Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 28, 1917, Page 14

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)zetting one-half the cost of ni‘-u Democracies have their advantages, which are undeniably great and don’t necd defense or exp.ication from you and I But they certainly do not shine in times of crisis, practical and ac- tually efficlent in accomplishment. We are, just mow, facing a erlfi There need be no doubt about it not only have the president and the congressman and thé selectman aad the minister toid us so, but we have received even more authentic informa- tion about it from our store and feed bills, from the canty stock of pro- tatoes, etc., in our celar bins, and 2rom the empty echoes of the tenant- house whose one-time occupant has now gone to town to earn more money per month,—and pay out more per a We are facing this crisis, just about as we have faced some others in the past, by flapping about in front of it, thouting and sereaming out directions or suggestions or advice or exhorta- tion to_everybody else, bumping into each other and tumbl over each other in our aimless divagations, each man with his own pet theory or whim- 3y which he is preaching at the top 3f his voice to a seething crowd, ev- ery other indiyidual member of which is attending théreto not in the least, but busy at the same task of laying down a aifferent law from ten thous- and other stumps or fence corners. Instead of approaching it deliber- ately, masterfuily, in an orderly and efficient attack, we are doing nothing but talk an awful lot about what we sre going to do,—or induce others to o. | suppose we shall blunder and bull a way through, In the course of time, just as we did in the civil war, when we finally won out, after expending in lives and treasure more than twice the waste which we might have saved had government been efficient and the people behind the government intelli- gently awake to the situation. But just now, while the nationel executive and some organizations are really doing such things as lie immed- jately before them and within their competence, the rest of us, including our amazing congress and our even morc amazing volunteer associations of eleven thousand different names are imitating & hen fight more close- iy than a nation at actual war with the greatest military power the world has ever seen. 4 is full of gabble and feath- and the executive aim, which would really be swinging at some- ing, at last, is restrained from do- ing it by the placid ciagnishness of 8 congress whose prevalent idea of statesmanship is a reverberant mouth, operated by a set of leather lungs, manipulated by a degree of demagogic cunning, and voicing the local preju- dices of the “homse deestrict” rather than the necds of the whole broad land. To complicate this already unpleas- ant enough situation, come the leaders and representatives of the ‘leven thousand different and differing com- binations of home-sprouted prophets, each with its own way of getting somebody else to meet the crisis. All full as ticks of talkee-talkee- and all chasing each other round n-yard, vociferating frantic md- Jurations to the rest to get out of the way and do something. There is an apparent hyste: in-the eéspecially among certain of our friends, who are able to see the danger of a food crisis and who sin- cerely want to prevent it from reail- zation, if possible. I don't mean that they are panicky, vet, but they are more or less hys- terical. Perhaps they see the real danger more vividly than others. I don’t want to be unjust to them. They are certainly sincers ana most of them are not only uneelfish but are self-sac- rificingly patriotic in their devotion of their own time and strength and means to the objects which attrac them. Nevertheless, working not In unity but often at cross-purposes; working not in full comprehension of preduc- ing conditions but often in sorry mis. understanding and ailways in techi- cal ignorance of them, they are filling the air with proposals and suggestions and counter propositions, the result of vhich tends to confusion rather than efficiency. As usual in such cases, they, while meaning to be wholly fair and just to the farmer, and while honest and eager in their glowing zeal to ald him, if so Dbe they may, in his seasonal warfare against nature for the feed ing of the world and Ks armies,—as usual, they are mistaking an effect for the cause, and are tr¥ing to cure a disease by plastering over one of its symptome. They are not a bit like the ancient Pharisees who laid heavy burdens on others which they themselves made no sttempt to lift. Far from it; they are honestly eager to nid in lifting the burden, so eager that they too often fail to make intelligent note of where the burden really