Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 17, 1918, Page 11

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) A ago- as last August— At 017 we talked 2. litdle about government price-regulation. “Seems to me 1 smell trouble in this government fixing Of prices. That was one remark then made which i quote. 3 “If government Is zoing to rezulate the prices of wheat and coal and sugat for our benefit, the other fellow has m‘ %l VIR \ thia Ven! or BNl S\ 7 ft. 8 ft. Piazza Chairs and Rockers WE HAVE ADDED LARGELY TO OUR STOCK OF Furniture and Carpets AND INVITE PURCHASERS TO VI NEW STORE Majestic Building Opposite Laurel Hill Bridge Sizes 5 ft. 6 ft. Prices $3.75 $4.50 wide SIT OUR CENTRAL VILLAGE Postmaster Clarence Reid, Awaiting | Postmaster Resigns. called er, Mrs. Walter the indisputable right to demand that it shall also regulate the prices of l| potatoes and butter and the rate of wages for his benefit” That was another remark made by somebody. “The consumer is to be protected, of course. But he isn't the only toad in the puddie. The producer must be protected, also, or he will .stop pro- ducing. And what will the consumer do then, poor thing?” That was a third hunk of wisdom. Government had just started out on its_price-fixing, food-regulating cam- paign, at that time. Whatever was predidted or surmised about it. them, had to be based lorgely on analogy and deductive reasoning, which are al- ways more or jess uncertain and liable to get on the wrong track. But now we've had about months' actual _experience of actual working of the actual How does it strike you? Has it turned out better or worse than we feared? Has it disproved our counts, or has it changed them to certainties? Has it on the whole proved beneficial, or has it been detri- mental? nine the thing. It may be a little too early, even vet, to answer these questions with any certainty. Nor will it ever be possible for you and I, with our lim- ited sources of information and our necessarily incomplete understanding of-all the elements involved, to answer them dogmatically All we can do is to consider the subject from our one-sided view-points and get some idea of how its working has affected us and our interests. To begin with, it is claimed, and T think with considerable evidence of truth, that government interference with 'the prices of sugar, coal and flour has kept them much below what they would have been, if left to the mercy of profiteer market-manipula- tors. All three are higher than they used to be, admittedly. But no one of them has sky-rocketed so high as some othe; in the pricing of which ess” has had free play d control. Tt was said recently by one flour Postmaster Clarence Reid has sent |expert that, but for government action, Call to Service, Resigns — Paftarw, Xie gnation as he has flour would have been selling for From Minnesota Expected June 1. e ion for military service|a barrel, I nter. Mr. Hoover is . . lana expects to be saying that, but for the Minnesota Pastor Coming. of Brooklyn, preact { month. ng , Sund: from Minnesota i d to arrive the first of Juue. Mary F. Lering entertalned he Miss Edmunds, inday. ohn ling visit- | 1 has heen L. Chapman ‘has iline es Atwood and Prov of Philip Mathewson. the new Miss-Grace » bedn i Suests of Albert m Clarke. Miss Josephine Arm rong has heen Geors 4 his Prov- A dye room will be in the ad Part of the smoke stack the heavy winds thi: GLASGO Walter F. Thorp Herbegt | visited | Reaches Mrs. Stephen Campbell. - Throp of At Country Place. week end with her aunt, Norman White of Bro: Bas been at the Sugar has received word o arrival in France of her hus Frank Edgerton and in ‘Hope Valley, | home of AL d Mrs: ¢ Duniel Pierce is spending sev- he nts vho live in Rhode /Is Infant’s Death. 