A. here in Norwich, and surely an en- largement has been demanded. It occurs to the writer that the old building on BroadWay might De utilized for a Y. ". c. A. To make such use oS the now discarded building is not so much sent- mental. as a logical conclusion. It IS
 impossible to tabulate the vast amount of
 physical and moral Uplift that have come to the worlds young men through the gracious influences of the Y. M. c. A.. If it has been such blessing to young men, why not throw the same kindly pro- lection around young women? It is ) godsend to the young man to have such ; oversight when he goes to a strange city ! all alone. But the young girl needs 1t : vastly more. If there was such an aSso- ciation in every city of the land, however, 1t would be the salvation of many pure and innocent girl who has unwittingly been led to destruction. Why not Y. 3 W. c. A. in Norwich?
 9 Since Eastern Connecticut has been . uplifted by the last installment of these 6 immortal paragraphs we have had a cold f wave It was predicted to be nation D wide, but 1t t1nbled down on its job and . was considerably localized. One wishes 2 that some scientist had enough nerve te write on the psychology of cold snaps
 and while he was about 1t, soft snaps as t we'll If so inclined, and with eneaggE c ability and nerve he might take in all oth' ,= CT snaps that He between these two ex' e temes. He might turn deaf ear tt \. conscience and twist his subject a little
 as most writers do, putting in ch ant v an extra D giving "schnapps" whief . would interest a mighty big bunch O. O men on two heniisphefes. If, however n he wanted to be satiFieal he could leav' D out the n and write till doomsday eI
 ''saps' without exhausting his subject d This would be an insult to most men ;s living or dead. But think it would b'
 easier and more profitable than trying t.
 explain cold snaps
 As far as the writer is aware there i 7, no satisfactory explanation of these es II capades of the thermometer. It is no ex T. planation merely to say that 1t is er freak of nature. Scientifically there is n ,e such thing as freak The physical worl In is under the dominion of law, and wha r.. seems to us to be an irrational freal
 is simply law working along channels lin . known to us. We would naturally expee - that the cold weather would increase untl 'I the sun reached 1t most distant point i to the southern hemisphere, and on it's re h. turn journey would gradually grow warm
 CT until it reached the summer solstict
 Of course there is a fixed change IS the mean temperature while the earth j,, making it's nigratiens, either side of t1 --;' equator, stil, this does not explain Whs IL seems to be the ordinary working { re physical law. The instability of atTno: IL pherie currents are said to have much re do in upsetting the uniformity of ternpcl bR ature But there you have it again he What makes this instability?
 ,n, I saw . tired looking woman the Oth. ia. day on Franklin square loaded down
 the gunwale with Christmas gifts, usef LL aHd-0therwiSe. As she was to board .s eaStbeufd trolley, she suddenly stoppe A and look Of horror came over her va a. face. Was it heart disease or apoplexJ t1 Worse than either, she had forgotten sl- buy a present for Aunt Lizzie over
 Voiuntowri." She had remembered SC eh enteer relatives of her own and her hu ,se bands. She had a green neckt1e f ,.t Jin1's brother in Canterbury; woo .Ss en sweater for his mother who spends h .E winters in Florida d commentary of Jeremiah for her brother who is a sop err 5nore in the Connecticut College en Storrs, and lots of toys for tie yuuns it's folks, but Aunt Lizzie had been forgo ls ten. But why should that upset he ter I gaess you don't know Aunt Lizzie. ,Sa was more serious than 1t seems, for :. 6ne had forgotten Aunt Lizzie in if
 years. Had she not hinted for cali ' m wrapper although she had half doze me It was her last chance at the barga sed counters, and her whole Chrlstlnas wou sA-, be spoiled.
 Much is being said and written tlse the days about working hours for childre
 
 af- welfare is instinctive, and appeals DO ,nf, erfully to all civilized men and wom< a., It all arises from the value we put up - the Individual child. It is beyond h. comparison with material things. SIppt Ac on an ocean liner a camp stool falls oyt
 board. It would hardly attract a pal
 ing glance. Suppose a woman's f
 shawl should slip from the railing 1T cry the deep, the few who saw it would sh sr,. some sympathy with the loser. becal
 it has greater value than a camp sta
 If dog, should tumble from the de into the waters the cries of the poor z to inaa would arise larger sympathy. E ocn let child Of the poorest immigrant
 the child Of social noEboay-fall oy
 board Instant the cry Is raj has which is sounded from stem to ste n6 Man overheard" At once every off
 is on the alert The mighty engines
 stopped, and every efeFt Is made to ss
 the little one, because of the inher, ope feeling of the value of a human life. snti HeVe we not here the real explaaaS as of Christmas activity. It is eEnphatie
 iy the giving season of the year, and
 itAis giving is based on the giving el
 .- child to the world. The gift which ca .x to mankind at Bethlehem was e ch .ne and even the Infinite Father eanla mi olu- no gift to earth moro beautiful, m
 levabie, or more precious than a helpl
 little babe. The greatest asset of | At. Werld Is not gold and silver, stocks ,i-h bonds, land and houses, but goodn to in human form. The greatest oe all c ceivable possessions is divine goodness
 human form, and this is represented
 the little One, Child Of Mary, Son pa- God, born in Bethlehem of Judea, ac&- the days of Caesar Augustus. This is ard of the reasons why the Christmas sr sSai. Br1pS Us all, and 1t VIII continue to