Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 15, 1914, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.), JAceording to the last 'census the farms of the whole United States av- eraged 138 acres each. The average investment in each farm was $6,443, or about $46.69 per acre. This includes buildings and tools, etc., as well as land values. The average income, per farm, after deducting interest, wages, repairs, etc., is $837. This does not include the farm products which may be consum- ed on the farmer’s table. Nor does it tnclude any income derived from oth- er sources, investments, mortgages, or the like. It is simply the value to the farmer of what his farm produces and he sells. Of course, all talk about “average” s or “average’ incomes has little fll'&.m to _individual farms—yours and mine. No farm is, itself, an ex- sactly “average” farm. The same with trees and rocks. Mighty few trees are exactly a yard high; mighiy few rocks are. exactly a cubic yard. Neverthe- less, the yardstick Is a handy measure, aftd helps us to estimate the . height of-all sorts of trees and the bulk of all sorts of rocks. A farm “average” is fust a sort of yardstick by which we may compare our own and see how we stand in comparison with the oth- er members of our big farmers’ army. s Take a farm like my . Neighbor Waite’s, with its more than 1,200 acres, its force of :more than a doZen workers, its investment agsregating uobno or $50,000. One would be fn, assuming that it would i larger net’ income than the farm of Neighbor Snyder. Yet. T Mr. Waite say, not long 18t that he didn’t believe there was a |q, ‘town Clearing $500.a°year. THis may be taken as pretty fair evi- desice: that he isn't,-on his big farm. ALl.he same time I happen to know that Spyder is making mighty close lo thlt figure off his fifteen acres. *Me doesn't have fo pay dnything iiks as much as Waite in interest and faxes and wages, nor for fences and repairs and fertilizers. Furthermore, 18 he can give every square foot of his little Yarm personal attention and vetter cultivation, he gets, acre for were, a good deal better crops than Waite. His.gross income is probably not one-tenth that of the other man, but after both have paid interest and iaxes and wages, etc., his net income probably comes to very near as much. This throws an interesting sidelight on the old and never-to-be-settled tontroversy between the big farm and the -little farm. But I'm not thinking much about that this morning. T ’s @ deal .to be said o’ both sides, m that matter. What I'm thinking tbout is that §537 average income. And whether or no it justifies the frequently heard assert that “farmin’ don’t pay.” " The average farmer works 365 days » year, and 366 on leap years. 1 don’t mean that he plows or mows or cuts wood on Sundays. But the “average” ‘arm has a span of horses, and sev- ral cows, and a pig or two, and a bunch of hens, etc, etc. The stables nave to be cleaned out once and the tows milked twice, and the whole menagéries fed three times on Sun- lay, same as any othergay. hores around the “averag wmount to what a good many folks would consider a pretty fair day’s work. His wages, theréfore, amount 0 a fraction over $1.47 a day. Out of that he must clothe, sheiter, pay gro- tery bills for an “average” family of ive, educate three of them, and lay 1side enough to care for at least two n their old age. With the exception »f Sundays he works from ten to fif- :eenteen hours a day, the year 'round. The “average” unmarried farmhand whom he hires thinks he can't even ive and do ten hours’ work six days \ week, for less than $1.75 a day. He writes to the papers telling how farm abor is overworked and underpaid- £ he gets.less than that or is asked te work longer hours. All of which certainly seems to give tharp point to the question whether ‘arming really pays the farmer. And I'm-not going to say one harsh word about the pessimist who, inspir- sd by such facts, declares that it loesn’t pay, and that the man is fool- sh ‘who sticks to it when he can do tomething else. AVERAGE FARMS AND AVERAGE'INCOMES. Baut: That doesn’t tell the ' whole: story. Chere’s another side to it. There are, #oubtless, many other vocations i which the farmer who should use the same industry and the same skill and the ‘same fore-sight for similiar hours could earn more than $1.47 a day. How much more Would he have to spend 2Eh ? The farmer can, at least, raise his own potatoes and turnips and app.es and cabbages and onions and beans and other long-keeping vegetables for winter . use. How, *nuch would"he have to pay for them if he didn’t raise them? If he had to buy them dally or bi~ weekly from the dealers? _ He can supply himself with all the milk and cream and butter the fam- ily consumes. He can have absolitely fresh egas from -his own hennery nine or tea months of the year, and in these days of cheap water-glass, can preserve for the eggless months all that will be required for a cost of perhaps