Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 3, 1917, Page 12

Fork ity during the last Week or so. for of howling It’s a strange sight, that mobs of frenzied women push-carts, smashing shrieking and screaming into -~ already _over-crowded halls, trampling and being trampled on, in a fury of anger and fear over the im- minent danger of starvation to them- selves and their children—in the rich- est city of the world. Such scenes have been enacted in FEuropean cities where the orainary urces of supply have been stopped v cruel war and the ordinary earners ve been forced out of the lines of productive labor into the ranks of wasteful destructiveness at the trench fromts. But that they should happen In New York city,—a town untouched by war's ravage, a town with alil its us- wal earners at their usual tasks and the demand for labor so great that not 2 single man in it who really wants work need go without one day, a town with ‘all its ordinary means of trans- portation from the Interfor intact and unthreatened, a town admittedly today the richest in all the world. a town which for months has been bragging ebout its tremendous increase of wealth, a town where endless rows of sumptuoys palaces fairly jostle them- seives along miles of avenues.—that such scenes should transpire in such a place ig more than strange. It is next door to the incredible. It is an enormity, a horror, a fearfully signi- ficant portent. At the very outset, it must be admit- ted that there has been no absolute necessity for any man or woman who is able to work starving or even mo- ing hungry in New York city. The very stories of these rioting women <how the needlessness of their own sufferings. Several who talked with investigating reporters, the other day, right after they had joined in a mad rush through the streets to pillage a delicatessen shop, declared, Wweeping, that they had eaten nothing but bread and tea for so many weeks they could remember the taste of nothing else. Bread and tea! Yet, during all those weeks, the retail price of rice had us- ually been five cents a pound, had never risen above six cents. The same ten cents which they had spent for bread and tea for a single unsatisfy- ing lunch would have bought rice enough to make two or three substan- tial, satisfying and nutritious mSals. Another woman complained because ghe had to pay fifteen cents a pound for cabbage. Cabbage at its best is ninety-ome per cent water and even the remaining modicum of solids con- tain about as mueh waste as nutri- tion. The pay forty-five cents for a three-pound cabbage was poor econ- Yhen half that money would have bought in oat-meal or corn-meal ten times as much real food. Still another woman told how she had been forced to pay five cents for three amall potatoes and another five cents for one turnip. Her potatoes were seventy-eight per cent water and her turnip almost ninety. At that very date when white potatoes, such as she bought, were wholesaling for ten and eleven dollars a barrel, sweet pota- toes were similarly wholesaling at two dollars a barrel or even less. Ignorance, dense, thickheaded ignor- ance, coupled with even more re- hensible unwillingness to learn was at the bottom of the real or alleged suf- ferings of these particular women, whose cases seem to have been about typical. Each one of them had an in- come from her husband’s earnings of more than ten dollars a week. Now this 1s not 2 sum to insure lux- ury. But it is 2 sum adequate to pre- vent starvation—if only it be spent judiciously and economically. There are other things to eat beside potatoes at a dollar a peck or cabbages at fifteen cents a pound. For yvears and vears the national government, the state governments, the city govern- ments, ever many of the schools have been broadcasting knowledge concern- ing the real valuves of food and point ing out the needless wastes of aver- ege purchasers. has done, apparently, about as much good as watering a stone hitch- ing-post to induce growth at present there seems to be a as potatoes, others. . Most people potatoes, cabbage, etc. When they were cheap thers was no reason why those who “liked” them should not buy and eat them, if they could afford to. But in an emergency it is always possible for really intelligent and foreseeing peo- ple to_do, temporarily, without what they “like” in order fo secure what they need. T know farmers who are living and maintaiming families on a good deal less than ten dollars a week. whe are 20w deliberately cuiting potatoes out ol, they do it.