Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 23, 1916, Page 14

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The Great See-Saw is at work again;—the great and universal tee- mer-board of the business world of Wages-up and Prices-up: Prices-up and Wages-up. ‘Wages have been tending upward for years. Don’t we farmers know it Haven't we had to pay, of late, from two to three times as much as we paid, twenty years ago, and pay it for help not nearly so efficient and labor not nearly so effective? ‘Then, two or three years ago, prices began to climb, also. The fa.- mers and other employers who had to pay higher wages were, perforce, compelled to get more money io pay them with. Now wages have ot to be “histed” once more because wages at last year's rate won't pay to -ost of Mving at this year's rate. At least, that's what they tell us. So, the newspapers are full, every day, of announcements that this, that and the other company or corpora- tion has declared an increase or oi- fered a bonus or agreed to share pro- fits with its workmen. On account of which, we frrmers are going to catch it in the neck again. For, jus®as sure as three plus threc is more than two plus two, we shall also have to pay more for our help this coming season. Equally sure is it that we shall have to charge more for our products or else stop raising any to sell. In other words, the tece- ter-board which is now tilting wages up, once more, will, next swing, tilt prices up to correspond. Whereupon, wages will have to, go,up another notch. And so on and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. What’s the end to be. Now, you and | both want wages, whether we work for sorue- body else or for ourselves. Further- more, you and I would always lik2 more wages than we're getting, no matter what they are. That marches about even with David Eorum’'s “helpin’” of Thanksgiving turaey. of ‘which he sagely remarked that Le had always noticed “a leetle too much wos Jest about enough.” I can remember when fifty ccnts a ~.day was the regular wage for a farm laborer, working by the day. I hav myself, worked for neighbors at tha Tate, except in the hurry of “nayin’ and harvestin’”, when wages wére lifted materially. I have hired laber at that rate, good. efficient .abor, which thought,—or at least, taliced 1ss of hours and wages than of smount wmnd quality of work accompliziied. Now, I'm too old to be working out for anybody, and I have to pay $2 a day for men who won't wor: more than eight hours; who are neither mble nor willing to do a full day’: work In that time; and who spend mcre breath grumbling over their small pay and the high cost of living than they do in trying to earn their monev good Anyone can see for himself just how it works. The more a mau's Jiv- Ing costs him, the more wages ae ‘dc- mands, and his demand seems, on the; face of things, perfectly just. There- upon the farmer and the mauufic- turer, who find the cost of their pro- ducts increased by the higher cost the labor involved in producinz them, demand a higher price for those pro- ducts, to make things even. Thelr demand is certainly as just as tre other. The pot is no blacker thun che kettle. If one has a right to nigher wages, the other has a righi to hign- er prices. If b as a farmer, can ge: fertilizer and labor at such rates as to enable me to producelpotatoes at forty cents, R bushel or less, I can aff,rd to sell them at fifty cents a bushcl. But if the cost of the fertilizer—wkich is al- most wholly labor in the dnal analy- sis,—and if farm help is sucn that they cost me eighty cents a pushe: to raise, I can't afford to se'l them at Jess than a dollar. I've got to have something out of them to pay inter- est and taxes, keep up fences and re- pairs, and give me gemething to live on_through the winf8r. Personally, T'd rather sel them at Afty cents, if I could afford to, than at a dollar, if T make no g-water per- centage of profit at one prics than the other, and if my fifty csats will hire as much help, next t dollar. And how much bette pray tell me, is the hired man wi:o ets & dollar wages and ass to pay e last red cent of it for a busnel of THE GREAT SEE-SAW OF LIFE potatoes, than the hired man wio gets fifty cents wages and can buy full bushel of potatoes with caat? Al- ways assuming, of course, that th price of other necessaries .s COILEar- able with that of potatoes? A tremendous share of th. teeter- board see-sawing is all poppy-uck and stuffing. Most of the talk adou people “can live on” “can’t live on” cock. A man can live on very if necgssity compels or hoped-for re- sults induce him. Some years