half-a- cent a dozen. Even these will be bat- ter for all purposes than the average of those he could buy. If he is working for wages and scrimps his family to a single quart of milk ;2. day, and single peund of but- ter and a single dozen of eggs per week, his year's bill for just these items will run up to $45 or $50. When the outlay for all the other farm-rais- ed supplies is added, it won't need any sort of flguring or “averaging” to make it clear that the farmer will be at least as well off at a years end in the point of money as the man wno earns larger wages and has to speid them for all these things to support his family. But doesn’t the farmer have to work to raise these home-consumed pro- ducts? you asked: and isn't time money? and oughtn't he to charge against them wages for the time speat In producing them? Not.at all, for his wage of $1.47 includes payment for'| the time spent on these as well as other products. They're all lumped in the computation. Assuming the cen- sus_ basis of computation as correet, it actually includes wages to the farmer for raising his own supplies. Instead of working in a shop for Stickem, Smitem and Co., and having to turn over all his wages fqr potatoes and cabbages and the like, he is. getting them for nothing and being paid,—at the rate of $1.47 a day,—for raising them. Furthermore, the farmer who 'is reafly on his job can supply his own table with all the green vegetables it needs from his own garden between and November. Perhaps he may think that a little asparagus and a few green peas and string beans and fresh sweet corn may not amount to much. Let him go without them a year, or, worse yet, buy them at ral- ing market pric and he’lt find they amount to a good deal. Not' only does he save much money over what he would have to spend for them, bat he gets them fresh, sweet, tender and matured according to his own taste. Is there any comparison betwWeen the stem-ripened, naturally-colored, juic- ily¥®sweet tomatoes you're plcking off your own vines and the green-picked, unnaturally reddened, wilty, things that have previously brogght vou from Virginia or Florida or Texas? We'll pass over the stock talkee- talkee about the farmer's fresh air and pure water. etc. Of course he had better air than that of the cities to breathe, and better water to drink if he’s had sense enough to protect his supply from contamination. And e doesn’t have to pay water-rates, either. But let that go. Consider, however, just.a minute, the farmer’s independence apd com- parative liberty jof action. It's all nonsense tg talk of any man being ab- solutely * own master.” The fa mer ish't his own master, I don’t care what you say. He is, in a measure, servant to his cows and valet to hig horses. He is slave to the weather and bond servant to the seasons. lle must do his work, not when he wants to but when he can. He is hedged about and circumscribed by scotes of limitgtions which bound his freedom of action on many sides and con- stantly fetter his steps. But,—again that “but”’!—while nis wage-earning brother in Stickem and Smitem’s shop is held to rigid hours and - an inflexible routine, made and changed solely by the wishes or in- terests of Stickem and Smitem, con- stantly exposed to either favoritism or spite, always under the’ sway of hu- man and therefore imperfect rules, always liable to the accidents of hu- man and therefore imperfect machin- ery,—the farmer, on the other hand, though compelled to act in deference to and in accordance with outside laws, knows that those' laws are absolutely W do notmak: dulk products— Skim ' Mxlk’ Condensed Mnlk, etc. cmnlu- is wort.h | more than dollars and It - can't._be fidence that nothing will fifmhybomuchuthefloumoth.n There is nowhere and to nobedy in the universe, such a thing as “un- restrained license of action. But the farmer has a wider liberty under law than any other worker ° in the world. Also the law under which he works is, unlike all human laws or rules, a.bsolutely and eternally just, fair and invariable. Wheh lLe once knows it, he may trust his bottom dol- lar and his last drop of blood. to it. There is nothing ex post facto,'notn- ing whimsical about nafural law.. If ever it seems so, it is_simply because we haven't read it right or don’t un- derstand it. 'The Action of the Demogratic State Centrai Committee In- dicates Good Landers and Mahan Prospects—The Sol- diers’ Monument Not Likely to Be Moved or the Park NEW LONDON LOST CONVENTION man. 3 , | fifty cents a day or w!‘l a year. It is something which a man can sell for money, but whieh bt ail’ the maney in the world can buy.