Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 9, 1911, Page 12

(WWritten Spectally for The Bulletin.) The longer I farm it, and the more I see of farmers, the firmer grows my conviction that lack of foresight is one of our greatest holdbacks. Indeed, sometimes it seems as if this weré the greatest obstacls of all It is forced upon me by my own experience, and it is reinforced Ly my observaiion, that don’t Jook ahewd often emvugh nor enough. an old phrase which describes the way too many of us live—"frem hand to mouth” We follow too lter- aily the sdjuration to take no thought of the morrow. As If thers were no difference between the simple life of Palestine two :ho_nd] years ago lmud ihe highly complex }ives we emust now! 1 don’t mean that we actually take no thought of tomorrow, for we should all starve to-death if we-didn't. Buf, as life goes these latter days, it is less tomorrow that we need to think of than next week and next month and next year, We all think a little ahead. we do0; we mibst. We think “What then?” I imagine some of you thinking; “‘we canmot foresee the fu- tare; do you mean that we are re- sponsidle for our failure to do that wiich, in the nature of things, s out ©f our power? AR dear friends, right thers is one of the mysteries of this awfully my: terious thing we call life. It doesn’t that you don’t know won't | save you from the undertakers hands. 1f you walk off a precipice in the night whien It is too dark for you to @ee the brink, your fgnorance wom't save you from broken bomes. If your creeping baby doesn't kmow that the stove is hot, its lgnorance won't save it from paiiiful burns I it touches the heated rom AN of this seems cruel and unjust o you. perbaps. I admit it does to me. I can’t understand it; I can't explain it; T can't meke it square with my human ideas of justice. Nevertheless, that faflure of ours to understand what i% too deep for us does not give us the >ight to denounce the ordev of things wrong. There are more things in heaven an#t carth than all the wisdom of all the ages has gathered. There are deeps in.the infinite which all the viummets of-all the philosophies he: never sounded. There are mysteries in the less outreaches of the vast in- comprehensidle which we have never soived, and, perhaps, never may. Shall we then deny the deeps our sounding lines will not touch, and ignore the mysteries our finite Intellects cannot sclve? Taut, tut; let us rather lay the finger of humility on the lips of silence and stand humbly still in the presence. of the Bternally Inscrutable. Indesd, we have none of us been ap- pointed to rule the universe. It is not. of cur making nor of our ordering. We ere in it not of our choice or will. We &e not charged with its management, ror have we the slightest influence therewith. We are not here to boss it mor to reform it, but to find out as much as we can about its prearranged order and fit ourselves to it—If we can. 3f we can’t, so much the worse for us: the universe won't mind! Nor will its eternally fixed course be changed by the breadth of a single hair because e, creatures of a day, don't think its movement strictly according to our ephemeral ideas of governmental poli- o Therefore—to come back to our mut- tons—the fact that we can't foretall o summer @rought in the preceding spring won't help our crops a single littie bit when the drought really comes. The scorching, rainless July will burn out our grass and stunt cur potato mnd kill our oats just as certainly as if we bad kmown all about it the April before. Nor will the drought break for our benefit, whether we piteously im- plore the universe to be what we call OTHER’S FAULTS MAKE BAD FOOD more merciful, or insolently denounce it for not being what we call more just. Are we th it down inertly and take things as they come without un cffort? Because we are not masteré of the universe shall we submit ourselves to be merely its helpless and hopeless slaves? 1 think there is no more ne- cessity of our being the latter than there 1s posstbility of our being the former. It is not possible to rule; it is not necessary to be ruined. Be- tween the two lies the road of lowly | but aspiring co-operation with the uni- verse. Detween them is seizable the chance to become learners from | universe and co-workers with it. the be able to foretell all the future. But it is possible for us, from past experi- ence, to forecast some probabilities 1n it—end get ready for them. 3 Take that illustration of the July drought. We may not know that one is coming this vear. But we do know that one is llable to come some year. It we put all our farming work into one crop, on one dry upland, and the drought actually comes, then goodbye to all our hopes for the year. But we are not compelled to do that. 