Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 9, 1920, Page 9

(Written Specidily For The Bulletin.) There is topic at present so uni- h“ 3 s that of the coft of living—or the high cost of the cost of high living— whichever way of putting it you hap- to 3 w contributions to- wards our h:'.w’led.la of how it be- #an and of what fosters it are timely. Lot me start off with.a quotation one of those brigh\ newspaper pafageaphers, in whose brief but sentences often resides the soul of wit but the palpitat- truth. heart P Woudnt be such a dficult job © make both ends meet if there were se many silk-shirt, fur-coat, Whipped-cream appetites.” Don't mass that off with a smoth- Chew on it a bit. Get It doesn't wear any better, as siming equally high grades of ma- terial in those of other make. It Soesn’t look any better, what small s. But it costs more, itudes; is Beither a necessity any great eomifort. It is a cumbrous, ~clumsy, heavy garment, useful, no doubt, in the lonely and wide spaces of the 60- below-zero Arctic, just as whale blub- ber is = dinner tidbit in the same frezen reaches. In our climate, where the thermometer is oftener above the freezing point than below it, the gar- ment is certainly never a necessity. But, again, it costs more. And a bit tWeoter or more tasteful or more than plain sweet cream, freshly . But it is more trou- ble té make and, if you buy it, it costs mere. In those three latter words lies the whele secret of the silk-shirt, fur- coat, whipped-cream appetite. Those cost more. Therefore we want ‘em. That is, some of us do—alto- géthér t60 many of us. arvived that indubitable conclusion, please stop a minute and refiéct whether .that motive is a wor- thy or even a creditable one. Whether that appetite is a wholesome one. Whether the indulgence of it is worth while for any man or woman unless for the one who has s6 much money and so inactive brains that he can't find anything better to do with his riperflucus cash 8o far as this country is concerned, %8 present deplorable condition was nitiated by the federal government at Washington. All during the ar, rhen you angd I and a hundred million sther patriofic Americans were straining every nerve and sacrificing balt our daily comforts in order to supply the government with money for winning the war—even then a great many of us couldn't but feel the strong suspicion that our hard-won wnd generously parted-with dollars | were being as recklessly as it they were water. Since the war has Glosed formai investigation has dis- losed what seems to be conclusive sridence that this general suspicion #as the exact truth Congressman Denison of Illinoi \ recent specch in congre ng some of the facts alr sut, summarized these words “When the investigations are com- pleted ang their resuits fully disclosed to the American people, there will be if not an actual revolution. | been an orgy of waste, ex- | travagance, dishonesty, fraud in the fishursement of these billios taken »y taxes and borrowed from the peo- pie that net only surpasses everything | syer recorded in commection with any | government, but exceeds the wildest | tion.” the situation in| As preliminary basis for this amaz- ing indictment, Mr. Denison presented several scofes of instdnces already oroven which I have no space even | o summarize. They will all, doubt- | less, be printed, shortly, Then it will | be the duty of all citizens to conside ihem ang act accordingly. For th present, that general statement of Mr. | Deniseni's iy ~quoted simply to show | how the evidence impresees one man who has had opportunity to sitt it, S we cOmmon folks who | work for a living on farms or else- where are concerned. the administra- tot's wastefulness ought not to be iaken for model and example. It “odght not" to be. But, alas! it too sften has been and is thus taken. One of'the biggest smoe manufac- turers in the country maintains a re- fail store in a city not far from me. Dne day this Past winter, were compelled to charge unduly high prives for their shoes, simply because ! their customers wouldn’t, any longer, | take them at fair prices. They %:d