Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 22, 1916, Page 12

proflt. mmbo‘b:otonnhbamu a sraflt. e must be-able to buy the materials for making crops so he can get a pro- fit from them. The ordinary monuf-ctum makes th, wire, boots, refined su- door hinges, doun.r ‘watches, clothu-pinu etc.,—to get a profit from them. He usually - manufac- tures just one sort of ware. He , In at least a ganeral way, what his raw materials will cost him, whdt his: labor will' cost him, what price he can get for his product, and ‘whether it will pay his something - for, profit. nnd. ln addition, pays such profit - the m ufacturer can obtain, th. m- “‘overhead | ') Take the man who makes door [ hinges, for illustration. He. uses iron for his n;,:terlnl Neither weather nor season affect the production of iron.| It comes out of the mines and flows from the smelting furnaces, about so many tons a-day, wet or dry, winter or summer. Whilé the price varies somewhat its tluctuations are usually within very narrow limits. It” would be. safe to say that the changes in the price of raw iron, in an ordinary year and at ordinary markets, would not make a difference of a cent a dozen in the cost of ordinary butts. He can also reckon fairly close upon the cost ©f his labor. - Knowing the cost of irom aré tho rates of labor and the selling- wzica of hinges, he can tell, before he sets a tool at work, what his profit may reasonably be expected to. be. Then, ‘subject orly to.the chances and accidents inuring to all business, he goes ahead and makes it. If he finds, by beforehand calculations, ™at he caw’t reasonably expect to make any profit off door hinges, then he stops making them. But how about the farmer? His raw material isn't like iron. It con- sists of dirt, the constituents of which ‘he. rarely knowe ~‘much and. never knows about: of fertilizers which vary widely in composition and still more widely In actual. effect; of weather which he can neither fore- 3és wor defend himseif against; and of jabor. which is the nearest to a con- stzut of any factor. in his problem. He must ‘put in, not just one ecrop, for the chances of failure in any one dre always so balanced that such farm- ing means eventual impoverishment and economic slavery,—like the south in the days when it raised nothing but cotfon.—no: just one crop but several so that. if some fail, others will serve ‘as anchors to windward to save him from. drifting into starvation. - He must put them into sofl about which he is not: certain, despite his most ‘careful study and his most shrewdly treasured experience; he must put the +full amount of labor upon them from the' beginning:” he must foster them and coddle them and medicine them and trained-nurse them;—and then he must depend wholly upon the weather and the season as to whether he gets a crop or a failure. In other words, he has ‘to work as hard as any other laboring man on earth, work longer hours than most others, all for a gam- bler's chance at a profit,‘ without any certainty - of that, nor even of cents a day wakges for his work. ten ny working -five “yeary buy; ‘as chav,as he cdn and r.-as dear.as he * profit cumas solely %y & whlch mflopea from: long “restric- “one single” function, en- closely. and ‘about a score more not known to orfllfi:’y m“':f;“:‘nn{i, must ?'-;‘:1" having surmount at part of his cflmb. sell his product in a market : fluctuate so widely and Iy and so ermiwly as to rfl.flbl! mothing more nearly than the orbit of a blue-bottle fly in a hot room. Nothing_is more common than a of from fifty to eighty per cent. in the market price for many truek: products in less than a week. The m-»kaz for cereal and other Buch chac He Dave & HOURS Tor Dalr. a-dollar’s worth of material As things are now, the farmer regu- larly makes a bet of two to one that he can beat the world, the flesh—and the weather. Once in a while he wins, just as he, once in a while, digs up 2 pot of gold in his back-yard. But he doesn’t win often. It isn’t intended ‘that he should. He the “easy mark” of the busi- ness universe; the unhappy ox who.is goaded on the “haw” side and p\dded on