Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 17, 1916, Page 12

tten Specially for The 'Bulletin.) not a man. 1 keep but one cow sell no milk, unless now and then or two to help out a tempor- ly wanting nelghbor. that, 1 have sald many times, I am cattle I have found ‘that without an itching, In your paim for the butt of a good ra horse-whip ~and” the opportunity apply its business ‘end systematically, strenuously and ' sufficiently - to the backs of those domineering magag- ers for the milk tyrants? considering the price of . with my oonditions and sur- .mmmh and the quantity I should have to buy, milk at even five cents a quart { leaves me but a small margin of profit —not enough to insure against accl- dental shortages and ' unexpected losses. 3 Of ovourse, this does not mean that no farmer can produce milk at a faic profit. tions are not identical and som jbor might very likely Have s farm so made up that it would euable his dairy hera to pay well at such a price for its output. -t lutl two cents and seyen-tenths a ‘That's the’ price which the milk lords of Chicago offered their vassals ©n the 13,000 milk farms supplying Chicago' for this summer’s milk, de- livered to them. ‘Then they sold it to their other vas- sals of the tenement districts for eight cents a quart, or five cents a pint. The very statement of those two facts makes me almost red-hot. The Tilinois farmer bears all the cost and takes all the risks of production; fur- nishes all the plant and all the sup- plies needed; builds the barns and ! stables and silos; raises the crops; buys the extra grain needed; feeds and cares for and milks the cows; puts the milk into his own cans and hauls it with his own team to the rail- road or the city. In other words, he produces all the value there is in the @roduct And he 'is offered two and seven- tenths of a cent a quart for it. Then the milk lord takes it to your doox and pours it out of his can Into YOUrs and gets eight cents a quart— ten cents if You're so hard up that you can afford only a pint at a time. That is, you pay two and seven- tenths cents for your quart of milk and five and three-tenths cents a quart for. having it handed to you. “ This is very much like going into a restaurant, ordering a twenty-five cent lunch, and payving the waiter a dollar “tip” for bringing it to you from the Kitchen. Such a_performance would be quite Yas sensible. spread and conzerted ro- volt' the Chicago Milk Producers have irecently succeeded in forcing their Hover-lords of the milk veerage to pay #them Jcomething like half-a-cent more per quart. The story of their fizht is 16l by their president in The Rural New Yorker, and it is mighty inter- estin’ readin’. As an {llustration of the unprofita- bleness of dairying at the prices of- conditions were so. bad {that Tand’ held at $175 an acre could ibe rented for only $4 an acre. Even at that rate of rent "only farmers with ¢ large families of working children liv. ing most of the day in the cow-barns, and with mothers who were equal to men in milking and cleaning out st ‘Eles: could make ends meet and b: rent, eyon when théy labored 14 cents a day.” When at last revolt broke out | against this unbearable state of af- ! fairs one simply horrible condition was found to exist fn some places. ‘Says President Swift: “We found aces where the dairymen were afraid. ey were without spirit and Whipped curs. They had been punish- o4 at the milk plants when they show. lence| by having their ;l::‘ r‘vlu- .;.a' 'li'éhox'." means of ning a market elsewhere the milkc became almost a-loss, When they | were sufficiently humbled they were taken back and the way they bowed lifted their hats to the manasers ¢ nts would remind you of 1n a despotic country when an official was ing. It did not that such conditions could be in America’ Some of these men—American cit- izens “like. you and L—had been so utterly enserfed “that they dared not even conslder jolning with the others in o justified revolt. They were afraid to say or do a thing, to lift a voice or a finger in their own defence. They had been changed from men to paci- fists, from independent farmers to mere puppy-dogs wWho didn’t - even bark if their masters said, - ‘“Hush, Towser. But the ‘great majority of - Chicago milk producers were at last aroused and they stuck together. That last Is the notable thing to observe. They not only got mad, but they stayed mad jong enough to carry the others' trenches. They not only ‘“got togeth- but