Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 14, 1917, Page 4

" and Geusice _ 121 YEARS OLD at the Postorfice at Norwich, “matter, Norwich. It & 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 nouses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,190, and in all of these places it 18 considered tbe local daily. Eastern Connecticut bas forty- nine towns. one hurdred and sixty- five postoftice districts, and sixty Tural free delivery routes The Bulletin is sold In eve: ‘town and on all of he R. F. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION average: ....... 1901, 490%, average. April 7, 1917......... BETTER CONNECTICUT CROPS. In keeping with the efforts which are being made or which will be un- dertaken throughout the country for the purpose of bringing about an in- crease in the srain and other asri- ‘emitural products, in order to insure against any shortage because of the “ inerease in the demands which will be placed upon this country as the re- sult of the war. the general assembly has acted with promptness in giving authority to Governor Holcomb to name and direct @ food supply com- ittee of this commonwealth that Con- %tfln nfly do.ftt vart in increas: fing the'amount df its farm products. For a long time it has been realized that the advantages which are af- forded to the tillers of the soil in this state have not boen improved as they should have been. There are hundreds L of acres of land which could Produce excellent crops thatare allowed to re- main almost idl~. There are also many acres of waste land which could be redeemed and made to show a pro- fit, while in almost every farming section, to say nothing of the non- ptllized Jots surrounding cities, it Is passible by giving the proper atten- ‘tion to it to greatly Increase the crops that aré raised in Connecticut . There is no good reason why this state should not come much nearer .meeting the demands of its people. It doesn’t at the present time begin to produce what it consumes, and with ¥ Buch a condition existing it can be ! realized that the committee just ap- | pointed has plenty of work ahead of § it In overcoming this deficiency. But the fact that it exists is all the more reason’ for bringing about an improve- meft ond glves the committee a £hance to make an excellent showing. All should not however be left to the commission. Every one has a chance o do his bit unsolicited. ooty SRR oo po PROTECTING ALIENS. ‘When this country zave notice that encmy aliens in the United States need have no fear of molestation If they £ obeyed the Taw and kept thelr mouth ! shut, it meant It and it will respect it. | But at the same time it expected that S those referred to thereby would do § their utmost to insure the immunity that was promised. = There can be no question but what ® the great majority of the German- © Americans in this country will stand “Jovally by this government in accord- ~ance with assertions which have been made and repeated from the early days ‘of the war. It may. be impossi- | Ble for them to forget .native land § when iconsiderinz it “in ' connection other European mation, but ‘when+ comes to chosing between their' native land and that of their ‘adoption’ there can be no question as to whera. the greater proportion of stand. themr jce is presented almost daily L to ‘ffect that there ar® those who are N RS ®0 inclined. . QMost of these are” allens, but some of them have talken out their first papers and oth- @” beer. naturalized. Those le mot only. have gotto be watch- but they should expect it. They fi“ e no protection and it is of every 'citizen, whether a > or. an, adopted son, to_lend ‘assistance he can to the au- " in- running- down such ‘indi- . Liefore they - have ‘an oppor- to.put some dastardly plot into s ‘Bomb ‘makets, ‘dynamiters, ‘anad plotters can look fer.no len- _they are entitled to nothing Timit . of ‘punishment which provides. 'HE WIND BLOWS, - agaip ‘there. are . rumors of - about in’ Europe. This from the faot -that rep- tives of Bulgaria and Austria e ‘sounding the ministers of the en- m regarding the possibili- of a separate peace. Whether is a sincere desire on, the part “the governments which they repre- - e it A K part which is taken therein by the troops. % Peace may fiot, and probably will not, be arranged as the resuit of the sounding of the allies, but such acts nevertheless show the way the wind is blowing. WORK FOR OUR NAVY. The conference at Washington be- tween the maval officials of this coun the formulation of plans for the par- tickpation of the navy of this country in the war. There wil be need of guarding our coast line as well as our harbors against the visit of subma- rines and raiders, but in addition to that this country will be expected to do police duty on the high seas. It will in all probability relieve the al- lies of the patrol sarvice which they have been conducting ever since the ‘war opened