Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 19, 1917, Page 9

i el e Norwich Storage Battery, Starter and Magneto Co. ANNOUNCE Their Opening 102 FRANKLIN STREET as the Official Service Station for Leading Makes of Storage Batteries, Starting, Lighting and Ignition Systems. 2 E. A. GARLOCK, President, Graduate Electrical Engineer, formerly instructor in Electrical Measurements at The University of Maine. H. D. MUNSON, Manager, formerly with U. S. Engineers. K Written Specially for The Bulletin. ~ Whether we farmers are “the scum of the earth,” as some of the city brethren and sistern consider us; or “the salt of the earth,” as the candi- dates call us, ’'lection times; in either case we shall Goubtless be willing to admit, on our own behalf, that we have certain rights and cerfain duties and certain responsibilities. 1 dcesn’t need any argument, among ourselves, to show that we have and claim certain_rights. That very fact carries with it, as an_irresistible corollary, the conse- Guence that we also have certain du- ties and responsibilities. This, for the same reason that a ladder must have wo ends. It can't be all top: there must be a bottom rung if there is a top one. Infinite space and infinite time are the only things without beginning or end. And we poor critiers can’t, try how hard socver, even comprehend vhat we ourselves mean when we parrot off those words: Infinite spac infinite time. Fven a ring must have two ends, tho' their meeting may be For a Corn-Peeling Picnic, Usg_ “Gets-It” Pain Eases at Once, Corn Just Dies! Do vour corn-ridding easily, with a smile—tiie banana-peel way That's the “Gets-It” way—the only way— Your corn or callous comes off com- plete as though it were glad to get off. Around the World In Corn Agony, Use “Gets-It.”” “Gets-It" has cured mor: corns than all othes remedies combined It's as sure as the sunrise. and as smafe as water. iised by millions. Don't take a chance with your feet, vou can’t af- ford to experiment with naknown mix- tures when you know “Gets-It” never 1t will remove an: corn or or pumps if you want to. a: d “Geis-It back on. the e -ou ‘need par at an —throw sub- ter! c is drug store, or & Co.. Chicago, Il Wear those new, stylish shoes| This you maintain is a right. o ahead and | well; let it be accepted as such. cleverly concealed in the skilful weld which unites and masks them. It is equally sure that the possession of any right, held and maintained as such, invoives and necessitates a cor- responding duty or responsibility. The very instant that you and I claim a certain thing as our right, we are logically and ethically bound to confess our allegiance to an _equal duty which is indissolubly welded to it by the force of immutable justice. As we cannot eat our cake and have it, too, so we cannot honestly or even decently claim a right without, in that ciaim, confessing a duty. Sometimes 1 grow misanthropically inclined to doubt whether many peo- ple. farmers or others, any longer recognize this fact Pretty near a hundred -and fifty years age our first congress set forth the claim that we all had certain “unalienable rights.” such as “life, lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness.” From that time to this we've all bée engaged, more or less actively, in an unending ‘struggle to maintain that thesis. We haven't wholly succeeded, even yet. But that's another stors. The point I want to make is that the very day our representatives, acting in our behalf and for us, made that claim to certain “unalienable rights,” that same day and by that same.act they shouldered upon us the corre- sponding_duty of maintaining and en- forcing the claim. “Who would be free themselves must strike the blow,” i. e, if they claim the right to freedom they must as- sume it with the duty of wielding the club or the sword. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” i e. if we | claim_liberty we must at the same time accept our responsibility as debt: ors to pay the price. All of which is very well, pernaps | yowll say: but what has it got to do with farming and the price of pota- toes? A good deal, dear boy. Tor in- instance— You want and claim as your right a fair price for those potatoes. You have had to invest méney in land and tools; you claim a_decent interest on vour investment. You've had to pay exorbita: prices for seed and labor and fertilizer: you claim the right to get_your money back, with a living profit in addition. You've had in one way or another to pay at least four taxes, federal. si:te. county and town. You've had to pay insurance and re- pair bills and ’steen other expenses, and your potato crop must sell for enough to. pay its just share of all. Very But don’t forget for one little min- ute that, the instant. you claim all il Fe sent direct by L. Lawrence | that as a right. you voluntarily impose cn yourself as a fair man the burden e of certain unescapable duties in con- nection with those potatoes. One