Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 11, 1916, Page 12

ERS TO FARME HOW FARMERS MAY BUY AS WELL AS SELL BY WHOLESALE (Written Specially for The Builletin.) A Judge Of the court of ap- peals, the highest court in our neigh- boring state of New York, recently said in the course of a public ad- drey he farmer today occuples & pecu- lar position. He is a consumer as well as a producer. When he buvs, I buys'at retail prices. When he sells his own product, he ssiis at wholesale | prices. No business man could make a profit doing business on this basis. «.“You betcha,” as the boys say. There's nothing new about the statement. It has been made a hus dred times before in a hundred slight- 1y differeny phrases. It did really not a. jurist descending from the ap- ilate_bench to announce it. Not )y“iifi'?! been said over and over ibut, cvery intelligent and vl fa: e and deplored it for many yéars: Every unintelligent and un- thinking farmer.—and there are such, more’s the pity!—has felt it and snarl- ed at it or whined about it, even if he alan't recognize and comprehend its real nature and cause. But there'is something in the nature of a verdict in the assertion, when It comes from the 1ips of a trained judge, habituated to hear causes, to plerce (hrough (le vells of disputation or befogment which obseure them, and to pronounce the clarified truth. 1 take this exjudge's remarks there- fore as a strong corroboration of what very, very many of us have long eeen and condemned. They show how the facts impress a strictly legal, not agri- cultural miwd, unoiassed by retainer fees. times_are regarded as more or less prejudiced, because the thing is so peesonsl to us and involves to such a degree our own interests. But no such charge of bids can be brought against a lawyer, who presumably doesn't know the stem-end of a’ potato from the seed-end, or whether “bush” peas with brushes or a clothes brush. If you, neighbor hay: ed, want some rmer has recognized the | ‘We farmers might be and some- | to tea, 6u go to the stors and pay full vetall price for it. Probably from 40 to 60 cents a pound, according to grading and name. Of course you know that this includes various profits, as well as the real value of the tea. After it has been landed on this shore it perhaps goes through the hands of a tea-broker who makes his little profit, before it gets to ‘he retailer, who must also make a profit, if he intends to_keep on doing businéss. He can’t sell things for less than they cost him or for merely what they cost hims |or for any fractional driblet of profit, either. When I sald you “go to the store” probably I ought to have said that your wife telephoned to the store or gave the order to a delivery clerk, who brought the tea that afternoon or next day, In such a case the retailer, 't sell a great many pounds in a day, must nR¥ cnly, make enough on one pound to'pay its fair share of | his rent and his repair bills, his tele- phone and delivery bills, his clerk hire nd insurance, to say nothing about nelping to make up his losses through bad debls, but aiso enough to insure him a living and some zain to be ap- plied on the competence he is working for. Probably it is @ convenience to you to buy by the pound, as you want it, | and to be saved the trouble of going 1o { the store after it and bringing it back. | Very well; if the retailer takes these inconveniences upon himself and saves vou from a_simple matte: of | hone he has w right to {be 1 ce as well as for | nis “goods. who demand of | him " those and go other store them, 1 scowl be them. | services to buy ve no_ri: ause he nt to kick or even you to pay for Of course there | among retail dealers the far But when your convenience and service, bear the s and wagons and te clerks and book- to serve you, they have a re greedy pigs s well “as keep Get the Round Package MA own Malt Take HORLICK'S Infants and children thrive on it. the weakest stomcch of the invalid or the ageds Needs no cooking nor addition of milk. Nourishes anZ sustains more than tea, coffes, ete. Should be kept at home or when traveling. Anu- tritious food-drink may be prepared in a moment. A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing sleep. Also in lunch tabiet form for business men. Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price 14 Ask For and GET THE ORIGINAL LTED MEILK Made from clean, rich milk with the ex- tract of select malted grain, malted in our Houses under sanitary conditions. Agrees with a Package Home Railroad Avenue, Special Low Price goods 1 GRAND OPENING of GREENBERGER'S Wine and Liquor Store Saturday, Nov. 11, 1916 On my Opening Day I will make Wines and Liquors. FREE! To each purchaser of $1.50 worth of ‘bottle of Three Star French Brandy GEORGE GREENBERGER il v Jewett City, Conn. Sale of high erade will give to some ! if he won't furnish | on | men work for | | retailers $27 mfim SR S R S S I use. ;j’m. R T £ s 02 . Ly, About_twica § year, when the roads are good in the spring and fall. I drive out to a neighboring city, using now my light delivery auto truck. There I buy, in wholesale quantities, at whole- sale prices, such supplies as experi- ‘ence shown us we are likely to need for a coming half year: Sugar by the barrel or hundred-pound bag; salt by the sack; canned goods by the case; tea by the chest; .coffee by ‘the bag, rice by /hag; cereals, etc., by « Enp by-the box; etc., etc. , It takes money to do thi: pa; h down‘and there- om - two “to- four ‘per cent over even fegular wholesale - prices. But t ney has been saved.dn the prece: six_monthe—end more than the sum needed, toc,—by being laid away for this semi-annual trip, stead of being “blown in” at the retail stores. The very same amount of cash which would have gone in drib- lets to pay day-by-day retail purchas- es more than pays for the same quan- tities of the same things at wholesale. And there is something left over to buy other things we want but couldn’t afford it we had used the money all up_in little hand-to-mouth orders. The only expense spnmected with the proceeding is about half a day's time, and perhaps a dollar's worth of gasoline and ofl used in the trip. - For I bring back the goods with me and so save also railroad freighte: The savings are something mighty substantial, too. For instance the very same tea which retails in my neighborhood at from 40 to 60 cents & pound costs me, by .the chest, 23 to 28 cents a pound. A better and purer coffee than any I can buy at any retail store within my purview for 35 or 38 cents a pound, costs me 22 cents. Sugar, which at the time of my last trip, was retailing at nine cents pound, cost me, by the bag, $7. hundred. I bought 300 pounds. hould have used not far from that amount during the rest of the fall, the winter and thc spring. At then ex- sting prices I should have paid the for v a clean saving of $5.10 on one item of domestic consumption whose retail and wholesale prices usually come nearer to equality than almost any othe: And now that sugar is going up again the retallers’ prices promise to advance still higher. “But what farmer has the momey to buy wholc' chests of tea at a time and other things in like quantities? Or what farmer could cconomically use such amounts?” I fancy such ques being asked. As to the first question: 3 mer who can scrape together money enough to pay retafl bills can savel enough to, at least, hegin the other | way of buying, if be is willing to be | saving, and, perhaps: stint himself a little at the outset. Them, when he| has once mede a start, his resular savings on every buy will keep in- Any far- hat cost me $21.90, | packages of things Imperatively need- ed. There were *half ‘a dozen Oother “without. So but could scrape along” e went wiihot etk some self-denial and a lttie incon- Venience. But we managed to live through it. On my next trip I had all the money we had saved on the three or- four purchuses of the preceding tri included . not” only the price I had “for them but also the more than twelve dollars addi- tional which we should have had to pay for the same. things’ at retail. Of two articles we still had enough on hand so that'they, would last till an- other trip. I didn’t have to buy any more of those. So I was free to lay in a stock of the others which, on’'my first trip, T Jacked cash to pay for. It didn’t take long to accumulate all the small capital nccessary. “But who wants a whote chest. of tea at a time?” you persist. Certalnly T don’t and probably you don’t. But how about your eisters and your cous- ins and your aunts and your neigh- bors? In that pariicular matter of tea we as a family hardly use five pounds a year. And a chest contains from forty to sixty pounds. ‘Well, 1 happen to have two aeigh- ‘bors both with big families and both fond of tea. The last ~hest I bought contained 42 pounds and cost.$9.66. 