'We have land which is not susceptible - to drought as well as land which is. We can plant crops which are drought- resistant, as well as crops which are not. We can, perhaps, prepare & means for irrigating when the need comes. We can. perhaps, have ready tools for intensive cultivation, to conserve .ex- istent molsture and save even the dews when the ralns deny themselves. While Wwe mey not be able to foretell the drought, and certainly shall not be able to stop it or shorten it, we may still, by previous preparation and shrewd ioresight, be able to minimize its dam- age. Amd the farmer who does this is fairly sure to suffer to come out better off, than the farmer who thinks he can do nothing—and does it Because we can’t do e reason why we shall not do what we can. Because we don’t know every- thing s no reason why we shall not use the little sense we have. thing 1s no The other day | found a neighbering housekeeper busy putting up & great guantity of preserved citron. This, as you ladies know, takes sugar. And sugar costs money, these days. “Whew!” said I, “you must be get- ting rich to handle sugar as recklessly as you do. They're askin' eight cemts for'it at the store. John. the sugar provider, overheard me. “That sugar cost me Just four and three-quarters cents a pound,” said he. “1 bought a year's supply last epring, one day when I was in town and sugar was way o Now John dldn't know, last spring, that sugar was going to be sent up in a balloon the coming fall. Probably no one knew it then. But every pur- veyor for any household kmows from that v gees up about “canning season™ hat it can usually be bought cheaper some other time of the year. This particular John didn't know that he was going to save about three dol- lars a hundred on his sugar when he bought it. But he was reasonably sure that he would save something. He simply used foresight ana sense. Tt paid big interest this time. It would have pald a fair profit any vear, almost. But this John seems to have the exception. I had a whacking ::: crop of fine citron in my gardens this season. T hoped to sell a lot. But they wers “no go.” My own home market tcok a very few. Neither of the two city markets which I can touch wanted any. The explanation lay simply in the high price of sugar. Housewives couldn’t afford to put up preserves which took so much sugar when they had to pay elght cents a pound for it. So T know very, very few had used the foresight which John did in the sugar just one minor at econcmic and industril equation: only one of a score of things to buy on which we could save money if we looked ahead. Drought is gnly one of a score of enemies we have o meet w] we might 55 ik e ight ambush if we It is not only in the realm spirit, bat Just as truly T the Masde - _Delicious Cake BAKING EASY [ in fisted and pragmatic world of practi- calities that the glorious old motto ap- plies: “Look up and not down; Look out and not in; Look forward and not back, and LEND A HAND!" THE FARMER. NEW LONDON LETTER. Tony Silve Sells Out His Bus Policemen Off Duty to be Docked: Their Places to be Taken by Super- numeraries. Tony Silva, exalted ruler of New London lodge of Elks, who started Lusiness life as a hustling newsboy, then opening a store and conducting the sale of newspapers at wholesalo and retail, has sold his successful busi- ness and will take a needed rest before re-engaging in a kindred business. Al- though Tony Silva has been in busi- pess on his own account for @ number of years, he is still quite 2 young man, and 26 years ago he was the youngest and busiest newsboy in the city. When the Morning Telegraph was first start- €d, 26 years and more ago, Tony was the early boy to catch the extra papers for service rendered First he came before dayiight in the winter, as well 2s in summer, with hi the bonus papers that he received for taking small bundles of the Telegraph to the early trains. Tony was ot slow to see the adventage of bein~ the first boy on the streets with the paper and he realized that the way to be that Dboy was to take the bundies to the first traln, for that carried with it a few extra papers and the privilege of being the first boy to take our papers for sale. Tony was then a mere mite of & chap and as bright as were his black and shining eyes, and in less than two weeks he cut his brother John out of the job of taking bundles to the train by getting at the office before John had started from his home, and was back from the depot when John rived at the office and out on the street again with a fresh supply of news- papers. That was Tony Silva’s start in the newspaper business and the get-up- and-get that was with him then he has | never permitted to get away from him. He is the same Tony on an enlarged scale, polite and progressive, and with the business ability broadened by his years of experience. Tony Silva is among the best known citizens of New London and has the respect of every newsboy and every reader of new: pepers who have the pleasure of his &cquaintance. The police committee of the court of common council for the city of New London, realizsing the injustice to the people by neglecting to give police pro- ection just because regular officers happened to be on the sick list, have finally applied the remedy. Rather than have a deficit in the department by calling supernumeraries to duty, £5 has been tha occasional custom, the committee has decided that hereafter when policemen are off duty on ac- count of sickness that they will re- celve no pay for that period, but that their places on the force will be su. plied by supers and at the regular pa. There have been times of late when several officers would be off duty at the same time by reason of sicknes: and in consequence their beats woul not be supplied, and the people be de- prived of