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Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-11

from Plainfeld, where the majority of them are employed in the mills of the LaWton company. The evening registra- ton is the largest in the history 6f the Trade school aud the fact is pleasing 10 Director H. H. Ellis and other members of the faculty.
 At the city water pumping station at Harfisyille, two miles out on the Wood stock road, the cement tops will be broken off the filter beds next Monday prepara- tory to undertaking the important work of increasing and modernizing the city water departments alteration system, as announced some time ago by the water sornmi issfoners. About month will be required to advance the work to the point where ft can be carried under cover throughout the winter season, so good weather is being hoped for during the next four weeks. The work to be under taken is exceedingly important and will Involve ti1e expenditure of many thou sands of dollars When it is. completed this city will have one of the most mod ep hltering plants in this part of New Eaglsnd.
 This wil1 Dc busy Armistice day fog the employees of the First National bank
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-11
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temDlatng making a trip to the soutA ! January.
 Frozen ground was noted by those iwhs were out early enough Friday morning, when the temperature dropped 10 zt de- grees. -. -'
 Mrs. Warren ". Ayerin is to have the members of St Philips gujld al het hone for meeting Tuesday. afternoon.
 Dr. B. B. Loveland has been s2ending a few days with relatives Id Utica Dr. sand Mrs LovelSnd are 10 make the4r home in Putnam '-' Dr. and Mrs Joseph C. HoppIn oS Pom fret are in Boston today attending Ge HErYard- Princeton game.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-11
SOUTH COVENTRY

{. The Mems club of the M. D. schurch met "Wednesday night al the Lohman- Hon home Several new members were voted in Alter the us7zi business meet ing, a fine musical progran was given. with William Smith of WilEmantie at tha piano. At the close Of the meeting ~ treatments were served by Mrs Whrrea Hon. assisted by Mrs Lohmaa and Miss Lehman
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
MONOTONY OF SUPERSTITION
BY DR.. Frank Crane

1t is quite a custom among minds that
have never developed spiritual consciousness
to consider paganism as freedom.
Having grown up among Christian institu-
tions, that which has impressed them most
have been the restrictions devised by the
various churches.
These restrictions were intended to be
disciplinary. They work we'll enough when
there is something to discipline. But where
there is no spiritual life, they produce only
irritation and rebellion.
Every faith which has got itself into an Or
ganization, creates a by-product of infidelity.
The infidel outside of the church, is the
natural reaction against intolerance inside of
the church.
That considerable mass of people who hay
been repealed from spiritual life by the hard
ness OF organization, are also human; and
being human, they have spiritual appetite,
which is common human instinct.
To crafty this appetite some of them
turn to the variegated field of religious fads
and novelties.
Others, and particularly those who are re-
sponsive to the deep humanities of the pre-
Christian classics, those who have enjoyed
the stimulus of culture often turn with
thirsty eyes to the fountains of paganism.
This sentiment is exqusitely expressed by
Wordsworth:
Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan sucked in a creed outworn,
So might l, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me
less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the
sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed
horn
But the trouble is that this is only pa
thetic longing; the object toward which it is
directed has no more sustenance than
painted apple, nor more perfume than an en-
broidered flower
AS matter of fact, paganism was great
fear; as the Roman said, ''Timor fecit deos -
fear makes the gods
Instead of being afraid of one god, the
ancients were afraid of a thousand.
The triumph of modern faith is that it con-
ceives of the deity as friend and all the
terrors with which He is still clothed are but
the cling1ng garments of that paganism
which modern faith has been unable to dis
card
1t was in the little country Of Judea that
was born the germ of wholesome spirituality.
No Chinese, no Persian, no Egyptian no
Greek, no Roman, not Homer nor Horace
had the spiritual vision of the Jewish shep-
herd boy who coined the phrase, "The. Lord is
my Shepherd"
crat rather, their gods were swarm of di-
vine policemen and detectives.
To the pagan, there was a god lurking be-
hind every tree concealed in every BUSH
laundering in the storm. Gods were every
where. When he walked the woods, he
feared he might step on one. When he
bathed in the waters one might be lurking
there to seize him.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
P1o1oi7rg With P;cr;c

