Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 21, 1918, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) “It is one of the most alarming f recent social evolution ply the statement in rath- er big words, by an economist of high reputation, of the old complaint that sountry people are abandoning the farms and flocking to the cities when- ever y he chance. You'll note that he calls it “one of the most alarming symptoms” of the times. Which is exactly what it is. It is “alarming;” for it means an nbalancing of the country’s raiio be- t production and consumption; a he pyramid over from its rying to make it stand on <al of natural law; a ably fixed condi- onal, individual, y indulgence more than abiding ip cnergy and an welfare. show is counted high- that momentary en- ed more than lasting m is worshipped in- 1ce. thovsands and tens i their ability and have so far de- s to put present pleasure of tho to look generated above future’s demands,—which is one of our mpton which dis- tinguish the a al from the human. “ ” enough. lled, o But that is not a disease, sign of one. Accord- er it is any “change in its functions which indi. the causes of disease often lie bevond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms ibited.” SHEWAS ONLY TWENTY Yet Suffered with Functional Disorder and Was Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. 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But the wise physician seidom resorts to these, willingly. His business is to search out thé deep-seated disease which is causing the headaches and, eradicating that cause, thereby re- moving the symptom. Intelligent and civilized don’t make war on signalmen alone. It is the army behind the signalmen which they seek to destroy. When that is ‘wiped out there will be nobody for the signalmen to signal for. be sent after another in its behalf. Symptoms are merely the signal- men of intrenched, ambushed and rveally dangerous foes. They may be selves serious. It is the armed force their presence indicates which is to be dreaded. The economist is dead right when he classes the away-from-the-coun- “alarming” one. It is not, in itself, either wrong or challengable. No more than a head- ache is, in itself, fatal. But, as the headache may be the first symptom of an incipient fever of deadly charac- ter, so this national tendency is the symptom of a national morbidity which | is a national danger and threat. Also, as usual with too many short- sighted empirics, the chief talk which we hear about it is, not of its warn- ing nature as a symptom, but of it-| self, as though it were ,itself, the dis- ease. And most of the) plans proposed for | {its removal fail to take into account { the cause, but foozle aimle: around the edges, seeking to alleviate the 3 e A Why is it that people flock away {from the country to the city and the factory village and the railroads and the mines? To almost anything be- sides farming? There are two common answers. One is that they can get more pay jelsewhere than on the farm. The {other is that they can live easier, have | conveniences,” and | opportunity.—The firs ¢motive is usually ascribed to the ma: ! culine and the second to the feminine deserters. | And they are both accurate enough ‘as describing symptoms. I But they both utterly fail to search out and reveal the real disease, the; hidden infection. | It is probably true that the city worker can get more money for his ! work than the country laborer. can get more—and he has to spend | more. It is perfectly true that the farmer with, say, $5,000 invested in a farm, doesn’t get as high an intercst on investment as the city merchant a similar amount invested in bu: {ness—He also runs much less risk o i bankruptcy and the sudden loss of all | | his capital. | Anyway, if the city worker is real- |ly befer off at the end of the year, yand this has never yet been shown, | | the reason for the difference is large- | {1y the fault of farmers themselves. i Not you |in the | whole farming community, as a bunch, {the gumption and which merchants whole world o uses, with the vast power of the na- tion’s production in our hands {could command such rewards