—pau doxical as the ‘may seem. The farmer who really apprecial: it at its real worth isn't likely to »s- timaté it in terms of the market banking house. The farmer who does- o't appreciate it—well, perhaps he does make a mistake in sticking to the old farm! There's no accounting for tastes. I' known people who didn't like stra berries. Such unfortunates shouldry be compelled” to eat them. But the\r dislike doesn’t prove that a strawberry isn’t better than a raw potato, allee- samee. . THE FARMER. dot Be Abolished—The Progressive Element—Brande- gee Sure to Be Nominated For Senator—Nothing But the Progressives Can Prevent His Re-election® to the Senate. Henry C. Fuller, the city forester or tree warden and superintendent of Ce- dar Grove cemetery, finds the time to assume the position of city asitator, and just at the present time‘is agi- tating the elimination of the parklet on the parade, the removal of the sol- diers’ and sailors’ monument from its site in - Lawrence hospital_ shment of stand for the clty- expressmen on.the iittle hill in Bank street just solth of the custom house, forcing them from the parade which the expressmen and their predessors. the draymen, have used as an open office ever since the city was incorporated. Mr. Fuller, like the Dick Deadeye of Pinafore, proba- bly means well, but he doesn't know. Almost everybody in New London will say amen to his recommendation in regard to the parklet, and would hesi- tate to drive the expressmen from their ancient stamping ground;: but when it comes to the removal of the monu- ment which was dedicated to the sol- diers_and sailors from New London who died or risked their lives for country, there is decided and pratical- ly unanimous opposition Perhaps Mr. Fuller was in New Lon- don eighteen years ago when Sebas- tian D. Lawrence formally presented that grand monument in granite to the city of New London and in‘connection therewith - attei¥ded the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniver- sary of the founding of the town. If he was he kpows, and everybody else knows, that at ‘that time. there was the town but who was Iy in favor of the location and considered it an ideal site. and that if anyone even suggested its removal that the words of Governor John A. Dix in relation to bauling down the American flaz would have been put into exe- cution. That patriotic sentiment still prevails and there are probably not a half dozen'men in New London but honestly believe that a_space of twen- ty cht square as a site for a fitti monument due the brave boys who ris ed life that the country might live. That monument is worthy the most prominent place in the city. For thirty-one years after the Civil war New London was among the xery few northern cities of prominence that was without a soldiers’ monument-and probably would have been without proper tribute for some time longer but for the generosity and patriotic spirit of Sebastian D. Lawrence, a native of New London, who presented the montu- ment to the city as a memorial to the Civil War veter: siving credit to the sons of Joseph Lawre: Mr. Lawrence selected the site and the city acquiesced, and then it was believed the monument would stand there. so long as the granite endured, and it probably will. ~Should the time ever come when the parade becomes so con- gested that more ros actually I‘m(‘vj~ ed, far better to increase the s the removal of buildings rather th that monument and all that it rep sents. Ex-Mayor Gorge F. Tinker. another local benefastor, who according to his means, has given more to the city than any other live.resident, is out in pen protest against Mr. ' Fulle propesition for “the removal of the monument from the parade and characterizes’ it as a breach of faith between the city and the late Mr. Lawrence, who donated the beautiful monument with the agreement that it should be given a permanent position. By the way, this same Mr. Tinker had planned to present a. soldiers’ monu- ment to the city of New London but his plans were forestalled by the gen- tention.” ° Mr. Tinker had plans of a 0 - inkling ofy Mr. Tinker's good in- erous action of Mr. Lawrence. who had granite monument drawn by Thomas W.Casey. ‘The plan had been accept- ed and the contract was about to be placed when Mr. Lawrence's offer was officially anngunced, and, of course, Mr. Tinker’s intended benefaction remained a secret. The design Mr. Cs had intended for New London was after- ward worked into granite and is now among the attractive monuments i Providence cemetery. The invitation of the New London Business Men's association for the democratic state convention, which was extende to the state central com- mittee, was formerly withdrawn when the committee met in Hartford durins the present week./ Presumably with full authority, the inv tion was withdrawn by Congressman Bdyan F. Mahan. and_in favor of the city -of Hartford. New Haven wanted the con- vention and so did the city of Hartford. and Hartford won. The sentiment, pre- vailed at_the meeting that the mem- bers who_ favored, Governor. Siméon; E. Baldwin as nominee for United States senator wanted the convention in New Haven, the governor's home town, {while those who favored Consressman Mahan for the nomination wanted the convention in Hartford. It is herein indicat that two-thirds of the state cen