they “stuck rvxether,” which' scmething the farmers' critics have Inn:fl sald farmers would never, nev- er de. Thkey didn't ask much—just ‘enough }advance to enable them {o pay ‘ex- penses and stop the- freshet of bank- ruptey” auctions which was sweeping over ‘the dairying .. districts. . Their whilom over-lords came ' back at them with snashing teeth and swing Ing slave-whips. They tried bluffing and bulldozirg and bribery: they Rir- rs and gpt out) injunctions: viclously _and congerted- d without ‘regard to moral prin- ciples or human. rights. | And they ot licked—just as such ercatures will always ked when their farmer vietims meet them open- Iv. determinedly, and in loval alllance together for théir own rights. ’ . Havine tasted the fruits of Victory in this, first skirmish. the. producing men are now looking fo the fu- . They are mot yet wetiing any- = like what their milk is. worth— worth as food comparec with other frads, or worth as a_commodity con- sidering its retail price. How shall they further procred =0 as to et an adequate marke. for thefr product. at prices repumerctive to the produc- er? ¥ 0 They have already found that Chi- spends $20 for lguor to every s it spends for milk. ~This, they believe. iz part'v because the city milk-hendlers, instead or ~seeking “to extend their bpsiness. “have throusht solely ‘of their own daily profits, -In- stead of attempting by a campaign of education to_increase the use of milk, thereby enlarging their “busi- ness and enabling them to do It at lower rates. they have spent their whole thought solely on schemes to béat the producers and rob the con- sumers. The dairymen ajso found that all ‘he milk-hahdlers of big Chicazo hnve inves‘ed but $25.000.000 in, thelr Plas: and employ but 4,000 ‘men: while the milk producers have about $230.000,000 invested in thelr farms, their herds, their buildings and other piant. and resularly employ - almost 40.000 men to make the mfik and feed. Simplv hecause the the smaller capi‘al have been closely organized-have they been able to bul- 1y the unorzanized owners of the Inreer capital. Now. tha the latter have found that that they can organize and can stick tozother, they are seriously asking whether’ the tail shall continue to wag the dog, or vice versa. Naturally, they are turning their minds to ‘the idea of co-operation. ‘Which is right wheré the final test of ‘lieir common sense is going: to de- velgpe. To say that an army of 40,000 men with $250.000,000 capital behind it can't do what 4,000 men with only $25,000,000 capital have done is to talk nonsense. There is no question about : | Wasting The Pricc¢ - Of a Titan Engine? : Tfl' AN ‘engines run on kerosene, =% ‘Average cost of gasoline so far fhis year, e cost of kerosene 7.7 cg‘nt‘s per gfllon. oline.is,going up steadily. ‘Kerosene is not. - fuel¢prices Titan engines, using kero-. ve their owners about 1. 1 cents per horse power st ascline engine ? ' What horsé power is g if you had a Titan kerosene - isn’tit? How long would'it take -engine of -the same size? - grangers of | 0/ Exercises of Children’s Day — 8. B. West Mcves to Hartford — Local Team to-Play:Hebron. Today. .Sunday ‘was ‘observed as Children’ day, The churclt wa$ Randicmiesy dec- orated, the - colors. being green _and white.” Instead. of - te usual morning \?fi&y%b There. wer n;o:cyt & “There were recitatioris by the younger members, class exercises, a’ duet by Misses Ruth and Edith ‘Lyman, 'also, one ~Misses | | Eleanor and’ Beatrice tCmm\l. -ln‘ll:( by.male quartet, all former superin- téndents; prayer and an excellent talk tp the tilaren by Paster Owen. _One infant was baptized, the daughter of $Mr-and Mrs. Hrank = Shekieton, —of Hartford. - Mrs. Shekleton is tie daughiter of Mr,-and Mrs. W. H. Knee. and of this mflzr::\nl? o mismbier gt Colunibia’ Cof onal - chireh. ‘Mrs, Claytew E. Hunt and son, Clay- ton, . who_bave been spending several weelty with the formers parents, in Johnston, K.- L, have returned home. Schools have ciosed for the summer vacaion. : Moves to Hartford. = S. B..West has moved-to Hartford and expects to reside with his nephew. Mr. Jwest formetly owned farm prop: orty in West street. After selling it about_eight years ago, he -came 'to Columibia Green and had since boarded at ¥. A. Huacs. Mr. West is 14 years of age and a veteran of. the Civil war. He was well afid active until last win- ter, when. he had a severe attack of grip. . Last March he was taken to St. Joeeph's. -hHoepital, Widimantic, . far treatment, anu remained there until ne had recovered sufficiently . to come here for a few days, and then went to Hartford. - Mr..