and bases on soll of the enteénte countries will be open to use by American warships even as it will be possible henceforth for the war- ships of forelgn countries in the en- tente group to use American harbors and bases, should such become nec- essary Tt is in this direction that it has long beep recosnized that this country could be of much assistance to the op- ponents of the centmal powers. There has been need of an understanding be- tween this country and those which must now be looked upon as its allies and this is apparently being reached in the conference which is taking place at Washington, and this step has been taken nonme too soon in view of the story wihich Is brought from Cuba concerning’ the sinking of a British schooner off that island by bombs placed aboard it by a German sub- marine. This serves to confirm the belief that there arc submarines on this side of the water and that they are operating from a base or bases on the Mexican eovast, all ‘of which means that this country will have something more tban guard duty to perform with jts navy THE RIGHT MAN AT THE HEAD. This country, like dll others which have entered Into the war, was bound soener or later to be confronted with the problem of food supplies, and it has wisely declded to provide at the start for meeting it instead of wait- inz until it was forced iuto such ac- tion and thus. sacrifice the many ad- vantages which are afforded- now for grganization, for conservation and the prevention of waste. And when- it came to selecting a chairman for the board which is to handle the food situation no better choice could- have been made than that which placed Herbert C. Hoovor in that position. Mr. Hoover has had two to three years training in the very sort of work which he will be called upon to do. As the head of the American commission for relief in Belgium he tackled an entirely new line of work but he has rendered a service to humanity which cannot be measured in dolldrs and cents. Not only has -he been' thoroughly devoted to ‘the duties which fell -upon his shouiders but he has gained a .most valuable knowledge of tho best meth- ods of meeting the problems in con. nection with securing a food supply His experience will therefore be of in- calculable benefit to this country at this time. Though the ending of his services in behalf of the Belglans means a loss to the people of that distressed coun- try, it is most fortunate that his ser- vices are avallable for this govern- mefit ‘at the present time for the abil- ity which he has disclosed and the training Which he has. received fur- nish the assurance.that the solution of this problem has been placed un- der the gui@ance of a master hand. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Taken as a whole the colors waorn this spring malke the wearer look as modest as a, rainbow. ‘When the commanders of the Ger- man submarines cannot find anything else to do, it looks as if they enter- tained themselves by sinking Delgian relief ships. The Germans placed a high value on the gunboat Cormoran when they sacrificed seven lives and threatened many more in blowing it up in the harbor of Guam. Just at present thera appears to be about as much uncertainty con- cerning those German submarines in the Pacific as there was about the ralder off Nantucket. When General von gFlindenburg’s forces retreat so fast that 11,000 men and 150 guns cannot keep up with them, it is quite evident that they had not arranged for it in advance. It can be expected that this country will be called to account by Germany for its merciless treatment of enemy allens in ordering them to obey the laws and to keep their mouths shut. It isn't too early to start a cam- palgn in this section for the utiliza- tion of the vast amount of land which is avallable for increasing Connecti- cut’s annual production of food sup plies. It is about time for people to come to the realization that guards which are placed about industries, bridges, tunnels and reservoirs are not there for show but for business and that they must be respected. ‘There may be some of the pacifists who will endeavor to do their utmost for thelr country now that it has en- tered into the war but they will no: be able to obliterate from history tha unpatriotic efforts which they have beer making. ur of this free found our soul ‘and willing to pay the pri When we stroll in the are always surprised b and cunning of the think they were always so shy, for there was a time when they did not Tegard man as an enemy, comparatively tame and - easily ap- proached and could be studied readily. but were | o i | | i | i » | B g | E i H H ¥ i i & : 3 i ; | § 5 i i coast of Long Tsland of and supplies, then sailed ton. 5 toward Bos- It is narrated at_the time of the excitement in the ancient church Py R AN Ty v there w. e town' & . German huk:zvmdur. Jonh tte, a deserter from the English army which took Canada some five vears