Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 16, 1920, Page 10

#s the Time to Get Rid of Thess — Ugly Spots ‘There's no longer the slightest need ‘of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as Othine—double strength—is guar- &lfiil to remove thege homely spots. get an ounce of Othine— | dowble strength—from any druggist t and “apply e little of it night and ‘morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to k , while the lighter ones have entirely. It is seldom that an ounce is needed to com- pletely clear the skin and gain a beau- tifulcclear complexion. B sure to ask for the double Othine as this is sold under of money back if it fails to remove freckles. "Pry Freezone! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle, sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn ‘between the toes, and calluses, without one’ le of pain, soreness or irri- [ me up. Freezone is the mysterious| “Don’t you believe in farmers doing F discovery of a Cincinnati genius. [aln they can? he asks (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) Just because I made a passing com- ment on the craze for bigness in'a talk, recently, one friendly correspondent picks TAPESTRY AXMINSTER WILTON ‘All new and up-to-date in design and color, the patterns very attractive. In addition to the above we are showing a line of SUMMER RUGS for Cottage and Porch use. ,; LINOLEUMNS NEW PATTERNS JUST RECEIVED. - “Ohio” Electric Vacuum Cleaners Concerning Furniture of Quality .~ “SPECIAL SALES” emphasize the modesty at 4 our regular prices. COMPARISON INVITED. N. S. GILBERT & SON SHETUCKET STREET GOOD FARMING PREFERABLE TO BIG FARMING Sakes alive! Of course I do. doing all they can — and then some. anybody else “believes” in, they'd do that thing, anyway, the most of them. No, it wasn't that I found fault with a farmer's doing the biggest thing he could do, but with the current craze, among farmers as well as among other people, for making an idol of mere big- ness and worshipping it because of its corpulence. “You never saw a diamond as big Cutchegan Rock down in Montville. No- body ever did. But, where one geologi- cal crank tramps his way to'see the hig boulder, ten thousand everyday people would go miles for a good look at the Koh-i-noor, though that famous diamond could be hidden out of sight in any one of a dozen cracks on the rock. There are whole mountains of marble at Pentelicus, near Athens. But, all to- zether they are of less worth to ‘the world than a single . life-sized statue sculptured by Phidias 2,000 years ago from one block. If there is any one thing more firmly settled than another by the records of the past and the common consent of in- telligent mankind, it is that size has small relation to value. Of course, a load of hay is worth more than a fork- ful but evenat that, the whole load of hay isn’t worth as much as a good wheel- barrow-load of potatoes, at present prices. Ordinarily speaking, it is intrinsic val- ue and not magnitude which measures a thing’s worth. But there always have been men who couldn’t or wouldn't see this. Just at present this class seems to be in the majority or, if a.minority, seems to be capable of making the most noise. Everywhere we hear talk about big enterprises or big results, as if there was something wholly admirable in them jus | because they were big. One state brag: jof the biggest cotton factory in th as and so on and so on. The farm papers are full of wonder stories about the man who has the big- |gest cotton field or the biggest potato patch or the biggest orchard, or the big- gest frog-farm. These big fellows are written up at great length, and their suc- cess described in glowing language through columns and columns of space. Even the advertisements share the habit. One automobile factory uses as a sell- {ing argument the assertion that it em- | ploys the biggest force of workmen - in | the business; a rubber works expects to {sell its tires because its factory covers! more acres of ground than any other in “he world; a maker of farm implements {asks farmers to buy his tools because his 'fDundry is the biggest in the United | States. } And the bluff seems to work, too. It ]wculdn‘! be played so widely and so con- tinuously if it didn’t. Barnum once said - THE NORWICH BARGAIN HOUSE Washington Square Norwich, Conn. 10 DAY SALE At Radical Reductions MEN’S SUITS — Young Men’s and Men’s models in all sizes, a wide variety of fine fab rics, substantially below the bare replacement cost—¥$16.50 to $37.50 BOYS’ SUITS — No reservations—our entire stock of smart Boys’ Suits, in a variety of —$5.00 to $16.50. = materials. all sizes -MEN’S FURNISHINGS — Fine Percale and Madras t Shirts—$1.65 to $2.50. B. V. D. Union Suits -—$1.47. Pure Silk Neckwear -— 65¢ up. Men’s Balbriggan Underwear—-: “0 JJC. Men’s Hose, assorted colors — 18c. Working Shirts of the most complete assortment at low prices — $1.00, $1.25, $1. 