\v@si will be missed by the: townspeop: ¥ Visitors From_ Colorado. Mrs,” Bmily - Randall, son Harold and daugher Marlan,—of Uolorado, arrived in town -ast week ‘and will -remain with relatives and friends in this v cinity Guring the summer. Mrs. Ran- dali is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W fHlard B. Clarke of this place. e Ladies Aid-Society- mer at the chapel, Thursday atternoon, for Work. Airs. Mary ita and her sister, Miss Agnes Lyman, who for several years Have been employed in Mrs. Dow's school for giris, at: Briar CIiff Msmor, N. Y., ‘re with their parents, M. ‘and Offs. Willlam A. Lyman, near Columbia_Lake, for the summer vaga- tion, % re, Carrie ‘Frost Eleanor, _left lzst week for North Harpswell, Maine, where for several years they have spent the summer with friends from Boszon. Mrs, Sarab Gilllett of Lebanon vis- iting’ her sister, irs. Harriett Robin- san. Howard, W. Yeomans of Cleveland, Ohio, is f(visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary B. Yeomans. Game With Hebron Today. The ball game which was to” have been played here last Saturday after- noen by Columbia and Heron nines, was postponed on account of rain. Today (Saturday) the Columbia team goes to_ Hebron. Graduated From Weilesley. Mrs. H. W, Porter left Friday for Wellesley College, to be present at the graduation of her daughter, Miss Har- riett, K. Porter, Miss Porter has stood high in_scholarship during her entire college course, and several months ago was offeced a position as Instructor in chemistry and English in the Walnut Hill, preparatory school for girls at Natick, 17 miles from Boston. She will ‘begin teaching the coming sohool year. After graduating, Miss Porter ‘will. accompany. .a graduate friend to her bome in New Hampshire, for & short atay before returning to Colum Saturday evening three local young men had 2'lttle fishing experience at Columbia, Lake. They secured a boat, and all equipped . were soon afloat. But -in. pulling on the ~anchor lin they pulled o nard m:o;g sudden. jerk upset, the young men finding tne ‘W ‘wet: . iiey floun Tound, got ashore and telephoned home for dry clothes, X > Next Wednesday evening will be ‘Children’s niglit at the grange, Children’s Night at - Grange. The ‘regular meeting of -the next Wednesday. evening will be Chil- dren's night. The program will be under the. direction of° ‘Flora, Mrs. Hyde Doubleday, Charles K. Hitchcock attended: the Eplscopal state confereiice at New Nera A" B Dyin. atened ¥ gradu ¢ % 3 at - ation 'at. Storrs last Tuesday. and _daughter, Mrs. Philena. Preble Observed $2nd Birthday—Rev. George L. Thompson at Northfield. : Mrs. Fay Keefo of Madison, Me., is the. “of ‘her mother, Mrs. Eitza A..W- ‘ church at La< conia. N, H., after a pastorate of sev- eral years. His mother, Mrs. Bmily| vate, in stopping in front has recently ' returned from a visit with her son, and-durl; % stay. attended a on stores by making it impossible Sons: in. otter vebiclen, i or, pri- or sh urposes. Not only that, e he Rehirs of sha. s calied Htneve: reception given|sixty or more of them, hobnobbed on M‘éoug Mrs. Thompson by m@en the sidewalk, and jabbered not in moz SOUTH COVENTRY Concert at Congregational Church s Week from Sunday—Plans for Mook Telal " . There. "fll be a Children’s da ®: cert at the (‘.on"mrmon.‘l. c.hzr:xonl Week from Sunday. Mrs. . Wesley T:;‘;;;:n at t:e ‘Y:‘fl of the committee. les’ Missic a8 S, rris returned last week from Lymn - Haven, Florida, where he bas spent a rumber of months. Miss Alice Latimer is a member of ;x:z: graduating class gt Wellesley this Mrs. Bugene Latimer and two chil- dren spent several days at a Hartford Lospital last week, for the third treat- mént u'nsrfllehcgv]]dren'.'eyel rs. Sarth White is visiting frie in Harttord.. et g Arransements arc being, made by e social committee of the Ladles' “Association for a mock trial, to be held in August. Washzagton County, R. 1. HOPKINTON New Colporteur lcgi'l: Work—Dr. A. 8. Briggs Moving to Connecticut. Rev. Georgze H. tt, come - to 'Rhode Xil:.ml 'mu )J'!::l Hampshire to take <harge . of colpor- teur wsgon No. 52 for the American Baptist Publication Society, bega Work ‘this week, and was entartaineg X s City 1s receivin, its coating of oil this week.g s The new board of assessors of taxes ::n}‘i&rgnnto‘ hehld a meeting for or- on at