before. ‘Wandering through the wilderness, ‘| the refugee had come down into the close to the digger to collect earth | worms, the fly catcHers will sit on the as will also the goldfine ming birds and sparrows. birds will haver glose in their pur- suit of food; and ¥he much despised English sparrow and the meouwing catbird will, if nesting near, have the boldness to scold you if you get too near their nests. Those who feed winter birds knew it is not an excep- tionai feat to get the confidence of the pretty little chickadee so that he will rerch upon the -hand -to collect food. But they have learned to distrust in- stead of trust human beings who from their viewpoint have become inhuman. The birds have littie arts of deception which are not natural, but have been acquired. The old bird feigning a broken wing to help her voung to es- cape .or to lead one away from her nest, was learned to act that lie in the school of experience. Out west they are teaching the younz women the art of talking to interest listeners which is evidence that conversation has not become a iost art. There needs be moze nat- tralness about every day conversa- tions, as about many other things. The faisetto or assumed . voice used for impressive purposes is a blight. You or I do not like to hear a man read the psalms in an awed.tone, say his prayers as though he was a bit- tern pleading with an alligator, or in ordinary conversation with au sweet consciousness of your .inferi- ority and his own ability to .make something of vou. Talking is not preaching; and Vet. if some puipiteers would taik to the Lord as an innocent and trusting child does to his father their sermons would be very much improved as well as their prayers. Whoever has something interesting to say need not fer failure: but- it must be borne in mind that which is inter- esting to us may not be as interssting to others. It has been said that dis- cretion In speech is more than elo- Quence. A good listener may soon be- come a good talker—talking agree- ably is not the whole thing. Every entemologist: krows - the co- coons of the big fawn-colored moth (Tela Polyphemus, are usualiy- found on the ground roiled in a dry leaf, not care hanging to the limb of a shrub, only once in a very great while. The past week I found this moth hung up, and Deneath it was standing water, To have dropped would have meant death, and doubtless the sense of self preservation is as strong in the moth as in any other of God's creatures. What warped the moth of peril? He hasn't the power of thought, but is endowed with a keen sense of atmos- pherical conditions. It is probable he was prompted ‘to hang himself up by some eense of smell or feeling of dampness. The fact that he hung himself up as one in a thousand, and as the conditions give evidence it was necessary, it is not wise to consider it as an accidental freak. ' Well ,no one can tell how it is the ant and .the bee always turntheir heads toward home, the wasp makes no mistakes in_his paper-making, the spider never fails m working out geometrical figures, or in his paralyzing nerve surgery, so it is not strange no one can learn how the moth came to resort to a new method for the preservation of his lif2. Tt is apparent he was cqual to the situation. There is ne doubt every man has a right to his own opinion, but he has no. right to impose his opinion upon some one else: for many opinione are better to nurse than to -sacrifice. Opinions are not always. what we think they are. They may be the creations of prejudice instead of the product of thought, may be false stead of true. Carlyle held that pop: ular opinion was the greatest He in the world. As to our opimion- of ou selves, do we ever measure up fo i As to our opinion of others, how often does it fit. If we do not have a care ‘we find the opinions of others sticking to us Jike burs. Many an opinfonated man was never guilty of having a sane thought of his own. We measure people by our opinions of the them and ihis is why there are so mam: measurementsa. It is said an obstin- ate mgn does not hold opinions—they #imply hold him. It is safe awake to the rid’s opinion of us that we may not confirm it. What i an opinion anyhow? Something we cling to as gospel today and ten years hence may repudlate as ‘foolishness. It y that war can be thrust upon any nation. The men who have furnished the truest definitions of war are those who have been engaged in it. It was Napoleon who said war “Is the business of . barbarians: Wellington wrote: “The next dreadful thing to.