ago, as I th.nk I have mentioned before this, a Philadelphia physician whose work among the poor er classes had led him to a great desire to help them, tried an experiment to see on how little cost a man cotid live and work. He made up a car?lu:ly balanced ration, containing sl nutriment that an active ma to need, bought the materius open market and lived for a fuwl month at a cost of ten ceuts a day. He did his usual work, oft:n requir- ing fourteen or fifteem hours a day, and, though accustomed to uking Lis meals at an expensive club wiere they had cost him from one to three decl- lars each, found himself at the end of the month’s trial of a ten-zent ration in better physical trim and of e: a.cuy the some weight as when he st He did not say, at the end, tha. he had enjoyed the diet as a gustaiory lux- ury. He did say that wha. he had done any man could do. i.at lhow- ever, was years ago, when prices were much lower than now. ‘The other day a group of yjung men and women in Chicago ware put on [another trial diet. Trere w a dozen of them, I believ. specified time they ate the ration pre- pared fgr them and nothing else Dur ing that time they did tnei: u work. At the end of the tume they were every whit as well as wien they began and all weighed a teiile more. The attempt was to see if such a €roup could be adequately ied on forly cents a day, each, at present retail prices. In fact, the cost turned out to be considerably less than thut, lcss than thirty-five cents, if m» mecmory serves. And that in a big city where everything is inordinately dear. A food expert in New Yo s recently repared and served to a puirty of six critics a meal composed 0f corn- meal and grated cheese, whith the critics joined in declaring tasted £00d”; which contained asactly the same nutriment as six chops weighing a pound and costing forty-two cents, and which cost less than nine cents and a half for the six portions. Up in Augusta, Me., is a co:ion mill operative whose regular bil. for a week's food is kept down to S0 cents —only a trifle over 11 cems a day. This includes the kerosene which ke uses to cook it with over an oil stove. It is needless to say that he docsn’t use butter or eggs,r. rum o: tobacco, or tea or coffee. But he has kept up this sort of diet for many years, does his work, and usually puts $9.20 of his $10 weekly wages into the sav- ings bank every Saturday. Do you and | want to live or eighty cents ‘a week? You bet we dor’t! But when, as within a week, a farm laborer tells me that he “cwi’t live” on a cent less than forty ollars a month, with board, and won't work unless he can get at least that, I know that he’s talking nonsense. Of urse, he wants his $40. He'd rather rch:ve $50. He probably wouldn't re- fuse $500 a month if it wa3 offered him, And Tl bet a good cookie agains't a stale one that, within a year after he had begun get:ing $102 a month, he’d be wanting $:0) and swearing he ‘“couldn’t live” on $500! That's the way some kinds of human nature are made. ‘When a man says he “can’t live” on $40 a month or any other figure what he means is merely that he can't live as he wants to on that sum. You and I can't, either. Practically none of us live as we would like to, if we only could afford to live difforently, In any big city, or small one for that matter,” a man can spend $i0.400 a year and still not have anytaing like all he wants. Or he can live on a for- tieth that sum and have all that he actually needs. If a man with an income of $3,293 a year spends $10,000 he is reoally a poorer man than that Maine cotton- mill operative with an income of $520 There it is Nothmg Like it, Nothing that can take the place of. Newhiro's -d SE!D 10 CENTS fORSMPlE BUITI’.E -uth-‘ by | incentive for his remarkable economy. Assume the wos that he is a stingy miser ‘who is will to sacrifice luxury and even’ comfort for the sake of amassing money. You and I don’'t feel that way. Nor do we, either of us, want to ‘beg or borrow or steal. If, for any reason, our incomes are small, isn’t the desire to be independent. and to avoid pauperism or crime as power- ful as the desire to swell a,bank ac- unt? Isn’t it as worth .an incen- ive? Isn’t it as manly a sentiment? Aren't we capable, in our hatred of becoming dependents or paupers or criminals, of as much self-restraint and self-denial as he in his love of saving? If wejare not then we are lacking in the ¥ery fibre of manhood: devoid of moral stamina: pitiful weaklings, spiritually! I don’t know anything -boue “what that e operative Let me repeat and take as clear as language can make it, that I do not want merely to live, confined