~ HE announcement comes from Wash
ington that farmers this fall will be
able to save hundreds of thousands
OF dollars in clearing their land of stumps,
IN drainage work and other efforts requir-
ing blasting, through the use of picric acid
salvaged from war explosives. This, it is
understood, will be distributed by the Blu
reau of Roads, and farmers may obtain
supplies of the explosive through any
state agricultural college or agricultural
state extension service at a cost of approx
mately six cents per pound.
According to DR.. Charles E. Munroe chief
explosive chemist of the bureau of mines,
picric acid in cartridge form is the safest,
most powerful and best explosive known for
agricultural work. Through the efforts of
DR.. Munroe some five million pounds of the
acid will become Immediately available for
distribution to farmers, properly dried and
put up in cartridges. ......
1t is this sort of salvage work that
makes one grateful for Governmental in
terest in agriculturalists, and the fact that
this picric acid is the actual product of war
explosives paid for by the people also is
gratifX1nGs
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05

tie when excited, she explains, and she is
interested to see whether whistling will help.
Il admire your courage says the doctor.
1--WE can teach you to whistle anyway
The doctor says that he has found only
one person who could not learn to whistle.
Why this boy could not remains mystery.
Either he could not grasp the idea of how
to force the sound out, or ne could not con-
troll the muscles. While others in the class
advanced from steam engine noises to scales
and on to "My Old Kentucky Home" this
boy never succeeded in producing a feeble
pipe.
But he is rare exception, DR.. Swift be-
lieves. With patience and practice almost
anyone can learn to give his voice exercise
by Whistling.
DR.. Swift says that more attention should
be given to speech defects, especially in chill
dren. In every school-room there are about
two speech detectives, he finds This seems
like comparatively small number, but null
tiplied by the number of school rooms in a
city it becomes more impressive.
Some of the detectives have organic trou-
BILE. Many are the victims of indifference,
bad training, and habit. Mothers think that
children will grow out of lisping, stamer-
ing and baby talk. Too often, however, the
way of speaking becomes more deeply rooted
through habit. It is far harder to correct
defects in a child of twelve than in five
year-old. Public schools in a number of
cities now have speech clinics, and speech
specialists attached to the teaching force.
Stammering, suffering, and the rest of
speech defects are often treated as minor all
ments because they do not apparently i'm
pair the health The. do, however, have Sc
rious effects on the individual In society,
in business every where that he comes in
contact with other people, the speech defec-
tive is handicapped. Schools and clinics have
made a start in trying to improve the voices
OF the rising generation. Perhaps whistling
will, as Dr. Swift prophesies, play part in
making the American voice beautiful.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05

w Y1lLE Hiram Johnson has Won renom"
W. nation to the Senate, in the Califor-
MIA Republican primary, he has lost
the way to far more coveted goal of his
ambition. This year, he had hoped was to
be but prologue to a greater "omen coming
on" A sweeping tidal victory in 1922 was
to bear him to certain fortune in the Repub-
lican convention of4924. His majority in
the recent contest was to have been, accord
ing to his boast, one hundred and seventy
five thousand which would have given him
renewed and potent prestige AS a fact,
however, it is relatively SO small that in the
judgment of able observers he is eliminated
as Presidential possibility from his party's
reckoning.
The more closely the situation is viewed
the clearer does this impression become In
1914 when Mr.. Johnson, then Governor, was
seeking reelection as a Progressive, he re-
ceived four hundred and sixty thousand, four
hundred and ninetJ five votes against his
Republican opponents two hundred and
seventy-one thousand nine hundred and nine
ty and the Democrats one hundred and
sixteen thousand one hundred and TWEEN
ty-one. In 1916, as Republican and
Progressive nominee for the United States
Senate, he received five hundred and seven
ty-four thousand six hundred and seventy
seven votes against some two hum
dred and seventy-eight thousand for his
Democratic opponent. His great plurality in
that contest was the more notable in that
Mr.. Hughes, Republican candidate for
President, failed to carry California. Upon
the strength of that victory he sought the
Republican Presidential nomination in 1920
as an avowed liberal; and although astute
party leaders saw to it that he was duly rele-
gated in the convention, he received i'm
pressive measure of popular support in the
primaries. But his sudden drop from the
towering majorities of 1914 and 1916 to a
mere sixty-five or seventy thousand in the
primary last week is what Shakespeare would
call making Ossa like wart."
This appears the more significant when it
is noted that less than three months before
the primary Mr.. Johnsons candidacy for re-
nomination stood unchallenged. Almost at
the eleventh hour he found himself opposed
by man who never had held public office. of
any kind and whose aVoWed purpose in en-
tering the contest was simply that liberal
Republicans in California might have oppor-
tunity for expression That the veteran s
shield should be so battered and his once
redoubtable plume plucked by knight
meaningful Senator Johnson had supposed
that his provincial opposition to the Four
Power pact and his log-rolljng connection
with, the most reactionary of tariffs would
win popular favor; had supposed that the
mood of times was trending away from those
progressive principles for which he was
wont to speak. But the result Of the pri-
mary shows the contrary, and confirms the
saying that "soon or late every demagogue
guesses wrong"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
The Art of Friendship