lies and how its welght can be more equitably distri- buted. They are all around the edges of the problem, but they don’t, many of them. scem to comprehend where the weight of the problem really centers. You and |, fellow farmers, have talked this over many, many times when our friends of the citied took no interest in it. We have known and debated the gravity of the situation for a long while. We have not had to wait for a lightning flash of war to iHuminate our horizons in order to see the dark shadow of portentous clouds looming athwart the dawnm. And we have kmown for, lo, these many years, that-the chief obstacie to our farming prosperity was one of city making; that the. _most deterrent brake on our agricultural wheels was one of city construction; that the most potent cause of farm abandon. ment and decrease in farm-production lay in city-developed systems of mar- keting and distribution. Why did John Burroughs upreot his vineyards and cut down his pear- crchards? Because the costs foisted upon his choice crops by hordes of city middlemen vrevented him from there wasn’t erio: pay the cost of ‘e have hund eastern .'l“‘ attempts rehaBjlitate sheep-raising on our n&’y pastures, Il.n despair or bankruptcy? the city conditions such that, while the cost of lamb ng befone the conh-| eyes, the prices obtain- able by iamb and mutton pi ‘were - screwed down, til Trere wasmt enough left o pay the years, have the cities were such that, while the con- sumers had to pay double whut they ought for milk, the dairy farmer got less than a quarter of it,—less than enough to pay his feed bilis, not to consider labor. The reason why farmers have be- come discouraged, why farming has drooped, why farms have been aban- doned is, not because farmers aren't willing to work, not because they can’t longer produce crops, but be- cause for many years they haven’t been able, as a rule, to get paying prices for their crops. Over and over again, statisticians have shown that the eastern farmer and truck-ralser has averaged only about 25 per cent. of the selling price his products. For the viands which the consumer paid a doliar for, he averaged 35 cents. The rest went to pay the innumerable handlers aiong the way, every one of whom, as he paseed the truck along, took out his toll. Assure the farmer of fair pay for his products, convince him that he will now get, what he hasn't got for twenty vears or more, not only his money back but a decent wage and a moderate profit on his investment, and he will supply the good: 1 talked yesterday with a dozen or more farming helghbors about the situation. Sald one of them, in ef- fect:—"T am not going to do anything more, this season, than usual. For the simple reason that every season I Il ) o ient no-system by Ppresent, they make the eost But we want to make a decent liv. ing and get decent prices for what we starving farms. rved ‘Whether we shall get that living ond that wage depends, not half so much on what we do or on how big erops we raise, as on what prices we can get for our crops, right here on the farms. 3 If we can get two-thirds, say, of tha actual selling _valu leaving the other th: ling and _distribution expenses, we shall be doing s much better than we have been accustomed to that we shall be vastly encouraged to increase productive averages and aggregates. That is purely a city problem. Tt ought to be capable of inteligent handling angd effective solution by the brainy men with whom the cities are crowded. They know thoSe things bétter than we of the country can. Just as we know how to raise ca bages and carrots better than they. thy: may discover, with clearer vision 4 command, that the motes in ours en’t so blinding, after all. THE FARMER. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES Toltand County SOUTH WILLINGTON Sgng and Praise Service—Union Mis- onary Society Formed—Teacher Undergoes Operation. Last Sundey night there was heid in Memorial hall a song and praise service, including many post views of Northfleld, Mas mittee hopes to have views for every Sunday night. Union Missionary Society. A union missionary society formed April 8, the meetings to held bi-monthly, the first one some time during the first of May. At the first meeting reports will be given of the annual Home and Foreign Mis- sionary meetings, also the report of the Ashfora association. Rev. Charles Parker preached last Sunday from a portion of the Lord's Praver, Thy Kingdom Come. The W. C. T. U. will meet at Mrs. Holman's this week. Frank Ziskovec has returned from the Hartford hospital. Mrs. Marguerite Thompson, who is in the Stafford hospital is In a criti- ca] condition. Teacher at Hospital. Miss Mary Miller, teacher in this school, was taken to the Stafford hos- pital iast Saturday. She