the “gee” side till he other fellow's profits off his own tl.nn and lands them at those other fellow's bank vaults. In two many cases he is such a “Simple Simon” that when his ex- ploiters, out of contemptuous good na- ture or shrewd reckoning, toss him an occasional dime or dollar out of tI winnings = from ~him, he actually chuckles over the driblet and boasts ;hn$ he “made” it by his good farm- ng! Oh, well, what's the use? Why re- tell a thousand-times-tol-tale? Why epatiate 0 nwrongs that are irremedi- able. No doubt many of you have that thought. : Simply because the wrong i8 not ir- remediable: simply because it can be remedied whenever farmers choose to remedy it; simply because £t is be- ing remedied, already, In isolated cases. QOut in Benton, Yates county, N. Y., is an organization of 107.farmers, who have decided to take the bull by the horns.” Here is one of their announce- ments, as I find it quoted in a recent letter to The Rural New Yorke: “We believe in the Allied Powers. “Ist. The Power that a farmer has of making a profit on the produce that he raises. ‘2nd The Power he has on making a profit on the produce he sells. #3rd. The Power he has of making a profit on the materials that he buys. “Of course, if yowre such a good farmer that you make. all’the profit that you want, producing, don’t read this, read the baseball news. “Producing is but one part of our business, and it's a gamble. The see- ond and third ways are just as much our business as the first, and yet the farmer is such a good sport that he has said to his dealer, “Here, you take the two safe ways and Tll gamble on the third.” “Over 100 men at Benton, the value of whose farms totals over one mil- lion dollars, bave said, “We want those other two proflts." Though they didn't organize till last April and didn’t have their building done till last September, they report a business turn-over of $30, ,000 up to Jan. 1st.. This, despite the fact that the main money cr(;pg of the jocality ‘Wwere almost total faflures, last sea- son. Now, you may not believe it but T do, that one main trouble with far- mers is their lack of confidence in each other. They are actually afraid of their neighbors. Wherefors, they won’t do what they individually be- lieve they ought to do for fear some- body else won't do it, too. Once when we were planning a grange fair, the question arose . of préemiums.. * I+ maintained ~ that we didn’t need to offer money prizes; that we were all neighbors,. actuated by a. sense of neighborly flv-.lry, perhaps, ;but nothing worse, and that this spirit helped by a fraternal desire to help a mmon Cause along would insure a showing and a satisfactory at- (endance. At once the cry arose that lan wouldn’t be popular; that it WD“ idn’t attract exhibitors; that most |eral months she has '} ward for anj Providence. llrt Clayton E."Hunt ton E., Jr., whn have e weeks with Mrs. Hunt's . and Mrs. Slmon Coff, at J - L, have returned homse. [unt’s ‘visit was longer than ness, L’t intended on account of the um:- her son. Storing 12 Inch lce. The preesnt week will npquy all, if ‘hot all 'the ice hom in vicinity, filled. Ice of fine hflt’ u Inches thick, has been harvested fr: Colum Lake. Miss Viola Lewls, ‘who is taking a course at a Norwich business college spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Le'fll. on Co- lumbia Green. Mrs. Stoldenfeldt of Manchester,who has been spending some time with her father, E. P, Lyman, returned to heér home early this week. Cold South Wind. It was the fen&rnl opinion of people in this vicinity that,the weather last Tuesday was t.hc coldest they ever ex- perienced with the wind blowing from the south. It shook their faith in the “gentle south wind.” Grange Installation. The local Grange met Wednesday evening for installation. Deputy Hykes of Suffield was present and officiated at the installation. A supper was r | served during the evening. Colds and grip are prevalent in this vicinity. The school in. the old Hop Riyer district has been closed this week on account of the illness of Miss Johnson, the teacher. SOUTH WILLINGTON Perry Company Ston'—n.g