Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 20, 1918, Page 10

MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS From this section you may choose Violins, Banjos, Ukelslees, Harmonicas, Drums, Cor- nets, and anything else music-wise 'can be secured at moderate prices. MUSIC ROLLS Every style of Roll and Satchel in brown and black leather, and imitation leather is avail- able. They make most acceptable gifts. GIFTS FOR ALL This great store will prove a revelation for those seeking gifts of dependable quality, regardless of price. We have a display in every section of our store that will solve the most confusing gift problems. Shop here in ease and comfort — you will save both time and money. TRAVELLING SETS Traveling companions which are very accept- able as gifts are on sale in a variety that will meet the requirements of all. From the small- est to the most complete set can ke secured in a wide variety of materials and styles. Our prices are exceedingly low. TEA SETS We show real China Tea Sets in Japaness, English Bone Ch and genuine Royal Worcester, ‘also a few exclusive individual breakfast sets. DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY Our stock of Jewelry embodies everything that one could desire or seek in the way of Staple and Novelty Jewelry. The following are suggestions: RINGS, CHAINS, LAVALLIERS, CUFF LINKS, BROOCHES, GOLD BEADS, BAR PINS, KNIVES, CIGAR CUTTERS, CAMEO BROOCHES, Etc. We have a most beautiful line of PEARL BEADS, which are always sure to please, and prices are very moderate, ; THREE DIAMOND RING SPECIALS 1—A beautiful, genuine Dia- mond, in a 14K [ setting, which will make 1 e m $30 gift. Speci PAY $100 PER WEEK. 2—A Diamond Ring of larger size than Special No. 1, of strictly hish grade, set in 14K goid mounting. Special.. $65 PAY §2.00 PER WEEK. 8—A most attractive, genuine Diamond, set in 14K gold mounting, beautifully cut, brilliant, which is sure to make a gift that one will enjoy throughout their i $95 time. Special PAY $3.00 PER WEEK. ALL THE ABOVE SPECIALS ARE A SAVING OF 20 TO 25% ON PRESENT DIA- MOND MARKET PRICES, ' ALL OTHER DIAMOND RINGS AND DIAMOND JEWELRY FROM $5 TO $1,250. FOUNTAIN PENS Our stock of Fountain Pens includes’ Water- man's ldeal, Moore’s Non-leakable, Paul E. Wirth and Auto-Filler in every style of plain, silver and gold mounted. So many appreciate a Fountain Pen as a gift. QW MEN'S WATCHES No stock in. Connecticut can boast of a greater showing or a better stock of Watches than we display. In anticipation of high markets, we bousht heavily before war prices became effective, and consequently we are in a position to quote Watches today lower than wholesale prices. Read these specials: 1—A strictly reliable, high-class Watch, 12 size, fine thin model, gold filled case, guar- | anteed for twenty years, plain and en- graved c: $12.50. Pay $1.00 Per Week. 2—A Seventeen Jewel Hlinois, 12 size, open face, 20-year gold filled case, guaranteed to be an absolutely fine time piece, rn- comparable at the special price of $22.00, Pay $1.00 Per Week. UIrHER WATCHES FROM $1.50 TO $150. Including all dependable makes such as How- ard, Hamilton, lllinois, Waltham, Elgin, South Bend, and an exclusive showing of the famous Gruen Watch, America’s most perfect time- piece. Three Special Christmas GRAFONOLA CLUB CLUB No. 2 r we $1.00 One beautiful Cabinet Victrola, like the illustration, in mahogany, with automatic stop, powerful two-spring motor, seven shelves for album and b ten beautiful selections, either Victor or Columbia, 100 loud tone needles, 100 soft tone needles, and one pack- age of fibre subdued tone needles, de- livered to your home without any ex- $94.25 PIANOS AND A beautiful $89.25 NOTE—Our store offers the widest selection available in to select from, every one a dependable make. It will avoid future disappointment. We wiil not seil Talkin, enly store in Connecticut carrying a complete catalo, Cplumbia Record Lists in stock. Display rooms wh all times. Pay this department a visit while doing PLAYER PIANOS BRACELET WATCHES popular and prattical articls, which is so much admired by all, is in our stock in great variety, from ' the tiniest to any other size which you may desire, in plain or engraved. OUR GREAT SPECtAL. A fifteen-jewel, twenty-year guar- anteed gold filled case of strictly high de, tchabl o "our Spectal Prics $19.90 Pay $1.00 Per Week. OTHER WATCHES FROM $10 TO $125. Novelties and Miscellaneous From these you may choose a wide varisty of ®ifts that will supply your wants when you are perplexed as to what to give, Let us sug- gest Sterling novelties: Match Safes, Card Cases, Gold Pencils, Gold Pens, Rosaries, Crucifixes, Prayer Books, Safety Razors and Kodaks, Toilet Ware, Picture Frames, Shaving Sets, Cigarette Cases, Safety Razors, Thermos Bottles. Club Offers SELECT NOW—YQU MAY BE DISAPPOINTED IF YOU WAIT VICTROLA CLUB No. 1 P wea $1.00 CLUB No. 1 No. 2 SONORA CLUB