for work as to equal any from eity i vestments. Or even the wWages munition workers! horse-sense ers and the “‘business” No, it isn't solely in wages or handier city running water and g the cause of the mig: It is in the spread contagious di the French know as ‘“Laissez-faire,” and which| Bunyan might have named “Love-of- Ease” had he foreseen all the hostile fiends against whom a modern Pil- grim has to fight. It is in the growing tendency to shirk duty and shrink from hardship. In the growing desire for iuxuries. In the growing dullness of a sense of re- higher city | ‘movies” or | c light that | tion lies. ing, ulcerating, to our successors. In the growing willingness to let others bear our bur- dens. In the growing habit of putting | show above substance,—what seems before what is. In the growing a: ty to say what is pleasantest and do what is easiest, rather than what is,| right. In the growing proneness to choose self-indulgence and dyspepsia in preference over duty and calloused palms, That is the ase which ought to be considered anc treated,— if titat- ment be yet possible. Never mind the symptoms; they’ll take care of them- selves once their cause ceases to func- tion. “Are we a nation of slacker; cently queried a magazine er with strong indications of pessimism. No we're not,—yet. But we're mov- ing that way, and it doesn’'t need a prophet nor a pessimist to see the danger. This away-from-the-coun- try movement is simply one of several evidences of a deplorable and life- sapping diseake. It is not a farmers’ specialty, by any means. It is not confined to them. Nor is it even as prevalent among them as among some ethers. The very fact that a man becomes and remains a farmer, in these days, is strong testimony that he isn't a weakling, either physically or moral- ly. It is, at least, prima facie evi- dence that he puts substance above sham, and prefers virile duty-doing to fiabby duty shirking. It isn’t so much among farmers that generals | § Tiil that | B is wiped out, one set of signalmen will | S8 annoying, but they are mnot in them- |} try movement as a “symptom” and an |§ S_or mine, individually, but! nduct and mangement of the | 2 sponsibility, not only to ourselves but |} % 98¢ to $1.75 | VALUES FROM $2.00 to $4.00 65¢ 35¢ 75¢ BELTS 50c 35¢ He | B STRAW HATS $1.25 to SOFT HATS $2.50 VALUES FROM $2.00 to $5.00 75¢ 50¢ 35¢ 20¢c 20c THE EAGLE CLOT 152-154 Main ‘Street, Norwl Together With Many Indticemehts From Our Own A RARE OPPORTUNITY IS NOW OFFERED THE PUBLIC OF NORWICH AND VICIMITY T0 SECURE BAR- GAINS IN BOTH MEN'S AND WOMEN'S APPAREL THAT WILL NOT BE MET IN A GOOD LONG PERIOD. call to the service of eur country and therefore compelled to sacrifice his entire stock, and-“we' will the public the advantage of securing their wants at a great reduction. ; Bargains for Men and Young Men | UNDERWEAR $1.25 B. V. D. Union Suits."/98c ..49c SHIRTS 79¢ to $3.48 VALUES FROM $1.15 to $5.00 MISCELLANEOUS $1.00 NECKWEAR NECKWEAR NECKWEAR NECKWEAR _ REDMAN COLLARS ARRGW COLLARS MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S SUITS Regular values $10.00 to $35.00 During This Sale $6.95 to $28.50 OUR LADIES’ DEPARTMENT WILL ALSO OFFER A GOODLY SHARE OF BARGAINS Choice of any Coat in stock $12.50 Choice of any Suit in stock $14.50 Rack of Dresses $13.75 Variety of White Skirts $2.95 to $4.98 Large selection of Waists 98¢ to $4.48 These items selected at random are only a few of the bargains el 85 i i oL velueting _____________________________ values o __________-____________-__-____-__--_____---.'_valuéé,to 20 __________________ values $4.00 to “$7.50 Sale Starts Saturday Morning, June 22nd STORE CLOSED ALL DAY FRIDAY TO ARRANGE STOCK THE EAGLE CLOTHING CO. 152-154 Main Street, Norwich, Conn. 60c B. V. D. Separate..... $1.C0 Union Suits. .. 75¢ Underwear . ... $1.00 SILK HOSE___.__.... 