65 $1.75, $2.25. KHAKA PANTS AND WORK PANTS — Our special- ty. If youhave not patronized us yet for your working garments, give us a trial and save money. Khaki Pants — $2.00 and $2.50. Men’s $5.00 Cotton Worsted Pants — $3.75. “ALWAYS MORE FOR LESS” THE NORWICH BARGAIN HOUSE ‘3—5-7 Water Sh'eet, Cor. Washington Sq., Norwich, Conn. In their Just between us and the post, it wouldn't make any difference what you or I or world; another of the biggest railroad shops; another of the biggest copper imine; another. of the biggest orange| grove; another of the biggest shipyard, mmmma be humbugged. It looks as showman had, some 16undauu lor nu cynicism. There’s no use denying thas, .when a abismudmabltmmlnnhkm the man and the resuit and the method are more or less interesting. . But it is open to question; whethér imitation of him by smaller men on smaller jobs is al- ways desirable. It is open to graver question whether the attempt to set forth 2 big man's big work as the proper ideal for all men, everywhere, to follow after is quite judicious. ‘When Milton wrote Paradise Lost. the highest price any ‘publisher would pay him for it was £5—$25. It was the life work of one of the wisest men and great- est poets the world has ever known.. We have since then, heard of modern writ- ers who have been paid $100,000 for a single cheap novel. Does that make the trash more admirable than the epic? Or really worth more, in any true sense of worth? The Atlantic ocean is considerably big- ger than the cold spring in your back pasture. But if you were afloat on a spray-swept raft in mid-Atlantic, parched with thirst, you'd gladly swap the whole of the seven seas for one good swig from that spring. It wouldn't be the size of the drink that would appeal to you so much as the quality of the water. The craze for bigness, merely because it is big, is a sign and symptom of de- generacy. What should count is not bulk but value. That is what does count with wholly sane and level-headed men. We're in real danger of disaster when any great number of us swear off our devotion to good work in order to enlist under the banner of big work. Some years ago, T happened to fall ishort of onions for my fall deliveries. I take special pains with that crop; sow the finest grained and sweetest variety and get my seed from the best strains. In all my years of gardening I have nev- er had & complaint from a single custo- mer as to the quality of my onions. But, this particular year, I ran short of the demand. A neighbor had a big crop of tremendously big onions. They certainly looked grand, both while ‘growing -and after pulling. To fill out my calls, I bought a few bushels from him, and de- livered them to my customers. They were bigger onions thap mine and his crop was measured by the hundreds of bushels where mine was by tens. And I had complaints, that winter, from every one of the customers who got those substituted onions, They were rank; they sprouted early; they didn't keep, etc. You see, this plunger neighbor had gone in for quantity, where -my rule is to strike for quality. Without any design to deceive but thoughtlessly, T'll admit, I had simply delivered the on- ions without any explanation that they were another man’s raising. I shall not make that mistake again, you may |suret Later, I heard that this same grower had to throw away over a thous- nd bushels, during. the winter,' because he couldn’t sell them. They went off, at first, like hot cakes. But the quality wasn't there. They didn't hold up to the test. ‘What is true of onions special case, is true of a great many other things. I know of one farmer who is getting a dollar a pound for all the butter he can make, right now, when the most of us have to be content With about half that price. One reason—probably the controlling reason, is that he doesn't try to make it by the ton, out of any old cream in any old way. He coddles his cows as if they were prize babies; he cares for his cream as if it were liquid gold; he makes his butter with as fin- icky care as if his life depended on its perfectio. If by chance some of it turns out below his ideal, he turns it into soap- grease rather than sell it. And, there- fore, he gets a price which enables him ao make a profit, even on a fancy herd, kept in a fancy barn and fed fanmey foods. ; in this one Again, you see, it's quality that counts rather than quantity. He hasn't a big herd, and candjgly admits a doubt of his own ability to make as good a pro- 1duct and get as high a price if he should branch out and try to do big things in the butter line. 