Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 17, 1914, Page 12

ORGANIZATION MEANS SALVATION Fm 'HE FARMER (Writtent Specially For The Bulletin.) After quoting from Secretary Hous- tow's annual report the same para- graphs which I quoted, last week, rela- tive to the high prices paid by con- sumers for farm products being “a marketing problem” and callitg for “better organization of farmers and improved methods of marketing,” The Outlook,—Dr. Abbott's and Col. Roose- velt's magazine.—comments thus: “With some noteworthy exceptions, the metropolitan press, which delights to dilate upon the prosperity and lux- urfous existence of all farmers, and which apparently possesses a knowl- edge of rural affairs gained exclusive- ly from the observations of Arcadian operas, has not takem kindly to this pronouncement of the Department of Agriculture, Some day our city dwellers will realize how much they are made to suffer from the economic disadvantages under which our agri- cultural population is made to labor. “Our farnters form the last class of our citizens to take its place in the organized world of modern industry. It will be to the advantage of all when they have finally achieved the positionm and recognition which they have so long deserved.” That comment tickled me. first place, it's a rather neat sarcasm on the “metropolitan press,” meaning thereby the daily papers.of New York city. The suggestion that they “ap- parently” gain their sole idea of coun- try affairs from watching “Arcadian operas” wherein dainty darlings of the stage, in Watteau hats and bewiteh- ing boots gambol over green baize meadows in the shade of pastboard trees, with ribbon-decked vakes or sickles of seventeenth century pattern, 18 one that may explain a whole lot of the stuff they primt abeut rural matfers. In the For it is hardly possible to state with too great emphasis or too broad sweep or too contemptuous diction the fact that the average dally New York Ciy newspaper is as wrong-headed in its usual treatment of farming con- dictions as it is possible for a combin- ation of pitiful ignorance and bump- tious self conceit to make anyone, Sometimes the New York City news- papers seem to be edited from the back of Wall street: sometimes from the counters of department stores: sometimes from the stock exchange: and sometimes from Avenue A. They seem to think only in terms of the tape measure or the discount table. The great big country from which New York city sucks its daily blood seems quite bevond their comprehension, as it is wholly ouside of their sympathy. | The gossip of their home town hides from their comprehension the problems of the larger country. 1f, by ehance, they sometimes get { out ‘of the shadow of their sky-serap- | pers and find something beside asphalt umder their feet, it is only that they may be personally conducted for am hour over the cityfied estate of some yretired millionaive. whose operations bear ‘about as much relation to farm- ing as a yacht race does to trans-At- lantic commerce. It is a novel and, on the whole, hope- ful sign that a New York City maga- zine like The Outlook should® be able to see a glimpse of this and willing; even in the way of good matured satire, 6 comment on it. The farmers of the country outnum- ber any other class of men engaged in | useful preductive occupation. There , and several mil- lions in transportation worl and larger numbers in mining; lumbering, ete. But those occupied with farming are a larger number than those in any one of these other vocations. Not only are they more numerous than any other class of usefully emploved work- men, but their labors are more vitally fundamental than those of any other. It is only by grace of what the farm- ers produce that the merchant, the miner, the railroad mam, and all the rest can ever live, to say nothing of do- ing business. Any man with an ounce of brains in his head ought to be able to see that the welfare and prosperity of the farming class is of more im- port to the general welfare and pros- perity tham that of any other. Yet the average New York City news- paper, while arrogating to itself a claim’ fer newspaper leadership in the country, gives, on an average, vastly more space to the affairs of twenty thousand East Side cloak-makers, or a hundred thousand coal miners ,or a perhaps equal number of railroad em- ployees, than to the radical, vital, paramount problems of the farms and their dozen million eccupants! Worse yet, when they do, occasion- ly, condescend to take any part in the discussion of farm problems, their ig- norance of the fundamental and un- deriying facts would usually be pitia- ble if the cocky assurance of conceit which marks their lucubrations were not so irritating. They seem to know or eare little about-the real condition. of things on the real farms of the con- tinent. And what little they think mercantile busines Avoid Impure Milk Infants ana Invalids HORL ICK’ It means the Original and Genuine MALTED MILK [{ The Food-Drink for all Ages. Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form. For infants, invalids and growing children.' ‘Pure nutrition, upbuilding the whole body. Imvigorates nursing mothers and the aged. More healthful than tea or coffee. ‘Agrees with the weakest digestion. Keep it on your sideboard at hom=. A quick lunch prepared in a minute. P Take no substitute. Ask for HORLICK'S. (HORLICK’S Contains Pure Milk priceless. The RAYO Lamp New York _Albany After-Supper Games Are best by Rayo-light. Kerosene light saves young eyes that are lamp made. No smell, no bother. Easy to clean :and rewick—can be lighted with- Dealers everywhere—write for descriptive circalar. MOILCOMPANY is the best kerosene of New York m RN IS TA FEARRRAR NS VIV T &4 {and molders of public opinion in the | are a good many millions engaged in | ‘the know of beln. not so. There: are two ways to build a pyra- mid: mhw‘thl;!bronflbauflrm- “and solidly spread over an area am- “{0 to insure its standing ageinst all the winds that may blow and all the. | earthquakes: that may rumble. The other is to bulld it with its apex in the sand and its base heaved up into ‘the air,—a. top-heavy and instable MOnStrosity. The economic base on’ which in this ‘country all business must be built if it is to. endure is agriculture,—farm- ing. It's the biggest single business of all: it's the most fundamental bus- | iness' of all: it's the business on whose general prosperity every other de- pends for its very exiscence. Yet' it | gets from the self-appointed leaders “metropolitan press’ about as intelli- | gent attention as the camel-drivers of | Cairo give to the base of Cheops’ pyramid . “How Long, Oh Lord, how long?" The Outlook hits the nail square on the head when it says: “Our farm- ers form the last class of our efti- zens to take its place in the organized world of modern industry.” The cloak makers ave organized: the railroad 'men are organized: the mimers are or- ganized: pretty nearly every other set of producers is organized and can thus give Ifs protests or its ‘demands the force ‘/of a hundred or thousand-ham- mered blow. But the farmers are about as much organized as a gravel- Epank, where every individual pebbie is always on the verge of being shaken down the slope into somebody's dump- cart. What's the explanation? We farm- ers are not, as a rule, lazy. We' have to work hard to keep out of the poor- house, We are not, as a rule, stupid. Most of us are as keen at a bargain as the average. We are net. as a rule, any more wasteful than workmen in other callings. We are, as a rule, willing to accept ®ie theory of or- ganization as a good onme. And, we know, the most of us, what is the immediate and present trouble with farming. It is simply that weé can’t unor- ganize, as we are, force the organized middiemen to pay us a falr price for our goods Then why don’t we organize and take the power which our overwhelming numbers would give us the instant we did so? | suppose you've some of you tired self! I m '3%; John the Bajisc renity &.m‘; Votes Hophers, ans. wid Hencyl But. e b ul old u!ms and _of some ac- ceptance that the cnmflNm ping of water weareth away stones. Tl some vm-m'xwm and now }and then 1t's while to keep ding- ting away at the same boulder. If I can't make a hole, T may at least be le to make a dent whieh some other nd mere skilful handler will open in- to a crack with some futire blow. Pve already mentioned that Long Island granger plan by which the grangers there are going to bunch thelr selling activities in the New York market. This last week came the news of an organization just effected among a lot of New Jersey truck gardeners for similar purpose. They've got tired of getting thirty-five cents for the ber- ries and vegetables which city con- sumers paid a dollar for, and are go- ing to arrange for direct delivery to the consumers, by which they will get at least fifty per cent. more than here- tofore and the consumers will save an- other big per cent. over what they've hitherto. paid, Oh, things move slowly,—but they're beginning to move, allee samee! And that's the great thing, after all—to make a start. Who was it that sald the beginning was half the task? Should” c.nv..m the qnmm In Norwich. Because it's the evidence of a Nor- wich citizen. Testimony easily investigated, “The best proof. Read it: Mrs. Roland Ockery, 262 Franklin Street, Norwich, Conn., says: “Pains in the small of my back caused ‘me great suffering. Whenever I stooped sharp twinges darted through my body and I was handicapped in doing my housework. I felt miserable when T begzn using Doan’s Kidney Pills, pro- cured from N. D. Sevin & Son's Drug Store. Their good effect was soon noticeable, and I continued taking them until the trouble was entirely re- moved.” NO MORE TROUBLE. Some years later Mrs. Ockery said: “You may continue to publish my former statement. Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me of kidney trouble and I have been in good health since. Others of my family have taken this remedy with good results.” There's a time, every spring, Wwhen the buds on the trees seem to hang fire. They're there, that we know, but they don't seem to grow any. One chill day follows another and frosty night comes after frosty night. Here and there a tiny leaflet shows itself, one on a willow; one on a red elm; one or two on an early apple tree. But the vast forests still stand bare- twigged and seemingly hopeless till the ngm day dawns and the right sun rises. Then the transformation js like that of a “lightning change” artist. The woods fairly leap info leafage, and the old mountain which was just a hetchel of spiky prongs and bare twigs becomes in a single day a great gavden of foliage, and a tremendous output_of life. Something like that’s going to hap- pen in our farming woods, sometime. 