—and use the resultant money to buy other forms of food at a. desirable saving. Anybody who cares to find out—which anybody can do without the learning costing him two cents—knows that there is more real food in $3 Worth of corn-mea} or oat- meal or rice or sweet potatoes or raw flour, or even beans and split peas, despite _their present outrageous prices, than in any bushel of white potatoes e dug or any twenty pounds of cabbage ever headed. Will the time never come when people will use their brains to ben- efit their stomachs? Nevertheless. when all has been said that ought to be said about the jgnorance and_the stubborness which are chiefly responsible for such occur- rences as those of the past week or so, the sorry facts of real deprivation and actual suffering remain to be met. Tnat these people are ignorant is manifest. That they are shorteighted is clear. That they want what they want rather than what they can have is apparent. Exactly the same things can truthfully be said of all the rest of us—or you ang I as well as the incompetent cooks and _injudicious buyers of Third Avenue. We are ig- norant, thickly, densely stupidly ig- norant in the sight of the All-Wise. We are short-sighted, as our own sad experiences have too often taught us. We are selfish,—as our best friends know, alas! too well. We' cannot really many stones. afford to throw iNow can we do very much to help’ these city unfortunates. The cities which have produced and sheltered the conditions which we all deplore must now attend to their cure or, at lcast, their alleviation But the object-lesson which _the whole affair gives to us farmers as to our own duties and privileges is too striking to be ignored. Whatever may be the reason _or cause for_ existing conditions in the domestic food supplies of :the big ci- ties, there is neither reason nor ex- cuse nor pretext for our coming with- in a like shadow. It Is always unsafe to make detailed predictions, either of the weather or the market. But it is the fate of us farmers to be compelled to forecast the future of both, every season. And we all know that the probabilities point toward a_general maintenance of high prices. It would hardly be safe to predict a continu- ance of $3 potatoes, or of fifteen-cents- 2-pound cabbages, or of $13 a hundred beans. Some of these may drop lower. Likewise they may go even higher. But the general aspect of things points strongly to the proba- bility that good if mot actoally high prices will continue to rule for the average of our farm products. We zll want our share of them, too. How are we going to zet it? With everything we have to buy sky-rocket- ing in price, from fertilizers and labor to bran and dung-forks, how are we golng to raise things to sell? It's a problem, a puzzle, an enigma. Ard the worst of it is that there doesn’t seem to be any answer to cover all cases. The problem is 4if- ferent on each farm and for each far- mer. We must work it out for our- selves, each one in his own way ac- cording to his own light In a near-by county I have heard of the inception of a movement to- Possible Prison Site. Governor Holcomb’s message to the Connecticut churches was Yead in the Congregational church by the pastor, R"!Yh R. A. Fowies last Sunday. Loomis vesterday, March “The board of Telief met in the grange room Saturday. Inspect Farm. The commissioners recently ap- pointed to view various sites for l new state prison and report by March 15, were in town this week to see the larze’ farm offered by F. C. su-mner. treasurer of The Hartford Trust Co. AL Frank H. Stronz has returned it to her som and his Mr. and Mrs. Julius Strong of Danielson. Mrs. John H. Massev has received word from Florida of the serious ill- ness of her sister, Mrs. Raymond &. Yeomans. Miss Katherine E. Stetson of Crom- well spent the week-end at Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Loomis. Mrs. Henry Fryer, who has been with her mother, Mrs. J. Finley the past two weeks, has returned to Willimantic. 3 School Supervisor A. N. Potter of Wiliimantic was in town the first of the week. HEBRON Funeral Services for Rev. J. H. Fitz- gerald—Schools and Business Places Closed During Wednesday Aft noon. The funerzl services of Rev. J. H. Fitzgerald were held from St. Peter’s church ‘Wednesday afternoon. The services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Roosevelt, rector of the church, as- sisted_ by Mrs. Fitzgerald’s brogher, Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Philadeiphia. Burial was in St. Peter's cemetery in the family plot. Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald was rector of St. Peter's 18 years and was beloved not only by the members of his parish but by all the townspeo- ple. There were many beautifal floral pieces, including a number from New York, from the parish of his son, Rev. Harris Fitzgerald, a beautiful cross of lilies from the members of the Calvary parish, Colchester, and many ers. Among those in town Wednesday to attend the funeral were Dr. Roberts of New Haven. R. Viner of Bristol, Miss Trma Lord and Miss Helen Gii- bert of Willimantic, Mr. and ™rs. Harrison Foote of Colchester. Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Miss Hattie Brown of Columbia. The schools on the green and places of business were closed Wednesday af- ternoon out of respect to Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald. Notes. G. F. Mitchell was Wednesday. C. A, lLord lost a valuable Monday morning. Washington County, R. I. WEEKAPAUG in Willimantic horse wards co-operation in labor between the farmers themsclves. They are slowly perfecting arrangements to unite, so far as circumstances will permit, in working for and with each other. For illustration: in one case of which T have heard, it happens that ighbor A has some dry and early land to put into oats, this coming spring. Neighbor B, on the other hand, has ®ot to put his oats on a colder-and later patch. Instead of each hiring ‘an extra team for the plowing, as usual, B is going with his team to help A work his early land, while his own, B's. Is still unfit for the plow. Later, when his, too, dries off, A is coming on to repay labor for labor. Details of other work-swapping ex- pedients are being talked over and planned out. Littie knots of farmers are going so far as to plan out their season’s campaign in such a way as to make their respective crops dovetail with each other rather than overlap each other, thus making it possible for two or even three to exchange day’s works without neglecting their own Deeds. i It jmight in some cases be prac cable for a farmer whose land is adapted for stock rather than for cereal or root-grops to plan a system by which he should raise beef or mut- > best of all fertBizers is animal matter, as it the most naturai and lasting. New England : are made of BONE, BLOOD, T and high grade chemicals tural plant and ave the nearest to.the ideal plant food—farmyard manure. {_ Our |dealer problems, or write for free will help aolve ycnr;fertmm Interesting Papers Read At Meeting of Ocean View W. C. T. U. The Ocean View W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. Belle Langworthy Wednesday afternoon with eight mem- bers and one visitor present. The president being absent, Mrs. Alice Saunders acted in her place. After the business meeting, the topic, Does It Pay? was taken up by the program committee. Several interesting papers were read. At the close refreshments was served by Mrs. Langworthy, as- sisted by Mrs. Champlin and a social hour was enjoyed. Local ltems. Mrs. Ethan Crandall, who has been very ill for the past two weeks, is slowly improving. Bthan Pendleton has recently pur- chased a seven passenger automobile Mrs. Abby Langworthy, who hae been ill for a long time, is slowly fail- ing. ROCKVILLE Mrs. Emory C. Kenyon, Wilred Barber and Josiah Palmer, attended the state Christian Endeavor conven- tion at Providence, Feb. 21-22. Miss Mae Charnley, who returned from the Rhode Island hospital, where she underwent a surgical operation réeently, has improved so as to be about again. Mrs. Carlton Irish fes a calier in Westerly recently. The regular business meeting of the Seventh Day Baptist church was held Saturday a\onlnt. Wilfred Barber is il. Two young men from Westerly were = i m‘ "AND TUESDAY Presents the Ammpflnhnd Screen Favorites ROIEETS & ANITA KING NEXT WEEK Thursday, Friday and Sasturdsy THOMAS DIXON'S. The Fall Nation THE GIGANTIC PATRIOTIC SPECTACLE With Mu hy Victor Herbert Semsus_ Or 9l peraas ov-fi‘m eighteen years of age, for l‘wflm of th towns now-w'& m ‘Charles- lampten Grange —Buildings ‘to Be’ Erected at Ful'i- spar_ Quarry. “THe_ grange. vut by automobile 1o ‘East Hampton Wednesday evening as| guests of th Hampton grange, P. of H. The third and fourth: degTees were worked. Capt. G. 7. Sandin of the. vacht home | Banawaha spent the week end . and ,,,mfilsxmdny with his family at the Crows Selden Brothers are adding to thd!' l herd of" Glhrnbe,- elisor ed o’ Phiia- du!bh! s week on nc.&. unt ‘of, the | apdr, ana Mrs. 7. 8. Las !‘um:;ld and Dr. an rs. enyon, and gra em attended the oyster st b at the mission rooms at Wyoming, Wednes-" day evening. Mrs. Anna Wells returned Sunday. after spending the with reiatives at Exeter. _Mrs. C. D. Kenyon and sistel, ‘Mrs. Sutton, spent Wednesday 4in Provi- Y% randail, J.C. Webster and J. L. Brigas were callers at Waideheid, | Ulness of her "“’g"""i Dtee: "Bact Stantort of THope Vi el . nton’ fope Valley } Ciifford , spent a few days mnfly with her | turned °fivwmfimm:l ',Iw l;’c uero parents, Mr. and Mrs. G steamer Guiseppe Verdi, re-pon- - trip over and. Deing chased speni Washington's birthday | tas submerines. He )uh:‘ “1. parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. |guest of kis father at the pnnnan e Master Norman . Keayon ia'ill, | - & 7 9aY8 J. S. Lamond was at Wakeneld, At “Feldupar Qiarry. Tuesday. Mrs. S E. Brown ‘of Hilisdale, was a caller here, Washington's birthday. Mrs. L. Sutton, who has been