1 100K out just two pounds. That was all our caddy needed to fill it up.. The two neighbors gladly. - took twenty pounds apleco, whereby ca-d . one saved the trouble .of ordering or fetching one-pound lots at a time; saved the risk of being “out” at some specially inopporture time of weather or work or guest-coming; and saved $5.40 in money. One of these very neighbors told me, the other day, that in_ the less than elght years curing which we have been buying suppiies together, he had saved in actual money that he knew of, over $100; or more than enough to pay for his new Ford automobile. There is no reason why farmers should feel. compelled to buy every- thing in the way of supplies at retail They can avoid that horn, of the ex- judge's dilemma, if. they-carc enough about doing fo ta take the trouble and use the gumption. I have aiready talked about the ap- parent field for:a. whole lot of:eastern small farmers in esiabl ing, leach one for himself, cal delivery routes in which he can supply his produce direct to local consumers at retail prices. That plan dodges the other horn of the ex-judge’s dilemma. The difference between the farmer’s buying at retail and selling at whole- sale, and the same farmers buying at wholesale and seiling at retail is just the difference between Easy Street and Poverty Hollow. THE FARMER. Something .Cut of Gear Ther (Special to The Bulletin.) New Londor. Nov. 10—Tt is surely| the unexpected that happened in New | London last Tuesday when the city, conceded in ncrmal times to have a republican majority of between 300 and 400, flops over and establishes a record democratic victory, and with- oui any surface c it is not be- lieved that any individual in the city had any idea that Congressman Free- man ‘would” be heaten in' his home town, or that'James R. May wouid| Frank Cronin for the ' atnte senatorship, or hat Willlam A. Holt and William_ C. Fox would be elected | representat: ove: Har- wood and Philip Z. But such things did really come o pass. It is fortunate that the victors. are| fully as well qualified to £l the of-| fices to which they were elected as| would be the vanquished, and there- fore New London will be ably and per- haps acceptably represented in the next general assembly. But why this flop? “Why this turnover? It was as- serted In this correspondence a week ago, based on the statement of per- haps one of the very best republican party workers In the city, especially on_preliminary work, that the town committee was Inactive. Be that as it may, there“were very few stay-at- homes. So the flop can hardly be at- tributed to that cause. It is perfect- ly plain that a great many republicans voted the democratic ticket for cand- idates otaer than the judge of probate. . e Digestive Troubles cause headache, biliousness, constipation, impure blood and other unpleasant symp- toms. If these troubles are neglected they weaken the body and open the way for seriousillness. Many chronic diseases may be traced back to indigestion ‘that could have been immediately e Which Needs.Remedying=— Planning to Construct Hulls of Submarines By Groton Plant—Business Not Dependent Upon War. T did they do such a rash thing? g7 It is a habit that republicans have not acquired based on the political past. There must have been some well- licans defined cause @~ so many repu deserting. the ship at a presidential he mystery is how it got that-be without being o election, but by the power noticed and theref to check it. Or is ting to be drunk with power to the extent that the pecple fear that all the party power is placed within the hands of the sclected few and a revolt issued? Just consider w0 effert made London get- the political ‘power from a epuplican. standpoint - that prevails in the city, and the wonder increases why such’ a thinz could be possible, unless that power attempted to rule beyond all reason, impressi the freemen that they were such name only, but instead were politi serfs. - Bear in mind that New Lon don is the home of a United States senator, a representative a state attorney, a judge and clerk of the court of common pleas, a cotnty sheriff, and so on; and vet, the repub- lican city went for Wilson and the rest of the democratic ticket for its full length. It gould not have taken many cities the size ¢f New London to do as New London did to give the state over to the democrats. There is evidently something out of gear in the republican machine in New Lon- don that ought to be investigated by experts. n The New London Ship ‘and Engine company, with ;llnt at Groton, easily the largest and most progressive in this section, is destined to bezome one of the largest manufacturing indus- tries in the state. that pertains to the submarine, except the hall is built at this big plant. Now the plans are out for the construction of another large building wherein the hulls wiil be built, and then submarines will be constructed complete and launched in New London harbor. The engines and all mechanical adjoncts for boats of the U type have been built at that plant, including the