Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 25, 1920, Page 10

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) ogether and all the year deal of talk in farm and o out “farm credits.” There is manifest disposition on the part of not a few self nted doctors of farming, in the of farm trouble one of the ch tended as wide banks.” t n other f at on earch for the causes to fall back on this as “If farmers wére ex- aind as easy tredits at the s are given to men , farmimg would and As y man once remarked when told that hell was full of infants only a span long, “Per! but I hae me doots. In & recent list of explanations of cur- rent farm failures red by a prace| f jon given for ses was ororwing \ crop.” This was de- gamble, pure and simple, w chanc of turning out Any real farmer here agree W th \ll o in the east will farming opera- imble against uts chances. We never L crop, whether | favorable for it| » our best judg- shrewdest guess and take | there and | sometimes we get’ now 1t is bad 1ough to be compelled Lo invest our time nd ¢ ure and our ecds v best We always nee to loge them, all or partly. f to that c 1dded the fur- 1 money, | yming up | ¢k thunderhead over why foo!—; d-fashioned | For one | y for a} 1 economis ts a on credit. king, that may } et O © ¥ Did you | P of that? But farming t [ i different To begin with, debt is about the most tly s man can Our w and n « rd and conian in their pro- As a prominent s, it a man's ee al a set | f : much less | . to run over ' le and re X to break into his} And debt the len Tie des and from all ai the t you, over, it} but with | s grow- | Even as it is measure- of them to borrow to pay back $1,060 T know of a country town, arming habitlants o the building | reduced could. | lower t poor 4 back over to pay on the every of it farm n con from. the with And ye experience from one Other forms of business are more or o8 riod# someone says, and yet v of t vt farming, ¢ 1 horrow- o t d The re- aile rov in a stock of He sells o . to custom- hat they buy. At | r he has paid-6 per | r rrowed capital, | 6 ver cent., if not | bts And we whol ho do pay our bills, 12 or more per cent, in? ce and a fair profit! on our 1 . as ehe is conducted.” Of course, this is old-fashioned talk, | n the minds and o0ld-fog as virtues a few of us Youd be surprised if you Imewr how many people are rinking PINSTAWT Postu™m i- instead of coffee 1 " Theres a Reason’ farmers, T suspect, will be willing to be| branded as old fogies. James Russell Lowell: “In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our onscience to our.deal- In the words of ing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will contifiie stealing Yea, verily; and whipping 'round the stump to the other side will{ the, devil not banish him from the cabbage-patch. 1t simply transfers his activities to an- other part of the field. They have on Wall street a certain sort of creatures known as “plungers.” Some- times these men get hold of ‘a lot of other folks’ money which they have ‘‘made” retend and call their own. often, they plunge to uuter failure. in that- temple of the Almighty Dollar they they are not highly regarded. Cer-| tainly they are very poor models farmers to imitate. A considerahle number of they More Even for professed | farm papers come to me, off and on. T try to read them, and always hope, when I open one, to get something of farming | In practically all of them T sec the same tendency, value from it. on editorial page, in news columns, in special articles, in advertisements—the tendency towards worshipping bigness. big, apparently. Here in the east, where we have Just because it isl 1 to earn our living, the great majority of us are “small farms. of the small we our small proble farmers Our problems are those small farmer; our methods must be those‘ of the small farmer; our economies those | and our possible| ns those of ‘the small farmer. look for hints or helné“to meet those s, farmer, working small of the ‘When we search in vain. i of 'how ene man. Instead We can.read, % Hundred acres ith an overhead pipe system. wil sworded: zeeaunts! i didn’t cost but a hundred thousand dol- gilt-edged butter zreed cows in & palitial barn with electric lights, Steam heat, and. running water; or how another man gated % 15-16 per in his annual,eéxpenses by selling his forty hovses and substituting ten $1,800 tractors: . o What we New Epgland farmers want to know is how to.make a’living and bring up our families from working fields o small that eveh a team of horses have to be steered Judicfously to turn around on them—fields so stony that the culti- tor has to spend half his time and strength dodging the boulders and ledges __fields so steep that a Son of the prairies would doubt a goat's ability to stand up on one of them—fields so’ thin-soiled that they have to be manured at:least once and sometimes twice'® ‘Year. That's the sort of thing we are,. lots of us, up against. And that's tbe sort of farming which We are: expected ‘to: believe greater facilities for borrowing °®money would enable us to get rich at! Oh, fiddlesticks! | Tt may be granted readily that there jare exceptional cages Where exceptional conditions justify exceptional farmers in borrowing mnney. In such cases it would seem only fair and just that they