Much lce— Storrs College Glee Cilub Concert— W. C. Ruby Firs Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. F‘kd Colhum ‘th!l! son Walter, and Miss Ruth EILis spent Sunday with friends in Atwoodville. Storing Much dce. The Perry Co. started the ice into their 10,000 ton house last Saturday and have been having a fine run since. They can comfortably - handle two tons per minute, when conditions are reasonablly “favorgble, College Glee Club’s Concert. The Glee club from the Connecticut Agricultural college appeared before a small audience here the evening of the 14th. They gave a first class en- tertainment that would have drawn a full house if it had been generally known. New Fire Warden. " Wilbert C. Ruby has been appoint- ed town fire warden. As deputy war- den in past years, he has been on his job in a way thata earned him praise as-a fire fighter and it is certain that he will deserve no criticism as chief of the town forces. The Get-Together club is ~meeting three evenings each week in the new quarters that have been fitted for their use. Ne members are being added and there is something doing these winter evenlnn 'RIPLEY HILL Thin lce Gives W Way, L Letting George Freeman Into Lake. F. T. Bump is seriously Il . with pneumonia. F. O. Boynton is confined to his home with grip. Mrs. George Freeman who has been in Hanover caring’ for her daughter, who has been sick with grip, has re- turned home. ‘Mrs. F. J. Snyder who has been ill with the grip is improving. e Gave Way. rge Freeman, while crossing the lake Mondly walked across some very thin ice, which gave way and let him in. Getting hold of some stronger ice he managed 'to puil himself out. SOUTH COVENTRY Miss Comles Has Thumb Amputated— Goshen Pastor Preaches at Congre- gational Church. Rev. John Knott of Goshen occupied the pulpit at the Congregational church last Sunday. Mrs. Malcom Brainerd and son,Jesse, formerly of Kittery, Me., -are with Mrs. Brainerd’s mother, Mrs. Mary Albertin. Thumb Amputated. Miss Alice Comles had her right thumb amputated at the first joint last week at a Hartford hospital. l‘\)r sey- as had trouble from HOW’S THIS? We. offer One Hundred Domrl EC- case of catarrh that cam- by B‘Dl &tllfh Cure. Cure has been uhn catarrh sufferers for the past thi; five years, and has become known the most T remedy f« s Seive Beia % the blood 1ot be ¢ son. ter is confined her bed. shevn- much pleased with birthday. provided by the thollxh!fnln- ot ‘her life long friend and schoolmate, "John Merrick early of Minneapolis, Minn. Howard Blythe returned from Bos- ton, Saturday. Hc enjoyed the Poul- try show. ‘The. freight is’ hnldtnt the car with Rev Mr. Parker's g« his only consolation balnl that “th', must be somewhere.” This gives op- portunity for further repairs at par- | (OTd- ‘sonage. Mrs. Clark is able to t up a part of the day. Miss Chi is now car- ing for Mrs. Clrponur Mr. ang- Mrs. Ben G. Robbins are keeping house temporaritly at _the Converse house at the extension Stafford Bprln‘l, ‘while has employment there with his team. The statistical report of churches Just received gives Willington $665.39 benevolences and for all purposes $274.88. Benevolences from c.he two Sunday schools $87.8: BOLTON NOYCH Stray Cat Scratches Girl's Face Bad- Iy. Station' Agent De Wolfs’s brother- in-law from New York is visiting him. Deputy Sheriff. Rice was in Man- chester on business Wednesday. A number have filled their ice hous- es_with twelve-inch ice. this week. Mabel Howard was at her home over Sunday. A dining éar and a Sleéper Which the linemen occupy was placed in. the vard at the station Tuesday. ' dMx«:‘ A. Shaw was in Haptford Tues- Y. Bernice Smith is suffering with a scratched face. - She lfld(nd up a stray cat and it objected to being petted. BOLTON iy Miss Annie M. Alvord has been spending a part of the week with rel- atives in Broad Brool George Whippert of the United State Navy is spending a furlough at Calvin Hutchinson’s. ‘Willlam B. Trowbridge, teacher in the Center District, took Tuesday for vumm; day, and with State _School Supervisor, A. N. Potter, visited EH- ington schools. Judge