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Com- pare the thin, sickly, angular frame with the well rounded form which is usually accompanied by the bloom of health and ztt‘ncuvenesl ‘That millions of people are conscious of this handicap is evident from the contin- ued appearance in newspapers and maga- zines of many suggestions proposing va- rious remedies in food or medicine or ex- ercises, either of which might or might not be appropriate for a given case. Authorities, however, agree that heal- thy nerve tissue is absolutely essential to a strong, robust body and mind. Weak nerves, while indicated by a multitude of different symptoms, more immediately and generally result in lack of energy, sleeplessness, irritability, depression, etc., which condition: vgtd\mly consume the healthy flesh, leaving ugly hollows, a flat {:he!t, bony neck and scrawny arms and legs. Our bodies need more phosphate than most of them are able to extract from the foods we eat nowadays, and many onin- fons affirm that there is nothing which may be taken into the human system that 8o effectively supplies this deficiency as the pure organic phosphate known as bitro-phosphate and sold by Lee & Osgood and good drugeists everywhere. The essential phosphoric food elements n_bitro-ohosphate assimilated by the nerve cells should soon produce a pleasing change in nerve energy and hence in- creased vitality and strength. With the burdens of nervousness, sleeplessness, lack of energy, etc., lifted. normal weight with its attractive fullness and ruddy glow of health replaces the former D(ctun of skin and bone: CAUTION :—While Bitro-Phosphate is unsurpassed for the relief of nervousness. general debility, etc., those taking it who do not desire to put on flesh should nse extra care in avoiding fat-producing foods. —_— fect thing perfectly, rather than go out after a bigger but poorer thing. Up here we have about 'steen kinds of sweet corn. One variety matures ears two weeks earlier than any other yet tested. That is its one pre-eminence, earliness. To secure that, it sacrifices size of ear, heigh of stalk. quality of kernel. Ancther variely matures very late—so late that the early fall frosts sometfmes catch it. It produces a huge ear on a tall stalk, with more sweetness in one kernel than in a whole ear of the early sort. To insure this size and qual- ity, 1t sacrifices earliness. This parable of the sweet corn is in- tended simply to illustrate that you can’t have all the desirable qualities in the same thing at the same time. You can have earliness, but it will be at the cost of sweetness; or you can have rich- ness, but it will be at the cost of earli- ness. You can have quality, but it will be at the cost of quanity, and vice ver- sa. In all farming or other operations one can aim at quality of work and product, or he can aim at bigness. He can’t aim at both at the same time, for when one is east the other is west, and no gun is made to shoot both ways at once. They tell of a western farmer who used to raise 14,000 acres of corn every year. He kept four-row cultivators at work all the time during the growing season. And he averaged about forty bushels to the acre. As a result, he and his big work were simply beplastered with gush by the worshippers of bigness. Also 1 happen to know of a small east- ern farmer who hasn't ten acres of corn land’ and who can afford to keep but one horse who regularly raises from eighty to ninety bushels of corn per acre, practically all of it desirable seed corn. gobbled up at double price by the seedsmen as fast as it is husked and dried. The western “corn king” fed all his corn to hogs, unshelled, and bought fresh seed outside, because he wasn't sure of his own, Now, which of those two men was the best farmer? I don't ask which one made the most money, but which did the best farming? Which one is the most worthy of imitation by us other small eastern farmers? Which one held the standard -highest? Which one left his farm better for his handling of it? When a man begins to brag about the ‘big” to me things he does on