committeemen are-favorable to Mr. Mahan and it is believed_that will be aboue the size of Mahan's majority over Baldwin 1n the. convention. While a guest of Congressman Ma- han _in_Washington, & former demo- cratic town committeeman, later o re- publican officr ‘and_who_ poses as a publican Jeader in New lLondon, gave out an interview to the effect that Sen- Bu;’fim Bi be nominated by && “and ' without opposi- don. f that be so,-and it it probadly is, there is no doubt but Senator Brande- Zee will be elected to succeed himself, provided, of course, the progressives have drawn iheir political sied undef the shed. Mr, Brandegke is descrvedly popular with the,people and at the coming elec- tior it will be the first opportunity that the people have to vote direct for 1 candidate for the United States sen- ate, and under ordinary - conditions there would be no doubt as to his re- election. The progréssive is quali an unknown nd upon the strength- of the progressive vote depends the success of the democratic candidate, be he Baldwin, Mahan, or any other man. At this diStance, the nomination of Ma- han seems as sure-as the nomination of Brandegee. If that should come to pass there would surely be a hot pelitical fight in old New London town, with two of the native sons bat- tling for political supremacy. If the holding of the state convention in Hartford is a victory for Mahan over Baldwin in the senatorial contest, the same rule applis in the :uhernrh torial contest between Landers and Comstock and in favor of Landers, it be conceded that Baldwin and Com- are hand-in-hand to defeat M han aand Landers. Comstock is work- ing the political _game to the. limit and he knows every point that is worth the playing, even to the extent of dealing a card or two to those who have in any way profited through Gov- ernor Baldwin or through Mr. Com- stock as chairman of the democratic state central committee, a position he held for several vears. until deposed by Forster of Rockville. There are such throughout the state .and they will be‘expected to see to it that Bald- win and Comstock delegates are elect- ed to the state convention. As a re- sult there will be some lively times in some tcwns at the caucuses when the delegates ahe to be chosen. It's a safe bet that there will be doubt as to the delegation that will go from New London, and that not a man among them will favor the nomination of Charles F. Comstock for governor, if Mr. Landers is the opposing nom- or any other man for that mat- and that Mr, Baldwin will not get a single vote for sepator from the delegation. The democrats of New London, the greater majority of them. are for Mahan and Lander sometimes said in political conventions, fi last and all the time. There is no Comstock sSentiment on the sur- face in New London. and as is The leading members o fthe progres- sive party in New London are in active political campaign and the indications are that the party will have a com- plete local ticket in the,field in the October city election, and will vote the'r party ticket in the state election a month later. Aready the party has a caucus enrollment of over 200, which according to political computation of the party means a total vote of over 600 in the city. It is sald that there are progressives enough in the fifth ward to elect an alderman, especially if Alderman Kirkland should insist that he be not renominated, as thwe is he- lief that many republicans would join ves in that ‘ward the gentleman who is slated nominee in opposition to Kirk- It is a strong republican - ward, ¥ with the progre: against as the land. republicans to defeat any pro- gressive-democrat fusion candidate. but who would naturally swing thehr vote to such candidates as Thomas Casey or Norwan M. Ruddy who mentioned as the progressive nominee In some of the other wards. there are progressives sufficient to hold the balance of power and with just a little w. aid from the republicans or democrats or both, would elect their candidates for aldermen. For some reason bes known to the progressives, they : nounce that it is their intention in New London and Norwich, too, to en- dorse the republican romination of Sidney A. Brown for sheriff of New London county, but they will not en- dorse any other candidate of any oth- er party. Local progressives declare that they nominate a full state ticket, a can- didate for senator, congressman, rep- resentatives and state senators, and that every mother's son 6f them will Le representative of the principles of the progressive party of the state. They claim a larger and better orzanized party than ever before and declare that they will show surprising strength in the city and state elections. It is_sald that the activty demonsirated by the progressives in New London is but -a shadow of the work *that is going on elsewhere in the state and that the new party will show both the old parties some new tricks and deals in the game of politics as played in Connecticut. If ‘there is truth In the old saying, “A new broom sweeps clean,” there will be something bordering on the cjean sweep in the coming elections. ut somcone has said, talk was cheap and it took coin to buy grog. Running True to Form. It can be sald for - George Fred Williams that anybody who expected anything else of him was either dense- 1y ignorant or recklessly optimistic.