2% $1.75 for flour: $2.09 for th & price Rehob. Mass The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. cu“rr“‘l);;"g‘f“g":ub::’lm e I0i205 theiaC| WhTCH Wmll}fl make its use hopefully f he Stephen Campbell di v 2 s . economical! the home of he Stephen Campoell died Tucsday morn e e v b it Miss Ruby Peck has returned 0 gk o e o of thinking. It begins to ook as if government home :n Attishoro, Mass., having spent ¢ by Mrs. . A. Clark, T . |would have to “go the whole hog. . hevTl ai’ W, G, Burdicls|,, Of course: the off-hand explanation | fi the prices of everything And tarion | Mrs. Ernest Kennedy of Danfelsor and Mrs. Floyd K, Young, |l that in compelling us to take an|us all It has been = at the home of her|Byron P. Young and family and Mrs, | ual weight o Shjetutes with our| 1In the meantime, if it could only | unele, Robert McFarland. F. Thorp, also Miss Cameron and | "acat flour, the object'is to conserve |get a good hold of about ten thousand | Brarattit Rickmond ek wilihs. 5 3 oo, half for our allies Who have nome at |soutless profiteers, sharo GREAT REDUCTIONS ON OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF Men’s, Women’s and Children’s FINE SHOES FOR 10 DAYS ONLY We are overstocked, hence this reduction sale. Our stock comprises all the latest lasts in the " COME IN AND SEE US The Brockton Sample Shoe Store 138 Main Street, Norwich, Conn: for duty]¢ ay and expects to| of the|® been | daughter, ence, have been the | addition to | sted mill has | France— | ¢ Death of Infant Daughter of Mr. and | Westerly , Mr. and | food board’s action its price would ere th ave “gone out of sight” And the New York papers reported that certain dealers in that ungodly town e actually coal, in small quantities, at the ra of $28 a ton just before the fuel 2 ministration took of their necks and shook a little de- cency into them. Certainly, if these things are true, | their accomplishment must be credited to government -interference. Admitting them to be true for the time being—since we have no prpof are not true, n y valid £ oub! them, — the countervailing fact ains that we haven’t at any time since government fenced in ces had the chance to et all we wanted or all we really needed of r, or co: W a blessing to have down so common to buy them. But s a reasonable price for sugar if there ism't any sugar for us at that price? Or any other? Or what avails a bearable charge for fuel coal, if we can’t get the coal? a decent price for flour, if we have to buy other exorbitantly priced substitutes with it, which, normally, we wouldn't think we could afford? regarding sugar, s i r of Washington, -| 3 s| £ The last one-eighth bag of wheat flour which T bought cost me, with the enforced substi; s 1 was compelled to take with it, just $4.74. Of this all, except such as we send them. It is not to save us money, but to constrain us to use but half our usual amount of wheat flour. Very good. _Needs must when the devil drives. We are all willing to be cut down one-half in-our customary use of wheat flour, that the women, the children and, above all, the sturdy fighters across the ocean may have food wherewith to live and work and fight in our defense. But, when the.government directed us how to buy, pound for pound, with our wheat flour, either barley flour, or oat flakes, or corn meal, or other like substitute, it fixed the price of the wheat flour at a fairly reasonable figure—but did not fix the price of any of the substitutes. Whereupon our ever-present friend, the profiteer, —may his name be mud!—took his chance with both hands and simply “soaked it to us.” | That was why | paid but $1.75 for a twenty-four and half pounds of wheat flour, and $2.99 for twenty-four and a half pounds of barley flour, oat meal, ete. The price of flour was reasonable, considering all things. The regulation that T should be allowed to buy but half my usual suoply was reasonable, so far as I can see, in view of con- ditions abroad. The device whereby I was kept from buying mere than half that usual supply by requiring me to take the other half in . other things, was ‘effective and probably the Dbest available. But— What was the use, what was the sense of limiting prices which might be charged and profits which might be ‘made ‘on that wheat flour while leaVing the sky as the only limit to the prices which might be charged and the. profits” which rhight be” made on the substitutes? In our talk about this general sub- THE, FARM . TOFARMERS selling | them by