mar- rowl# to the few real necessities of a bare existence. Nor do I want any- ody else compelled to. I crave for yself and I want for others a more liberal bill of fare, both physically and mentally. But neither I nor you nor anybody else is ever going to get ail he wants, wouldn’t be satisfied, not if we each had the earth, with a gold ring around Soon. (Special to The Bulletin.) New London, Dec. 22—Just how long ago, the deponent knoweth mnot, but it was before he earned the .re- fix of Reverend, the now noted evan- list Billy Sunday heid forth in New London, in old Lawrence hall, and un- der the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association. It was per- haps thirty years ago of a Sunday afternoon when a sign board near the entrance to the I, announced t Billy Sunday, baseball player, was to speak and fie public was in- vited, and with the assurance given that it would be absolutely fres and that even a collection would no: pe taken. That does not sound much like the Billy. Sunday of toda: vho is now preaching in his inimitable style in a big tabernacle built in Eos- ton especially for the Billy Sunday meetings; but it is the same Biily, the old, original and only Billy. It was some five years after this that he launched out into the evangelistic field and soon thereafter took the leal over all other evangelists, by reason of the direct way he talks to the peo- ple, in which he uses the latest slang of the day, and slang of his own coin- age, which he emphasizes by action and gestures peculiar to himself. He was just about breaking ‘in as a preacher when he was in New London and. starting in to make a reputation in_ that line, and he sure has succeeded. Then he was - best known as a ball player, and by rea- son of that fact, Lawrence hall was secured for him, as he could reach the people there perhaps better than he could in any church where a lay- man would be permitted to occupy the pulpit. Then there was plenty of room in Lawrence hall to accommo- date all who wished to hear Billy Sunday. Now there is a plan afont to charter a special train to take New London people to Boston to see and hear him, and if the plan goes through that is if a sufficient number can be obtained to guarantee the special train, there will be more people fo take that trip than there was in Lawrence hall when Billy Sunday oc- cupied the stage. Then he was at work under the direction of the Y. M. C. A and traveled about unaccom- panied. Now he carries .a party fully as large as the average theatrical com- pany, and on a larger system. He has” his advance agent, treasurer, business manager, corps of assistants, and all are al- most as busy as Billy himself. He could not get along in extensive evangelistic work without these paid assistants, in order to guard his fin- ancial and other interests, wherever Billy Sunday holds a religious cam- paign it has become necessary to erect tabernacles in order to accom- odate the crowds that rush to see im act and hear him talk, and spe ial trains from other places ars al- most *daily events. He created no special attention when in New Lon- don, but as said before, it was the be- filnnmg of his work that has bridght im fame and fortune. When Billy Sunday was in New London on a Sunday, so_many vears ago, there was nothing in his spasch or attion that would form a desirs on the part of his auditors to hears him again, so he must have acquired his taking ways after he graduated from Young Men’s Christian Association work into the broad field of evangel- ism. Why at that time he was not in the same class with the Frost Broth- ers, or even the Rev. Hugh Montgom- ery. Although an old New London church member was heard to remark at the close of the meeting, that if Billy Sunday lived long enouga he would be a preacher as forceful and as erratic as Elder Jabez Swan. The elder was some preacher, he having a peculiar way of his own, not averse to the use of such slang as prevailed in his time, and noted for belching forth what he had in his mind right ou* in meeting. He did not fail to ca'l a spade a spade, and whenever he took the notion to attack the sinceri‘y of any man or woman in the copgrega- tion, he did not hesitate to call the names in the highest pitch of his powerful voice. Should Billy Sundayv come to New London again he would be hailed by the older people as a second Elder Swan, in speech and ac- tion, but his superior in gathering in the coin of the realm. The cRairmen of the several ward enmfinlme. which constitute the re- publican town committes yielded to the wishes of the office-holding polit- ical powers of the city and selected