@ battle lost is a battle won; Napler was of the opinion that “Suc- cess in war, like charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins.” Franklin noints out: “There was never a good war or a bad peace.” And Shakes- peare saluting War says. “Thou son of hell.” War is the fruit of wickedness, as Defence s the child of necessity. Nobody deplores war more than the brave—none will go farther to estah- lish honofable and jasting peace. We must acknowledge Thomson was right when he said: “Peace is the happy, natural etate of man; war is corrup- tion and disgrace.” War for conquest, or revenge is a crime—war for the defence of human rights and the pre- servation of government is a- neces- &SRS war sa; 5 s e citizen” "Let us hope that America will keep sane and only seek by vio- lence that which is just. There was @ eim” vhen the worla acted on sa; oul , “now books act upon the world.” This fact nas been made clear by not only the state papers issued to the worid by the warring nations, but also by the 15,000 books and. pamphiets upon the | such a short time earlter. That night bells were rung, caanon fired, bonfires blazed from every nill about the town. and the Tree of Lib- erty was decked with patriotic devices. Enlistments, too, were begun, arms were burnished, addresses of stirring ‘quality made, and- tories came in for scorn and ineult. 3 For, as might be expected, there were some among the gathering who did not cordfally sympathize with the patriotic proceedings, comsequently were hotly stigmatized fortes_and grumbletonians. The brothers Rob- ertson, who were printers of the Nor- wich Packett, were of this numbe; it is recorded. Miss Caulking &ay: “We may join with them Mr. Thomas Lefingwell and Mr. Benjamin Butler, Dboth men of talent and respectability, but who remained loyal to the king auring the whole contest. They were exposed of course to many insults, and private, were prosecuted imprisoned, threatened with the skim- merton and - their goods were im- pressed. Mr. Butler was arrested and im- risoned in 1766, on a charge of “de- faming the honorable Continental Coigress.” His trial came on before the superior court at New London and the fact being proved, he was prohib- .ted from wearing arms and declared incapable of holding office. Mr. Butier regzarded his with indifference. Hé was a man of strong sense and original humor and his company was much sought on that ac- count. “He died, in 1787, after a lin- gering discase. A few years before, while in good health, he had selected a sapling, to have his cofin made of it when it should have grown large enough: but finding that it increasc® too slowiy, he had the coffin con- structed of other wood, and kept for a long time this affecting: memento of the end of his earthly career carefully and gafely put away in his bed cham- ber. 3 As he pined away He would fre- quently put his hands upon his knees and say, “See how the mailets grow!” He is ping in the ancient Nor- wich burying ground, his two daugh- ters, Rosamund and Mierva, by bis side. “Alas, poor human nature!” is ihe expressive note engraved by his own direction upon his head-stone. Although Mr. Butler appeared to have no taste for fighting for Colonial liberty, this did not descend to IMs chiidren or gramdchildren. His daugh- Minerva, married Commodore John Rodgers. She was born in Nor- wich in 1784, Her son was the brave Commodore John Rodgers, U. 5 Col. Eleazer Fitch, whose home was in Lebanon, but who was intimate! connected socially and in the way business with Norwich, was also a noted loyalist. He had served in the French war under British officers, and was devotedly attached to the King's service. He therefore resisted the up- rising in favor of liberty. going into exile and ultimately settling in St. John's, New Brunswick. The wives of four prominent citizens of Norwich, Fbenezer Backus, Erastus Backus, Ebenezer Whiting and Hezekiah Per- Kkins, were his daughters. A little later the same season, Norwich Green witnessed another ex- great European war printed in the first ecighteen months of the strife: and the added thousands of volumes which will appear before it is ended. Germany, it Is said is now putting up a great library building which will be devoted to housing the literature of the war, which indicates that these volumes ‘may rise to 50.000 or.100,000. The world believes in books today as it never has believed in them before as a potent power and a defense. Books are the true levellers of the race, through them writer and reader assoclate and find real companionship. The mighty minds of men are em- balmed in books and the conceptions of a supreme Tove and ever existing state of happiness, are found por- trayed therein. He was a good ad- viser who said: “Master books, but do not fet them master you. Read to iive, not live to read!” As expressions of the minds of men books are good. bad and indifferent. and must be used with discretion and judgment. Look out that you do_rot mistake flattery for friendship. This is. an every day error which produces any- thing but pleasant results. The per- sons you are introduced to find it a pleasure to know vou—a delight to have made your acquaintance—with- out a feeling of sincerity or a qualm of consclence.' The larger part of polite greetings, are code echoes, not