Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 11

W m&.”lfli Rk be copied — that's why only Chesterfields can “‘satisfy.” ET ’er blow. yarn, a good e you're And, mind bleod can’t Monday evening at the elub rooms of the Niantlc Bowling league Team 6 (Capt. Georze Smith) played Team 7 (Capt. George Garritt). The results of Friday night's bowl- ing follows: Clark “ee Saunders Rohmeling Smith i02 1297 Rogers. 249 238 229 Daniels 258 Hastings 274 — e— — 404 432 411 1248 of the three-act rural com- -Eyed Betty are holding re- hearsals and expect to present the play under the auspices of the Ep- worth league of the Methodist Episco- pal chu in Odd Fellows' hall dur- ing M Miss lazel siyers has refurned to her home, in Mjddletown after a visit to Mr. Mrs. Waiter Johnson. Mr ames Metcalf celebrated her birthiday Monday at her home. receiv- ing a rumber of presents, also cards of cengratulations. James Metcalf. Jr., of Oakdale and Mr. Wentworth of New London were reccnt guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Metealf, Mrs. S. J. Griswold is slowly im- proving from her illness. Ehner Lewis won the man's prize and Mrs. Marion Davis the woman's prize ar the Odd Fellows' whist Tues- day evening. Mr and Mrs. J. B. Churchill "are seing the winter in St. Petersburg, ., Morton Swinney is to_be employed {2 the office of the Thames River Lumber company. His dutles start Monday. ONECO Mrs. William Read of Jewett City spent Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Burdick. Miss Ada A. Marriott of Providence has been spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mar- riott. . Mr. and Mrs. Walter Frink and two children of Ekonk called on local rel- atives Wednesday. The Ladies' Aid soceity met with Mrs. Tom Brewin Wednesday after- noon and tied a guilt. Seven members were present. / THROAT TIONS AT THEATRE A COUGH DROPS stop the throat iref- tations--soothes the IRRITA- THE membrane and pre- svents annoying others Eminent whysicians pro- noune ‘i ¢, Cough Drops a perfect remedy for throat irritations. days. RAINCOATS Were $8.50 NOW $6.45 OFFICERS’ RAINCOATS Were $12.50 NOW $8.65 MACKINAWS Were $14.85 NOW $9.75 SHEEPSKIN ' COATS Were $16.50 NOW $9.75 BLANKETS Were $6.75 NOW $4.45 NORWICH ARMY AND NAVY STORE Must Dispose of All Merchandise Owing to this store being occupied by the Unique Shops, (Custom Tailoring), we must dispose of every dollar’s worth of Army and Navy goods, regardless of cost or value. Sale starts Saturday the 13th, and will continue for 15 This stock consists of Shoes, Rubber Boots, Raincoats, Mackinaws, Underwear, Hosiery and Gloves. NOTE THE FOLLOWING PRICES : MIXED WOOL UNDER- WEAR Were $1.50 Per Garment NOW 95¢ WOOL UNDERWEAR Were $2.50 Per Garment NOW $1.55 WOOL UNION SUITS Were $3.50 NOW $2.25 HOSIERY Were 45¢, 55¢, 60c NOW 2 PAIR FOR 75¢ GLOVES (All Wool) Were 50c a Pair NOW 25¢ A PAIR UNIQUE SHOP FORMERLY NORWICH ARMY AND NAVY STORE : (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) These sympolic lenelv are not/mys- terious. to anybody any more. They | don't stand for any secret order or {any hidden meaning. We practically all understand that they are ad ab- ’bm\'lation of the “High Cost of Liv- | ing.” Which is something we're all much too familiar with. But do they? Do they always or even generally stand for that? Some weeks ago I noticed in a ‘“Letters from the People” column in an Ohio paper a communication signed “A Polish Farmer’s Wife,” in which the lady stated her assured eonviction llhkt 'H. C. L.” does not stand for | “High Cost of Living” but for some- thing quite different, to wit, namely, that is to say, for “High Cost of Loaf- ing.” That was perhaps a month ago. " THE HIGH COST OF LOAFING why things which used to' be plenty became highty scarce. If those twen- ty million. men, .in- peace times, pro- ducéd only a dollar’s worth apiece of foods or gzoods per day, that would | still be $20,000,000 worth a day: all of -it suddenly shut off. It is perfectly natural that such a tremendous re- duction in production should resuit in scarcity. And scarcity always did and always will mean high prices for the things which are scarce. When there is enough of anything to go around, prices are what we call normal; when there is more than engugh, prices are low; when there is not enough, prices are high. The only reason why dia- monds are dearer than glass is that there are so few of them, compara- tively; nowhere near enough to use for window panes and lemonade glasses. Take the one item of sugar for illus- tration. Before the war Germany made all her own sugar from her own beets, home-raised and home-refined. nav« them on hand for a day's work when imperatively needed. ~ ATTENTION! “IF YOU ARE CONTEMPLATING BUYING A MAN'S, YOUNG MAN'S OR BOY’S SUIT WE CAN SAVE YOU FROM $5.00 TO $10.00 ON YOUR PURCHASE. Spring models are now on hand. A call at our store . will convince you of the values we offer. 