Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-12
PASTOR DISCUSSES WHAT IS
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 THE NORWICH HUMAN PRODUCT
 Since viewing the wonderful exhibit of products made in Norwich at the Aer- chants and Industrial Exposition held at the armory last week, l have wonder cd what could be said of The Nor | wich Human Product said Rev. David I A. Pitt, speaking Sunday evening at the Central Baptist church. h
 I can only pay tribute to that won l derTul exposition, and say that a trip to the armory was an education to us all. ' Look around you. and then you realize f how recent all these material things are. You see by this that practically every thing we enjoy these days is of recent invention. While looking at the exhibits two questions came to ray mind, the first be- | ing What effect has all this materials
 sptendor on the producer and to all of usr' 1 These inventions have changed his tory and 1t Is only in my life time in
 far away place that I saw the spinning | wheel and hand loom pass aside for ma
 chinery to do this work. In the little |
 place I lived in when a boy 1t was only |
 next door that the women ran the spin | ming wheel and hand loom, but now |
 across the small river there is a large l
 mill. These improvements have caused | us to move from the country and vil- 1
 lages into the cities and now the move
 ment has reached the occident. We
 can't go back to the old way but VIC can solve the problem by humaniEing
 and ChristianiEing the system. Health,
 morals, religion and the home have all
 been changed by recent inventions Before them everything was done in the home. Today nothing is done al
 home if it IS possible to send the work } outside. When work was done in the . home the children grew up there. To- : day they grow up anywhere but a: home. Once the children knew their
 parents. Once the boy grew into the 3 trade of his father, today it is not 50. From a neutral standpoint, and as a l friend of man, not labor or of capital ist, let us look at the situation unbias- 3 ed. Child labor laws first came into f being in England in 1s1s and said no
 child under Is should work more than l l2 hours a day. This law was abused and more stringent laws passed in 1885 5 Foreign countries are not alone in abus- 4 ing the children, in our own country
 Rhode Island has just defeated a bill , that would prohibit the children to work over hours a day, and New Hamp- 2 shire allows them to work 1Oh hours 2 a day. The south alone Is not the only 2 2 sinner, New England Is one.
 Senator Mccormick Is now working on ' Ia bill to give government control to L. child labor. This only makes one think IL of the words of our Lord who said, ''Of T hoy much more value h a man than d property or of sheepT'
 What effect have these inventions on n our children. Raymond Robbins speak . ing at Berkeley, Cal, said: "I see on ' the walls here pictures of your banks, h factories, etc, but were there pictures
 of playgrounds. churches, and schools l le could better tell you what kind of city .e you live in." This teaching is being ha dcI fR t,d, .r and we shall see the results in the fu- If ture.
 A great employer, capitalist of Eng.
 land, is working for a w0nderfui ob- = jective for humans. He asks for lava
 fixing minimum wage, large enough = for a man to marry on. hAve children U and save for necessities He aaks fo, h working in his plants. He wants fn- a- surance against unemployment ant ee shows how little this will cost the em. le ployer, enaploye, and state He has tha ut plan working in his plants. He aski
 that employees have, some share of tn. ae bor receives a larger share of the profit vs Of the business. This also he has il an work and his business does not suffer ad The chief cause of trouble in the Unft A. ed States is that the stockholdeTs littl O. know what the working conditions ar A. in the company in which he hos a vote er John D. Rockefeller, Jr, speakinj y- against working conditions in somt in plants in which he owns stock admit
 that he cannot alter them bY his fey by votes.
 Tt He went to Colorado to see what tn e. trouble was at some of his propertie tv and found that petty bosses were nak ss ing life hard for the men. He gay =. them permission to take their trouble oh over the heads of the bosses straight t 1 the superintendent and the trouble va - almost all ended.
 The second thought caused by a tri
 to the exposition was, Has human pro "" gress kept up with material progress. ny We admit we are far ahead of ou 'i grandfathers in material things, but ar
 we in human things. Interpreting th 'kn World war a great man said that as was due to great strides in conquerfn liu nature in science my man, but lack 'or human development to correspond. an We boost that we can send a ma he from the east to the west coast CTS America in less than a week Is he q ut- good a man as the one that went ovI CTS in an OK cart years ago?
 Ar. Is Norwich with all these wonderf
 m material things, better or worse than Lne was before their time? I heard tu teo ministers debating this question. On
 an older man, said that people today d or not show the outstanding Christianity the the people of years ago.
 oys The young minister argued that the ork were just as many outstanding Chri ted tians today as there were tn times goi the iby. In all the dnal test and greate
 test is the human test. A man may the rich in material things but poor in | aft, eyes of God.
 and We are pleased to see the wonder e Ted position, but I would like to zee [ the human exposition. family, schoo and church, and children. We are in req
 ty the human exposition and by lookt and at ourselves we see what these mater don advances have caused.
 In the olden days a group of Chr .urS ltians met the fate of being killed and lions because they refused to deny e all land recognize the emperer. Are tn, onne such Christians today?
 the During the service the congrcSati
 was entertained by two baritone 50
 by Professor Frank Weld of New L'
 don, which were rendered In effect
 -lEyie and were very much enjoyed.