the. fow 1 “Dr it vn hall Friday - A. S. Briggs, who has_béen as- scclated with his father, A. B, Br};g‘;, M. D, in practice for the past year. is preparing to move his family this week. to Cromwell,- Conn. George E. Greene of Hope Valley was a business caller in. Hopkinton City, Monday. USQUEPAUGH choicest ranguage and the passing women or the men of re- fined tastes. Complaint after complaint |a have been made verbally to of the court of common council and finally there is redress in sight, and the nuisance is to be abated for portion of the time at least, that is frora 6 a. m. to 6 p. p, But the nui sance will be tolerated for the rest of the evening if the privilege ‘is not ‘abused. After much discussion by the older- man and Attorney George Curtis Mor- n, representing the jitneymen, the council adopted an ordinance regulat- ing passenger vehicles in the ity The ordinance brings this compara- tively new method of public nSpor- tation under certain restrictions that in the end will be to e mutual ben- jefit of the public, and the jitneymen. They will not be allowed to stand in any- one place over fifteen minutes ['within any_one hour, except on the mands desiznated under, the authorits of the ordinance, and in that respect will be in the class with all other. ve- bicles. A public stand has been as- signed near the parklet on the parade and the jitneys can stand ‘here just as long as the owners or drivers de- sire and, for the convenience of the public a telephone booth will be place: convenient to this publi¢ stand, where ealls for service can be answered. Alderman Henry R. Bond, who fath- ered the vehicle regulations in the in- terest of the general public, has been appointed a supernumerary policeman tc take full charge of the enforcement sof the new ordinance. To the sur- pfise of his associates in the council Mr. Bond accepied the appointment and declared that everybody interested would get a square deal. He joculary apointment he had ordered his . umi- form, and in apreciation of his new honor, he invited the aldermen to a dinner on Tuesday evening, the nignt after the council session. Opponents of the ordinance of regulation of the vehicles objected on the greunds that more was required of ibe jitney chaps than of the trolley people, but noth- ing was said of the great benefit the trolleys have been and are in the up- building of towns, cities and state, of the strict regulations under which they operats under state as well as city supervision, of tho heavy taxes paid the state. Nor was a word said of the cost to the trolley road in as- sisting in the building and upkeep of the streets, which the jitneys drive J. K. Lamond of Middletown, Conn,, |cver, use and destroy, in unfair com- is spending a few days with his par- | betition. onts, Mr. and Mrs. J.'S. Lamond. Miss Esther Fuller spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Helen S. Car. penter Mrs. Brichnell, ‘who has been at Peacedale, for the past four weeks, caring for the sick, returned home on Tuesday. Tdward C. Kenyon of West Kings- tonspent.the week end . with srandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Kenyon. J. C. Cahoone of Wakefleld was a caller here Sunda: - Bradford Sutton is farming for J. S, Lamond, = J. 8. Lamond was _ elected _third counciiman on the republican ticket in Sonth Kingston last week. Mrs. Orpha Congdon of Kingston, was a caller here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Barr of Liber- ty, were callers here, Sunday after- noon. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kenvon spent Thursday _in Providence, Dayid P. Knight was at Peacedale, ‘Wednesday evening. NEW LONDON €6 RICHMOND ‘Willlam_E. _ Taylor of Providence was a caller at'the Moore homestead, Sunday. . - Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Reynolds were at Noose Neck Hill recently. Everett Moore was In . Providence, Monday. ; “Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Tyler and family and - Glifford’ Harrington, of Abbott Run, were callers here Sunday. Mrs. Annis Savies was through this vicinity recently. ‘- Mre. Robert B. Moore and ‘daughter were in Hope Valley. Friday. Fred Mattereon was in Wednesday. 