Theodore Bodewein as chairman of the committee to succeed the late ‘William J. Brennan. Mr.. Bodenweia has had previous experience in town committee work in both parties and therefore ought to know all the tricks that are played in the local game of politics. Besides he has had experi- ence in state political work, having Dbeen elected, secretary of state, and is therefore in line to succeed to the vam.ncy on the state central commit- tee made by the death of Mr. Brennan. He represents the govorn- ing faction of the party locally and perhaps this is as it should be for the future success of the party. A few weeks ago there was a com- bined meeting the several ward committees to elect a chairman of the % lcommittee and .at that meeting For- are so built that we. NEW LONDON HEARD BILLY SUNDAY It Was Some Years Ago But He Has Not Been Forgotten Nevertheless—The New Head of the Republican Town Committee—Ferry Franchise Will Come ‘Up Again secretaries,, in his’ —_— : 1] “If | had but a thousand a year,” || ran the old song. Oh, well, suppose ‘he had his d a year. It wouldn’t be but a very short time be-{] fore he’d see where he could use two great comfort and :{l vantage. But when he tells me that he “can’t| live” on that or less than that he’s simply talking rot and piffle. What he means is that he can’t live as he wants to. Wherein he’s in exactly the same condition as everybody else, no matter what their income. So far as we farmers are concerned, we couldn’t stop this ineffective see saw of wages-up “and prices-up: prices-up_and wages-up, not even if ‘we should by some unimaginable mir- acle ever get together and work as a unit. We are most of us i from year to year on less than half ‘what certain railroad engineers and firemen recently told congress they ‘couldn’t live on.” While few of us m fat and rosy, most of us manage ‘WOrTy through the winter and ao n fais amount of man’s work in the course of the year, too. Most of us earn our living, such as it is, honestly. by hon- est work. And most of us, I believe, would still rather live on what we can earn, no matter how hard or scanty the fare, than turn paupers or hobos or blackmailers. THE FARMER. thousand with mer Alderman Samuel Prentis, a pro- gressive party man, was the oppon- ent of Mr. Bodenwein. There was no choice that session. The choice was put up to the ward chairmen and. as Mr. Prentis expected, they selected Mr. Bodenwein. He did much fo- the party and the party did much. for him. Now he wants to do some more for the party, perha in appreciation. He is an excellent business man, something of a politican, and ought to make an ideal chairman of tlLe town committee, and a member of the state central committee, too. ‘Then he would be the political boss of the town, and he is fully qualified to fiil the bill. One of the important matters to be considered during the coming yecar by the court of comon council is the lease of the Groton and New Loadon ferry franchise, as the Chappell lease which has extended over a periud of about fifteen years expires. This lease has been a bonanza especially since the great increase in the volume of automobile traffic, and naturally there will be strong effort on the part of the leases to secure a re- newal for another decade. Taec fact of the railroad bridge becoming a part of the highway system of the state will not lessen the efforts on the rart of the Chappells to renew the lease. While the service has been better| than ever, still it has been inadequate, especially’ during the summer seasoa, and to properly accommodate tha public two boats, instead of one, ought to have been in commission,. but in- stead one has been held in resrve and, as_usual may be pressed into service during the winter, perhaps for economical reasons. Former Mayor Benjamin L. Arm- strong was a strong bidder for the iease against the Chappells but he lost~ and it was hinted at tae time that he was euchered out of tce Jease, whatever that may mean. When this'ferry lease fight was on in earn- est, when final action was to be taken by the council, the present, United States Senator Frank B. Brandeger, was the corporation counsel, and he was seated by the mayor at that ses- sion. It was the first council meeting where a corporation counsel was ia such prominent place, or in fact ever attended a council meeting, and .t was also the last time. The council voted the lease to the’ Chappells. That very night, almost immediately after council adjourned, the ferry comnmi tee, the leases and the corporation council, repaired to the Brandegee of- fice, and then and there the leass was formally delivered, and