should be enabled to do so on terms of no greater hardship than are imposed on borrowers in other businesses. That's the | last concession you'll wring out of me in this matter. For the most of us, getting into debt is something to be avoided as we would avoid the itch or the smallpox. Even with all the hindrances which complain- ing critics assert are flung around it. borrowing money is now a géod deal easier and pleasanter than paying old debts. . T never heard anybody assert that paying for dead horse was a wholly | agreeable performance. ~Yet that's what repaying borrowed fmoney amounts, to, three times out of four. It's not only { paying for the dead mare but also, in the form of interest, paying for the colt she might have had if she hadn’t died. What the farmers whom T know want is not -a chance to borrow money, but the opportunity to earn their own money by obtaining prices for their products com- parable with the prices they have to pay for their supplies. They call for a square deal, not for ary coddling or cossetting. The consumers of the country seem to { have gone daft, too many of them. They { hand over any old -quadrupled or quin- tupled price they're asked for luxuries and show, but bellow like mad bulls when asked more than they used to be for es- sentials. They pour millions upon . mil- lions of dollars into the tills of profiteers, but grudge living wages, to say nothing lars or so; how another man produces | o' m 4 dairy of pedi- | prices, but fairly ifur;r when asked double war prices for at T-do: many-times pr seream in butter or’ i or egss, ete. The farmer { twelve to tion svhich shall enable money more easily ! workers in any other calling. I don’t wonder at it. SALEM rived Tuesday to spend the summer their estate here. . Gpl will come z soon as he is able. Williams place. Miss Ellen Fox of Kansas City stead. Mrs. Charles Tinker and children of the home of M s Ella Darling. visited friends here Sunday. Harry Moore of Berlin end at their homes here. % Rgnald, and Mr. and M of Colchester were g and Mrs. N. L. Clark Austin and Philip Ri were recent guests of Charles E. Malo: Charles S. dale and Hen: Mr. and . THE FARMER. Walter Moran and family of Montvi mes, and silk shirts war victimized who has to work from teen Hours a day and call on his wife and his young children to help him out in fields and barns in order to get a scrimped living, is charged with greed and profiteering, and every forced de- crease in his already scandalously small returns is hailed with shouts of delight. “ Then, when he complains that he can’t make both ends meet. he is offered by the quacks of political economy a preserip- him to borrow They say more farmers go rrazy than Mrs. Hiram Bingham and children ar- at Bingham is con- valescing following a serious illness and Mrs. David Clark and children of New London are spending the summer at the Harold Darling of Orange spent sev- eral days at his home here the past week. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams of Winsted were guests Sunday of Mr. Williams’ par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Williams. is spending the summer at the Fox home- of Chesterfield spent several days recently at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles Malona. Mis: rtha Millen, a former pastor alem church. is a guest at the ille and Elmer Chadwick of Manchester spent the week J. Murray and children, Ruth and s. Thomas Clark Sunday of Mr. x of East Canaan Mrs. v and son Clyde of Mill- Parks of Colchester were ‘Children Cry FOK FLETCHER'S |ICASTORIA In 1822 Ipswich Hosiery was value today. That fifty million Style No. 720: Style No. 15: Men’s half IPSWICH MILLS Establiéhed 182 | Ipswich, Mass. - Oidest and Owe of the Largest Hosiery Mills in the Usited States LAWRENCE & CO. Sole Selling Agents Boston and New York IPSWICH SERIES HOSIERY for Good Value 98 Years Making Moderate ' Priced Hosiery Ypswich Hosiery is knit to meet the needs of human feet —also the pocketbook of thrifty people. Ipswich Hosiery has those little refimmements associated with more expensive stockings—Ipswich is moderate priced. Every size is scientifically correct. A full line of cotton, lisle, mercerized and fibre silk hose and half hose to select from. good value—and it is good pairs gave satisfaction last year is evidence of Ipswich Good Value. Women'’s fibre silk stockings of extra fine gauge, sheer and rich-locking, with a mock seam. The top and sole are of mercerized yarn for durability. . hose, medium weight, of eombed peeier cotten, soft knit, with reinforced heel and toe. 2nd her brother, Dr. Clar- Mts, I J, Standish. jente Vil : LR VA Ienry ' W Fox of Yala snent se\'om'.l ("lare €ays recently at the Fox ho tead, 1 gueat S Mr. and Mrs. William D Mrs. § . Henry Fox visited relatives in Hamburg Sunday. 