— Kansas City Journal. 3 Tough on the Insane. The idea of sending, women who want to starve to deati®to insane asy- lums is a good one, if the insane asy- lums will let them in.—Philadelpha Ledger. , L A ‘MINSTRELS ‘Everything New .‘Thb“c-.azn e B DRUGS AND CHEMICALS GO UP IN PRICE. Result of War—Germany Has Fur- nished Much of the Chemicals for the World. This “war of the worlds” is going to malke it 'expensive to be sick. The price of drugs and chemicals is advancing sharply. Wholesale houses are paying prohibitive prices for drugs and chem- icals, and the manufacturers are cob- cerned in the new problem which now presents itself. There is hardly a process in.manu- facture which does not at some stage require products made by chemistr). In the last four decades Germany has been developing her chemical products, making processes of manufacture mor: and more efficient until it came to pass that the world depended upon Ger- many alone for many things. Now the 4 of Mystery AmIAT:D WEEKLY Coming iy AUDITORIUM m Monday GREATEST OF ALL SERIAL PICTURES Monday. THE TREY O’HEARTS Stéry by Joseph Vance. Depicted by the Gold Seal Company. the first chapter in the New London Telegraph Monday morning. at all newsstands or receive a copy at this theatre any time after 2 p. m., MON. and _Each chapter will be found in the New London Tétographon the same day of each week that that chapter is shown St this theatre. e e e e+ i READ .THE STORY—THEN SEE IT PEPICTED SHOWS EVERY TUES. Read Sold aid of the chemists of the fatherland has been withdrawn and the United ates depends again upon its own re- sources. There are many prdducts used in the arts. in the dyeing of fab- rics, in the making of print paper, in the tanning of leather and in the washing of clothes which requires the ajd_of chemicals. The rise in the price has not been due entirely to the closing of Germany to the trade of the world. There are SFEOTMRS S e — COL.ONIAL, THEATRE "2000 Ft—“TRAPPED LY WIRELESS,” Kleine—2000 Ft | Mediterranean Pirates, Wireless Equipped Yacht and Daring Rescue “The Squaw’s Revenge”..Mona Darkfeather. “THIS IS THE LIFE” other countries of the old world which are producing herbs of medicinal value on which manufacturers have been de- pending this fall. There are flowers used in color processes, petals which yield fragrant distillments, flowers which soothe pain_and leaves whicn retard ‘or hasten the action of the heart. Unless the steamship lines are soon running again, the prospegte of ninz the' supplies of foreign her- aria and laboratories are very small. The result may be that certain opera- ions of manufacture will be discon- tinued. Some Examples. Two of the chemicals in general use to go up in price are tartaric acid and cream of tartar, both derived from the arts. dyeing. ric pound; vernol was sent out makers stantial The almost of bringing from 10 to 12 wents. ide finds its way into _many The makers of cotton- fabrics used it as a mordant in pnnun: and It was sold for week and is now held at 6. acid, ordinarily about has jumped to has advanced from $1.65 $2.50 per ounce. Derivatives. innumerable derivatives of cogl tar. increased in price. A by the agents phenacetine, aspirin and similar headache ‘remedies that a sub- increase in price made. Carbolic cents last ents. C 55 cents a cents, and to It hostilities. having g 85 ource in one d: Notic of the { mind Penrose's’ threats the topic Boston Adv suddenly, rtiser. had been argols or deposits found in the wine casks of France, Spain and Portugai. The refining process is usually done in this country. Tartaric acid was 7 3-4 cents a pound, but 18 cents was gladiy. paid for it on the advance.. Cream of tartar, used in baking powders, was selling last week at 23 3-4 cents a pound, and later it brought 30 cents a pound. These two chemicals cause collars and cuffs.and shirts to drop to pieces. The laundries cannot get along without them, as they save rubbing. and rubbing means hard work, and hard work must be paid for. Bleaching powder, or chloride of lime, has gone up one cent a pound. Nobody was es- pecially keen to buy oxalic acid last weck at 7 1-2 cents a pound, but large quantities of ‘8 cents. One of the sensational rises is that of chloride df barium, a crude chem- ical manufactured in Germany, quoted a few days ago at $32 a ton and now at §100 a ton. Sal ammoniac, used in malking dry batteries, jumped from ce pound to 12 ‘and 15 Carbonate of potash, the basi: tilizers, sold freely a few days three cents a pound and i ALL OCR RECHA0THGA0 There Is Hardiy A Woman . 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