was qper- ated on Sunday morning. The report is comfortable as can be expect- ed. Homer Neal, Jr, has a new car. Mrs. Louils Sciarette is in the Hart- ford hospital for an operation for ap- Ppendicitis. = Mr. Baker of Putnam has been vis- iting his sister, Mrs. Louis Dimock. Miss Eza Taylor has been spending & week with her parents in Mystic. John Richardson spent Sunday with her. Mrs. William Vorthit and Catherine Clark of New Britain are visiting Mrs. lar. Mrs. Westerfield has been visiting her son in Yonkers, N. Y. Merrett Usher has bought a 1917 car. Wednesday Mrs. Elma Mathews and Miss Rose Hall attended the annual meeting of the TForeign Missionary society held in New London. Mrs. Gardiner Hall visited her sis- ter, Mrs. John Champlin of Norwich Wednesday. . ANDOVER Community Flag Displayed Daily— Burial of Mrs. Martha Brown—Lot Purchased Probably for Memorial Site. Rev. Martin Luther Williston of Hartford preached at the Congrega- tional church Sunday. The Men's club through the chair- man of the committee, J. T. Murphy, has purchased an American flag. It is flown from the a permanent site is secu: community flag and will be @isplayed every fair day from sunrise until sun- set. Arbor and Bird day wah observed with exercises at the public scheool. ‘Purchase Lot. William B. Sprague has purchased from Myron Evans a lot located be- tween the parsonage and home of Samuel French. It is rumored to be | White and Mrs. Mary Webster were Willimantic visitors Wednesday. Died at Backus Hospitai. The body of Mrs. Martha Brown who died at the Backus hospital in Nor- wich, was brought to Andover and buried Friday. Mrs. Brown was step- mother of Frank L. Brown of this place. 1l in Florida. Word has been received by Referee in Bankruptcy E. M. Yeomans from his witc, whe has been spénding the winter in Delray, Florida, that tkeir younsest daughter was criticaily 111 in the Palm Beach bospital with tu- bercular meningitis” Mrs. Yeomans and her three children were to leave the last of the week for her home in this place. A dance was held at the town hall Saturday night. ~ STORRS Hiustrated Address—Two Members of Cadet Corps Take Examinations at Fort Wright—Book Club Meets. Rev. Sherrod Soule, superintendent of the Connecticut Home Missionary society, spoke at the morning service Sunday. the evening he gave an 1lustrated lecture in the Hawley armory on Connecticut in the Revolu- tionary War. Took Fort Wright Examinations. Captain Lawrence and Lieutenant Killbridge of the If they will kindly take the beam out of their own eyes, first, perhaps at Fort Wright for commissions in the U. S. army. About twe -five studen mem- Bers OF the Raserve o-uwh'i'n:ntu corps plan to go to Fort Ethan Allen on May 8 to receive camp train: to fit_them for commissions in the Cadet ‘worked out on_this trip. The book club met at Grove cottage ‘Tuesday evening. Mrs. 3 paper on SO P T es wns - izing garden work. = Mrs. H. D. Newton’s sister, Mrs. J. A. Manter made her a short visit re. SHE 7. matons seer s rn C#E AR n's sist with her for a days. the interests of Red Cross MT. HOPE F. A. Young is Improving. There was a family gathering at :ry. and Mrs. David Russ’ last Sun- 'acker, @] Miss May Bass of Willimantic and Miss Rachel Packer of Hartford were callers at Mrs. Jenny Bacon's Sunday. / e Byles and New London were ‘caliers on Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Miss Mary Burns is making a visit with Mrs. Bacon for & few weeks. STAFFORDVILLE Mr. and Mrs. George Potter moved this week to the house they recentiy purchased from George Sharp. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McCarthy re- turned home last Saturday, after nding the winter months in Flor- Rudolf Lyon has been iil the past two weeks. — e rv—:—nv_ WILLINGTON Pastor Motors to Wilton—Flag Flies st Village Hill Schoal. . Budner, a pearl buttoh worker i o jarme ‘and helpful family, has moved to the Worstrel farm. % Adolpn Parasek and_family have moved to the Jostah Sparks place has purchased. ™ here were 45 at Bibie school Sun- day afternoon. Rev. Mr. Parker’s ex cellent sermon treated of the Lord's e D. G. Robbini, who has been ill for several days, is improving. 3 New Residence. 