teries and its skeleton closet and they who
poke their noses into them do so at their
peril Nor do we want any other human be-
ing popping in and out of our houses at will,
and we soon come to dread and detest those
from whose presence we are never safe and
secure.
If you would keep your friends then come
in to their homes formally by the front door,
and never come as a self-invited guest. The
post, the telephone, the telegraph, to say
nothing of the word of mouth will afford
your friends ample facilities for asking you to
come when they want you.
Secondly respect your friends privacy. Be-
cause someone has enriched your happiness
by the gift of his or her affection is no rea-
son why you have a right to pry into his or
her. private affairs, and ask questions about
matters that are no concern of yours. The
honorable thing in friendship is to seek to
know nothing that is not voluntarily confided
to you.
And if you really value a friendship keep
your friends who are in trouble from conf1d-
ins their bitter secrets to you. Once people
tell you something that reflects upon them
selves they visit their weakness upon your
head. They grow suspicious of you, afraid
that you will be as indiscreet as they have
been and soon draw away from you.
Thirdly, do not make your friendship
tyranny. Most people think that because they
like you they have some sort of divine COM
about your. clothes, your politics, your re-
1igion, what doctor you shall have, and
what plays you shall see. And especially they
supervise your lists of friends
When you look back most of us can see
the way strewn with the friends we have
dropped when we got tired of being told
where we got on and Off We have to stand
enough of that sort of thing from our fam
lilies without taking on any more czars from
the outside.
Fourth, never make the mistake of think
ing that friendship gives you the privilege of
criticizing your friends and telling them
home truths. 1t doesn't. All of us have had
the experience of friends who kept our hearts
and our vanity sore and bleeding by the cruel
things that they said that they felt it their
duty as friends to tell us. And all Of us re-
call how very, very short time such friend
ships lasted.
Fifth, never borrow money or lend it to a
friend if you want your friendship to last
and have as few business dealings as pos
sble with your friends. Heaven knows why
but affection never seems able to stand fl
nancial strain.
1t takes self control and forbearance and
tact and diplomacy to keep friendship alive,
but it's worth the trouble.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

A woman correspondent asks me If I can
tell her how to make and keep friends.
The old axiom, eff you would have friends,
you must show yourself friendly contains
the whole of the law and the prophets con-
corning the art of drawing the hearts of 9th
ers to us. You must make an investment in
love and good will yourself before you can
collect any dividends.
People who are hard, and cold, and I'M
sympathetic never have any friends because
there is nothing in their granite natures to
which the tendrils of love can fasten. Neither
do selfish and self-centered people have
friends for there is nothing about the per-
sonality of a pig to call forth either affec-
ton or admiration. Nor are the shy and re-
served people, who expect everybody else to
make all the advances, overwhelmingly pop
ular for the human clam is seldom worth
the trouble and labor of digging out of his
or her shell.
SO the old rule holds If you want friends
you must show yourself friendly. You must
be genial. You must be responsive. You
must be approachable. You must be kindly
and willing to do those about you a good
turn whenever the opportunity offers. You
must lend patient ear while others discourse
about their children, and their automobiles
and their troubles, while you put the soft
pedal on the songs you are dying to sing
about yours
Above all, the secret of winning friends is
TO be sympathetic to take a real genuine in
terest in the welfare of those about you
to be able to weep with those who weep and
rejoice with those who rejoice Those who do
this rivet their fellow creatures to them with
bands of steel.
To make people like us is a simple mat
ter. To keep their affection after we have
won it is more difficult task. Most of us
can count up on the fingers of one hand, and
have few digets to spare, the friendships
which have endured the tests of time and we
might as well ask where is the hat we wore
/ 1900 as to ask where are the people who
were our darest friends and companions 20
years ago.
Perhaps the reason that friendship is so
evanescent is because we make the mistake
of treating it as if it were made of cast iron
that nothing we can do will dent, and mighty
little that we can do will break, instead of
regarding it as something as fine and beauti-
full and fragile as at bit of gauze, that the
ightest rough usage will fraazle out around
the edges.
1t, then, we would keep our friends we
must bear these things in mind.
First, to be more punctilious in observing
the conventions with our friends than we are
with our enemies. No friendship ever long
survived back door visiting. Each household
has it's kitchen secrets, it's garbage can mys-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
WHAT EVERY MAN BELIEVES
BY Helen Rowland