1 THE NORWICH BARGAIN HOUSE “MORE FOR LESS” 3 to 7 Water Street, Washington Square, Noryid» Conn. SPRING HILL VERNON A couple of weeks later I saw the | YO only that, but she exported a good And now, when the necessity for same “High Cost of Loafing” spread in big" letters across the top of the lead- ing article in one of the most widely culated agricultural papers of the country. In this last, also, it was de- clared to be the real explanation of the letters. Ever since T've been wondering; wondering whether there wasn't something to it; something more than a joke, T mean. Probably there have been over cleven hundred explanations given by over eleven hundred know-it-alls of many million bags to other countries, | URUSual measures is past and the need When the war broke out the men whe | {2r # return to normal conditions and had been accupied in producing sugar | NOIma: production on normal terms is were taken from that work, en masse, | Pressing—now a whole lot of us seem and set to the task of butchering Bel- | 12 be unwilling to agree to that re- gian babies'and losting Belgian farmg | Vit A whole lot of us want to con- and factories. Kte., ete. First re- |tinve indefinitely the abnormal allow- sult was that Germany hadn’t sugar | ances and be granted indefinitely the enough for its pwn use. Second result, | abnormal indulgences which were per- it had none to/send to other countries. | Mitted under war-time stress. Per- Third result, tfiose other countries had | haps. they were necessary then; per- to hunt up their supplies fram sources ; haps they were not. There is room for which had hitherto been mainly drawn | argument about that. But tbey are on by the United States. Fourth re- | ngither necessary nor permissible now. On account of the snow and difficul- ty in getting about, there has been no attempt to hold service in. the church for the past month. The selectmen held meeting Tuesday instead of Monday. The first automobile over the hill since the heavy snow came was-Mon- day. Mrs. Weld is slowly recc a persistent attack of shingle their March ring from ‘ Mrs. Gordon Gyngell and daughter Naomi of Rockville were visitors he home of the former's aunt, Mrs. Sykes Bamforth, last week. Owing to the ere storm Friday night the meeting of the Vermon grange was postponed one week. Friday nizht, the 12th. Mrs. Allen R. Lathrop spent Wed- v in_Hartford. R. Osgood, who hms been boi: to the high cost of living. No two alike. And no one completely satisfactory. I'm not going to add another to the numbe: Bui there are some few things we can find out that the high o of living is NOT due to. For in- tance, it is not due to conditions ex- sting solely in the TUnited States. This is shown by the fact that it is higher and more damaging in all other civilized ' countries than it is here. Tables prenared by competent Buro- pean authorities prove that the cost of living has risen faster and higher in all Buropean countries, and is now at A higher Jdevel in them than in the !\'nited States. Indeed, many of them look to us with envy because we are suffering so much less than others, in proportion Of course, this could not be so if high costs were due to any- thing peculiar to this country. ‘Whatever the cause, it is practically world-wide in its movement and ef- fect. Tt must be sought in world con- ditions rather than in local sourees, And the fact that we are not, on the | whole, so badly affected as most other countries seems to indicate that we are not any more if indeed so much responsible as those others. When we consider that for four years about.twenty million able-bedied men were taken away from the work of raising and making things, and_set to the exactly opposite task of ‘de- stroying things and killing each other. we get a pretty clear explanation of higher were reduced; incapacities overlaok- ed; incompetents mellycoddled; men allowed to loaf for weeks In order to Offers Pogition To President After Leaving White House HERMAN’S REGULA- TION U. S. ARMY SHOE Were $8.65-—NOW $6.85 Munson Last REGULATION ARMY SHOES—Were $7.50 NOW $5.45—Munson Last ARMY RUBBER OVER- SHOE—Were $3.50 NOW $2.50 ALL-WOOL SERGE SHIRTS—Were $5.00 NOW $3.90 BIG JUMBO SWEATERS AND ARMY SLIP-OVERS Were $4.50—NOW $2.25 The secretary of the Pan-Pacific Union, Alexander Hume Ford, has arrived in Washington te ask Pres- ident Wiison, the first honorary president of the Union, to assume the active head of the work and maks his home at the ocean's eross roads, Hawall, after be leaves the White House. Norwich, Conn. It | the stone. sult, there wasn't enough to supply us! When a man is sick he is dosed with and all these new buyers. Fifth re- suit, the price went up just as prices always do when there’s only a ton supply for a two-ton demand. But now the war's over, it is asked, why don’t prices go down? Well, it isn't over yet, in a good many parts of Europe. Furthermore, it vost the lives of pretty nearly 5,000,000 men who used to produce things. The 15,000,000 who have gone back to work can’t produce as much as 20,000,000 could. Still further, the four years of war broke up the whole organization of industry in many lands, and it will l«ake more than a single vear to get back te normal conditions, even for the surviving residue. All these considerations are to be kept in mind. Those of us who can remember the Civil war of 1861-65 know that prices went up then, even as they have done now. I can recall when, on this farm, we hunted all over our woods