his ‘!arm. 1 get him out on the road headed UNUSUAL LOW PRICES RANGING FROM $18.50 TO. $45.00 74 Main Street WORTH Specialty Shop Are now showing advance Fall models, including styles suitable for all occa- sions—consisting of A splendid variety of plain and Eleached Georgette. Satins and Charmeuse, Extraordinary quality of Chiffon Taffeta. Silk Tricolettes, Also Minunette, Foulards. Silk Pongee and All Wool Tri- cotines, Public Cordially Invited. Norwich, Com AU‘I’OHOEILE ABG E LT e "FORD OWNERS—Doex our car siart bard? Have you r lights? Have your maanetp rtecharged in the car while you wait. Norwich Walding Zo.. BUY A U.S.L. Battery with its rugged heart of ma- chine pasted plates, whose long life and dependability are backed up by a liberal guaran- tee. NS NORWICH BATTERY CO. 114 FRANKLIN STREET PHONE 1043-2 NORWICH, CONN. OVERHAULING AND REPAIR WORK OF A.L KINDS ‘Automobiles, Carriages, Wagons, Trucks and Carts Mechanical Repairs, Painting, Trim. ming, Upholstering and ‘Wood Work, Blacksmithing in all its branches Scatt & Clark Corp. 507 TO 515 NORTH MAIN STREET INSURANCE NEW_YORK LIFE INS. REPRESENTED BY W. A. SOMERS, 218 Main St DON'T NEGLECT having your property protect- ed while you or your tenant may be away—have the fire policy issued now. Full de- tails here for you now. ISAAC S. JONES Richards Building, 91 Main Street nce and Real Estate Agent co, PIANO TUNERS GEER, THE PIANO TUNER. 122 Prospect St. Phone 51l —— DETECTIVES CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES Inges- tigated. Write Postoffice Box 472, Ner- wich. Conn. octild BOWLIYG ALLEYS BOWLING AND BILLIARDS AT THE AETNs BOWLING ALLEYS. MAJESTIC BUILD! e e for home just as quick as I decently can. And I start for the tall timber, myself, the next time I see him coming. Talk to me about good farming and I'll listen with both ears and my mouth open. Start a bragging match about big farming, and you can count me out. Probably, it I were myself a big far- mer, I should boast like the rest of ‘em; spread my wings and shake my feathers and cock-a-doodle-doo fit to scare the henyard into conniption fits. But, you! see, there are only a few hundreds of{ that sort, while there are quite a number of millions of us common critters. And, for the majority of us, good farm- ing grading always from good to better, is vastly preferable to big farming, no matter how mouth-filling the figures that latter may roll out. . THE FARMER. SAYS SILENT POLICEMAN IS NOT AN OBSTRUCTION Attorney Gereral Frank E. Healy, gave Motor Vehicle Commissioner Robbins B. Stoeckel an opinion holding that a silent policeman or automatic traffic signal pro- perly set up in the highway for the di- rection of traffic is not an obstruction to the extent that a town or municipality setting it up would be liable to the driver of a motor vehicle which collided there- with. The opinion further holds that it is the duty ef the municipality to see that the silent policeman or automatic | traffic signals are properly set up and that reasonable care shall be exercised by such superyision over them' so that they will not fall and become an obstruc- tion in the highway. The opinion was rendered following a request by Commissioner Stoeckel June 25, as to whether a silent policeman or automatic traffic signal property set up in the highway for the direction of traf- fic is per se an obstruction on the high- way, to the extent where a town setting it up would be liable to any driver of any motor vehicle which collides there- with, and what attitude, if any, is im- posed upon the town or municipality set- ting it up the signal to set it up prop- erly and thereafter to maintain it in its proper location. The opinion reads in part: “In the recent case of Aaronson vs. the city of New Haven, decided by the supreme court in January of this year the court says: “We think the court erred in charging that the mere placing of a silent police- man at the intersection of the streets with knowledge that it was liable to be displaced so as to become a dangerous obstruction to traffic and without fast- ening or anchoring it so as to prevent or minimize such liability was a breach of the legal duty which the defendant owed to travelers on its streets. “When in the course of events leading up to the injury of the plaintiff’s auto- mobile did this highway become defec- tive? “Not by the mere instaNati of a si jent policeman at the intersection of two highways for the purpose of directing traffic and of requiring travelers to obey section 26 of chapter 233, Public