Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 9, 1914, Page 12

(Written Speclally for The Bulletin.) There is a bank presideat in New York Sty by the name of Vanderlip. His bank is understood to be the largest in the town. It would there- fore be necessary to assume that he is a person of some importance, in his own class. And he has recently been an address—not a hastlly im- provised speech, but a carefully work- éd and written out oration on the iteousness of Big Business and the Blatant Iniquity of Farmers. The New York Times, which always Sneezes whenever Big Business' nose tickles, prints most of the address and 2 long editorial gleefully sustaining it. 1 bave read them both. And I would be willing to bet a dollar against a sour doughnut that you couldn’t find in & day’s hunt of Connecticut two men who show such utter and crass ignorance of the entire economic situation as is dis- s by these two, the New York <city banker of high rank and the New York city editor of admitted intelli- gence in some other directions. To begin with, Mr. Vanderlip has recalled the address made last widter Vbefore some New Hampshire grangers by Secretary Houston, in which the Secretary estimated that American farmers, as a whole, were producing only about 40 per cent of what ail American farm land, if intensively culti might, perhaps, produce. B lip has seized upon some “smart” newspaper paraphrase of the secretary’s language, by which he was made to appear as that the American farmer was ‘“only 40 pgr cent. efficient,” and has made that eatchy but incorrect phrase the text for about the most suggestion I remember having seen in economic politics. Briefly put, Mr. Vanderlip’s theory is that Big Business is being unwar- rantably hampered by politicians who are elected to office by ignorant or malevolent farmers purposely to par- alyze, muzzle, maim, becripple, ham- string and strangle Big Business afore- sald; the ignorant or malevolent farm- eérs In question being moved thereto by various and sundry m kers. His suggestion is that Biz Business Dbe relieved from fear of further attack from this ignorant or malevolent borde by the familiar expedient of building so big a fire in the horde's Tear as fully to occupy its entire at- tention, thereby preciuding it from any future attention to the paraphrase ton’s remark and asserting that the farmer is only 40 per cent. efficient, Mr. Vanderlip proposes that congress- es and legislatures which are now try- ing to make Big Bsiness more efficient and e shall turn on the farmers and require them, under pen- alty of the law, to reach 100 per cent. efficlency themselves. He rightly as- sumes that such a procedure would take their attention away from Big Business, and concentrate it on their own respective turnip patches. w and | have heard, now then, of thieves starting a fire in some house in order that, while the helpful neigh- bors were flocking to it to assist the BIG BUSINESS RESORTING TO BASE TACTICS threatened victims, they, the thieves, might have unobstructed opportunity to loot the neighbor’s homes. I have heard of that scheme. Now I have read Mr. Vanderlip's. Which is the higher grade of politics I certain- ly will not venture to assert. But it strikes me that, considering its source and scope, Mr. Vanderlip's is the most amazing of the two. In the first place, there is absolutely no evidence upon which to base the assertion that the farmers of America are only 40 per cent. efficient. As com- pared with what ideal men, working ideal crops on ideal soil in ideal weath- er, might possibly do, théy may not come anywhere near 40 per cent. of that ideally possibl They may come nearer. I don’t know; Secretary Hous- ton doesn’t know; nobody knows or can know. ¥ The point is that the ideally possible is never practically possible in farm- ing; never has been; never will be. Mr. Vanderlip chafes under the ex- isting or proposed restrictions of hu- man law, intended to keep the wolves and tigers of Big Business from eat- ing up the smaller fry. But the farm- er lives, moves and has his being un- der the eternal limitations and re- strictions of natural laws which he is utterly powerless to modify; about whose making he had no say, either of advice or protest; not a quarter of which is he capable