visit- ing relatives in New York, has-re- tufned home. Eggs are 44 cents per dozen here. Mrs. James of Providence is spend- ing a few days in this village. RICHMOND Robert Smith has returned here, afe- er o short visit with relatives and triends in Providence. The many friends of Eliza Essex were surprised to hear of her death at Lafayette. Edwin Smith has been to a hospital in_Providence for treatment. Everett Moore is. confined io the house with a very lame back caused by over-lifting. Joseph E. Dunn was a recent caller on_George S. James of Hillsdale. Miss Mary and Bdith Woodmansee of Tefft Hill made a recent visit nt the home of their grandfather, Joseph ANTRIM & You've Hear: | Thir : on't. Trien 1 g euu; trom New Tork. Ground is vec ing graded for the buildings to be erected, and the machinery is on the P .~ A number of workmen are Harvey Brainard is ‘in ‘Hartford on business. 'Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kruger mo- B! Bat Ohildml Ghslr Nnrd. The children’s choir. rendered solie excellent music at the morning service at the Congregational church last Sun- by r Chluncty Upright or services on_ Sunday | motwithetanding the muddy. walking. “The Christian Endeavor society held a social at the Peterson farm Thurs- day evening as gu of Captain ndin. : the United EAST HADDAM Last Crops of Tobacco Shipped—Pupils Entertainment—Funeral .~ of Mrs. Henry Stark—Oxen in Demand. The few remaining crops of wh'oeo were shipped to Manning & Kahn of South Manchester last Thursday. Cleared About $12. The puplils of Miss Lorstta Plumley's school, First district, gave a _ very Dleasing entertainment last Friday evening. Although the weather was decidedly unfavorable, about %12 was realized. The Five Hundred Card club gave the last party of the season at the home of Mrs. n A. Moore Tues- day evening. Census Completed. Joseph Rubrienis, who taking the military census‘in this trict, has completed his work. OMr. and Mre. Frank Bailey spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Jay Pease. Doane . Brothers of Eesex ‘were in town looking for oxen Monday. . and Mrs. Henry Hilderbrand of Hartford have been spending a few days at George Fullers. Returns to New York. Dr. Norman H. Williams . of New York city, who was: cafled' home about a month ago by the serious illness of his father, Dr. B. E. Williams, and who bas been taking his father’s prac- tice during this time, retorned to New York Wednesday morning. He made many friends while here by Wis skil- ful treatment of patients and his pleas ing personality. Funeral of Mrs. Stark. Mrs. Emeline Stark died -at her home here early Tuesday morning af- ter an illness of several months. She was the wife of the late Henry. Stavk, who died 17 years ago. She leaves an only child, Mrs. Hattie Hotchkiss, who lived with and tenderly cared for her mother: also a grandson, H. Ward Hotenkise, of e Hever: She was s ember of rst Congregational church of Past Haddam. The funeral was held from her home last Thurs- day at 1 p. m. Burial was in Pleasant View cemetery. ~Rev. Franklin Coun- tryman officiated. Mrs. Merton H. Lee and daughter Doris have returned to Néw Haven af- ter a visit of two weeks with local relatives. " ing b-en 817,321,000 and greatly reduced, 281,652, 1807 to . 6,394,000 iba., beginning of the war, cattle the number expo: from 741,000,000 Ios., while despite the products exported feil fr ing, however, with the and $,129000,000 in th 91 been tation facilities b: bile, the been in 1907 19,747,000 a 126,000 and of mules in of horses in 1907 was I States, past, decade. A compilation by the Na.|t8i® the number mals in the United States on Jani- statement-by the Department of - in milch cows, and of nearly 5,000,000 In 1907-1917. Meantime the muhden of ed 15,000,000. 'nm.nunmotunel decreased o of 200d animais showing an 7. about .13,000,000 greater than 5,000.000. duced the-value of -the entire group. meats value of the reduced ‘number. The Deé- put the value of the 40,249,000 cattle, and at $1,466,662,000 while the value of | 1907 Decreasing Meat Supply The meat supply of . the States shows a startling decline in_the [PORU tienal City of New York copnf ing ‘the number of available food ani- ary 1,71917, as shown by the recent culture, with the number on Japuary 1, 9107, shows ‘2 fall of over 10,000,000 the number of cattle other than the number of sheep in the ‘period continental United States has i available for food has per cent and. that of sheep 10 per ccm w)ul- the eo_uznln. population was 18 per cent. Hogs are the inuu-i number ‘of swine in the o) tates having been.on Jarmmuary in 1907, while the decline In number of cattle.fs 10,000,000 and of sheep This large decrease in the number' of food ‘animals has not however re- On the contrary the advapce in prices of has greatly increased the partment of -Agriculture figures, on