the scruff| RS TALK up jeot, last summer, the point which was was constantly urged home,—the idea upon which express or implied stress was always laid was that all prices were so co-related and interwoven that it was going to be practically impossible with one without tyngling up othess in the ravellings. It was then urged that in order'to get any sort of smooth running through gov- ernment interference, either all prices should be reznlated or none should be interfered with. & Hasn't the outcome shown that this was correct? waj tre: If government, when fixing the price of flour and ordering you and I to buy equal quantities of substitutes with every bag or barrel, had at the same time and by the same order so fixed the prices of those substitutes that they should have cost us the same or less than the flour, two-thirds of the criticism and nine-tenths of the an- noyance which has resulted would have been avoided. It could have regulated prices of oats and corn and barley, etc, as well as M 1L NORWIGH sULLETIN, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1913 |This Corn Will gouge and pull at the 2 or 3 Drops Applied in a Few Seconds |§ tender corn ? less, simple way. two drops of ‘Gets-It” put_your stocking and shoe right on again, eased. the true flesh. the side of your shoe, and do away | with greasy salves, bundling bandages {hick “piasters and painfu methos WATERPAILS 1o v iasianniary o BAauagk ettt the. piamatent s eon- Il ROUND COVERED ROASTERS ... ... ihnss s0s back corn-remover, the onl . rri g el on b PRESERVING KETTLES ................ 6 quart e TS WE SELL SMILEAGE Peel Right Off!f - “Gets - It" Makes Corns Come OFf BOOKS = The “Banana - Pecl” Way! = ‘Why have to flop on the floor,|j E squeeze yourself up Iike the letter 2 and with bulging eye draw your face! - into a wrinkly knot while you “quick"of a Enamel Ware —Theres No Fussing or Cutting. | “Gets-1t” Always Works ! it That's the old, savage is the modern, pain- Lean over and put on the corn, | “Gets-It” and forget the corn. Pain i “ Gets-It” has revolutionized the atment of corns. It mever irritates You'll stop limping on ROLLEDGE DISHPANS................. 11 quart RINSING PARSE S o s S Tl £d by B. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, STEW PANS with enamel covers............ 2 quart of wheat. The actual worth of these has at no time been beyond that of wheat. The only reason why they have cost us more is that the profiteers were choked off the wheat-pit but allowed free run in the barley, oat ang corn flelds. And they have gorged themselves. There’s no doubt about that. ..Even the food administration has at last woke up to the seriousness of the situation, and is beginning to try to amend its initial mistake. Food Ad- ministrator Hoover has just issued a formal denunciation of those dealers who charge more for barley, oat tnd corn products than for wheat flour. He says: “At present pri and oats, the mill Rex cell of live s of corn, barley, s are or should be offering meals and flours from these grains at prices considerably below wheat flour; in fact, cornmeal should be seiling from the mill door at per cent. less than wheat flourand oatmeal even less. Ratio white corn flour or barley flour should be selling at 10 to 15 per cent. - below wheat flour. There is therefore absolutely no justification for present price levels is 15 Le in these substitutes.” ich’ was torpedoed on its way Ierardi of New Haven spent the week | FarEa st rance, is a great-grandchild. na Mrs. D, T. Clark's |end at Allen W. Kenyon's. Of course there isn't; isn't now and| Mrs. Bradway retains her fac e Clark and family, Nellie Alvord of Rockville spent never has been any justification. It|to a remarkable degree. Her and Mr cy of Putnam, | Sunday at Maplewood farm. ‘hus been just profiteering and nothing | is impaired, but she has a William Ma; Mary Dodge else: profiteering at the cost to the injury of every consumer in the land for the enrichment of retailers and wholesalers and millers and othes handlers who, being debarreq by zov ernment from making undue Bradway, Who | Town Doubles Bond Quota and Wins | § Honor Flag. At a family gathering Sunday, win Clark about 50 children, grand- | children Mrs, Sarah Bosworth Bradway met to | was served by Mrs, Mrs. Bradway was born April 30,! 