plenty of $4-2nd $5 and $8 shoes. “But fhe salesthen that by “better” these w- always meant more expensive. bave mors call for $14 shoes than ones,” big manufac- as a business man, wag compelled -to humor or lose A New York city trade journal, in NOTICE! ® THE MODEL BOOTERIE be closed today (Friday), to restock and prepare, Mr. B. L. Hoben, Boston and"also H. H. Tuttle Co., He is an expert fitter icpedic graduate of Dr. Scholl’s Wwill under new the Jordan Marsh Co., of has taken over the management. of ! pa an article on recent sales of woolen goods by manufacturers, made special mention of the fact that it was only the fine, high-grade, high-cost cloth which were in any demand. ’ knows -how. many years LR T L 2 arge port f the American peop ye been et :en_tly training themselves -out of I strong S Goods ranging in price from $6 to $107 & a yard were disposed of without trou- ble, some running as high $14.40- 2 yard going off like hot cakes, while cloth selling at lower prices was al- most impossible to get rid of. Says one keen writer, commenting on this state of affairs: “Manufacturers of clothing are not buying the higher ced goods be- cause they prefer {6 deal in that class; they are _proceeding on the basis’ of their experience in the past couple of years; they have found the public_demanding “something better,” or higher priced; they are yielding to the lure of easy money. In a year or two. the public has become inured to the shock of price tags and compla- cently planks down $65°to $200 for men’s suits or women's - suits of clothing infefior in quality to what cbuld be had before the war for half or less. “With no indication of a reaction to sanity or normality on the part of the public, why should the cloth manu- facturer bether to turn out moderate priced goods? Note how the window offerings tagged under the $50 price linger uncoveted, while buyers dash in and grab the ones that range up- ward from that bagatelle.” If the buying pubiic is thus eager to.throw money to the cléth manu- facturers, why shouldn’t the clothing dealers also gét their rake-off? Ac- cording to “Frank N. McCain, fair- price commissioner in Pennsylvania, the retallers in that state are taking their opportunity with both hands and all four feet. At a recent meeting of the Philadelphia Chamber of .Com- merce, Mr. McCain told that bedy of the prices and profits at which wear- ing apparel was being sold in ten cit- ies of that state. “Men's overcoats are selling at prices 91 to 136 per cent. higher than cost to the retail dealer, with ready-made clothing 90 to 107 per cent. higher, women’s hosiery 100 to 150 per cent. higher, and high- grade shoes 100 to 114 per cent. high- er! Mr. MeéCain didn't hesitate to tell the chamber of commerce that he could “fairly say train-robbing is fully as respectable, though not so remun«< erative” y . . And so it goes. These' things which I have’ quoted-or referreq. to are just the ¢hance gleanings in a single week of a casual reader from some half- dozén newspapers representing differ- ent parts of the country. Anyone who has ‘access to a large number of pa- pérs and the: time to cellafe the ‘evi- dencés they set. forth would have small trotible in filling a book as big as the djctionary with similar proofs, There is one thing impressively. evi- dent from thiese reports about buyers and profiteers; they dom’t apply to farmers -or farm conditions. I don’t know of any farmers whé are buying silk. shirts or fur overcoats, I don't know of any who are hunting fever- ishly for $14 shoes. I don't know of any Who afé eagerly scanning the ad- vertisements to find where they can $65_to $100 for a shit of clothes. easy-going, _ self-indulgent ofbel has Tade 106 converts, At_present, this_fayorille resort seems: to be the city, town or ¥illage. But,|: like the many-armed devil-fish of foul| {f répute, some Of his tentacles are | ff reachin gout into- the open lands and trying to suck the old spirit of inde- pendence and virlle manlinéss out of them, too. Hetven help the country and the world if farmers fail it, now! : As things are moving it looks as if jupon