of understanding, even so little as to know how to avoid their penalties. We do not yet know all or even half §the mystery of germination. We do not W any simplest clew to the still 'more wonderful mystery of growth, by which one plantlet will take from the soil and the water and the air corn, and-another plantlet, in the same soil and water and air, will take out of them an oak tree. We do not know half of what we would like to about the effects of fertilization and cuitivation. We know absolutely noth- ing of what will be the characteristics of any coming season. From the be- ginning of the season to its end, and every season, we take the results which the little understood but absolutely ir- Tesistible laws of nature grind out for us, just fluttering around the edges with .our hoes and our harrows in brave but often blind attempts after some little control of the few natural functions we have slowly come to have suspicion of. For a city banker, or & metropolitan editor, neither one of whom knows any more about actual farming condi- tions than the average farmer knows about Chinese grammar, to plan fur- ther man-made restrictions on a Voca- tion which is already subjected to the interdicts of a thousand omnipotent natural laws, every one of them be- yond the power of any supreme court to nullify or veto—for such men to even think of such a thing is more than amazing. It is pitiful. The spirit which moves them to the suggestion is more than amazing and more than pitiable; it is monstrous. The Times' summary and indorsement of Mr. Vanderlip's suggestion refers to lll;mera a.sur:jenl wh(;, while they ‘“re- uire ities of supermen in Bi; usln:lgle;‘*find “require 100 per oené‘. efficiency in the management of its af- Substitutes <. Imitations ‘water. 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MOLASSINE MEAL, as nothing Locaity 8y NORWICH GRAIN COMPANY ‘Write us for our new lllustrated Souvenir Book I think it well worth the DR. GEO. S. FULLER. BOSTON, MASS. 326 board of Traia ronte Winnipeg Now | hold no brief against business, as such. I have no charges to make against the tens of thousands of hon- est and upright men who are conduct- ing useful honorable business. But that branch which has come to be commonly known as ‘Business” is another and a very ai thing. For” twenty or thirty or more it has played the part of bully, and piltager, until at last its own out- | rageous excesses have driven the rest | of us to take some steps towards self- protection. I am referring to the Big ‘Business which wrecked railroad sy led stockholders; ‘which is represented pacious trusts and competition- dues; which is cial “machinations whereby hitherto NEW LONDON Station. ANl facts considered, that was a rather peculiar trick which the mem bers of the New London court of com- mon council turned at the meeting last Monday night, when a redolution prevailed granting privilege to the Ppetitionine trolley company to erect a high tension Hne through the ex- tension of Squires strest, Ocean ave- nue, Orchard street and Moore avenue, when the. petition an en- tirely different route. In the original and only petition the line was to be located in the residential portion of Squires street, but at the public hear- ing there was determin opposition by reason of the danger that goes ‘with ‘the high tension service. The committee decided not to per- mi: that route but on the quiet substi- tuted the route here mentioned and pushed it through the council an without the formality even of a pub- lic hearing. This was done with the expectation Jection would come from residents along the proposed line as the greater number are industrious Italians who own their own homes in Orchard street. Public life is endangered ten- fold by the proposed change In route but that fact does not seem to have been taken into conelderation by the members of the honoreble court of common council. The members prob ably presumed that the Italian res idents did not read the reports of the counci proceedings and perhaps the presumption is correct. e e But there are other citizens directly interested and there will be unani- mous and determined objections filed by the residents and property owners along the line of proposed death threatening high tension service. is claimed that