sincere expressions. Perhops nothing ‘ruer was ever said than this: “It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than to be his echo.” It has always been easier for folks, to_flat- ter than to praise—to say things which sound Well but which really mean nothing. Flattery is one of the marks of tactfulness, the lubricator of 2 winning way. It eometimes becomes a necessity, for did not ' Talleyrand discover “the rich man despises those who flatter him too much; and hat those who do not flatter him at all While it is not considered polite to flatter, flattery Is seldom absent from polite ' soclety. A rea] friend is one who sn blends with your virtues and your needs that you not only hope to iive with him for all time but for all eternity. To .be a true friend has been described .as - being able to make one’s sell a true image of God. Friendship is not common, but it fs always admiratie. sentence i northern of Norwich, there mak- ing a living by pursuing the humble occupation which he had followed in his native Jand, before he “had been impressed as a soldier and sent away to fight the battles of a foreigh power. He was at the time but a spectator of the enthusiasm of others; but he, i00, loved liberty; and he treasured up the memories of that stirring day, s0 that more than forty years after- wards he described it for the enter- tainment of & child, in such a graphic manner that his narration of the In- cidents upon the old Green have gone into the history of the town, to be preserved with its records forever. THE DICTAGRAPH. Sunday Moming Talk THE WOODCHUCK SPIRIT. David Lloya George, the British pre- mier, is willing to agmit that he gets inspiration from woddchucks. When the big, little Weishman was asked recently, how he managed to accom- plish such unheard of things in the “DBritsh ~ empire, he replied with a story. mce upon a time,” said the prime minist there was a woodchuck. Now, you know, = woodchucks ~can’i climl ‘trees. Well, this woodchuck was being chased by a dos and finally lic came to a tree. He knew that if he climbed the tree the dog couldn't get him, but if he didn't elimb it, he doomed. Now woodchucks can’t climb trees; but this one had to—so {he did. “That's the wa; things in Englan, George: “Dby resolving can’t be done.” we've accomplished " laughed Mr. Lioyd to do what Millions of people are willing and anxious to do things that can be done. Throngs of such accommodating mor- tals inhabit offices and stores and fac- tories all over the land. You can hire plenty of them for $6 a week, or cven less, But, in evers generation, (oo. there ‘emerge a few choice spl: its of a different temper; people who are willng to tackle the things that can’t be dome. Among these we are apt to find the leaders of the race. Some seribe should compile a_book of Maxims That Are Not True.” In the list we should find, for instance, this: “You .can't change human ture” Another one would be one can perform the impossible.” How saany. such pronouncements there are in the copy books, accepted as law and gospel by most of us, and yet be- in# constantly disproved! As a mat- ter of fact, human nature can be rad- icaliy changed, and a proportion of our fellow citizens in this world are always busily at work doing the imy- possible. No one may predict the potency in vidual human spirit. Mater- forces can be tested in a labora- The exact weizht that a strand of Tope or a bar of iron will sustain can be calculated to a nicety. Nelther will bear an ounce more than the figures show. But the power be so easily gagged. woman, may reveal ergy and heroism. in a person cannot Any man, any unsuspected en- So rnight is glory to our dust, So near is God to men, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. In the presence of some crisis, be- cause of some sudden challengze. men often surprise themselves and all their friends by their resources of physical or moral power. Thousands of pale and physically undeveloped clerks and office men in Britain's citizen army have proved themselves to be man- sized soldiers in the trenches. Mrs. Frank &. Harris, is a quiet. little woman, weighing 110 pounds, _but when the Laconia was stabbed from beneath in midocean, her nerve and skill -in_rallying the ships helpless passengers equalled that of any vet- eran commander. Nothing in life is more .impressive than- the way in which the human spirit, when the sreat call comes, can transcend ” all physical limitations. Centuries ago a beggar sat by an eastern roadway crying out his wants to all who passed. As proof of his dis- ability he called attention to a shrunk- en, palsied arm that hung limp at his side. The medical men, such as there were in Palestine, had long since given him up as incurable. Barred from any galnful employment. he was seeking his daily bread among the mendicants. One day a marvelous new teacher came along that way. He looked at the beggar's withered, uselesg