Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 9

* (Written Speciaily for The Bulletin.) “Mean, ugly tasks are inevitable and indispensable to every business, trade or profession.” “The habit of dodging a disagreeable duty lands vo in the discard by the shortest known route to failure.” “No worker should ever get the no- tion that work is play.” “A man is not a man until he makes himself do with a smile whatever he hates most.” “Only a soft head inclines towards a soft enap.” “Feelings are the most faithiess, cruel and unreasonable tyrants that a person can obey. These are nuggets of solden truth which I dig out of a recent article by Efficiency Expert Purinton in The In- dependent. They are more than mere truth: they are horse sense. (Perhaps called “horse sense” because it has become so alarmingly scarce in hu- man beings!) Jt is getting so, these days, that the average worker ¥eems to look upon his task as a punishment and a hardship, rather than as an opportunity. This is true to such an extent in the ranks of employed labor that it has become Better be ready for the first cold night. No reason for waiting, and possibly shivering for a whole night through just because you neglected to buy flll|t pair of warm blankets. We bought these blankets at much lower prices than now prevail. We bought them months ago. You will benefit by our prudence and foresight. No lower prices for like cualities will be offered to you this season by anybody. ! K something more than a distressing £ symptom. It has swollen into a na- Cotton Blankets ............... $2.50 to $7.00 a Pair §| -vmptom 1t Plaid Cotton Blankets . ........ $7.00 and $9.00 a Pair White Wool Blankets .......... $6.00 to $15.00 a Pair White Wool Blankets, extra size. ... $18 and $19 a Pair OUR DISPLAY IS COMPLETE OUR PRICES LOW But you and | are farmers and have | small influence and less autbority in factories and shops and mines. We may find ample occupation in casting out the beams from our own eyes, be- fore attempting tq extraet the motes from others’. Is it true that the accursed poison has got into our veins. too? Are we smeared with tar from the same stick? Are we. any of us, inclining to the “spft snap” rather than the “mean, ugly task?’ Are we slaves to our feelings” Are we given to dodging “disagreeable duties” and grouching instead of smiline when compelled to do what we hate? T'm sure that I don't know about veu, dear reader. Perhaps you might take a little mental inventory, some rainy day. and find out for vourself about vourself. But here are some things I've seen and heard in my goings in and com- ings out among my neighbors: T have seen a field which ysed to contain a plump ten acres of the finest sort of meadow reduced to a scant seven acres of mowing by encroaching fence hedgerows. by the clogging of a drain which used to keep one moist ¢ tillable, and by the unremoved ris of a pertable sawmill which was lowed to occupy another corner, of a recent winter. state: Mr. Ratcliff orgarized com- munity singing among the soldiers in e various camps, and was later sent to New York city to organize song cluk and entertainment for wounded soldiers. Mr. Ratcliff stated that spend most of his time in New Lendon, H. R. BRANCHE RESIGNS AS W. C. C. S. DIRECTOR]| Herbert R. Branche of this city. for several months has been djrector of w C. service activities in this city| and New Lendon, has resigned his po- | Sition, the resiznation being effective | he would today (Fridas). O et cuccessor has arrived | coming o Norwich twice a week. | W #h New Tnndon Heis Thomis D Rate) AR | The fence hedgerows arc left because | # who has= been in charge of com-| | the: n't he mown with a machine mun nzing in Portiand. Me.. Ports-; Will Speak to Greeneviile People. and <, in the owner’s words. “too outh. N. H. and Newburvport for| Mrs. James Rpugh of New Léndon|much trouble to’cut them by hand” some time in the nas Ratchiff | will speak to the ladies of the Fed- | The drain is left clogged because it is was engaged in comn work' or- | erated church, Greeneville, this (Fri-| [NIrtY rods ionz and, again in the own- ganization in the middle ®est [day) evening at the home of Mrs. John | £} & Woras ~no s ‘:fl h;”:{‘f (‘f‘ d(‘i: r*}:r; Previous to workinz in the westera|Howard, Central avenue ;fk\;cf“ggf‘, leSEth netors e ad e = ———— — = and sawdu 1 other waste of the mill, = n in the owner's language. “Oh, leave 'em alone; they’ll rot in time.