machinery in the ten boats that cleared from Canada and made the voyage to foreign clime ander their oWn. power, and shortly afterward some of them. were report- ed as_operating in the Mediterran- ean. The hulls for these boats were built in Canada and the engines and other machinery: assembled there. Tt is therefore probable that al types of submersibles will ‘be built ~on the relieved b Fflsecham’s Pills. This well- banks of ‘the Thames and launched ready for officlal trial trips from New London harbor. The ship and engine plant is now about five times larger than at the start a few years ago, and the best of it all is that it is not & temporary industry whose life depends upon the length of the Buropean war. but is healthy and lasting. The building of submarines for the home government is an industry. in itself with o perm- anent tendency, but the concern need not necessarily be confined to work for the United States or forelgn govern- ments. There is great demand for the type of engines made here, but the government orders preciudes the ex- tension of the bui and_to build engines for comi “and @pleasure uses on the water, or for business pur- poses ashore. The New London Ship 2nd Engine Company-fortunately was not ted during.the war, or-when things on my list which we wanted [maflon and fever. | New London’s Republican Machinery|:: | . Dorothy ‘““The dlseased states produc ing Cold are—local congestion, Inflame e first effect of exposure is to de- It called for |range the nervous tension of .the skin. and_some internal organ: the second to_check the cell-growth of the parts affected and obstruct the circulation” of the nervous fluid, produce a recoil of the nerve wave, and thereby the chill, shiyer or rigor. To get the best results and help the Cold_away take “Seventy-séven” at the first sign of a Cold. Price, 25c. at all Drug Stores. (HUMPHREYSH For’ the convalescent, for the weak and the weary.—Price, $1.00, at all Drug Stores, sent, collect’ on “de- lvery. umplireys’ Homeo. Medicine Co., 156 llum St 3 wil pend upon the war for its frture in- dustrial iife. It is the biggest thing that ever hap- pened in the industrial line for New London and Groton. But for the sug- gestlon of Gardner and the definite action of Bond, tw New Londoner: this big mndustry would not have ma- terialized in this scction. This con- cern s located on the site of the old Eastern Shipbuilding company plant, builders of the Minnesota and the Da- kota, two of the largest steel ships of their time. There -was great ac- tivity during the construction’of the ships, but when they sailed away for the Pacific_coast the building concern dissolved, hav served its purpose. I Not so with the New London Ship and Engine compa It will not build as large ships, by they will build small- er steel vessels and many more them, and frem present indications ¥l remain at ihe old stand ndefinite- i EAST HADDAM Republican Representatives Elected— Robinson-Treat Marriage at. Essex J. Tracy an. ' Attendant at rsfield. Wethe: The. two republican candidates for representative weer ‘elected on''Ties. —Sidney E. Ackley ard Harver M. Luther or Hadlyme) Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Champion hav hesn spending a few days in the capi- tal city re. William Sisson, Sr.- and Miss Sisson were at Mrs. “Walter AL _Gillette's Tuesday. Marehall Miner has purchased second-kand truck which he is tryin: ouf on his route. Miss Gladys € veek at L. M. Stark's am. Josenh H. Lee made a business trip to Middletown, Wednesda Severn] from the socicss attended the Union ser- a at Hadlyme last Sunday. Robinson-Treat. Misz Rertha Treat and Willlam Robinson. both of this place, twere martied in Fesex last:Sity even- TR AE e CongrefAtoly PATsonate. rs. Charles Smith had as her guest over Sindav, Mrs. Belle Stan- nard of Westbrook. Miss Alacia Bruton who has been snerding five months wath Mrs. A J. rocks returned today to her home In New Haven Attendant at Wethersfield. W. J. T has secured an pointment attendant at the nd entered upon his nrison a Monday. G rs. Harriet Brooks is visiting riends in eck. Miss Georse Squire of Naugatuck, has been a guest of Mrs. W. J. Tracy. M= _and Mrs Willlam Baftman spent “a fe wdavs recently with thei- drushter, Mrs. Harry Powers, of Deep River. Mr. Franz Chrotall chiaseq a five passepsef. recently urmg, ear, Sheep dJogs are free from tax in the United Kingdom. Congresational | Ay COMING NEXT M m.;m‘ AY The Eminent. x 4 . Edmund Breese “in “THE LURE OF -HEART Wonderful - Acts of _Exquisits o el ey METRO TRAVEL SERIES 5_DESIRE” -LECTURE - at SLATER HALL MONDAY, NOV. 13th, at 8 p. m. ‘AMERICA AND THE