Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-18
THE MAN WHO TALKS

II back to health. But instead of reviy- ing 1t grew sicl1lier every day At last she pulled 1t out of the porcelain vase and found that the roots hal routed. Then it dawned upon her that darkness had wrought the damage Had it grown ill a glass tun1bler or vase in all prcb- ability it would have retained its vigcr Is there not lesson here of wide appli- cation? More important things than inch plants rot when deprived Of the light Splendid books in your library. if kept in the dark and damp. get mildewed. Away from light and warmth the furs at tract the moth. And worse still human dispositions, if kept aloof from all that
 is bright and warm in life get rotten, Walk in the Night
 4 Eill was introduced not long ago in in the Massachusetts legislature making church attendance compulsory by statute enactment. For some time this was con- sidered joke but the sponsor of the bill acted in perfectly good faith.s Very likely it. will never be called up for serious ac- tion, because you can newer legislate men into goodness. England once .ried sim liar act of uniformity and disnaliy failed This resolution, however, furnishes food for thought. Why do many people here in America turn down the church? Is il because the modern pulpit is not up to the 1 intellectual capacity of the psw? Observ- ation inclines us most decidedly to the contrary. Or is 1t because the things of 1 time and sense" have gotten such a strangle hold of the people as to dull their taste for the finer things of mind and soul? I wish the consciences of all non church going members would come to- gether in solemn conclave and discuss this question: Are we justified in breaking the contract we made with the church when we joined that we would attend it's ser vices?
 l One Is amazed at the intuition Cor shall I say, intelligenceo of the ground hog. It-i all t.le more amazing when we com pare him with the great number of hogs that are not yet under the ground. After this rodent has had his long and undis- turbed sleep of several months, how strange that he should wake up in mil winter rub f1ns eyes with hds paws then look up at the calendar on the wall oi his underground cell and find that it is
 CandEernas day. After he has lighted up his gloomy cell with candles in honol
 of the day, he takes leisurely stroll int{
 the upper world to study weather. condi
 tions so to make a scientific forecast It is a great pleasure to stand on samt
 eninence and watcn ground hogs by tht
 hundreds emerge from the earth or Can dlemas day and look up anxiously foi
 the sun. When they find the day clear they deliberately measure off a tasa lin of 50 feet and then by the mystery 0 5 trllngulation determine the exact posi-
 ton of the sun so as to be sure that is Candlemas, After they have Seen thi shadow they sing:
 If Candlemas day is bright and clear . Therell be two winters in the year" l Finally they slink back into the earth t
 rest awhile from their scientific labor. One could hardly be guilty of extrava . gance wha atever he might say as to the in I fuence of the church. were it to be exer l cised tG. the limit of it's ability Notwith
 standing what has been said above uibolj church attendance one out of every tnre , men and women in Connecticut is mem her of some Protestant church. I ann SOFT ' that I do not have at hand statistics c
 all non-Protestant churches for Of cours
 that would swell the proportion of churc
 members to the total population. Possibl 6 you say this proportion is too high. Lt
 us see. The adult Protestant churc K membership Of this state is 225 ,000. If tf q prol,ortion is l to 3, then the adult pool l. lation of the state is ,000. As thet - are 705, 300 minors and nOr-church mon n bers, the two added together will give Il . total population according to the feler; census of 1920. But the main point Il not numbers, it is rather moral power ar y influence. If our churches would on y work their resources to capacity-whiC o trey have never done yet-there is not l, Ing along financial, economic, social lr spiritual lines that might not be done.
 e Reader, do you ever lose your patien @ of this shallow snap judgment that prol1 d bftion is a dead failure? Let us frank
 admit that prohibition does not, thus ia .. absolutely prohibit. Does anyone expe that it would In the short time it h: been on trial and in view of what it h. " been up against? Does that -rove it's fat er ure? Why not argue for the relaeal 4t laws against murder because with them 10 operation murder is still commits 2. to Crimes of all kinds are committed in spi , of the fact that there are laws on ,
 statute books against them We mu
 take deeper look into facts to prove t re truth or falBacy of prohibition Thirty-sev es of the leading American insuran Tn companies have made repol n- which have been recently w ported by the New York Tim, ., Now an insurance company IS not a tel
 perance society; it is sin1ply and solely Ut business proposition. According to I'd above statement 1921 was the healthi es year in the history Of the United Stat g. and Canada. Why? Pneumonia decl;n dy 50 per cent Why? More .alutomobi .s were bought than ever before, and me ha money q Gosited in savings banks. Wll at The educational world has been inv .e- tbly active at this season of the year ,r usual The npid-winter exams have COT
 and to the delectation of most studer
 have gone. The second semester W
 it's usual trials and annoyances, wh
 are not generally fatal, Is now unt nut headway. I would like to ask the stude +o in all the grades and of both sexes W
 haiue come out of their exams with fly
 colors If 1t doesn't pay to put in g,
 hard, honest term work? When that 'n7 done in nine cases out of ten, the exa 0" will take care of themselves. The res
 of an examination is going to depend
 the degree with which a subject has b om mastered, and with most students mast my comes not through brilliant munitions
 by hard patient study. The joy of s
 cess is found in the consciousness of h ... ing put ones best into ones work.
 md have been greatly interested lately
 that old rascal, Ahab-king to be sl
 1. e. he wore the crown, but let us h
 not, 'Fby the grace of God This intel in- does not center in any good thing he e all said or good deed he ever performed,
 in the danger signals he is consta1
 lifting up all along his early pathw the The old scamp was doing mean thi , ve right along and when lie ran across SO lie. thing too devilish for him to handle, ,
 ebel, the queen, stood ready to take
 job. The mea nest thing he ever ooneei was robbfng Naboth of hts vineyard, In his craven cowardice was not equal f1aa eroa h1it Q