™ We've all heard of the old darkey ! who never mended his leaky cabin i{ roof because. as he explained, “f kyant | do it when it rains, and when it don’t rain what's de use?” 1 know of a harn whose roof is as ull of holes as poultry netting whose ridge is ‘“broken backed” and sasging towards the center. whose side walls | are propped up with old raine and | beams, leaning at all sorts of angles. | because. when it's filled with hay the hay holds it up, and when it isn't the owner had rather go fishing than re- pair it. I know a line fence which has turn- ed to them, because the owner, a ugly and venomo simply because neither one will mend his half till the other one has mended his, 1 know of a farm which used to boast cighty acres of zood pasture which now hasn't enoush pasturage to keep one cow alive, simply hecause the owner preferred fox-hunting to bush- cuiting pnd occasfonal plowing. Sev- five acres have reverted to brush- 1and and five acres to miring swamp. T know a woodlot which is a perfect ingle of fallen trees. Some. have Tien from old age: some have been own, down in gales: a few have been -erthrown by lizhtning. There they lie and others are annually being add- e dto them, becagse the owner. a celings”-governed city. woman, can’t find the heart to let choppers into her noble wood As if in justification of .her super- ! strained “feelings,” hardly a mile away T know a recently cut-over hillside on ' The Generous Bread Plate H 13 i i § Means itness and Joy In Living The health of the family de- pends on a good nourishing diet. ‘The body needs many sorts of foods as building materials— But most of all it needs that good old “staff of life”— Bread, Best of all Foods. To insure “keeping fit” and a Spotless Complexion Easy To Have Provided You Make Use of the Won- derful Calcium Sulfide in Stuart’s Calcium Wafers. ' The camera catches the expression, but it cannot show the beauties of Children grow sturdy— grown-ups keep vigorous on a generous diet of Luxury Bread, the Bread that’s all food. At your Grocer’s ANDREW’S BAKERY A. E. ANDR)E—WS, Prop. those natural tints of a beautiful com- plexion. In fact a sweet expression is made a hundred times more enchanting when the complexion is lovely. All you need do is to clear the skin of pimples, blotches, liver spats, black- heads, muddy complexion -and skin eruptions by using Stuart's Calcium ‘Wafers. These troubles seek the skin 2s one of the natural outlets of the bodvy. And if you supply it with the proper materials it will pass off in the pores of the skin instead of ugly ac- cumulations. Get a box of Stuart’s Caleium Wafers in any drug store at 50 cents. You will then realize what it means to be prettier than your | pictare. SRR FARM TO FARMERS ‘| ferea as a part of the general course, 7’ (4 ERS which “the tops and trimmings lie in huge heaps and tansles among -the bare stems of rejected trunks, a sum- mer-long invitation to fire, because the choppers positively* refused to burn them as cut; in faet threatened to We farmers don’t need to go Into the! factories and shops to find cases of! thriftlessness and shiftlessness. We | can find them amongst ourselv sometimes on our own farms. one of us will tread lightly over t last possibility, but we can hear down | hard on our neighbors’ shortcomings. T think the saddest and most a couraging feature of the whole sit tion is the number of young people, o both sexes. who are outspokenly and unashamedly looking fter ~ “soft snaps.” They would take Zrievous of- clothes and befoul the hands. Othe dirty_the soul. Too often, those w recoil from tasks which soil th kands show no repugznance practices which t their souls w indelible defilements. | Not so very long ago. a young neigh- ibor of mine grew fired of the “drudg- { ery” of farm life. He forsock the plow ]‘ handles and took a clerk's job in a ci | ner grocery of a nearb; | country-bred strength and soon won promotion and he w: charge of a department. Af the s tinie, he was initiated into some “tricks of the trade.” It is not m | tention here to reveal any of to m Hry t up to valve a clean hear more than white hands. And cculdn't be comfortable under the re quirements. “Why,” he once said to me, ‘“when it got so 1 couldn’t look| every one of my customers straight in | the eve, but had to keep sideways to see how much they'd stand in the way of short weight or over- charge, I feit like a skunk in 2 chicken | coop.” | You see. the hurried and unwatchful | customer might not know that he was | a skunk—but he did. stand