New Britain herald., 1922-02-24
SHUTTING OUT THE
 BEAUTIES OF LIFE
Insurance Official Talks to Hi-Y
 BOyS--GiYeS Advice

What do you own?" the subject of the talk given by Winslow Russell, rice-president of the Phoenix Life In- surancc company, at the weekly meeting of the Highly club at the Y. M. c. A, last evening" was short and to the point, adding another name to the list of good speakers heard there this season.
 As n beginning, he recited poem showing that all people are statesmen, selling themselves every day to mothers, fathers, teachers and sweet hearts. We can't do this with a frown we must smile Smiling is the secret of making friends" he said
 The Radiophonc.
 He told of the wonders of wireless and of the radiophone, how Presi- dent Wilson, when he was en route for the peace conference, was able to talk with men at Washington. He said that on Catalina Island, one hum dred miles from the California coast, people can call up friends in South- ern California by means of the radio phone. The system of calling up is similar to the telephone: the people call central and give num- bers as in the telephone system. All this is done without wires.
 The Human Phone.
 MT. Russell then spoke of the won- derful human talking apparatus, "our own talking apparatus. No one can take it away from us if we take care of it. It can be made an asset or q liability by keeping. back or letting out some of the things which we should not say.
 What things we have to work with today! Think of the things by which we hear. It is as wonderful as the radiophone; you hear everything l say, yet there are no wires. This. too, can be made an asset or T liability nc- cordng to the stuff we permit our selves to hear.
 At one time I was on T board of prison commissioners which talked with every convict who was let out of Wetherstield prison. The majority at trbuted their downfall to bad com- pany, to what they had permitted to enter their minds"
 First Aero Trip.
 The speaker then told of his first aeroplane ride. His eyes were tightly closed during the whole trip, and when he reached the earth he felt "sicker than he had ever felt in his life" He had his eyes, but they were closed to the beauties of nature dur ing the whole trip.
 Eyes Which Do Not See.
 He said d person at the top of the Washington monument may close his eyes and shut out the wonderful view. Lots of fellows are going through life in that condition, with dark glasses on They don't see thing simply because they will not open up that wonderful vision which was given to them.
 Our wonderful sense of reasoning and sight were given to us in order that VIC may help the world to be better place to live in."
 He told the story of a lady who was throwing flower seeds from fhe window of train. AS an cxplana- tion, she said she probably never would travel on that road again and so she was throwing the seeds m or der that people coming later mlght smell the fragrance of the flowers Are we throwing out good things for the people who come after us or are we using those things for ourselves alone, making liabilities out Of as sets?" ,, ot He said, Lots of fellows will not he successful unless they begin now. They have lost grasp on the sltua- +;on and will fail. The difference, however, between being good and be- ing bad is very slight. It is very nara +o overcome tremendous obstacles turning failure into success by con quering temptation. . In concluding, he read a poem Tn which the point is brought out that one man is as good as another Ii ne uses lis head and keeps on his rect. Professor Dodge, of Wesleyan uni- yersity, will be the speaker TOT next week.