the action of th council is not only illegal but that the action was unwarranted, backed by some members who already have or expect benefit in the way of employment from the interested trol ley company. Be that as it may, be- fore the trick is played to the limit there will be a general show down. It is claimed by the parties interested - in the opposition that there is no law ' in the state of Connecticut that gives, the right for construction of such a line as proposed, and further, that the work of construction cannot legally commence if a single person in inter- est makes objection. In this case every person along the line is an ob- {’ecwr, and this fact ought to be known y the aldermen who engineered the trick, for it is nothing short of a trick and played in the @ark at that. The trolley company has acted in the open in the transaction and ex- plained its position at the public hear- ing but was ruled against by the com- mittee, but only to be furnisbed with & substitute route that it was believed ocould be slipped through without any opposition and without regard to the rights of others. It may be well to note the fact that uires street where it was originally intended to build the pole line, as per petition of the trolley company, is in the Fifth ward, and that Orchard street is in the Fourth ward, and that the principal promoters of the change are two of the three aldermen from the Fifth ward. They are Alderman Rudd the superintendent of the petition- ing company and the change was evi- dently sanctioned by him, and Alder- man Small, 2 prospective émploye of the company. By their action they have escaped adverse political criticlem in the ward that they were chosen to represent and at the same time showed their good intentions toward the trolley company. It is another suspicious fact in com- i1 nection with this msiter of s0 much importance to the residents along the proposed line, that in a newspaper H ‘proceedi: no men- | tiop is made of the prop: line talk- ing in a section of Ocean avenue, but it je intended to give the impression plen is stmply moli- changing the route from KE YOUR OWN ' ) 1t's only $1.42 per gal. i Ise & out st e g vt e L. W. Carroll & Sen Wflw‘lm) & Bon, Platafield ! It and was o] E? | i i L i i £ i even But for any representative of Big Business to demand that they be pun- friends hav: CITY FATHERS Stir Up Hornets’ Nest by Action on High Tension Line— Claimed to Be Illegal—Progress on Trolley Freight Squires street to Orchard street, al- though even more lives are endangered in Orchard street. . A petition in opposition is in_cir- culation and it will receive official recognition even if it be necessary to have recourse to law is the declaration made by one of the property owners along the proposed pole line. There is no law that permits such a line in the city and that being so there is trouble ahemd if attempt is made to pay no heed to the objections made by the parties directly interested. This change in trackage means a system in New London is progressing npidx'm will be in op-':flon De- fore summer business is much ad- vanced. Ome of the Iarge brick build- ings in Water street, a part of the Cracker company plant, has been remodeled and arranged for the freight business and when the work is com- pleted will be one of the largest and best equipped trolley freight stations in the state, if not in New England. Track connection i{s made by sion from the present terminal in State street, down past the Soldlers’ monument, and close to the same, then down the street with gradual turn into Water street and to the freight depot. Thio change in u-t:k-r means a change in the standing place for the oity expressmen and their teams, as the tracks now ocupy the space which has long been recognized as a public stand for the expressmen. Years ago, before the monument days and long, long before that little parklet on the parade, in the days when two-wheeled | dsays predominated, which preceded | the four-wheeled trucks and the more modern express wagons, the enure parade was devoted to a public stand for teams of every description. It was no uncommon sight to see emptied charcoal wagons standing there and ! ; the oxen unhitched nearby munching | their feed, sandwiched in with the | public drays. But