No. 3 e wer $1.00 CLUB No. 3 Upright Grafonola with One beautiful Cabinet Sonora, in ma powerful spring motor, splendid Colum- ia construction, with all hegany, with automatic stop, powerfu d " two-spring motor, splendid Hiing sy improve - ; ments, with ten beautiful selections, tom 204 ten beautiful selectio:: 100 loud tone, 100 soft tone, and one rrs” pensrer Sho Coembiay 100 lovd package of subdued fibre needles, all complete without ‘any extras or inter- tone needles, 100 soft tone needle:. and one package of fibre subdue: tone needles, delivered to your homs tras or interest of any kind, with our est of any kind, with our absolute without any extras or interest of anv absolute guarantes of service, com- guarantee of service and satigfaction, kind with our absolute guarantee of plete at at service and satisfaction, complete a: $139.25 New England. 'We have more than 250 machines Pay you to select your Talking Machine at this store and g Machines of unknown quality. Remember, we are the gue of Victor Record Lists .and a complets catalogue of- ere you may rest in comfort are available to hear music at your Christmas shopping. LAMPS A new shipment of Lamps, added to our already great showing, makes our present ¥or une-third of a century this great store has supplied more sat- isfactory instruments in Eastern New England than piano house. Suggestions From Our Furniture Department Kitchen Cabinets, Hall Racks, Smokers, Sewing Tables, Tip Tables, Library Ta.bles, Cedar Chests, Magazine Racks, Statuary, Vases, Hall Clocks, Pictures and Mirrors. any other It has been a policy that none but high-grade instru- ments would be sold from our warerooms. lection 150 Pianos and Player Pianos, representing twenty leading high-grade makes, from which your favorite may b sent to your home as a family Christmas gift. easy terms now. We offer for your se- elected and We allow special There is always a good selection of slightly used Pianos and Player Pianos at specially reduced prices. Why not call or write today. $1.90 to $85.00. The Plaut-Cadden Co. Established 1872 135 to 143 Main Street, - - - Norwich, Conn. display the largest ever shown in Connecticut. Lamps for every room and corner of the house, in every style, shade and standard, from the smallest boudoir to the most exquisite Floor Lamp. Every color and tone represented. Prices from (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) In view of the approaching release from army camps, here and aoroad, of more than three million inen, certain fussy old folks are expressing much solicitude. They are afraid lest the return of these men may “derange|. economic. conditions.” They are cud- gelling tired brains which do not seem to have been very active, at best, to discover methods which wili prevent such’ an awful result. Their latest idea is that the returning soldier boys must be induced, somehow, to get in- to farming, so ss not to “derange” other industries, ° They are urgently calling on’ gov- ernment, if there aren’t enough “aban- doned farms” {0 go round, to drain the Dismal Swamp and irrigate the rest of the Great American Desert, so as tc_furnish farms for the veterans. What was that phrase which we talked about, the other day—“common sense the most uncommon thing in the world,” wasn't it? Doesn't it look, | sometimes, as if that rather cynical sentiment was the truth, after all? Of course, it ‘'wouldn't do for any more farmers, such as we, to question the seriousness of “economic condi- tions.” Heaven forbid that mere hay- seeds like us should lay calloused hands on that sacro-sanct fetish-bag of the professors. But, merely in passing znd very Lumbly, one is tempted to inquire why “economic conditions” on the farm lands aren’t quite as much ir. need of safeguarding as “economic conditions” in the shops and factories. The sudden eruption of three million men into the corporate industries will seriously “derange” them, we are warned. So the wise-acres propose to dump them on to the farms. How they figure it out that this won't “de- range” farming conditions is not ex- plained. Possibly by the same process of rea- | scning which demonstrates that one can’t spoil a bad egg. According to_general understanding, these three million men were drawn ; from all parts of the country and all occupations with as much fairness as possible. According to published fig- ures, the farms furnished more of them than any other one industry or any other two, combined. My own liftle country town gave a» a dozen, all but two of whom were * s farmers’ boys. Of course, * ies the proportion was re the reports of the draft b show | that, for the whole country, farming sent much larger quotas than any other occupation. i It's more than a little curfous that, | in view of this farm preponderance of service, the matter of possible “d rangements” of farm conditions never | seems to enter. the heads of the izhty muck-a-mucks at Washingion, | or