J. White Sumner was in Co- lumbia Tuesday on business. All who have not yet filled their ice houses are busy doing so; the st cold weather has made both guantity and quality satisfactory. Washington County, R. I. ROCKVILLE Two Firés In One - Day—Cotton Burned at Upper Mill—Damage to House . of Orrin Woodmansee. There was excitement in the upper end of the village Monday afternoon, caused by two fires, neither of which Proved to ‘e very serious. The first One was in the lapper room at the upper mill, but p!ent.y of help was spg :d hand and the blaze was exunsu’% without much damage. A M Cotton was burned and the lapper re- ceived a thorough wetting. Towards night, anotker call for help was sent out from the home of Orrin Woodman- see.. Some vigorous work was needed which was promptly given, prevent- ing a serious fire. The blaze was caused by an .overheated soot-laden chimney near the outer wall of the holue, whith burned . the sill partly through, and was burning up under the outside of the house. Some! shingles and boards' had to be torn off to get at the fire, which was ex- tinmahed by the elp of a bucket bri- gade. It was very fortunate that It was discovered before dark. Personal Notes. Rev. and Mrs. I L. Cottrell have re- turned home, tflsr two weeks’ vaca- tion. Erio N. G. Blr‘ber went to Westerly ‘Wednesday, to bring up a load of n-.ln for Seth Saunders. Miss Sylvia W. Lanphear of West- erly, visited relatives here Saturday and Sunday. USQUEPAUGH Travel Talk Follows Church Supper— lce Harvested. The ladies gave a bean supper Fri- even! in the . Mr, Salt Pond Frozen Over—Men Esling Th‘ruah the lce. Edward McQuaide has gone to his ‘'old home in New by the serious iliness of his 1ldreg N am, who is staying at thn Roe‘hav?;n: Eh:’ nl:lnter, is serious- (mo; s, Brnot. Chemplin is visiting friends in Providence. z Arranged Work For Sowing Circle. Mrs. E. E. Browning, Mrs. Howard Wilcox and Mrs. IA;: Bliven mct at one day last week, to arrange .nd out work for the sewing = circle cw‘&ch“h conneécted with the Ocean View W. C. T.. U. Eeling Through lce. Thecvlflvmolflnwt*uk has frozen the- Sal #0 ‘that. the men have taken -dw catching eels through the ice. HOPKINTON » Howard C. Boss and with: grip and some ot people were summoned 'Tue-du to ald in r_lrlnc Several others in this suffering from sever colds, which eon- fine them .indoors. = Ice eight to tem inches in thickness is being cut this week on nearby ponds. Frank W. Miils, of Wuufly hu been spending several days at home ol his mother, ‘Mills. Mrs Sarah F. B. Hood, ex-postmis- tress of Ashaway, who has been ill for two weeks, is better. Joseph- T. White bas been ill for a few daye at his home on High street, Ashaway. DUTCH GOVERNMENT COMBAT FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE Number of Infected Cattle Slaughtered in 12 Months Over 24,000 Wfldfl.flw&t-fl mn-fli “THE BASS-CLEF coucfl'l' Mr Hall, Friday, January 28th, 8 P. m. - Soleist: ARTHUR MIDDLETON, New York ; nemwwmmumuwmuommm Single Concert Tickets on sale Wednesday lm Associate meln of the Club may reserve -hm day morning at. membership rates. Davis' Book Stoge.: - Brought M 'fln'..flh the G.od fl- ‘Washington, m 21.—Through the £00d ‘offices ‘of thé Unitéd States, the Germln. _Austrian, sh and Bul- garian consuls at ~Who have been held under arrest hy the allies on board a French .wakship in the tly | harbor, are to bé Charge week -is to be held Marehh 4 to 1. The reléased. Einstein, head of the Amer- week wili be devoted to a comsideration | ref the high mortality among infants. Mrs. AL xma‘ ‘Fhe Hagne, Netherlands; San: 21— | The Dutch government has decided uut the combating of foot and mouth disease among cattle by tho of diseased animals will and some other mcuwd' oSt !,300000 in mmm the disease is widespread tn the Ni tricts boards and mouth d the borders of the. pnnun-. ‘The num- :::I of infected cattle slaughtered .in 24,000, Leeuw: ‘iggest cattle market in the Nether- lands, over 200,000 heads being eold OUCH! PAIN, PAIN. 'RUB RHEUMATIC, ACHING JOINTS| RUB PAIN RIGHT OUT WH SMALL TRIAL BOTTLE OF OLD, PENETRATING “ST. JACOB'S OiL."