times and condi- | tions have changed since then, and | with the changes came the monument and the parklet and the city express wagons. The monument is here to stay, but the parklet should go to make needed | space not only for the expressmen but | for the increased public traffic, now continuously congested by rea- son of the parklet which seems to | have been always in the way since its construction. It is of no use and cer- tainly possésses no beauty. To be sure the parklet is an improvement over the parade of fifty years ago, and per- haps of more recent date, but now the space it ocupies is needed for legiti- mate vehicular purposes and the time is ripe for its elimination, to make way for progress. Tolland County MANSFIELD DEPOT Literary Club Hears Address and Has Spelling Bee—C. E. Soocial. Everybody-at-church Sunday, 10th. May The Young People’s Literary club held its tri-weekly meeting at the par- sonage Wednesday night. The pro- gramme was in charge of Miss Clara Atkins. A very interesting talk was given by Stedman Storrs on his trip to Washington. This was followed by a spelling bee in which all participat- ed_after which lunch was serve Echo grange members met in their rooms Monday night, there being a good attendance. . Lunch and May Baskets. A social was held in the church on Friday event: last under the aus- spices of the C. B. society. The pro- was in charge of Miss Helen unt on. The Attwood-villites fur- nished the big share of the programme. Lunch was served in May baskets. Seventy-five were present and all en- joyed a fine time. News in General. Mrs. A. E. James ar as her guest l’n.or sister, Mrs. M, P. Carter, of New Mrs. Nellle Tittle and daughter, Florence of Hartford, were recent gugsts of Mr. and Mrs, A. J. Tang- shear, Menday J. H. Bullock, Sr., left merning for Waterford, N. Y., where he is the guest of his father. Mrs, Julia Jacobs has eatered the loy of Mrs. E. G. Bumner. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Clark were the guests of honor at Mrs. Clark’s moth- er's, Mrs. James Maefarlane’s, Wed- nesday. E. J, Dunham has purchased a fin Jersey cow fram Reyneld Beebe. » H. C. low of Westfard was the guest Sunday of Mm. H. E. Avery. dlmavlfl id ceme b Unn:. the I n pres| vhis Commersial RRY and \E MATHEWS obe_Rollers ’od’gy 3\ o EVENING AT ;AND 845 DREANO & GOODWIN “The Talkative Woman" m and H N 1 tic A Positive ancing Rube Comedian OUR MUTUAL GIRL and Others facture: A ctufers are doing s along this line. BUSH-DEVERE TRIO illustrated Musical _Noveity ST SUPPER 2 Reel Masterpiece COMEDIES and DRAMAS COMING Mon_Tues, wes. BIG & ACT VAUDEVILLE SHOW and Featurs Photo-Plays including a Big Twe-Reel Keyst ”® with Mabel Nermand B oy State Deputy Srown Inspects Canter- bury Grange—Pheasants Survive the Winter. ' Teacheers’ meeting for Pomfret teachers was held at the Center build- ing Wednesday evening. Everett E. Brown, state deputy, in- spected Canterbury grange Wednesday evening and found them in active con: dition. They are planning to com- mence on the new grange next weel. The third and fourth degrees wers given a class of eight Wednesday evenin. ‘Mrs. Beatle of Canterbury visited her niece, Mrs. George Faisley this week. Grange Activities. ‘Wolf Den visited Hampton grange Friday night and gave a programme. Next Wednesday Wolf Den gives a May Basket social. Joseph Stoddard has been building another hen house. He plans on 500 laying hens next winter. Pheasants Seen. In driving about the country re- cently the Bulletin correspondent has seen several flocks of pheasants in widely separated flocks, indicating that the birds released by the government a few years since are not yet exter- minated and possibly increasing. One part was in Pomfret, another near Hampton, another in Plainfield near Killingly. HEBRON Girls and Boys Each Win fn Speaking Competition. Mr. Elmer Lord of Hartford was at :’l‘lll father's, L. M. Lord's over Sun- ay. Miss Ellen Gillett has gone to visit her brother in New Haven. George Wyman of Hazardville was in town over Sunday. Mr. Young visited school on the green Wednesday afternoon and at- tended the speaking contest at the town hall in the evening. Twelve pu- pils from the schools In town, were trying for a prize of $10 which is to be given. The speaking contest was a