75¢ SILK HOSE____. sl Hlogy BOc--SILK HOSE: =& iory iz 39¢ SILK HOSE.. 35¢c.: SIEK “HOSE- =~ = s 100 dozen BLACK HOSE_____ 23c 15¢ 15¢ NOTE THE FOLLOWING PRICES: values $1.50 to $6.50 to be had during this sale. among those who might be and ought‘either. Of politicians and schoolmast- to be farmers, but aren’t. Perhaps this war, which seems to us such a bitterly useless outrage and cruelty, may yet by the hardships which its necessities compel, prove a blessing in stirring into fresh flame the dying embers of our nation’s world-warming fire. If-it re- news in any great number their sense of the value of discipline as.opposed to self-centered self-indulgence:—if it teaches any great number the neces- sity of team-work in place of every- man-for-himself scrambling:—if, above | all, it imposes and enforces upon any great number the lesson of foresight and forehandedness, the truth that present and selfish ease is never worth the price of future and general loss,— then even an onslaught of mediaeval barbarism on the breastworks of civi- lization may have in its outcome some- thing to be thankful for. e In the meantime, it is a problem for statesmen ‘and educators. Unfortun- ers there a plenty.” But neither of them seem able to grapple with the truth—or even to comprehend its ex- istence. They have a great deal to say ‘about the symptoms, but they have not yet diagnosed the- disease. At least, they have shown no signs of any ability to tackle it at its hid- den spring. - “God made the country and man made the town” said an old poet. ‘Whether the poet is a better designer |than the potter is a question which may, perhaps, be thought worthy of discussion,—among potsherds. But one thing is not open to dis- cussion. . That is the solem and eter- nal truth that duty is a higher virtue than seif-indulgence, and that a slack- er is a more contemptible figure than even a slave! THE FARMER. On the initiative of the Committes of ‘the Disabled Soldiers’ Society, a meeting was held on Sunday in Rome in honor of the heroes of the recent thi§ gospel needs to be preached as]ately we ‘seem to be ill supplied with Italian raid on Pola. Saturday. iliness, this section. Watertown. — Dr. Munger, 88, who died at his homg on De Forest street Sunday, after a long was the oldest physician in BRIEF STATE NEWS ‘Walter . Meriden—The members of the Meri- den Sportsmen’s association are plan- ning a trip to the Madison game rarmI Middletown.—Federal Food Commis- sioner Robert Scoville of Hartford has appointed Dr. Arthur S. Drackett as local food administrator. Seward Danbury.—Speaking of the applica- tion of the ice dealers of the city to the local food committee for approval of a proposition to increase the price| of ice for domestic use to 60 cents per 100 nounds. Smith Beers of ‘the Dan; lof ice purchased. bury Ice company said that the dealers |of the town, and is now a member of were reluctant to make such an in-Vthe board qf.police commissioners. crease and -probably would not find it i ¥ necessary to do so if their patrons| Milldale—Nick Pasouratis, proprietar purchased. the coupon books which |Of the restaurant and waiting room &t were placed on sale several weeks ago | the Milldale and Cheshire junction, has instead of paying cash for each pitee|S0ld his business. He has ved his call and will Jeave mext weeck with the other Southington .men for Camp Meade, Maryland. Meriden.—As the resuit of a dispute of shipments of flour, R. L. Baldwin, flour ‘and grain merchant, of North ! George street, has entered suit against the Old Fashioned Millers' company of Minnesota for the sum of $3,500. Portland.—With returss in from all but the Penfield Hfll district, the cen- sus of the population:ct; the Portland is-3716. it the missing district will least 100 names; which .will br | total figure over 3,800. _Bridgeport—The Barnum & Bailey circus. is exhibiting in the siate this week. - It- began- its Connecticut en- Wallingferd. — Two closéd in. the; bordught v the interests ‘of "D ng comp: Julius Wendt's jlace,=eorner Quinni- piac and North Cherry streets, and Thomas P. Fahey’s, cormer of Quinmi- piac. and South, Colony streets, . were gagements Monday at®Hartford and will 'end its tour of the state on Sat- urday, when it exhibits in,Stamford. Manchester.—John F. Sheridan, .who |is a deputy sheriff, is being mentioned as a candidate fer sheriff on the dem- ocratic ticket. Mr, Sheridan has served as a selectman the town of Man- chester, was aiformer chief of police tay. - i 2