4.05°Ph Dunn| was a caller here Sun- y. h - Moore ' was in Usquepaugh and Bingston, Wetnesdny. EAST HADD Congregational. Sunday Sohool Chil- dren’s Day Tomorrow—Grange Plan- nl,l. Fourth of July Plenie. this vichity | j The real jitneys where the fare is & jit, confine their route along the trolley {inu and pick up the nickels from waiting passengers at the painted trol- ley post. There is a good field for the sixty or more jitneys in New London - | provided the owners established routes other than along the trolley line to his | Ocean beach, routes that would result in more profit to the operators, for Wit regular routes there would be less standing on State street and more people would ride, for all New Lon- doners and ail visitors have no desire to go to the beach al of the time. When a fit is wanted to convey pa- trons to other parts of the city off comes the fit sign and the vehicle is conyerted into a taxi cab with the taxi increase on fare, although the distance s not as great as to the Pe- guot, the fare limit of the regular jit- another jit being charged for a ride from the Pequot to the beach Even the trolley men who were on strike uuml% and wh the people to walk or patroize the jitheys, came to the public relief by running & line in opposition to the jits just Be- fore the strike came to an end. The regular jitney price to the beach is ten cents, but the trolley men put on a Iine of busses and carried passengers to the beath for a jit, known in the east, or in New Yondon at least, as a. nickel. This was cut price against the jitney charge, and had the:effect of compelling the ' jitneymen _who charged any old price for a ride that it was good policy to deal fairly with the public’ if they exepected publie support in patronage and eympathy. This new ordinance will give the pub- ic some relief and will not prove de- trimental to the majority of the jit- reymen, who do business on the level. The appointment of Alderman Harry R. Bond as supsrnumerary policeman Tir chiarge. oF publio: tralfie k. NG Joke, for brigat and early Wednesday morn: ing he assumed the duties of the. fice dressed in a regulation remarked that in anticipation of’ l‘heJ menced, although | fications _ were _pre) the appropriation ‘voted. baps a reason why the work has not been commenced, or even invitations to_contractors to bid for theé contract, ie that the money s really not sight, and that even the gentleman Who engineered the vote favorable to the apropriation in city meeting com- mence to realize that they have been mistaken in the city's income from taxation. These gentiemen who advocated the propoesition so strongly undoubtedly based their financial statement on the assessed valuation of property as re- turned by the board of assessors, and if this planned out as they supposed it would, the money to meet the appro- priation would be in sight. ~ The as- sessors assessed the two new big stéstuers Manhattan and Narragansetl, owned by the Grand Trunk Railroad <company, now lying at the company’s whart in New Londor, their haling port being Portland, Maine. ~ These steamers were built under the Hayes regime and were intended to ply be- tween Providence and New York, had the Grand Trunk extended its line from Palmer to Providence, as pro- posed. At the time the assessment was laid on_these steamers they had not been in New London seven months and ‘therefore were not taxable here. So that big tax item must be stricken from e list. For many years. the east side of the Long whart, so-called, was leased hy the Central Vermont railroad to the F. H. and A. H..Chap- vell company, for commercial purposes and at-a regular rental, and therefors it was taxable city property, and the assessors assessed as ueual. It was subsequently jearned that the lease no longer, existed and that all of the wharf was used for railroad purposes and not subject to city tax. _These items alone have reduced the amount of tax supposed to be collectible some 20,000, which Is elipped off the amount that was in sight for the p: im provement. The grand list will be de- creased for like ~causes in - smaller amounts, but it is believed that they will amount to at least $5,000 more. So that the original sum in sight has dwindled from $32,000 to 37,000, and perhaps les: But some wise guy of the long age Sioted the everlasting esying -of “Where There is a' Will There is a ‘ay,” and surely the gentlemen who ‘have been’ named in this connection have the will to give to New London that much-needed public wharf, in- creased ferry accommodations - and more safety in the vicinity of the railroad station. It is Hughes to Wil- sou that they wil find the way, even if the dear’ public have to pay by in- creased taxation. Just as a matter of form, but which is required by law, that same city meeting voted to levy 2 tax to meet the appropriation. It was explained, however, that the tax would not be collected, that it would not be necessary as the money was in sight, and that there would be noth- ing doing in the line -of an increase in_ taxation. But public matters are not always what they seem. ‘Wait and see. THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. Fh s Haven of Ernest Shackieton Has Been British Property, Since 1833, — - Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, D. C., June 15.