3 Donald Fraser, Georse Moore ond| Waltes DeWolfe were recent Colichester! callers. Miss Nellie Gray of Colchester spent ! rve the week end at the home of Mies Ella, the Co: - Darling. E: Elise Iph Muain, Mrs. Bva Tucker of North Lyme is popular little singer: spendthg some time with her sister, Mrs, | Wheeler sehoo! Monday afternoon. W. B. Kingsley | Mr and Mrs. John Meins and Mr. and | Schools in fown closed with the usual|Mrs. Frank Newton were callers at Wil- | last day picnies. liam Main's Sunday afternoon. ‘ The children of the White Birch school,| John Geer sheared sheep for taught by Mrs. C. E. Malona, were en- Keiyon of Ashaway Wednesday. tertained the last day at the home of Mrs. Fred Ames, the weather not being suit- able for a picnic outside. Dinner was served to 21. The graduating exercises of the Salem public sehools were held in the church Thursday evening. The program follows: Chorus, Swing. Cradle, Swing; play, De- mocracy, the Choi¢e of Columbia ; chorus, TIRED, ACKING FEET '. NO MCRE PUFFED-UP. BURNING, SWEATY, CALLOUSED FEET, CR CORNS. Just take your shoes off and then put those weary, shoe-crinkied, aching, burning. corn-pestered. bunion-tortur- Alonzo | ed feet of yours in a “Tiz” bath.. Your toes will wriggle with joy; they'll Jook Miss Alicc Main is spending the sum- up-at you and almost talk and then mer at Groton Long Point. they’ll take another dive in that “Tiz” Eli King and Hattie White were call-| bath, - ers in Ashaway Sunday. When your feet feel like lumps of = lead—all tired out—just try “Tiz." It's ELLINGTON “| grand—it's glorious. Your feet wiil Ellington grange held its annual me- dance with joy; also you will find all pain gone from corns, caliouses and e morial services Sunday afternoon in the | bunions, columbia the Gem of the Ocean; essays, | town hall. Rev. J. T. Carter delivered| There's nothing like “Tis” It's the 100 Per Cent. Americanism, Alice Rix,|the address. A quartette, Misses Jenhie only remedy [)\;t draws out a,l; !bg: Eleanor Moore; flag salute; chorus. Flag]and Gertrude Holton, H. L. Hamilton & 3 of Our Native Land; remarks, "Super- visor George R. Gove: presentation of die plomas, Griswold IL Morgan; graduation song; chorus, Lovely Evening. Of the prizes offered by Professor Bingham for the two best essays on 100 per cent Americanism, first, 2 $10 gold piece, was won by Alice Rix, the second, a $5 ®old piece, was awarded Eleanor Moore. The prizes offered each year by Mr. Bingham for excellent in geography were, first town prize. won by Alice Rix, second town prize. Maria: DeWolfe. Those in each school winning vrizes for the best work in geography are: Center school, Fleanor Moore : West Road. Esther Sha- fitz; White Birch, Mary Shaber; Pond school, Ruth Cohen: Gates Hill. Jennie Fisher; Harris school, Sarah Slifkin. LAUREL GLEN After a very successful year, Willard Eccleston closed his school Friday after- noon. Saturday afternoon.exercises were held in the chapel, which was decorated with flags and laurel. There wa sa fine program of songs and recitations which won praise for teacher and pupils. After polsonous exudations which puff up your feet and cause foot torture. Get a box of “Tiz” at any drug or department store—don't wait. Ah? how glad your feet get; how comfort- able your shoes feel. You can Wear shoes a size smaller if you desire. and H. H. McKnight, sang. A procession was then formed, the members of which marched to the Center cemetery and dec- orated the graves. Mrs. Mary B. Wilson, president of the Connecticut W. C. T. U., gave an interest- ing talk Sunday evening at the free-will offering meeting of the local W. C. T. U. Miss Sibyl Weymouth of Maine and Miss Grace Weld of New Hampshire. who have taught here the past year, left on Saturday for their respective homes Mr. and Mrs. G. P. West enter(ned over the week end their sons, Leslie and | Ivan, who recently purchased a farm in Hanover, Conn. Allerton Kibbe has sold his farmi on the Somers road and will go to Andover to live for the summer with his family. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Finance and family were visitors in Windsor Locks Sunday. ‘Wednesday night at the grange there was an interesting program in charge of Mrs. G. F. Berr, followed by a social, at which strawberries and cream were | [JOGtOrS Recommend served. Bon-Opto for the Eyss Miss Ruth Kellogg of Hartford has re- mother, Mrs. Julius Kellogg, of Maple| Physicians and Why Not Peace Gardens? The news has vet to report any great decline in the prices of foodstuffs. Wh not peace gardens on idle land. The; would be quite as useful and quite as much of an aid as war gardensi—Ore- gon Journal. Any man has sufficient will pewer to give up smoking—if he has a wife who is strong minded enough to make him quit. turned home after visiting her grahd- the entertainment, sandwiches, cake, | Street. scribe Bon-Opto as asafe home y lemonade and ice cream were served. All in the treatment of eye troubles sad & gr::[nly cgj%\{'ed t‘h!e/_aflzlemoon. ‘What has become of the old fashion- | sf cy-id\t.'gldnh--; Mr. and Mrs. McCullock are entertain-|ed ‘boy who would rather stay home refund guaran druggists. ing Mrs. McCullock’s mother, Mrs. Vilet, | and work than go to school? bb"“ == Bigger Cuts In Price Attend Continuation, —OF OUR— BIG SUMMER SALE | Bigger and deeper cuts in prices, already low, mark the continuation of this sale. Every reduction brings us nearer to the prices as they existed “before the war !’ Of course, they do not get as low as they were then—that is an impossibity, but they are near enough so that they may be truly called a “before the war” bargain sale. Get busy— it will last but a few days more. Take advantage of it to the full extent of your ability. 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