1818, on the place now owned b; erson has alwa ford (formerly v loan subseri an automobile party including Mrs. | worl i ception of about s ,700 and the sub: James Ryan ‘and iliam and Al-|the &i she lived on the east s 48 subscribers. The|fred Rheuberg of Southington and Mr. | pervik lake. in the t honor flag_is waving_beside the ser-|and Miss Cooley of New Dritain. nam. has great-grandchild. ory and can was cal BERLIN KETTLES with enamel covers. .. .... 3-PIECE MIXING BOWL SETS ................... WIRITYPRIS: . i .t B ol EASTFORD cent Dinner Given for Mrs. Sarah B. | is 100 Years Old—. May |4 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dar- and great-grandchildren of ebrate her 100th birthday. Dinner | Clark, a daughter Mrs. ith whom she es. Bradway, Em- al lake, and Lyon, A Sale of French Gray WE BOUGHT IT LAST WINTER—IT HAS JUST ARRIVED i We bought this last winter at the prices of six months ago. We could mark it at the j prevailing price today and make a handsome profit, but we are not going to do it. We are going to sell it at the extremely low price which was intended when we purchased IF YOU NEED ANY ENAMEL WARE BUY IT TODAY - . \f YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO FIND ITS EQUAL FOR THE SAME MONEY 59c = EACH \ ved in the town of East- the only survivor of 11 chi . She | vice flag, ch has 13 stars. Howard K. Carpenter was at his three children, 14 grandchildren,i At the Congregational church Sun-|uncle's, Allen 'W. Kenyon's, Sunday.|hospftal of Putnam. sreat-grandchildren and one great- |day five persons united with the| A. Winfield Kenyon of Hartford was Private Edwin of the Tusca € Mrs. Dorothy Harrison Ghiech in_town over Sunda rge Bowen, i Prof. Sidney Butler and Judge Rocco wis, a survivor tell many in omiret and Charles Baker of Eili- ° : ! tales of olden times. She enjoys ha: ABINGTON ing people come in to talk with her. Neff returned home T Ty She remembers how she commenced pendinz several weekS(L, B, S, Re-elects Officers — Local chool ied on g to the horset : Grangers Visit Putnam Grange—| ack by her on wheat flour, seized its fifty-fifty | ther a distance of about one and ? Community Garden Started. b order as an excuse under which (0| quarter miles. ¥ Lost Goods by Fire. g e ! gobble everything else they could get{ Mrs. Bradway is a Real Daughter of | Friends of Rev Chamber-}_ The annual meeting of the Ladies | fechire their hands on. No single class iS|the American Revolution { 1ain X their loss | Benevolent society of the Congrega-|opticon p |solely. to blame. They are all CHbe o Blieth : (heir mew |tional chureh was held at Library hall iwith the eame stick. The miller|chapter of Putnam. a dozen| berlain _formerly [ May 9th, when the officers were re- charged what he pleased, and the!members of this oha ne and the Method ected: Presiden E. Martn; wholesale” charged what he could get|called on her her and left Yie EouG ety and the retailer charged what the|remembrances and flowers. G i traffic would bear. And between them | harpe. s ey boosted the prices of the sub- | Sunday Guests. aulding and a friend Sei i tobakots, the | g e Sunday School Social. twd; §ofvs, the itutes to a point for which, according | at John Jones' Sunday were ended church here i £ held | stitirtental duet to Mr. Hoover, there is ‘absolutely Mrs. Bruce and family of | Ny 10 i ke | Mot d B0 uatifiction > >utnam, Private Robert Colburn of conveyed a load » May 10 with Mrs. J. All because the food administ when ti tied their one arm wheat profite to profiteer with a scoop. corn and oats and barley! ovel in | ton | A week or two ago, I referred to the | da: amazing ple L ducers of that thousands of ton: (spoil unless the zovernment off their hands. This at the ve when millions of private consumer were eager to take it off their hands if they would only put the price down where common folks could afford Since then another wail has come | out of New York city to the effect that