— The Falkland Islands, where Sir Brnest Shackleton recently- found &- haven after the hardships of a perilous ant- arctic expedition, have. figured: seldom. in world news since 1833, when the British flag was firmly planted over the Jand which, together with South Georgia, . constitutes = the _empire's “arthest south’ insular - possessions. The Falkland group is described in a bulletin issued today from the Wash-- ington headquarters of "the National ‘Geographic Scciety, which says: skippér 15 compellsd o cast Snehor I ipper is compel Stanley, where the | Should Sloar’s Liniment Go Along? JTHE VACATION GIRL the Fall 4 ive by the monthly mail- gland. It must have been a sensational news event, there- fore, when. the Stanley inhabitants and the hundred othier people distributed over the. more a hundred islands of the Falkland group learned that on the Jast day of May the intrepid explor- er Sir Ernest Shackieton, had arrived at this town with five = companions, after having lost his ship, the Endur- ance, in the antaretic ice last October. “Not eince the trilling naval - en- gagement off ithe Falklands in Decem. ber, <1914, when' ‘a British squadron, under Vice Admiral Sturdes, sank e German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneise- rau and Leipsic, and captured - two colliers have these islands figured 5o prominently in the news of the day as now. “The Britain's _ colonial ‘possessions _which cling to the very fringe of civilization. They comprise an. area somewhat larger than the Bahama group and lie 250 miles east of the mainiand of South “America and more than 1200 miles ~south of Buenos Adres. Only two of the isiunds ave of considerable size—East Falkland, wihich is . about five-sixths as large as Porto Rico, and West Falkland, with an area somewhat less than that of the state of Dela- %b the climate of the Falkland Eroup is comparatively mild, the rig- ors of its. winters in no degree ap. ‘proaching the cold of: the southeast coast of Labrador, which lies in_ the worrespondi g parallels of latitude in the northern hemisihere, yet the is- lands are not an agreeable place in which to live, as.a penetrating, drizz- ling rain is experienced here during 250 days of the year. ‘Except for the palm-resembling tussock-grass, which furnishes excel- lent forage for the herds of _cattle, flocks of sheep and droves. of wild | lorses, on ' the islands, there is little { vegetation. The commerce, which does not reach a millfon dollars a year, con- eists chiefly of the exportation of wool, hides, tallow and frozen mutton. ~Bx- tensive bogs supply the Scotch shepherds with a satisfactory fuel. “During the last quarter of the eighteenth century Spein laid claim to the islands and for a time threaten- ed to g0 to war with England over thelr control. -The territory belonged to the British empire by right of di covery, ever, for just a _hundred vears after Columbus reached Ameri- can shores John Davis, one of the most dauntless navigators.of the Eliz- abethan era, sightgl this land while ya® 2 from, the Strait of Magellan, where his superior, Thomas Cavendish, had met with dis- aster. This i§ the Davis who is re- pufed to have been in command of the Black Dog during the memorable over- throw. of - the Spanish Armada, and who ranks with Baffin and Hudson as the great triumvirate of early Arctic explorers. “Nearly a_century and three quar- tors_after Davis' discovery the ex- plorer De Bougainville raised the standard of France over these islands, and. the latter government ceded e territory to Spain in 1767. It was up- on this cession that Spain based her claims which she seemed ready to en- force with arms until 1771. The re- assertion of British rights in 1833 marked the withdrawal of the colonial claims of the people of Buenos Aires.” Everybody’s Doing It. Now the scrubwomen of Cincionatl have formed a union, It is a great eleven | B il nine hundred Portf° Falklands are among Great| HER NEW sSUIiT