which - these complications _are based, other than-milch cows, on farms in |$428,064,000 in 19 the United States on January J, 1917 the’ 51.566,000 'head in - 1807 to $102 in 13, head was of milch cows in 1907 $30.78 per head and in 1917 $59.66: ail other 1917 $35.88; sheep in 1907 $3.53 per about 30 per cent. head and in 1917 $7.14 and swine in per head. Thu: “other cattle’ head in ten years while swine show an | vehicles, the average volue in that period. “Th 000 in the number of “cattle other|1917. than ‘cows, and 5,000,000 in.sheep. have | apparently averted an TR those in Bake Spec BESSIE LOVE : Comedy in 1906 to $143,000,000 in 1914, number of horses VALE d Th | Sce d occurred during a period in whi kg lation of the United States, s of mouths to feed, was increasing 15,000,000, the popula- tion of the United States in 19 in 1916 ficv: in while of rted fell 584,289 in 1906 to 21,666 in 1914 to 431,000,000 ibs great advance in prices the value of all meat and dairy PHIL DWYER & CO. :: IN THE CHILDREN’S PET VAUDEVILLE ACT, ngs nery IN THE 5 PART TRIANGLE PLAY GAS LAMPS AND MANTLES Inverted Gas Lamps, complele, Burner, Mantle Il'ldv Homelite Gas Lamps, fine grade, heavy brass burner, inverted goose neck, clear inner cylinder, opal globe wtdi open bottom, inverted man pass, gives an excellent white light—complete. . . $2.00 MANTLES verted. ........ Mantles guaranteed for three months The Household BULLETIN BUILDING Auto Delivery hav- 103, .000. consequence the supply of meats e anatetor exportation was the actual tion of fresh beef having fallen from 000 pounds in the exporta- year the fiscal yvear 1914 which ended just before the beefl from iard om $211,000,01 inc reat demands e fiscal ha- nd in 191 1907 3,81 51,846, of the war and the advance in prices to’ $220,000,000 in the fiscal vear 1315, year Horses and muies show an actual in crease in number in the decade 190 despite the large increase in transpor- use of the automo- ving 21,- 000 and in 1917 4,639,000. The stated value 8,000 and in 1917 $2,174,710,000; and of mules $543,586,000 in head of horses advanced from $33 in and of mules The average value of horses 1807 $7.63 per hud :nd in- 1917 $11.52 | mules has, however, actuatly in recent years, in which occurred the and sheep have dodbled in price per |greaat increase in the use of horseless value per head increase of 50 per cent per hesd in|of horses having fallen from $111 1911 to $108 in 1917, and of mu ese decreases ‘of mnearly 11,000,- | from $126 in 1911 to $116 per head Thus the horseless vehicle decl increase was but | from $112 per head to $1i8. Thus the $3811557,000. The average valwe per|value of draft animals increased but about 10 per cent capita in the decade, while that of cattle and sheep practi- u.mc in 1907 $17.09 per head. and in|caily doubled, and of ewine increased ana ined in n has in For the invalid as well as perféct health s Cocoa ri is‘an ideal food bev- - erage, pure, delicious wholesome. Baqu & Co. Ltd. DORCHESTER, MASS. 4—SHOWS TODAY—4- AT 1.30, .15, 6 and 8.15 LATE OF THE IGFELD. FOLLIES “MY DOG ROVER” ROSA ROY Xylcphon; and Marimbaphene Qirl Nina the Flower Girl Concert Orchestra 65c 75¢ tle, with by- .. .15¢, 20c and 25¢ 74 FRANKLIN ‘ST. Telephone 531-4 price of draft animals durirg: the period in which the price of food ani- mals increased from 50 to 100 per cent. Feathered Sentri A sailor tecently “stafed :that -ges- gulls are very useful for hetra. the whereabouts of .a_ submarine. the birds @fscern’ a periscope. they rise in a flock from the water's sur- face, and circle round it uxufin: shill cries. This performance’attracts the attention of the crews of &p- proaching’ vessels, and ofttimes “re- sults {n the submarine being .dissoy- ered. Whilst seagulls are uncongcloualy aiding sailors, parrots are carrging out equally useful work for sojdlers. It has been discovered that parrots have an extraordinary faculty for an- ticipating the approach of aircraft Before an aeroplane .has come. within range of the human éve, the featheréd alarm becomes _ volently,' ' agitgted and shrieks incessantly. In Franc wild birds often provide artillery ob- arvers with clues as to. the: whafe- uts of —hidden ' batteries.. .. Birds e in flocks from trees. in:the vicin- ity of which guns are being fired, and when there id a lull-in the activities of the concealed artillery many ot them return to their former A trained observer can quickly e from the erratic movements of Secks of - birds, the approximate:locality ‘of tteries hidden from his view.— Means of Salvation. When bovs of 19 dre arrested on a chasf: of burglary’ it is = sigh that there are plow handles. in this country that are neglecting their duty. Pléw handies can save many a boy it the; will get busy.—Houston Post. If the gasoline does not have its the milk and cream will absorb & gus- oline odor.