success all doing well. Miss Mildred - Jones winning the first and Miss Lizzle Schawrtz the second girls’ prize. Master Silverman first, and Master Leon Rathbun the second prizes for the boys. Colonial “The Sacond Generation,” AmericanPatheplay......8uperb Exclusive Film “The Barter of Louise,” Amusing Essanay Feature Comedy Film “According to Seniority,” Vitagraph.. +-+...Splendid Military Drama “The Hope Dawn,” Wonderful Story of Pacific Coast Marine Life And Other Great Photo-Plays Coming Tuesday, “LION AND THE MOUSE,” 6 Reels. NORWICH, ™ Mat. 10c; Eve. 15¢ 13 dnesday May : e STAMPEDE CiRcus_ CIRCUS MENAGERIE HIPPODROME Personals. Vincent Henderson was in town re- cently looking after his property. 8. B. West of Columbia was a call- er in town Sunday. A. L. Frink of Columbia was calling on his mother in this village on Sun- aay. Harry F. Tennant of East Hampton was at his father's over Sunday. Loie Tennant of Leetes Island was a caller in town early in the week. SPRING HILL May Day Sociable—At Church Sunday Tomorrow. The Ladies’ Aid society gave a May- day song sociable at _the Baptist ! church last week Friday evening,| which was well patronized. PBach | person who sat down to Supper was presented with a book of old song: from which was selected such as mos cf those present were more or less fa- maliar with and after supper were; sung under the direction of Prof. Weld's baton. Solos and readings made up; the balance of the entertainment. | An effort is being made by use of | cards and posters to get everybody out to church tomorrow, May 10. Glen Stilker made a business trip to New York last week Friday and re- turned Monday. i Mrs. Charies €rane of Willimantic is visiting Mrs. E. B. Gardiner. The sewing club met with Mrs. Car- rol Hawkins Wednesday afternoon. THE NORWIGH ELEGTRIG GO, 100 Franklin Street Electric Lighting Fixtures in such a way as to give you an accurate idea of how i s Seliel 85 || they will ook in your own home. Charles Day. e i A CAREFULLY SELECTED LINE Washmgton Gounty, R. L at such prices as will enable you to invest as much or as USQUEPAUGH little as you choose. Palmer Summer Home Opened— | NEW STYLES AND FINISHES gy Doxth From Wheoping |} products of the Edw. Miller Co.’s excellently equipped factory in Meriden is attractive and designed to assist you in making your selection - Ask us to mail you a fixture catalogue. Mrs. Melissa D. Palmer has arrived at her summer home here, affer spending the winter with her sister, at_Willimantic. F. K. Crandall was a visitor here, Sunday. Mre. Hattle Potter of Escoheag spent several days last week with her sister, Mrs., Sarah Franklin. C.. C. Kenyon and family of Asha- way, were visitors Sunday at 8. S. Lock’s. Mr. and Mrs. B. B, Bray of Lafay- eotte, spent Sunday, at 8. 8. Locke's Wilcex Child Dies. A young child of Arthur Wilcox died last Friday from whooping cough and | A Good Assertment WALL PAPERS CARRIAGES, BUSINESS WAGONS, complications. The fumeral was held PN WaGORE We still have a large assortment of Bu{l!dl)'. &v‘ C. H, Palmer, ollx:hh:l!l;d" and DEMOCRATS, " the dxm"r':" ;;rm: left g;le;. and at Mrs, hard Bristow’s daug] Large . greatly uced prices, which we will who have been visiting at Willimantic | Stock CONCORDE leased to show you. weeks, returned home, oldings and Cut Out Borders to mateh same. Also Paints, Muresco in white and tints, and general assort- ment of decorative supplies, including Papler Machle for halls and vestibules. Orders recelved fer painting, paper hanging and decorating. P. F. MURTAGH Telephone /- - 82.and 94 West Main St. Herse Clipding Machines (and the parts.) M . Valley, Monday. Prices Cut en Auto Rebes. . W, Kenyon visited his sister, Mrs. G, 8. James at Hillsdale, M. A ‘Mrs, Mary onner speat Wed- ay evening at Wakefield, 7s, Pthel Kenyon, who has been r‘lh- the winter with her , at Arctic, returned liome, Wednes- day. Determined te Sober Him, Victeriano Huesta may be “a littie FURS STORED as Villa calls him, but = ’ drunkaxrd,’ President Wilson is . fog i nind 1 SV SERL S5 | Al Wines, Liguorsand Cigase fore this thing is over—Kansas City Corner of Watar and Market Sta. ’ TheL. L. Chapman Co. 14 Bath St., Norwich, Ct Journal. ———— Can Stand on Nething. Geverner Cele Bilease mnlu is standing on his dignity, Sepa Ml TSR X