was be- yond council recall. It was consid- ered a wise move by those who were oposed to Mr. Armstrong, but there were others who could see no valid reason for the hasty way of closinz the deal It is not known at this time whether Mr. Armstrong, or any other man, will bid far the lease against the Chappells. It would, per- haps be just as well for the puf¥i» to grant a renewal of the lease to the present lessess. Worse might be done. Washington County, R. I. USQUEPAUGH E. J. Sherman of Exeter was a nafller here Wednesday. C. Cahoone was at Wakefield on Wednesday Miss Fannie Kimball, instructor for the blind, and attendant, was in the village Wednesday, Mrs. Randolph Carpenter of Brook- lyn, N. Y., is visiting her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. S. Lamond. J. C. Webster Sunday momlng found his horse down in the barn and called a veterinary from Westerly but the animal died Monday. Mrs. Ida Madison, who has been working for Mrs. F. K. Crandall, has returned to her home at Scituate. Charles Levech of Providence re- turned home Monday, after a féw days’ stav at the Maples. The Sunday school will have . Christmas tree this (Saturday) after- noon at 2 o'clock for the children. As the childgen ¥re nearly all smali, it was thought best to celebrate in the afternoon. ‘William Robinson has finished his work on the railroad for the winter. F. K. Crandall was in Wakefield on Wednesday. HOPKINTON Rev. E. A. Witter Clerk of School Committee—George H. Spicer Very Feeble. Rev. E. A. Witter has been appoint- ed clerk of the school committee, to succeed Miss Clara A. Olney, deceased. Herbert Asher Burton and Fllen Bl- za Martin, both of Hopkinton, were muriefl‘s,t the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. E. P. mmewson‘ Sat- urday evening, Dec. Douglas lin of P‘hfladebhlfl visited at the “ht his great- grandfather, George H. Spleor, Satur- day and Sunday. George E. Allen, son of Hon. B. R. lAilm, i.! il at his home in Hope Val- ey, Rev. B. 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Miss Fannie Markham of East Hampton spent several days last week with Mrs. Waliter M. Gillette. W. R. Purple was in Hartford Sat- urday and Sunday. It is rumored that Miss Josie Smith of East Haddam and John Loucks of Philadelphia will be married Christ- mas day. Mrs. J. H. Ely was in Deep River Saturday to attend the funeral of her brother, Carl Tracy. Mrs. E. H. Hanford ,of Bridgsport is spending a few days wigh her sis- ter, MTS. Martha Smith. W. J. Tracy has been passing a few days with his family here. Mrs. Fannie Tracy visited her daugh- ter in Deep River Saturday. Theodore Andrews of Springfield was a guest Sunday at A. S. Bugbee’s. Mrs. Harry Strong has returned, af- ter a two weeks’ stay in Middletown. Joseph Tracy is quite ill Degrees Conferred. The third and fourth degrees were conferred on a class in the grange at the regular meeting Wednesday night. Visitors were present from Mattabos- ett grange. Christmas Entertainment Tuesday Plans are going forward for the Christmas entertainment to be held in the parish house next Tuesday even- ing at 7.30. There will be recitations and music, followed by the distribu- tion of gifts from the tree. Refresh-. ments will be served and games W follow. BUMPER GRAIN CROPS B BRING LESS MONEY Farmers It Is Claimed Get More For Their Lean Ones. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, D. C,, Dec. 21.—That the farmer receives less money for his bumper grain crops than he gets for his lean ones, although the hand- ling of the one involves infinitely more labor than the gathering and market- ing of the other, is the somewhat startling statement made by William Joseph Showalter, a Washington economist, in a paper brought to the attention of the House of Representa- tives by Representative Flood of Vir- ginia in connection with the high cost of living issue. He shows how the farmers ‘of the world received a bil- lion dollars less for their . bumper grain crop of 1812 than they got for the lean one of 1911, how those of the United States received 172,000,000 less for their bumper corn crop of 1912 than for their lean one of 1911, and how the wheat growers get $64,- 000,000 less for their bumper wheat crop of 1906 than they did for their lean one of 1907. In his paper Mrs. Showalter says: “While Congress is considering the high cost of living from the stand- point of the city consumer, it might also_consider the high cost of univer- sal bumper crops to the farmers who produce them. A study of the statis- tics of the Department of Agriculture will show that bumper crops, with all the_extra labor they