of the pRofound professors of econ- cmies at the various univ of the eminent editors of met ties, or opolitan However, we farmers have been ac- customed to be used as door-mats for so long that we have got used to it. Tn fact, judging from the sort of men we | elect to represent us in zovernment and permit to business, the inference migh forced that we actually 1i is, the majori Therefore, .et's pass of the question rather . and look at two other sides, | which mav be of safer appro:ch. In the first place, it is 10 be noted that these three million men were withdrawn from the industries of the country, when they were drafted. Seme from one indust ome from another. Some from the farms and some from the factories and soms | from the shops and some from the railroads and some from offices and some from knights of the road and some from the homes of millionair It is also to be remembered that there weren't any too many to go round, even before the d 8 ft began to reduce the number of those available for production. All over the country, employers announced, when the draft was on, that the places of those called NOT MORE FARMS BUT BETTER FARMING ' CALENDAR DAY FOR away would be held for thbrasor thets r:tum. A‘ll~ove'ruth‘ "t'qn- ployers are reaffirming’ “todayy “Your old job'is waiting for you* i the message which meets the home= coming troopship: 3 A Shell and shrapriel and-rifis'baTl and Doisoned gas have taken heavy toll of those who went'away. The’humber who. will return will be less than the number who sailed ‘eastward. It will be both strategically unwise and physically fmpossible_ o return them, all in a bunch, They will have to come back, as they wenti away, comparatively' few ‘at a timefs. . What should. lead .anyonexto -doubt that they will be reabsorbed into their old places, at least in a vast majority of cases? And, even then, there won't be encugh :to go round, any mere than there were before the war. In the second place, even if an ex- tra lot of them arg-to.bgycoaxed or cajoled or steered, into"]attempted farming, there-is no need .of*hunting for additional acres to make room for them. = B s The radical fact at the hattom of all American' farining 18 not ‘that the average farmer ‘hasm't jand:-enough and to spare, but that he doesn't make the most of what he already- has. I know one farm—my own—fairly well. I kiiow a dozen $thers—imme- diate neighbors—in some degree. [ know in a general’ ‘way'' something about a hundred or two others, There isn't a single one of ‘the lot, my ‘own included, which, isifarmed as it could be or as it ought to‘le; if the owner had, capital enough and could get labor enough to develod it. My own small farm contains’an un- due " proportion of . woode:d ‘mountain as compared with its arabl> area. Yet, ircluded in. theslattergds antacre’ or more of mueky swamp which, if I had the capital and /the’labér 16’ dfain it, would malke ideal celery or onionland. Also, several acres’ = of ' “stobp ledge 1And, facing the south, n, if ¥ had the capital and labor to terrace and irrigate, would be admirably; adapted to grapes or the foreing; of sich semi- tropical crops as'Limn beans and mel- ons and peppers, etc. 3 With foriy or nfty acres of my hun- dred capable of beinz productive worked, 1 am forced, by lagj of cal hortage of lab ell to workinz annually enly or cight acres. The rest 3 real waste, though I try o get something ofi it in the way of pasturage. Other farms that ‘I -know ,of are in much tlie same shape.: Land ‘enouxh, right next door to markets or easy transportation, but lying idle and waste for lack of ability’ to- till“it properly. How much it would cost ‘to drain the Dismal-Swamp T don‘t—<mow. A hundred millions, certainly, perhaps Yet half that amount, with the la- bor the other half wolld hire, applied to the reclamation of wasts or aban- doned farm land right in southern New England and New York, would result a larger increase of tillable area, nearer to better markets, and_worth raore, acre for acre, than any Dismal Swamp or Arizona desert, no matter Low much might be spent on them. It is not more acres to’ farm but better farming of the acres:we have which common sense would .demand for the farmers of America. Poor farming wanders about in whimpering search for fresh lands to rob and wear cut. Good farming makes poor land good and good land Letter, year by yéar. What we need.is,not more -gcres to poil, but help to make the mpst from s we havel 1 3 : Farming is the slogan of prodigality and wastefulnass; Better Farming is the trumpet-call of wis- dom. Let's eat the pie already on our plates ‘and see «if we're stiil hungry, Defore clamoring for more! THE FARMER. —— A tip on the races—don'tdibet on them. NEXT YEAR IS SATURDAY WHEN YOU PURCHASE YOUR CHAFING DISHES, < CUTLERY,* SKATES, SLEDS, ELECTRIC DE- VICES, ETC., TOMORROW, ASK. FOR THE CALENDAR FOR 1919- DESIGNED AND PAINTED BY Eaton Chase Co 129 Main Street 2\ = i e