it | It didn’t: take Him long to find out| that ioading manure was a much clean- er job than that he was the store. The dirt of the one washed | off with water, while the filth of the| other stuck and stunk in bis nostrils day and night. So he came back the farm. But—and here’s the sorry the saddening, the menacing truth— Not another one of his fellow ploves followed him, ~er showed sympathy with his disgust squinting And he couldn't| i em- | they called him a “moilycoddie” and laughed ‘qualms,” as they chose to call ke of cheating. The others all | sna in a moral cesspool a real man’s hard work in the sharp but| winnowing winds of the country. . God help us! What are we coming to when any considerable proporiion | of the oncoming generation hold s\u:n‘ views and cherish such prospects? Up on my mountain there used to| stund Awo maple trees. One tower: uy from the very edge of a steep, rocky | ciiffl. Nowhere within hundreds of feet | vas there any real soil—just a skin of | irt over the seamy rocks. T roots wormed and twisted preferred intc and among those roc e ending life-and-death s Ifor_ existence. The tree self tw sted and gnaried trur with only | mall crown of leaves high up where 1l the winds of heaven combed it and scourged it. When “tapped” in the spring, that tree seldom yielded so { much as a quart of sap from two spouts in twenty-four hours. i But the sap was as sweet as syrup| and required aimost poration. _The other maple stood with its feet right in the bed of a mountain brook. !! had a shorter stem than the other but a'vastly larger limb and leaf de- velopment.. Life was easy for it. It was a much handsomer tree than its cousin on the cliff. The brook plied its roots with plenty of moistun the deep soil afforded them easy a cess to their food; the surrounding| highlands sheltered it from all high winds. When “tapped” at sugaring tme, it would fill four or five buckets with sap in a Zood dzy. And its sap was about as tasteless | and about as sweet as rainwater! Iive gallons of it wouldn’t make as much | EYTUP a5 a quart from the other tree At the same time it took ten times ac much fuel and time to boil it down. | Nor is this all; when the two trees got old and were cut for fuel, the wood of the old fighter on the rocks was as hard as coal and made about as hot #nd as lasting a fire, while the wood of the coodled tree by the brodk was little better than punk after six months’ seasoning. There is a moral in this parable of the two maple trees which even the young and thoughtless can discover— if they really want to. THE FARMER. N. F. A. EXTENDS WORK ALONG COMMERCIAL LINES Norwich Free Academy is this year extending considerably its work in the manual training department, in the gommercial ¢lepartment and in art work. Commercial subjects, previously of- are now grouped course. Pupils who do ndt desire to take college preparatory work in the cla, sical and scientific courses, have a great variety of subjects from which to choose in the general and com- mercial courses. In the sixteen units completed in the general course, four years work in English is required. ' The other tweive units may be chosen according to ihe natural aptitude and pians of the in- dividual student. The foreign languages offered are four years of Latin. three vears of French, or two vears of Spanish. An- cient history, medieval and modern history, or American history with civ- ics may be taken. The pupil of artistic tastes may get four credits (four years’ work) In art work, under the instruction of skilled teachers. This course comprises draw- ing, design, jewelry, pottery, book- | binding, in genera! a course in art surpassed by no secondary school in the country. The pupil of practical mind may take four umits in vocational subjects including woodwork, machine work, in a commercial mechanical drawing, or rpxintine. A strike rather than do it. | fense if told that they were thereb exposing their own “soft heads.” Yet that is what they are doing. _For Mr. Purinton is everlasting right when he says that “mean, ugly | tasks are inevitable and indispensable | in every calling.” Some smirch 4 asked to do in |’ |5 Iy BESY EXTRA BIG VALUES AT THE NCRWICH BARGAIN Men’s Suits ......... 000 00ni.. .. ... $312.00 to $2 Young Men’s Suits ..........,........ $15.00 to $2 You make no mistake by buying your Fall Suit or O coat here. You get a big variety of patter from, and our prices are right. 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