Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-02
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 two sides to present. We do not find ab- solute perfection of spirit among these pavilion critics. There are the fat critics of both sexes so ashamed of their adipose that they rail at the young folks who think their form iss little short of the divine. These fat folks hate vanity. There is the advanced spinster watching her little grand-niecs spiash up and down in the water think ing of the good old times when wo- mans bathing suit was made of heavy blue flannel and extended from ears to ankles, and this was covered with a blue petticoat, which, when wet, was enough to drown an elephant. Tn those days. women, lightly clothed. did not swim out a quarter mile to raft and jump of spring board into forty feet of water after the custom of vie men. Vanity is not altogether on the side of the beach and the bathers.
 i To stop at this point with pavilion philosophy would hardly do justice to either party Now the pavilion contains not only envious aveirdupois and cyni- cal spinisterhood, but also those So ad- vanced in life that the "evil days have drawn night when they say that they l have no pleasure In tfrm." i. C. in the bathers and bathing, and they, too, have l. | is likewise the men and women of GlI 1 ages, too stingy to hire bath house ] who say that this salt water bathing 1 is nothing but a silly fad anyway, and I they are there just to see that their it. 1 tie granddaughter doesn't get "drowned g I There are many lean persons in the pavilion because they turn so blue in 1 cold sea water that they shiver for | hours after they come out. There are | IA | ter because they are mortaIIy afraid of I undertow. deep holes. crabs, sharks, cramps, heart disease and other things equally delightful. Others know that it will bring on asthma and Rheumatism, I and still some because August is not I the month Nor their annual scrub. And I thus we see that there are as many van
 itfes and foibles fin the pavilion as on l the beach.
 I As vacation period for most of us has l come to an end and We look over the I pleasant vista Of the last four weeks, Il what have we gained that has been
 worth getting? Is there any outstand- I ing thing that looms high above all Il others? Have we added to our stock in trade along physical and mental lines? and if so. how? It may be that some of
 us have indulged our propensity for I reading and have just reveIIei fn good ! books It may be that others have feast T ed their retinas on bits of scenery that I will live long aft4r the summer has gone. Perhaps sczne have made it large ly 8 physical vacation, and have gone the limit, boating, swimming, dancing, fishing, and more unfortunately grabbing
 and courting. There may be a few dog en out of a million who have made eat ing, sleeping, and sitting in veranda l chairs, the main objective in August. Il j the writer might be allowed to give his ,l personal testimony 1t would be the op ., portunity of pumping up against mer
 who know so much more than he does
 has been the chief asset of his vacation The passion to be in the Mme-Iigh
 and to attract attention is so strong tha lit makes one bold and daring. Peopl,
 who are bold and daring aH not al . ways heroic. The end in view show g the difference between heroism and bold f ness. The man who at the risk of hi fl own life, pIunges into burning build . ing or into deep water, to save somebody
 doesn't do it to be talked about, but be < cause of the value he puts on humal :. life. Such man is hero. But tn . man who jumps from Brooklyn bridge 6 or goes over Niagara Falls in a barre
 is simply bold man, because he doe
 
 fl row out from the shore to get into tn pI wake of a big boat. are not necessariI if brave lads but they do it because the . love the excitement and the commotio ' it creates on the boat. For the monen 2 they hold the center of the stage Tn " girl paints her lips, powders her nosi 's and pencils her eyebrows, not becaus is she thinks she decefves anybody, br s- because she wants to attract attention nj it is the love of the lirne-light Man 7. are willing to run risks If they can onl ,-Ebe stared at and talked about.
 ,el The main factor in the performans j. of any deed is self-assurance. Tn fac
 the deed is already half done when or fully believes he can do 1t, and is vii ing to put forth the necessary exertio, | We always fail if we never rise aboz l. the fear that We are going to fail Fes tsE smites the attempt to do a thing betwee d both eyes. When the schoolboy caves a. before the bug-bear of a hard lesson ar "a says: q can't get that lesson and there a-E no use trying" the presumption Is tti;
 he won't get it simply because he doesn -.t try. But the boy who says ''T can g :o it and I wi1I,' in ninety-hve cases o1 iiA of hundred does get it, because seI snI assurance urges him to try. It is at grand thing for any person, and especis or ly any young person, to believe in hin tol self, because it Is the very bed TO, etI on which achievement Is secured. { .r course self-appreciation hay be disjoin lv ed from reason and be overdone, and . some cases may result in the "swelll o head,'' but the positive benefits great
 outbalance this danger.
 LabOr day this year will be ceIebra
 ed in many homes-if at a1l-with dir I'd es rather than with hymns of joy al all gladness. The whole industrial situ:
 tion is much more of a problem tn
 most of us realize. We are not 11s
 fed in either uphoIding or condemnil to strikes indiscriminately{ Some striK l- have been justified by every law
 God and man; While others have be
 indefensible by any law. There ha ,r been abuses on the part of asome co =. operators that ought to be stamped c = at once and forever. For instance in O ~ mine the company held back 10 per eel
 of the workers wages for six mont 7c- and then gave it to them in a lur ay sum, and had the audacity to call ,xt ia bonus. If in the meantime they strlx
 they would lose it. Strikes will not
 prevented by wholesale thievery. On |
 Eother hand the street-car strike in CT 'ttt cago cost. the strikers in loss of wa ln- es $700.00o and the company $5,8 ne 900. The men were receiving from
 to S2 cents an hour. A cut of 25 I
 cent was suggested and they stf1r ne After months of haggling they acce +,e ed Is per cent after throwing S,0eo,e = of people into confusion.
 Early in July, WilIian Allen VII
 wrote an editorial in the Kansas c Star entitled, What of America" Il the aroused so much enthusiasm that 1t v 'ng subsequently, republished in a later e the tien, and has since been largely cop
 throughout the country. It was one