arm, and gave its owner a strange . direction. “Stretch forth- thine hand,” he said. A shock of surprise smote the crip- ple’s brain. Of course he could not move those paralyzed muscles. Yet behold him, as wonderingly he makes the effort. There is an instant's strugzle as he brings his will into full play. Then, to his astonishment, the thrill of power is felt: his arm comes up; is stretched forth whole as the other. The miracle has been ac-| complished. Lot the Gospel story have its sug- gestion for "any whose duties -seem to be out of proportion to their powers. The first atep to victory Is faith. They can who belleve that they can. - THE PARSON. Were in a Hurry. How hurried the German retreat was is evidenced by the fact that in some of the towns evacuated they did not have time to even smash the dishes before leaving.—Kansas City | Times. 5 ; Bananas are fit to eat as soon as they have lost all their green. color. and remain fit, no matter how black they may be, long as the skin is unbroken. G ‘. ' DRESSES '12% RACK OF DRESSES TAFFETA AND GEORGETTE VALUES TO $19.50 194 Main Street CONSISTING OF SERGES, TAF- FETAS AND COMBINATION OF DUE TO OVERSTOCK OF DRESSES SHADE: Receiv \ BROADCLOTH POINT TWILL BERGE POPLIN . Prices Range from $12.75 to $29.50 N2 i | ‘..{, AN 7 WAISTS FOR SATURDAY ONLY STRIPED TUB SILK, JAP SILK AND COTTON VOILE SLIGHTLY SOILED FROM / HANDLING VALUES TO $2.19 _ JUST RECEIVED SIX DOZEN WAISTS IN THE NEWEST STYLES AND CREPE-DE-CHINE AND GEORGETTE The ed TAKDN FROM OUR OWN &TOCK D MARKED AT THIS LOW PRIOE FOR SATUR- DAY ONLY VALUBES TO $24.60 - IN ALL THE NEW OUR CASH SYSTEM ALONE ENABLES US TO MARK OUR GOODS 80 LOW Wauregan Block —— SJarplecSi LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |cither for the cities or the fertile|Sensation Big Boston, Hanson: loo praries of the Woest ieaf—Grand Rapids. Prize Head Fifty years ago farm labor here in| Onlons—Southport Yellow, R Meet Conditions Like Men. Mr. Edjwr: - It is very fortunmate for us‘ that Great Britain has Germany blockaded. ~ If it were not a fact we would have a Germany army with Germany sympathizers flocking to its support on our shores. We are face to face with one of the gravest condi- tions ave have ever faced. What are we doing? Practically nothing. Menaced by a cosmopolitan condition and a luke warm patriotic American born and American adopted condition, our congress falling to meet the issue y, face to face with the likeli- hood of 'a world wide food famine, no enlistments to speak of, _everybody feeling satisfied to make money, the farmers planting less and less ail over the country owing to lack of help, all seems to_be Willing to let someone else perform patriotic service while we ke a chance a»d make money, forget- nz God and Country. Americans, do vou remember that our country was bought and paid for by the blood of the heroes of 1776, do you remlize thit if ever your country was in danger it is now, do you realize that wherever Old Glory has been un- turled it waves today, and that today she is in_more danger of bowing her head In shame than ever before owing to thé conditions we are face to face with? If congress gives our presi- dent universal support now, not a vear from now. if our government reali; that our soldier boys need and deserve sufficient financial support to guaran- tee that dear ones at home will be provided for now, If our sovernment will_give the farmers the help they need, labor and.some financial guar- antee_of their crops against failure: if our government does this and does it quick, God and ourselves can save vur eountry. Let us forget everrthing but love of God and country. _The time for agru- ment has past. We are up against a serious condition. ILet us meet it like e W. B. KEACH, Danielson, April 13, 1917, Why New England Agriculture Has Declined. Mr. Editor: Friend Cloud Digger ascribes the decline of New England agriculture to one cause only—the fact Uiat for the past fifty years the farm- ers .have neglected to observe the T s of the moon in conducting their farming operations. It is really as- tonishing that anyone outside of the conflnes of Middletown or Brewster's Neck should promulgate such an idea. Cloud Digger appears to have been in a sort of Rip Van Winkle trance for-the past thirty years. The fact that great economic changes have taken place during the last half cen- tury seems to be beyond his compfre- hension. Now I am not going to argue with him as to the lunar influence upon crops, poultry, swine, cattle, etc., as T realiize that it would be about as ef- fective as attempting to sink a_sub- marine with an air rifie. But I will name a few economic factors which have wronght great changes in the rural life of New England. ~ The two principal causes of the de- cline of New England agriculture fol- lowing the Civil war were the opening of the Great West and the rapid growth of the cities. The more ener- getic and ambitious