police protection. as the com- mittee had no fund avaiiable for the extra service of (he supernumeraries and had no desire to establish a fund for the aid of sick policemen. So de- cision was made to dock the officers whenever off duty. except during the vacation period. The report that the committee was to urge this same method in all departments of the city Eovernment is officlally denied, but it has already been applied to the street department. The present police committes is now eoming ea: to give the people the best possible service and at the least possible expense. By a little cut here and a little cut there, and here a cut and there a cut, they have man- aged to get an extra officer on the patrol force to supply the vacancy oc- casioned by the promotion of Ben Bee- be to the detective force, of which he is chlef and the whole desirable fore In a parsimonious way they have se. cured cheap help to care for the police station instead of having regular offi- cers serve, as has been the custom for ‘many years, or since the passage of the faithful Eliphalet Crocker, who served as station house keeper ' during the Hinckdey-Quinn _administrations. By this plan the committee exnects to have the work now being done by as- signed officers of the regular force at a less cost to the city by the hiring of a ten-doliar-a-week man and clothing him with the power of special police officer and without extra charge. and by way of designation the station Bouse keeper will be known as janitor. ¥y this arrangement the officers signed to station houve keeper must roturn to street duty. und, if incapaci- tated, can lay off at their own expense, or, if eligible, can make application for retirement. Already a younxz man has ®one on duty in the Ocean Beach sec- tion and will probably soon be as- sizned to the reeular force. The new officer is John Hogan, who as super- numerary served as & trafic officer during the summer and has been on police duty on many occanions. He will prove an efficlent officer. It has been said that the police com- mittee has full authority to prescribe the rules and regulations for the o ernment of the lice force, but that should not prev. the comimitteemen fiom observl the regulations as they exiat or bar O from chunging the rules to meet their actual or prospec- tive action. This is In reference (o the assigning officers o new y quarter, whan the regula- at such work Is the duty of the captain of police. Sure the com- mittes has full power in this reform work In the conduct of the department | where there is a chance tu save a few dellars ‘1o the eitv. but it is an open auestion whether that kind of econom- ical paring ix approved by the great ‘| majority of the people who pay the pres older brother, | John, and shared profits with him in | Change WILL WONDERS EVER CEASE, ANY SEAT IN THE HOUSE AT MATINEES 10c EVENING PRICES, 10c, 20c, 30c NO HIGHER Bigger and Better Productions at Small Prices COMING SOON with SVENGALI, and other Famous Characters x Priees TRILBY COMMENCING MONDAY, DEC. 11th THE INTENSE EMOTIONAL DRAMA WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN A KEEN STRUGGLE OF WOMEN’S WIT A GREAT MORAL LESSON Every Man, Woman and Child Should See This Play Hlustrated Songs and Poli’s Electrograph Between the Acts NO WAITS—ACTION EVERY MINUTE COMING SOON A Hypnotic Tale of The Parisian Latin Quarter Mon.,, Tues, Wed., Dec. 11, 12, 18 Breaking a Wisdom Monopoty. “T'm afraid the country suffered a great loss when they failed to send our eloquent and able friend back to eongress.” “Not at all,” replied Sena- tor Sorghum. “The sease of the plain people again prevailed. Why should the lecture platforms be robbed that the brainy men may be assembled to listen to one another, where instruc- tion is superfluous?” Pocullarities of Authors. Addison, whose classic elegance has long been considered a model of style, was shy and absent in soclety, pre- serving, eve “efore a single stranger, stiff and di 9ed silence. Rousseau was remark trite in conversation —not a woru of fancy or eloquence warmed him. Willing He Should Get Clear. “Stone Out for Champ Clark,” says a headline. Many progressive Demo- crats in Missourl would like to seo him out of the Senate for Champ Clark—Kansas City Star. AUDITORIU BANKS BREAZEALE DUO Dainty and Refined Musical Act—Special Scenery ROBBINS & TRENAMAN SAM GOLDEN Refined’ Singers Character Artist Coming Wednesday and Thursday—Hands Across the Sea in 76 —_— e | ADMISSION 10e and 20c Pessimistic Forecast. | “Tt 1s annoying to have to run into | ®0 many cranks,” sald the irritable person. “Yes,” replied the mathemat- ical triend; “but think what the world will be a few generations hence. The rate of the increase will be terrific. | You can’t live without meeting cranks, | and you can’t keep running into them | without becoming ome yourself.” | Belglum’s Proud Position. | Belgium is one of the smallest coun- | tries in regard to area, containing only 11,373 square miles, but it stands Ever Presented in this City. Monday and FEATURL F& ] BREED THEATRE ‘esday Only ICTURE The “BATTLE --Biograph A Marvelous Story of Magnificent Soldiery. The Iost Wonderful Series of Battle Pictures Performances, 2.30-7.15-8.30 p. m. Don’t Iiss It. 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