Every normal man believes in his secret
heart:
That the woman he married 'chose" him
out Of the whole wide world.
That he married her of his own free
sweet will.
That the Lord made all brunettes that
way; but that any blonde is apt to be
chemical" and every red-haired woman is
addicted to henna
That woman's sphere is marriage, but that
she should never think of it,, except in the
beautiful abstract-until some man men
tions it to her.
That any girl whom he has tred-and
failed-to kiss, could not possibly be kissed,
and never has been kissed by any other man.
That any girl whom he has kissed easily
could be kissed by almost airy man.
That every woman who wears long skirts
does it in order to hide some hideous defect
of nature.
That womans first duty is to be beautiful;
but that she should scorn to resort to any
Of the little First aids to beauty if the Lord
didn't make her that way.
That when girl declares she doesn't want
to marry, she is either "joshing" him or
kidding herself"
That nobody can tell HIM anything about
how to cook bacon, eggs, clam choWder and
coffee; because he did it once when he was
camping-and, OH Boy!
That a house can be cleaned by running
straw through it and blowing out the dust
as you clean pipe-and that when woman
complains that she is all tired out after
housekeeping days, she is merely trying to
get into the limelight by playing on his
sympathies.
That woman should regard marriage as
a matter of blind luck a husband as
heaVen-sent blessing-and spinsterhood as
her own fault
That every widow would marry again at
the drop Of hat-or hint.
That every woman who sits in hotel lob
by for more than five minutes is there to be
stared at.
That girl who doesn't enjoy the Follies
or the Winter Garden or a vaudeville show
is mental snob or a highbrow.
That when woman says mol" she al
ways means, 'Yes''-or at the worst, Not
YETI
That, some day. somehow, somewhere, he
will find that Ideal Woman, with all the
virtues Of saint, all the destinations OF
devil, all the beauty of houri, and all the
accomplishments of trained nurse-who
will be eager and delighted to concentrate
her cultivated mind on cooking his eggs for
breakfast, adm to devote her beautiful hands
to darning his cocks AMI pesiing onions.
IN. B.-And, maybe he's right)
(COpyrigAt, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
War Run1orsl

~ NOE again, from overseas comes the
I rumor of war; and, as always, Cen
trail Europe is the cauldron in which
the rumors bubble.
representatives from the reparations commits
sion, preparatory to independent action on
the German indemnity question. Should
this eventuate, hundred threads of Euro
pean policy would become sndrled beyond
speaking and France would align herself for
all time against Teuton Europe and against
England.
1t may be that Poincare is ndulging in a
gesture for the benefit of the French people,
or it may be that the gesture is meant for
England. If the latter it seems, from this
distance, that France would best do less ges-
ticulating and more serious thinking
There is no hope for Europe, say the in
ternation~ lists, save through the salvation of
Germany as nation, and England is too def
initely on record as favoring German reha-
Utilization to be disturbed by Frances most
recent threat. showdown on the repara-
tions matter would find France standing
almost alone against the world
Meantime France stands firm on demand
ing the lmpossb bile. Germany cannot pay in
full at this time. The fact is obvious, even
to the French, wherefore Poincare declares
with am earnestness that seems bit over
done-that the only alternative is French oc-
cupation OF the Ruhr valley and French
operation of German mines.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05
Acquirab7e Genius

v
grow increasingly difficult This is
due largely, perhaps, to the fact that
the study of psychology has outgrown it's
swaddling clothes and is becoming more and
more a factor in everyday life.
Freuds contribution cannot yet be de-
termined but he and his disciples are bound
to leave their mark despite their tendency
to see in psycho-analysis the diagnosis and
cure of every mental i'll. At least Freud has
thrown some light on that definition that is
at once so simple and so elusive, the def
milton of genius; and it is through Freud
that, in these latter years, we have come to
a better understanding of those men who &C
complish what seems beyond the capacity of
the average.
Much to our amazement we learn that
there is inherent in us all this same indefin-
able something known as genius and that it
is necessary only that we find the proper
field for the exercise of such talents as we
possess. The point of being or becoming
genius says one earnest student. is not so
much in what one has inside ones head as
how one uses it.
Despite the manner of the statement, it
is interesting to consider its possibilities, par
ticularly in view of the fact that nosone has
any very serious objection to being consider
ed little bit more capable than his brother.
After all, it is just this additional capability
that constitutes genius, and such genius, it
is maintained, is not thing inherited but a
matter within ones own control
Work an extra half hour daily at that
which you most prefer to do and, within ten
years, you will find yourself hailed by the
multitude This is what the books say, and,
surely it is rather ridiculously simple and
quite easily demonstrated.