them would fall the entire bur- den of driving or drawing the wobbly world back into its true road. There never was a time.when their sober conservatism, their natural sense of justice, their stubborn stipk-to-it- activeness, their trained thrift were so much -needed as now. ‘Will_they, too. g0 chasing ramnbows after inary pots of gold? Will they, tog, bow to the idols of sloth and ‘graft and follow the gosgi of mollycoadie? o5 I can’t yet helieve, such a thing pos- sible. I will not_-helieve:it, until the evidence becomes demonstration. “It’s easier to cut coupons ,than te cut corn,” sald one of the disciples of mollycoddle to a knot of admiring sapheads at_the Gountry store, one day. Uncle Tke chanced-to be stand- ing by. “Yep,” he drawled, “I guess thet's so. But If everybody cut cou- pons and nobody cut corn, what'd ye hev for dinner?” v THE FARMER. Would Prefer Hanging. About 'the ‘worst punishment the al- lies- could . prescribe - for Wilhelm would be an order restraining him from ever wearing a uniform or hav- ing his picture taken again—New York Telegraph. 3\ AN \ C 2 2N \ v 7 A smilé is cooler in summer and warmer in winter than a town. Freckle Face Sun and Wind Bring Out. Ugly Spots, How to Remove Easily. Here's a chance, Miss Freckle-face, to try a remedy for freckles with the gharantee of a reliable concern thaf it will not cost you a penny unless it removes the freckles; while if it does give you a clear complexion the ex- pense s trifling. Simply get an ounce of ‘Othine— double strength—from any. druggist and a few applications should shpw you how easy it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get a beauti- fol complexion. Rarely is more than one ounce needed for the Wworst case. Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength Othine as this strength }is sold under guarantee of money back Hif it fails to remove freckle: 00 ammn o0l /AN - THE SHERWIN-WiLLIANS PAINT WILL SAVE Y MADE TO PAINT BUILDINGS ECONOMICALLY AND WELL We have a few Paint Specials at a dollar and a half a g’ullonleuthmthemlrketprice. Come in and investigate ‘if you have a fence, house, barn or cart in neeq of painting to save it. Eaton Chase Co. 129 MAIN STREET 7\ AN A\ 2 \X OUR MONEY X J 74\ A ) I/ \ Z AN T NORWICH, CONN. B ____.\_.‘i \! IS ‘\ formerly of 3 v tp! To i o) wemmwi o) ot | Ot aecomnt of the extvemisly low' Selé'stiFts tolibirow with prices at which these Suits are sold, T ) FOR WOMEN AND N Tailored i | - SERGE SUITS ~ TRICOTINE SUITS $P39.50 - & ACTUAL VALUES TO $6500 ACTUAL VALUES TO 59500 - 'BRAND NEW SUITS FINISHED JUST TOO LATE FOR EASTER SELLING AND BOUGHT BY US AT A GREAT REDUCTION ; Think of it—Now as the season is just beginning we offer the most un- heard of values in strictly high class Suits—Every Suit is beautifully tailor- . ed—Made of the finest materials and richly lined with silk—fashioned in a wonderful variety of smart exclusive models. - The Suits offered in this Sale are not ordinary or common-place garments, but Suits of the highest character such as you expect to find only at the Manhattan. COME TO THIS SALE EXPECTING A GREAT DEAL <~ YOU NOT BE DISAPPOINTED Here you will find Suits for the youthful miss, in. charming new effects—Here, too, are Suits for the older miss who de- sires more tailored models, yet smart of line and elegantly finished, and here also you will find Suits for the matured. wonman, in sizes up to forty-six. ; WILL plenty of Suits, but first choice is always best a slight charge will be made for al- , : choice, so we advise early selection. W, S X2 \ \ \ Y/ L XX \ mander in chief of the Hungariai Army, was formerly commander i chief of the Austro-Hutgarian Navy . and headed the Army orpamized in - opposition to the Communist rule in Hungary. He makes it plafn that he sccepts tHe post as Regent, in order to hand the Government " Charles of Hapsburz when the timg dppears favorable, and the Alljgs ®ppose this, 1 TEACHER OF SINGING 63 UNCAS STRZET Telephone 557 -2 FRANK G. BENSON Teacher of Vioiin ORCHESTRA v for Dances, Weddings and Receptions. e rest. 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