for scattering maple trees to make syrup and ' sugar, because even brown sugar—the only kind we could buy at the stores, was eighteen and twenty cénts a pound. In com- mon with others, we experimented with parched rye and corn as substi- tutes for coffee, because we couldn’t ‘any of us afford real coffee. Spice- wood leaves and sweet fern twigs were infused to take the pnlace of tea. And for at least two years we went without wheat bread, using rye and rye-'n'-injun instead, because wheat flour was out of our rural reach. But we lived through and things seitled back to normal after a while. The only real cause for complaint about present conditions is that they don’t seem to be settling down as fast as they ought to. That is, in this country. Our man loss dyring the war much less, owing to our late en- trance, than that of any other great power. We ought, other things being i equal, to recover more speedily and completely, Instead af which, things seam to be getting worse. That's what puzzles us and what cught to set us seriously thinking and wisely acting. And it's right there tl our text, “the High Cost of Loaf- Ing.” calls for candid consideration. The war brought with it a perfect orgy of spending and profiteering. A | patriotic npeovle simply poured money int, the government treasury and gov- eramrent scattered it out with scoop- stiovels. Economy became of no im- puiisnce compared with aceomplish- ment. What a thing cost was ne longer considered. If it was wanted it was had. And, labor beins wanted more than anything else, it was bid for-at =teadily inoreasing rates. was 1 for, not only with wages. but with easler Everything was offered to seeure the medicines and fed up on dainties. When he gets well he stops taking niedicine and resumes eating corned beef and cabbage. That is, if he pos- sesses judgment and a desire to take up again his share of the world’s work. He mustn't expect, because he was given chicken soup and jelly when sick, and required to lie abed and loaf when convalescing, to continue that diet and that loafing when he gets well. Nevertheless, that seems to be ex- actly the present attitude of altogether too many in this home of the free and land of the brave. They had a sim- ply beautiful time loafing when a pa- ternal government was willing to pay blg wages even to loafers. They ex- pect to keep it up the rest of their lives. From all parts of the country and from all varieties of industry comes the same report, that wages are high- er than ever before known, that hours of labor are less—and that production is less, not only as a whole, but per hcur and per man., In other words, the loafing poison has spread every- where. This does not mean that all workmen are infected. Far from it. If rhey were, the situation would be utterly hopeless. But so many are that while not hopeless, it is serious and mcnacing The worst of it is that there's no | earthly use in preaching or exhorting | The rest of us have got to | about it. stand it, as well as we can and as long #s we must. I'm not inclined to set up all farm- ers as saints or even as seif-sacrificing altruists, There are some farmers lazy enough to belong to the I Won't | ‘Works—if it wasn’t too much trouble $0 iein: and some mean enough to profiteer off a sick baby's needs. But Such critters are exceptions. The rest of us despise them more than city pecple can. As a rule, farmers are still ready and eager to do a fair day's work for a fair day's wage. And we've got to insist upon it that others shall do the same, or suffer the consequences. So far as other causes ‘lead to high costs, we must cantinue to suffer with all other classes. But, so far as loafing on the job contributes to the hign cost of living, we must not ouly frown upon it, but refuse to com- promise with it. If we can't get competent and effi- cient help to assure normal and eco- nomical farm production, then we must refuse to join the squandering hordes. and let production dwindle. There is no use in our holding the axe on the grindstone if no one will turn It would be folly for us to attempt the impossible. We can, ner- conditions. | haps, make bricks without straw, hut, | by ginger, we can't make them with- work that was urgently needed. Hours | out clay or something to burn them with! It may be that there are those who will pever learn that they must eat hread in the sweat of their brows—till the have te go without bread for a while, Loafing is pleasant to many { people—so long as the waistband is kept reasonably taut. But even loafing ‘leses mueh of its charm when that waistband has to be buckled un a notch or two every day, by reason of the emptiness within. THE FARMER. Uncentrolled Affections. A Dayton woman charged with kil2- ing her husband says she did it be- cause she loved him. A woman should learn to control her affections. —Columbus Citizen. time. and There is no hope for the man who spends his time arguing with women C babies. here was a good attendance at the | farmer for on the F. C. At- special town meeting Tuesday after- | place, pis family “to noon held to fix the rate of tax on the | Manc r th ng.” Ernest How- 1919 list. 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