Acts, 1919. “Irrespective of the allegations of this eomplaint, it cannot be said that a suf- ficlently conspicuous guide post for traffic placed at the intersection of two streets makes the highway defective. We take judicial notice of the common use of such devices in such locations, and that they do serve a useful purpose in directing traffic ard promoting obedience to the law. “It may be true, although we express no opinion on that point, that the de- fendant: city ought in the exercise of rea- sonable care to have taken some meas- ures to prevent this guide post from be- HAVE YOUR ELECTRICAL WORK - DCNE BY THE Electrical Equipment Co. G. W. SANDERS 36 Mechanic Street, Norwich, Conn. Phone 728-2 FLOUR, GRAIN AND FEED. FARMERS—Just received a lot of all kinds of silage corn and corn fertil- izers. Call us for prices. Greeneville Grain Co. Phone 326-5. 162.7 It Will Pay You TO WATCH FOR OUR AD AND TAKE NOTICE OF THE SPECIAL PRICES: Pennant Yellow Tag Stock- feed, 600 bags on track, 100 Car Fancy Barley, 96 Ibs $3.75 No. 1 Corn, 100 Ibs. per No. 1 Meal, 100 Ibs. per . No. 1 Oats, 96 Ibs. per Choice Bran, 100 lbs per Choice Middlings, 100 Ibs. per Mystic Scratchfeed, 100 Ibs. Mystic Laying Mash . .. $4.65 Union Grains, 24% .. $4.05 Sucrene Dairy, 100 lbs. per Buffalo Gluten, 100 Ibs. per Old Process Oil Meal, 160 Ibs. Chas. Sloshers & Son 3-13 Cove Street, Norwich “Big Sales, Small Profits” HOTELS American House D. MORRISSEY, Prop. First-class Garage Se ice Connected. Shatucket Stroet DEL-HOFF HOTEL EUROCPEAN PLAN HAYES BROS. Props. Telephone 1227 26-28 Broadway —_— Phone ing toppled over and displaced. But if that be so, its failure to take such meas- ures was not an actioftable breach of the legal duty which it owed to travelers on the highway, because the presence of a sufficiently conspicuous silent policeman in its proper place in a highway is not a defect. The fact that it is liable to bs displaced and to become an obstruetion to travel is relavent only as it imposes on the defendant city a commensurate degree’ of diligence in inspecting the de- yice, or in removing it after it is dis- laced. “The city is required to exercise rea- sonable supervision and control of silent policemen on its highways, but no breach of legal duty giving rise to a cause of action can occur unless and until the highway becomes defective. And then the city is not liablg unless it has eith, er failed to use reasonable care in discov- ering the existence of the defect, or has failed after actual notice or constructive notice to use reasonable care in repair- ing it. “I have quoted at length from this opinion because the question is not only of great public interest but involves the life and safety of the public using our highways.” TohEmee e o LEFT LARGE ESTATE IN NEW LONDON An appraisal of the estate left by Mrs. Anna Chapin Rumrill of New London New York and Springfield, Mass.. made by one of the transfer tax state apprais- ers, on file in New York in the suggo- rates’ court, shows- that when the dece- dent died at Springfield on October 5th last, she had left $1,94426171, her New London property amounting to $54,021.- 71, her New York property $228,172.34. and the remainder in Springfield and elsewhere. According to the appraisal her New London property consists of the follow- ing: Ninety-nine acres of land, with build- ings thereon, bounded on the north by the Great Neck road; east by the land of Edward S. Harkness; south by the Long Island sound, and west by the land of Ellery Allyg, the property being known as the "Goshen farm and Little Goshen, valued at §$49 350. Ten acres of wood lot, bounded on the north by the land of Phylis Butler; east by the land of Charles Gallagher's heirs; south by the land of Phylis Butler and heirs of Ambrose Lester, and west by, the land belonging to the heirs of Am- brose- Lester and the land of David Geer, valued at about $200. Household furnishings, '$141.05; hens, $75;; 40 tons of hay, $600; 20 cords of wood and kindlings, $200; 500 bushels corn, $450; 300 bushels poiatoes. $600: 6 hotses, $510; 6 cows, $500; 4 pigs, $25: 75 a sow, $50; two yearlings, §120; farm- ing implements, wagons and utensils $614.55; cash on deposit, with the Union Bank and Trust company $46.33, and with the New London ty National bank, $289.78. Berlin.—Mr. and Mrs. William H. Web- ster of Berlin announce the engagement of their daughter, Florence Louise ‘Webster, to Warren McAllister Deacon of ‘West Chester, Pa. Mr. Deacon was grad- uated from Wesleyan university in 1916.