1 don’t expect to live to see it, but I hope some of you young fellows will. But don’'t forget one thing:—we've got to de the trick of ourselves, by our- selves, and for ourselves! THE FARMER NEW LONDON IND omn Roofs. Unsuccessful effort was made to diseredit what was said in this cor- respondence last Saturday relative to the closing of the big Hopson and Chapin piant but the continuation of | business by the company in the installa- | tion of heating systems, the equipment | being manufactured elsewhere where speciaity is made of that grade of | work. The president of the company | made public statement in verfication of what was stated in the Builetin Even going so far as to practically concede that with an abundance of | capital the big plant could have been kept in operation. So, after all, it was not far-fetched to say that if the New London Business Men's associa- tion had given as zealous attention to this established industr: is some- times given others to locate here the results might p:ove equally as sati factory and, perhaps, more so. association has done incalculable good | in advancing the best interests of the city but it is sometimes well to foster the industries we have before encour- aging others that we know not of. There are ‘several small industries in New London, small in comparison with the Hopson and Chapin industry | of a few yvears ago, that ought to re- ceive consideration of the active cor mittees of the active business men’s| association or some of them may be | slipping away to locations where they | if reports be true, the project is re- ceiving serious considera n In fact| is unofficially announced that the is to be made.” Here's a chance i e Business Men ion to get busy and invest . and _en- deavor to save this indusiry to New London. It is the Interstate Machine com- | pany formerly the Sterling Machine | company which came to New London | from Norwich. Among the articles | manufactured are sirens for automo- bile fire apparatus and other pur- poses and there is difficulty in supply- ing the demand. Here is a case where the writer did not have the opportun- ity to verify the report and this hear- say information given without the knowledge of the interested company, still the New London Business Men's association and the whole people of New London should know of any con- | templated removal of any industr to | ascertain the redason why, and to| make special effort to retain all that | are here located, to add thereto and | not permit dimunition. Some time ago it was reported in | the public press that a committee of | the New London Business Men's asso- | ciation had attempted to solve H lack of tenements problem and that | plans were in the works that would Tesult in the construction of dwelling | houses adequate to the demand. This | will probably be accomplished in due time, for whatever that hustling asso- | the ciation undertakes is usually carried | to successful issue. But, in thej meantime there are people who are| wiiling to pay from 330 to $35 rents | who cannot be accommodated. This | conditior. retards progress as it is| impossible for some of the manufac- | turing plants to increase their work- ing forces as the additional workmen and their families cannot be housed. This matter is quite a problem and it is encouraging to kiow that the bus- iness men’s association have the solu- tion and it can be applied nmone too soon. But what of the family that is com- posed in part of small children? At the very last meeting of the associa- tion there came report that a fore- man in ome of thé shops, who was willing to pay big rental, could not | get_a tenement suitable for his use, as he found that children were barred in New London from modernly equip- ped houses. Now what do vou think of that? There i¥ an instance in the city, at least one, where the owner of several houses happened to be one of a very large family of children, and has quite a number of children himself and, to his mind, no house is | too good for IMs children. Yet this | samie fndividual will not rent any of | bis houses to any family wherein | there are any small children. Per- | haps there are just a few other chil- dren as well-behaved as are the olm-f dren of tkis particular house-owner, | and perhaps not quite as destruetive. Property owners seem to forget that all were children once and that they will receive at least moral support. There is a promising industry amon; those on the Fort Neck thati; is not making much of a stir, but which gives employment to about | thirty skilled workmen and those prospects of growth are encouraging So much so that the concern has been invited to locate in Bridgeport jand South Framingham, Ma and, | center and | forced with USTRIAL GROWTH Much Can Be Done By Fostering Concerns Which Are Al- ready Located Here—Still a Lack of Tenements—Signs ust be properly housed as are the grown-ups. Parties possessed of such selfishness should never erect dwell- ing houses for rent just to satisfy their greed for money. Business is not injured by the introduction of some pleasure and it ought to be a pleasure for ome im business (o see his patrons pleased. There is just a bit of inconsistency in the action of the building insmector and the building committee of the court of common council in the mat- er of roof signs. Half a year ago the frame work for a big sign was erected on the roof of a State street building, but cred stopped and the sign work was ord the frame work re- moved by the building department, the ground that the contemplated sign was an addition to the building d that it was contrary to city ordinance to erect a new building or fo make alweration or additions to buildings, without first getting the consent of the court of common coun- cil through the building department ‘Phat sign frame, like the American