1 C. Mayer and Mrs. Mever of Summit, N. J., came Saturday for a few hours with the family and to not? the progress of the new residence. As the awelling will not be completed and ready for occupancy for some time Mrs. Meyer will occupy rooms at Ma- ple Corner that she may be near the Interesting work as well as with her v A iaries Amidon's saw mill is on the Demond wood lot east of the nin, recently purchase: M ired "Squires has sold Tinkerville and has moved to the Bates farm which he has purchased. He is to cut the wood for fuel and market it at rin; suaumfl"d Sovoris in Hartford hospital. Mrs. Smith gave the children at Sunday school an instructive talk on Sunda. ing the symbolic mean- ing Of the Easter decorations and ev- ery child ana some of the larscr growth received a stalk of pussy wi- low to which clung a gorgeous butter- " Rev. Charles A. Parker went Tues- - in his car to Wilton, N. H., where he delivered an address Wednesday at the one hundreth anniversary of the TRaptist church there, returning on Thursday. Flag Raising. Barly in the week Veteran O. F. Reed who, naturally, has a great re- gard for the flag, noticed, in pnnlnxi its absence from the Village HIl wchool house. Imquiry elicited the fact that in the absence of a flag pole the emblem was displayed in the school room. Returning héy;ne !!hril,n“d wi:; e s 'imwn! ready and waiting o g a hole to piace. This Mr. Reed volunteered to do and the autotruck quickly took the pole to its destination with a man to as- sist. When all was in readiness the teacher Miss Duffy and her 41 pupils with some of the parents assisted at the ralsing and saluting the flag af- ter which national airs were sung, with = America. Miss Terhune of Tolland called at called at Hillside the other day and her cousin, Mrs. Barl ‘Church of Hart- others the same auto Oy fled on Mss Jennie Chureh. ELLINGTON Editor of Whits Ribbon Banner Ad- dresses W. C. T. Ur—Grange Re- peats Play st Wapping—Flag Rais- ing. i T - ot the W C. T, U. held Sundas Mrs, L. K. Fuller, editor of Ribbon Grange Gives Play. i Dramatic club weX w’-’:‘ufl“flaw night to give the drama, "sk:h‘hll been already given here and in Somers. Arthur W. Charter and Mahlon B. Charter have sach bought a five pas- senger touring ear. . Sewed for Red Cross. Thursday afternoon the members of the Red Cross, met in the lecture room of the Mrs. M. B. Haywood Heard Travel Talks. An entertainment was given in the lgctt:’re sroom Friday evening by the . 8. C. E. The program con- sisted of selections on the Victrola Qutfitting Co. 115. MAIN STREET We want everv < ang travel talks by Clarence I. Met. calf. who has served four years in the U. S. navy. Handsome Flag Raised. A large American flag bought last week by the townspeopie, was flown to the breeze for the first time Sun- day morning from the flagpole in the park. At the close of the Sunday scheol session, all the school march-d to the park and gave the salute to the flag, and then sang The Star Spangled Banner under the super ion of Morgan St. John. Mr. and Mrs. Walter McCray and daughter Dorothy were week-end visi- tors of Mr. and Mrs. Fred McCray. Mrs. Merrick Kibbe moved this week into the rent left vacant by Franeis Pinney. AT, Noble is remodsling his_houss into a two-family rent. C. L Mctealt and family will occupy the east side of the house. STAFI R0 Interest in Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work —Canning Club Planned—Hospital Aid Society Meets. : Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Depeain have moved to their newly purchased home. Miss JFiora Nothe has returned from a few days’ visit with friends in Monson. Norman Phillips is employed by the Westinghouse Co. of Springfield. Mrs. Ruth Bassett and eon, Walter, have returned to Holyoke, where they formerly lived. “Interest in Club Work. At the meeting held last week in Grange hall in the interest of Boys' and Girls club work, much interest was shown. Miss Estelle Spragu assistant ““:b el:hll‘lle-dh‘lér' was th: speaker and foun es presen interested in a canning club. A club will be formed, and any lodies who were not present, but would Ilike to join, hav, been requested to leave their names with Mrs. F. A. Lasbury or Mrs. Emma Whiten. A canning demonstration will be given early in the season. To Omit Sumimer Meetings. At the meeting of the H tal AM society, Tuesday, it was v to omit the meetings in July and August un- less there were special need at that In consequence a large attend- ance for the May and June meetings is necessary to finish the work planned. ‘The society placed In the corrider of the second floor, a clock in a porce- Two dozen small feather comfort pillows with three cases were also purchased by the ladies. Park Offers Garden Sites. da dedflyd.fl p‘{: ux“ ple of eci to offer o peoj - lonlspfiec-ofm.plflmp‘r:‘gr planting purposes and to prepare the soil for planting free of charge. ‘wishing to plant a garden and lacking suitable land for such purposes are to . H. Baker, chalrman ter have moved from Meirose to the E. Mptthews place. Merrick T of Southbridge called on friends in town the first of the week. ” Jonn Buckiey of Hartford was home Monday. if He'll Only Let Us. The best that the country. can do with Senator La Folletts is to forget him.