of those duties is that you keep down the cost of producing the crop as low as-you reasonably can. Anoiher is that you use all due diligence to nurture and foster the crop, so as to produce as large a vield as feasible. Another is that you _put it_gn the market as economicaily as may be, with-proper consideration for your own interests. g Another, and perhaps the most im- portant of all; is that, when you claim a first class ‘price for your potatoes, you assume the duty and responsibility of .seeing that they actually are first class, from top to bottom of the bag; from biggest to smallest, Why did the. “double-headed” barrel come into use, some years ago, for ap- ples and such’things? Simply because buyers found that apple packers haa got into the habit of “plating” the barrels; i. e. putting a bushel of nice fruit at the head end and two bushels of cider apples at tho other. By de- manding a double liead buyers hoped to end_this_ fraud. Why do they now insist on having at least a fair proportion of the bar- rels dumped out before their eves? Pecause they have found that even with the double-headed barrel un- scrupulous packers can still stow away a bushel or so of culls 'in the center, beyond the reach of inspection from either end. The same thing holds good. in some degree, of almost all commodities. It is true of things not farm-grown as well. But it is of farm products that we are talking, because they happen to be our line. To come back to our potatoes. We claim it as a right that we should be able to sell them for as much as they have cost us to produce, with a living profit added. But if you buy good seed carefully selected, free from disease, and with hereditary promise of good yield and fine quality; if you buy it at a judicious if you fit your ground properly, e it adequately, tend to the crop industriously any time and every time it needs attention, keep off the bugs and spray against the blight; if you dig at the right time an& sell shrewdly; while I— Plant any old seed I can sweep from the bottom of the bin: pay no atten- tion to symptoms of scab or rot; give no heed to its promise either of yield or of quality; fit the ground hurriedly and fertilize it skimpingly: go fishing or picnicking when the bugs are com- ing on; take in the circus when the crop needs cultivating; forget all about spraying till it's too late: let thé tubers stay in the ground till the com- bination of neglect and fall rains has induced a shocking lot of rot: then sell them to the first speculator who comes along at anything he chooses to give, why, then— The chances are that you'll have so many more potatoes than I and of so much better quality that you will sell them at a fair profit while I will lose money on+mine. Is that the markets’ fault? Is it the consumer’s fault? or even the middle- man's? Not much; it'’s mime; mine only and mine alone. It's mine because, whatever claim 1 may have made as to my right to a profit, I refused, or failed to heed my correspondinz duty to take the steps fundamentally essential to insuring that profit. Now if, in addition to all this, vou sort over your potatoes carefully grade them as to size. thfow out all small or warcy ones and make sure that no trace of incipient rot adheres to Zny, whije I Gump into the bay anything and everything with ¢ few nice ones at the string end to “show off’'—don’t you suppose that this, too, will count for your benefit in the sale and against my vanishing profit? ‘We all of us hate to be Gheated. MILES per GALLON When you figure miles per gallon, there is no gasoline as cheap and efficient as SOCONY. Because SOCONY is not only pure and powerful, but um}form. Every gallon is like every other gallon, no matter where you buy it —quick starting and chock full of energy. The SOCONY seal means that the gasoline it marks is the best that extensive sources of sup- ply and highly scientific refining can produce. SOCONY is so different from the inert mixtures that are often sold as gasoline that it pays to be par-- ticular what goes into your tank. Say “So-CO-ny” and look for the Red, White and Blue SOCONY sign. : : Standard Oil Co. of New York at four of the cantonments. Therefore we are justly bound to hate The military purpose, he sajd, is to to_cheat. e We all 6f us want fair measure met- | furnish commanding officers ' with a ed out to us. Therefore we are justly | rating of each man in his command bound to render falr measure to oth- | by which he may be guided in select- tions for can read determine are withdrawn to*be given examina- variou: wso get low ratings are re-examined The Sign of a Reliable Dealer and the World’s Best Gasoline EDEA-LERS WHO SELL SOCONY MOTOR GASOLINE W. R. BAIRD, Norwich THAMES SQUARE GARAGE, F. C Sterry, Prop, Norwich MAJESTIC GARAGE, S. J. Bottomly, Prop.