of the vounger generation largely deserted .the farms, the East was woundant, cheap and efficlent. - For many years past it has been rising in -price, diminishing in supply and deteriorating in_quality. Tn those days families were large and most farmers had a number of robust s0ns to assist jn the labor of the farm. Nowadays families are small and the one idea of the sons is to get away to the city. Ome great factor in the decline of grain raising was the fact that when the great grain flelds of the West were developed it was actu- ally cheaper for the New England farmer to buy grain from the West than it was to raise it himself. The nation is just beginning to real- ize what it means to have the farms deserted und finds itself upon the verge of a food crisis. According to Cloud Digger all that is necessary to rehabilitate agricul- ture is for the farmers to carefully oba serve the changes of the moon in planting, harvesting, killing their hogs, and pouitry, setting their hens, etc. Tt really seems a pity that Presi- dent Wilson's attention cannot be di- rected to such an authority in these days of the nation’s crisis. Cloud Digger might well head the food commission instead of Herbert C. Hoover. Respecttully, "ARMER. 13, 1917, Windham, April HOME GARDENS Garden Varieties. of garden seeds is import- ant, says today’s bulietin of the X: tional Emergency Food Garden Com- mission of Washington which is co- operating with this paper in urging planting _of food gardens. Quality differs widely and you should select tested kinds. You cannot go wrong by planting the followina: String Beans: jow plants, (a) green pods: _Stringless Green Fod Ford- hook Favorite: (b) yellowBrittle Wax, Pod Black, Kidney Wax. Pole beans, (a) green pods, Kentucky Wonder. Burgers, McCasland; (b) GoMen Cluster. 5 Lima_Beans: bush type—Fordiook Henderson's Bush; pole—Early King of the Garden, Car- Variety yellow— | Model, Crosby HEgypt- Beets—I ian, Improved Blood Turnip, Dark Red Detroit. Cabbage—Jersey Wakefieid, Charles- rly. ton Wakefield, Enkhuizen Glory, Dan- ish Bailhead (for winter storage) Sweet Corn—Early Fordhook. en Bantam (to be planted every days from May 1 to June 1), White Cob, Howling Mob, Country Gentle- mun, Stowell's Evergreen (late). “Carrots—¥rench Forcing, Chan- tenay, Danver's Half Long, Cauli- flower, Snowball, Erfurt. Celery— Golden_ Self Blanching, Kasy Blanch- ing, Winter Queen. Cucumber—White Spine, Kohl Rabi, White Vienna. Lettuce—head—Early May King, damentals of the acter. extravagance. citizenship with many virtues that of iate we have citizen to conserve food and fuel all nothing serve every re: as much as possible. other lands, the utmost, for we are in the midst of a most trying era, one that calls for all the servation that can be mobilized. ple of national living.—Bristol Press. Weathersfield, Southport Red, Wh! Southport White. extra ear! Surprise; early Laxton, Little Marvei, Laxtonls Eldorman (tall), Strategem, Wonder. Radish—Scarlet Globe, Scar nip, White Tip, Crimson Giant, Portugal, Britie Whi Icicle, Long Cardinal. Parsnip—Hollow Crown, Offenham Market, Pepper—Ruby King, Neapo itan E arly. Squash—White Tjush Glant Crookneck, True Hubbard, ton Marrow, Deiicious. Tomatoes — Bonny Best Matchless, Stone (late). Turaips—Extra Early White Milan, Bestrowski Egg Plant—Black Beauty (early Purple To OTHER VIEW POINTS We have no quarrel with the sioza that it is the patriotic duty of people to plant a garden. But, accepting the fact, we must insist that it is also the patriotic duty of the sellers of the nec essary fertiyizer, seeds and impie ments to put a reasonable price thelr products. The present price ¢ commercial fertilizer, considering quality, is an outrage as well as an infliction. Neither the quality, the price nor the maker is patriotic Patriotic duty must not be made a fad fo rthe promotion of individual fortunes. If gardening is a duty th: duty is in force down the entire iir and is not confined to the person wto does the work and pays the billa- Bristol Press. In the days of our youth thrift was recognized as one of the strong fun New England char It was appreciation of the fa that individual independence could be secured for the great majorit only by the exercise of self-denial and habits of saving. Waste was ab horred as an evidence of inexcusable There is no denying traits built up a sturd that these admired rather than practiced in matters concerning econ- omics. American other supplies: to throw away useful or usable; to con- urce and to produce We, as well as to It is the duty of every must exert ourselves energy, caution and con Once again thrift becomes a princi life, of business, of dhildrefi Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Store, 140 Main Street, now occupied by Reuter the Florist, also 4 large rooms above the store which can be used with store, or will be rented separately. Apply to THE PLAUT CADDEN COMPANY