involve, bring the farmers shorter returns than the lean onese “For instance, in 1911 the world had a lean year so far as grain crops go. Leaving out rice, the total grain yieid ‘was 13,786,000,000 bushels, enough to load a train five times around the earth at the equator. In 1912 there was a bumper crop, the biggest yield of grain that Mother Earth, in all her history ever produced. It reached the enormous total of 16,115,000,000 bush- els, practically 16 bushels for every man, woman and child upon the face of the globe. Enough to load a string of cars reaching more than six times around the “And yet, based on the farm prlces per bushel prevailing in the United States on December 1, of the two years, which is fairly representative of world prices, the farmer got more actual cash for his lean crop of 1911 than he got for his fat one of 1912. The average per bushel price of the five great cereals was approximately 73 cents in 1911, as compared with 55 cents in 1912. So, If you will take out your pencil and figure it up you will find that the world’s farmers received approximately a billion and a quar- ter dollars less for the great bumper crop of 1912 than they got for the lean crop of 1911. “The same conditions obtained in 1906 and 1907. Here the former year ‘was one of those great fat onés when the granaries of the world were over- flowing, and the latter a very lean one. Yet the farmers got nearly two dillion dollars less for their, great ‘bumper crop of 1908 than they re- ceived for their lean crop of 1909. “Taking our own country alone we see that the same thing happens with the American farmer in his fat and lean years. For instance, 1912 was a bumper year in corn production. For thQ first time in our history we reach- %ssed the three billion bushel 4,000,000 bushels was the uF:ctrleml_lt.lM Iuhm'bonut in mp. On 'the other h-M, 19183 was ple co1 A£ poorest corn year the American George TR farmer had htm muwmu TODAY—Hobart Bosworth in the Yaqui and Beatrice Fairfax R DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in I }‘ 4 4—SHOWS TODAY—4 “HY THE MELODY 4 . THE VARIETY TRIO NATHANO BROTHERS IN A CLEVER COMEDY SKIT l IN A NOVEL SKATING ACT The Best Feature This Noted Star Has Ever Appeared in The Su‘nn in This Picture Were Taken at Watch Hill, R. .l KEITH VAUDEVILLE TRIANGLE PHOTOPLAYS Sweetest Singers in a y Comedy Offering AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY CHAS MURRAY. IN HIS HEREAFTER, Two-Reel Keystone CONCERT ORCHESTRA Matinee 1.30, and 3.15. Evening 6, and 8.15 producing only 2,246,000,000 bushels. And yet, the Department of Agricul- ture figures, reduced to comparative totals, show that the farm value of the lean crop of 1913 was $172,000,000 greater than that of the big bumper crop of 1912. “The same condition obtains in. the case of wheat. The year 1906 was a bumper wheat year. For the first time in our history the seven hundred million bushel mark was passed, showing a crop of 735,000,000 bush- els. On the other hand 1907 was a real, genuine lean what year, with a production of only 634,000,000 bushels. And vyet, although the 1907 croy was a hundred million bushels smaller than the bumper crop of 1906, its value to the farmer was $64,000,000 greater. “The same thing happened with the bumper crop of oats in 1906 as com- pared with the poor one of 1907, as well as in the case of the bumper crop of 1910 as compared with the lean one in 1911. It also happened in the case of the bumper barley crop of 1906 and of 1912. “All the world understands, of course, the law of supply and demand, and knows that big crops means low er per bushel prices. But to take both. world-wide, all-crop statistics, and national single-crop statistics, and to find that without exception the bum- per crops bring less money in the ag- gregate to the farmer than the ve lean one, is to disciose a conditi te the economics of food production ttat is at once surprising and importar Condition of Friendship. ‘If you want me to feel friendiy to you, you must talk to me,” says Doa Frank Crane. If you want us to feel friendly to you, you must let us do, some of the talking—Houston Post. Xmas Greetings Parlor Tables, Parlor Suits, Parlor Rugs, Fancy Rockers, Music Cabinets, Morris Chairs, Tabourettes, Medicine Cabinets, Pictures, Book Cases, Mirrors, Dressing leleo, urniture and Housefurnishings are the most aesirable, because the articles are always before the recipient as pleasant reminders of the giver. We are showing the latest and most attractive designs in the following lines and invite you to inspect the stock. 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