—New Orleans States. Orga whist at Yeoman" ing of last wcek, admission 15 cents Lunch was served. COLUMBIA Case Againet E. 8. Lyman, Charged With Fraudulent Voting, Nolled in Superior Court—Red Cross Chapter ed—Grange to The Equaj Franchise League gave a hall Friday even- played. No'r - mah. and woman te know that 8 Prudential Outfitting Co. clothes are guaranteed to give absolute satisfaction, and that all garments are of grade and quality that is found in the best clething storss of the city. (Signed) PRUDENTIAL OUTFITTING CO. tried at the ior court for wman elections. October the demo ed him t he wa court. is In the employ of the Western Elec- tric Co. and expects to be locat:d in Hartford for several weeks. Mr. ana Mrs. Everstt Bosworth and daughter and Mr. Shekieton and daughter of Hartford motored to Columbia Sunday, attended the morning church service and wore Mre. W. H. Knee- ith her chil- m and her sis: Yuests of Mr. and land. ats. vote. he was arrested by clals and brought before a democratic Justice of the peace fraudulent voting. When put to plea he responded by objecting to be tried before that court, case had been virtuaily deold: bound over to the superior Friday morning when the case was called State Attorney Thomas F. Noone also a democrat, recommended that the case against Mr. Lymon be nolled as “intent could not be proven”. The recommendation was acce Mrs. Frank Badge w dren of Brooklyn, N. her father, A. A. Latha: Miss Rose McAvoy of Norwich has been spending several Kate Wolfr. lumbia_lake Hart! foundati for another bungalow on the already has several, shore, where he some of which have been in use sev- Jennle Lillian Clarke: ‘Thess Hitcheock. promised Tuesday of are needed. Witness Play Six tables were Case Neoiled. On the list of criminal casés to be ril term of the super- ‘olland_county was that of Edward E. Lyman, charg ed. with frauduieht was employed Y., his family residing in Columbia. He was made an elector here last fall and, voted here at both town and state At the town vote was challenged by The moderator ailow- er the same dsy in Brookiyn, election In democratic offi- charged with inesmuch as the but days with Mrs. Bungalows. Isham & Buell are eérecting a large hore bungalow on_the east sl Mr. Merwin of West week 50 of the - for purptses ir case they B. West, a long ti place, now ofn&lr& Mrs., Fannie of rd, has been Dizon Welch, man of the Tolland County branch of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage as- oclation attended the the associdtion War Work Committee at New Haven Monday. Agricu as reiated to the war. Increased p duction, etc., were considered at the conference. These meetings are to be held at New Haven or Hartford cvery two s. At the nge meeting Wednesday evening, May 2, the program will be Cranberry Corners, present ca_oy the Grange Dramatic club, ‘Mr. and Mrs, Henry <. the weel Scatland wit ught Gillett. Everett Thempson Enters Norw! Sanitarium—Last in Ser Whists. Miss Irma Lord returned homa the first of the week fromr the private hos- pital where che had becn for an oper- ation for -appendicitis. The baseball club of Amston gave :fl‘iflnce Friday evening in Amsto Taken to Norwich. Everett Thompson, who has been for a number of months, was taken the tuberculogis sanitarium in Nor wich recently. Mrs. W. O. Seyms was in Williman- tic Wednesday. 'Miss Brown of Hartford was the guest of Miss Florence Smith for the week-end. Miss Fleanor Lord is teaching Ellington for the remainder of the spring term and commenced her du ties Monday morning. Miss FEthel Porter returned homse Saturday after a week’s visit with friends in Willimantic. Closing Whist. . The Good Wili Boys gave the last heid in the chapel this (Saturday) ev- ening. The L. A. 8. met with Mrs. How- ard Heart Thursday afternoon. There is to be a cnurch mesting in the series of whists Wednesday evening. The whists have been weil patronized and bhave proved very pleasant. - . MANSFIELD CENTER Mrs. O. A. Perry entertained Tues- Gay afterncon for Miss Ethe] -Hre man, who has. bsen ter at Idylmans. gaed Thuratey ta The Willing Workers met with Mrs. € M. Kip Wednesday afternoen. “The People’s club met at the bjects ‘ednésday evening, The H discussed were Martin Lu- ther and Billy Sunday. The ladies’ quartette, called ¥Foho Female was in South Wind- » ng, assisting in ent. - new ‘botks have “beén the lfbrary. has been brokén this Grou Wil erect opposits the home of J. Dunham. v Ra, Barrows left St. Jogeph's tal this week, and is with bis , Mr. LeRoy Smith on Spring Mrs. Grant Chappell and her nurse, | Miss Rafferty, were in Hart- ford 'luy. consulting an :ye spe- J. L. Dunstan is able to be out and uhrsuh‘um’wlfl-nwm- L ecaaaaaas o o R Mnmwg everyone is anxious to belp in way to remove pain and suffering 18 why so many homes mow Wflfl use, n moment. Nnih:n‘ can take its plece,