flag, still there. During the present week sign painter, who evidently does not here strictly to union rules, went up on that roof after the sun had sunk in the west, and actually com- menced to paint that big sign. He accomplished the sign on one part of | the frame, when the police department | was put next and the painter ordered to quit the Job and But now the sign is there, finished by elf, but anoth - slgn | Jacking on another section of frame work Lu-to-date there has be | no move made towards removing that | n, 1 regard ordinance. taken city has any o the action violation been of There are other roof signs about town, which were placed without the legal’ permit, “but no_ objection las | en raised, so such determined sur- | opposition to this particular sign | somewhat puzzling. It cannot be for the reason Governor Waller happens bu i whereon the frame los There is a bigger sign thhat Ex to own the work on is building adjoining, another sign for the entire length of the buildini so on down the line. This very the day before work was stopped on the objectionable sign, a big sign was placed on another building in State street and there was no obj n on the part of the building inspector or the building committee of the court of common council. These signs do | detract from the beauty of 2 civic i there is law to prevent existence that law should be en- vigor and impartiality. their Speaking of roof signs reminds of the decided change that has taken | place in the matter of bill boards. Since they were attacked by the mun- icipal art soclety and designated as publice nuisances there has heen quite a change in conmstruction and main- tenance, although their value as ad- vertising mediums have not increased one jota. All the old, broken down wooden affairs have been removed and sheet iron substituted and built in a way that borders on the artistic. Thus lessening the general objections. This change is carried out in the mat- ter of these temporary biill boards | that are used as substitutes for the usually safety fence in front of the premises where new buildings are in course of construction. While work was going on in connection with the construction of the Munwaring build- | ing a plain board fence was placed | along the front of the property and ! an advertisement of a local cencern | w painted thereon. There was ob- Jjection to that unsightly bill board and it was removed forthwith by the contractor and a plain board fence substituted. Now there is front of the site of the Crown theatre a bill board that not even the most aesthet- ic member of the municipal art so- ciety can give a hint ot condemna tion. For it is really a thing of beauty and will be a joy until it is removed to open to view the hand- some new front of the mew building. FIANCEE SCOUTS SUICIDE THEORY. Railroad Official, Found Asphyxiated, Was to Be Married Tomorrow. New York, Jum. - 15.—Richard D. Lankford, a vice presidént and secre- tary of the Southern railroad, was found dead from gas asphyxiation in his bachefor apartmerts in Brooklyn today. e had committed suicide, the police reported, and a similar opinion was expressed by the coroner, but Fater developments cast doubt on the suicide iheory, Failure o establish a motive For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. The strongest endorsement of merit. || THE F ROL snmmmconib THE FAVOHITE ACTOR EDWIN AUGUST in “HIS OWN BLOOD” A TWO-REEL. DRAMA THE HAUNTED BRIDE MIKE AND JAKE AS HEROES Lois Weber and Phil Smalley Joker Comedy Watch for Coming Features DAVIS T MILITARY MAIDS & STE'AIIT BIG MUSICAL ACT. SPECIAL SCENERY, BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES P A e e o I vy e Tt Thomas W. Ross in “Checkers” IN 5 GREAT PARTS 260 THRILLING SCENES PRINCE K. B—Drama. LOVE AND DYNAMITE—Keystone Comedy MATINEE AT 230 EVENING AT 7 and 845 P. m. 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None of his business associates ap- D to have known s that he w have been marriei next Saturday to CONSIDER REGULATION OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Pennsylvania Bull Moosers Against Fusion. Harrisburg, Pa vania progressives ¢ ence, at which th outlined, here today Declare an. 15.—Pennsyl- ed their confer 1914 campaign was by adopting a se- ries of Tresolutions setting forth th principles, but without suggesti candidates for nominations ate officers to lected in November. The closing session was marked by ad- dress by national and state leaders in the progressive party,among the speak- ers heing James R. Garfield, forme secretary of the interior; United § Senator Moses E, Clapp of Minn % Giffora Pinchot and several - men from this state. resolution which were adopted = a brief dis- cussign r a propos to declare ation of ‘taxation, reaffirm slative planks of the platform demanding amendment of the women’s employment law so as to bring abo® a nine hour day for wom- tric#ent ch and corrupt stitutional en d labor, practices convention minimum ts a man's w m the audl spoke, manded he run for United States senator. The conference sent its greetings to Colonel Roosevelt in the following ca- blegram “our sives in send seribes nd cong that this fall.”” hu Pnnsyls ngton party c Conferen progres- ference sub- »mpromise upon the fact us in the fight to no The Vaughn Foundry Co. Nos. 11 to MLL, CASTINGS a 8pecialty, Orders Recsiva Promoc Attention THE DEL -HOFF European Plan Rates 75 cents per day and up HAYES BROS, Telephone 1227, 26-28 Broadway The Fenton-Charnley Building Co., Inc. 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