#Norwich CHARLES S. PECKHAM, Norwich SCOTT & CLARK CORP., Norwich C. V. PENDLETON, JR., Norwich P. H. ETHIER, Norwich i LEE & OSGOOD CO. Norwich F) FELIX BURZYCKI Norwich ] M. B. RING AUTO CO., Norwleh L. W. CARROLL & SON, Norwich. JONATHAN SMITH, Norwich T W. E. BALDWIN, Taftville GEORGE DRESCHER, PEOPLES’ STORE, Taftv H. A. RICHARDS, Versallles ROBERT R. SOUTER, Hanover MAX RICHLAND, Norwich Town A. R. MANNING, Yantic W. E. MANNING, Yantic JOHN F. RICHARDSON, Preston City GEORGE W. MANSFIELD, Poque- tannuck CHARLES- D. WOLF, Jewett City F. H. GILBERT, Jewett. City JOHN H. TRACY, Jewett C ELAKE & MORGAN, Jewett City J. L. HERBERT & SONS, Voluntown EZRA DAYON, Glasgo FALLS GARAG 7 AL U510 00 DTG 6 R AT L B Al e s Faoo for manual wor “The #ims of cal _examination, sald,” “are to measure mence and -ability, not disclose W under Those wha e ¢ ers. ing men for promotion or for spp(‘ial‘ln a group to didcover whether they 1 We all of us want good quality | duties requiring more than average |are merely slow, or are of low grade | héad-and | hands; not what when we buy. Therefore we are just- ) intelligence. The medical, purpose | intelligence. lzarned from books, and to Iy bound to sec that we give good|and the more important one, is to And ny who do not then make a sat- | medical officers quickly to discover Guality when we sell. what men are so far belew the ave- | isfactory mark grouped with tha | sift out- the: extremely -inc 5 - rage intelligence as to demand seri- | illiterate: m they are ex-|and thus prevent the inefficiency “Charity begins at home.” So does|ous consideration for discharge or for | amined fc a kill and ingenuity, | injustice resulting frem putting square dealing. It begins at the farm.|assignment to work as laborers or to [=uch as putting dissembled | i places -which they are not It ought to continue through the buy- | other simple manual work under care- | mechanisms. further individual [ to_fil 20 g er and the railroad yards and the com- | ful supervision. - examination receive the | ~The examinations are holr mission house and the retail store and|" The first test is which of the menlpoornst rating: to be con-|ed at Camps Devens, Dix £0 on. But my point, this morning, is | can read and write. The illiterates | sidered fof discharge dr suited only [ Taylor. that it is our duty, as producing farm- €rs. to perform to the uttermost the Guty incumbent on us, before attempt- ing to enforce the rights we demand from other: Don’t let's go into court till our own hands are clean. r to expatiate t is to preach It's a vast deal ea: upon our rights tha about our duties. It's also a vast deal easier to as- sert our righ than it is to accom- plish our dutie: But what's easiest is not most righteou: Nor even the best policy. THE FARMER. alwaye COMPLETE, RETURNS OF RAILROAD OPERATION.S Net Revenue Was $3,000,000 More in July, 1917, Than Previous July. Washington. Oct. 18.—Complete re- turns covering railroad operations throughout the country made public today by the Interstate Commerce Commission show little variation from preliminary statements except as to| western roads. These are shown to have earned net, approximately $1,000,- 600 more in July last than in July, 1916, instead of $2,000,000 less ‘this vear than last, indicated in previous reports. Total volume of business of all the roads last July in the country excced- ed that of July, 1816, by $45,000.000, reaching the high water mark of $348,- 427,306. Expenses increased $42,000, 000, leaving net revenue from railway operations $3,000,000 more than a year azo. This galn, however. was reduced to a loss of approximately $400,000, com- pared with July, 1916, by an increase of $3,400.000 in’ taxes charged up against the railroads for the month. Roads in the eastern district show a falling off in net operating income of more than $2,800,000 for the month while southern roads registbred an in- crease of approximately $1,450,000. this week only. Suits = MEXICANS FIRED ON AN AMERICAN ARMY PATROL Fire Was Returned, But No One Was Hit, So Far as Known. Coats Marfa, Texas, Oct. 18.—Armed Mex- icans fired on an American army pa- trol at San Jose, sixty miles south of here, on the Rio Grande, yesterdav, according to a report here today. The fire was returned, but no onme was known to have been hit. Dresses HOW SOLDIERS ARE ASSIGNED TO BRANCHES Psychelogical Examinations Made to Determine. Which They Are Best Fitted For. Washington, Oct. 18.—Psychological examinations of national army men have two purposes, one military and one medical, it was explained today by W. V. Bingham, of the Carnegie In- stitute of Technology, Pittsburgh, one of the seven psychologists who work- ed out the method now_being applied ' ‘THE TUBRIDY WELDOR 0. Willirmmantic Special Sale The Garments offered in this Sale are all New, Up-to-date’ styles and the special prices are for Friday and Satudray of - 19.75 Regular Value 22.50 to 27.50 - 17.5 Regular Value 22.50 and 25.00 = 14.5 Regular Value 16.50 to 19.75 WANTED--Experienced Saleswoman for Millinery, w ambition to command a good salary. ative schoo man can do v Y L