thousands and thousands of tons | of corn meal were going to waste there. And now the Federal Tood | board of the same state reports that | there are nearly 100,000 barrals of rye took it | ¢ time | ga | tion, | Camp Dever 3 sainst | family and , left the other free|fret, Eugene Jo 2 liott. nerson Jones _and | tc Papaong e A Sharpe the week end| Rev. James Sherman of Fom il i his brother at Milford, Conn. ¢ ARG e 1i day meeting of the Red Cross | ton"ana” Minnie S S eld at Library hall Thurs Amasa Trowbridge was il it. | end. Bosworth. Miss Mae P. Sh: f was home over Sunday. m Torrington Darwin Lewis and | Davis of Putnam were in und; to look after eing made mmer home. v ‘manski new tru. s Hattie Dez ret Bell have been for repairs Guests of Putnam Grange. n Wolf Den hbors' night on at Putnzm grange. lately pu M visi al days nd daughter over the week | be. tr: Jda C Woman Succeeds Man as Driver of : bil visited Mail Route. at the Day ng from an Cora Joslin Vednesday of with s gone to Bristol to irs. Emma on the ma a factory. taken his Won Honor Flag. A Communi Eastford' went over €d on the farm of Willis Covell. x Pouit the | the top in David Blackman entertained Sunday The flour in New York city, “and very little demand for it.” i Great Scott! Cheese waste,” and corn-meal waste” and rye flour ‘“going waste!” And ten million people ea to buy the last pound of every on if the holders would sell i to| o o] 8 I8 their ill- | @ gotten gains out of them and then in tern them for the remainder of the war on a diet of nothing but’ subst; tutes, it would help the rest of us a whole lot, THE FARMER. CHAPLIN Guests at Parsonage—Local People | i§ Attend Eastford Conference. Mrs. M. S. Heindel and Miss Rachel | Heindel of Red Lion, Pa., are visiting at the parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. C, L. Shaw and chil- dren, Edward and Lois Shaw, of Hart- ford, Mr. and Mrs. Giles Bushnell, Mi Rice and Elmer O'Brien of Hartford were Saturday and Sunday visitors at the Goodwin home. Attended Eastford Meeting. Rev. Guy D. Wingerd, Mr. and Mr: W."B. Gallup, Mr. anqa Mrs. Frank W. Martin, Frank C. Lummpis, Mr. A Goodwin, Miss Ida Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. ndrew ) Grant, Mrs. E Burdick, Mrs. Floyd Landon and Wi fred Burdick attended the conference of Congregational ‘ministers @ churches at 'Bastford Tuesday and enjoyed the fine program. Mrs. Susan ‘Willis of Scotland vi ited over Sunday at F. Martin's and attended the conferen at East- ford Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs, Mar- tin, Rafts hinged to the sides of a life- | i boat and which spread out when it is afloat to give additional bouyancy from a recently invented device for safety ‘at sea. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA, € Agency For RICHMOND RANGES BOLTON Lecture on Birds at Grange Meeting —Foxes and Crows Bother _The meeting of Bolton grangefi N hich was heid last week Friday s open to the public. ork being done by s for the soldiers and European the garden is to be done by s of the town under the su- n of W. E. Hammond of Put- The vegetables, etc., raised there are to be donated to the Day Kimball Mr. Hammond has Bad experience in this line of work and ¥ certain to receive the co-oper- ation: of the patriotic town people. Pouitry A given on birds and stere- ures of them were shown. Red Cross Pictures. evening sterconticon ple- the Red the Bolton hall, en of Vernon singing ses Mathein an in- There were recita- Misses Anna Caselli and Rose . C. W. Burt of Weston of the week of Loomis. Mr. or of Bolton al church. Willimantic has been the fir: Fifty Years of Popularity In Norwich Is Their Record. Hundreds of Them Are In Daily Use. We Will Carry a Complete Stock At Al Times COME IN AND LET US SHOW THEM TO YOU SCHWARTZ BROS., “The Big Store with the Little Prices” Ro! few days at Mrs. el ave Secured The Exclusive - Water Street LAHN FURNITURE CO., Main Street , Mr. Jane Carpenter ot Sunday with and Mrs. nt ies srent Sunday couard Bridge. d and daughter. 1d of Hartford of the week. of Foxes and Crows. a’sers are having a good of trouble with foxes and crows.