WORLD STATE CHARLES F. AKED, D.D. Admission 50 cents. Tickets om sale by Cranston & Co. and at the door before the lecture. i of of Basham, 2|} Miss - Velours worsted holds its own for real service and modishness. i netercsat is7a winey color, so s T £61 Yall “usage, and demibelted trimmed with black jet, huse b tons. Please notice the voluminous collar. NORWICH TOWN Rev. George H. Ewing’s Father Dies at Roxbury, Mass—Local Guests at Groton Silver Wedding. thur B. Fellows of Plain Hill h: urned from an automobile trip ngton, Conn. Mrs. Leorora Ro: ue substituted = rsday and Friday. se of Huntington the Falls school Mrs. B L. former resident of Bliss place, has in town this week and visited friends uptowa. Mrs. was in . L. Hutchins of Bliss place ew Haven this week and was to| hols of Portland, Me,, | DREW COMEDY -Next Mon., Tues., mAUDITOfliUM’Tm; ‘GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON’S NOVEL THE PRINCE OF GRAUSTALK A Seq_l_le!flto “Graustalk.” Filmed by Essanay in 5 Acts WITH BRYANT WASHBURN AND' ~ ) MARGUERITE CLAYTON FIRST TIME SHOWN SECURED AT GREAT EXPENSE 3 'SHOWS—230, 7, 845 MAT. 10c. EVE. 10c and 20c Hearst Weekly News || Frank Daniels’ Comedy TODAY—PHIL OTT AND HIS MUSICAL FOLLIES SHOWS 230 and 8 p. m. MAT. j10¢ and 2065 EVEL D8, 20c, 30 4—SHOWS TODAY—4 At 1.30, 3.15, 6 and 8.15 A GREAT SHOW MUDGE MORTON TRIO Y Comedy Music and Singing Bring the Kiddies to See Thera A Great Act You Will Like ELEANOR SHERMAN ........ The Girl and the Piano The M8t Popular Star of the Screen In 'DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in ‘MAN!SATFAN MADNESS” and. Action, See It. § BOEEY VERNON in the 2 Resl Keystons, HAVSTACKS & STEEPLES P. M. 2nd at 8.15 TECHOW’S CATS Wonderful Trained Animal His Biggest Success i present at the meetings of the Epis- | copal conference. in charge of the Sunday afternoon service at the Sheltering Arms. Miss Jennie Thompson of Fitch- ville recently spent a few days with Lucile Fielding at her home on Vergason avenue. Forethought. Willis—"They say Doctor Bump is very quick to send a bill” Gillis— “Quick! He is premature. I hap- i pened to mention to him this morning that T am going to a bachelor supper tonight” Willis—“Yes?” Gillis—"And this afternoon I received a bill for to- morrow morning’s services."—Judge. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Fielding of Vergason avenue were in Groton to atterfd the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. G G. H. Ew has been in Roxbury, Mass., this week led there by the death of his fath- er, Rey. Edward C. Ewing. GosdoHabit, <= You will get accustomed to living your life right through with a want |in it. We all have to do that. You will get accustomed to wanting, and this habit will come to be a part of your life. You will be all the better for it—H. S. Merriman. of Fort ard Carter and with Mrs. Susie Lillibtidge at her home on the Scot- land road. Assistant County Agent Here. Harold J. Tilison, of New York, who has been appointed assistant secre- | tary of the New London County Im- i provement League, has been the guest | for a day or two of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Warner of Dliss place. Try One and See. It is believed that all lions yre “left handed.” A famous explorer says that when a lion desires to strike a forcible blow it nearly always uses the leit Attends W. H. M. Mesting. James McKee of Bli place was in’ New London Wednesday and | paw. Tiesday to attend the sessions of the —_— o Woman 2 Missionary soclety of ithe New England Southern confer- Overdid It. | ence- “I know a man,” said Uncle Eben, EE “dat Xep':s9 busy lookin’ up;foh clonds .. Sheltering, Atms ervice. Wit ‘$fIve¥ linin’s dat he‘done walked Rev. A. W. Burden, pastor of the into a coal hole.’ Federated. church, Greeneville, will be about it. A big roomy car is luxurious—no But extra inches in an dreds of dollars—as a rule. It took an investment of millions in facilities for tremendously increased production— “To effect the economies necessary to produce luxurious size at this price. f.l.‘hevwheelbaa:vis 112 inches— o Model 85-4£. 0. b. Toledo - Luxurious two ways automobile cost hun- *795 Model 85-4£. o, b. Toledo e Bigness! ‘The seats are comfortable and roomy and there’s plenty of leg room front and back. And your further luxurious comfortis assured by cantilever springs, big four-inch tires and balanced weight—the gasoline tank is at the rear. Beautifully finished! —every convenience!l Price $795111 Model:85-6;- six cylinder, 35-40 horsepower, § )16-inqt}nv—wheelbase.h$925. M. B. RING, AUTO COMPANY -oon 21 Chestmit Stro-* M-~-ich, Conn. “Made in U.5. A