Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 15, 1920, Page 9

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Henry J. Kendall received the nomi- nation for répresentative at the republi- c4n caucus Monday evening. There were three candidates in the field, but after the firet ballot Frank Johnson withdrew his name and in the second ballot Mr. Ken- 2all won over F. L. Kanahan by a major- ity of four votes. For justices of the pezes, James Broughten, F. D. Ballou, Albert Rist, Walter Drew, Frank More- heuse and George Ross were nominated. E. F. Burlesen was chafrman and Albert Rist clerk. ‘The demoeratic caucus was held Tues- day evening, Albert W. Bradlow being nominated for representative. For justices of the peace, William Wallace, Charles Bodeit, Viola Wad#, George G. Bromley, Harry L. Hull and William Phillips. Wil- lism Wallace was chairman. Prank Mell and Fred Robinson return- ed home Sunday after a week's trip by The world’s largest user of the pur- est and best maple sugar offers you the new Karo Maple 4 rare and delicious syrup at a moderate price. Don’t worry about the high price of maple syrup. Of special interest to every mother Dicycle and train, visiting Hartford and places of interest ineMassachusetts along the Mohawk trail. They rode their Wheels 125 miles. Miss Helen Gallup of Plainfilld was the week end guest of her cousin, Miss Clara Hyde. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Read spent Sunday with Mrs. Read’s parents in Oneco. WILSONVILLE Mrs, Sabosik has retirned from New Yorik. Her sister, Mrs. Krulisk, returned with her for a visit. Viela Handy entertained a few friends from Webster Sunday. Miss Nellle Burke of Worcester spent the week end and over the holiday with Mrs. Kate Haggerty. Thomas Paine entertained friends from Malden last week. Mrs. Davis, a former resident of this place, now of Hartford, called on friends here one day this week. “WHO WOULD BE (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) FREE THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW” market report: “Growers are receiving Talk about the “patience” of the Amer- from 70 cents to $1 per bushel in various unimportant class of handlers and pass- ers of goods are standinb betwéen the producers and the consumers and swin- dling both with a callous impartiality. To say that the consumers and the pro- ducers are enduring this with “patience” is to put too great a strain on a worthy word. Instead of “patience,” hew would some such word as “submissiveness” do? or “abasement?” or “servility?” & I read much from the consumers’ end ican people! ‘“Patience” is only a half- A way :ir& In this matter of profiteering P‘W‘lm*h;gh 1;“‘": gln W;eu;( per and prices a small and, comparatively, | Fesenting, New England, New of the trail, and thus learn somewhat I am myself a farmer, live among farm- ers, and thus know at first hand the sort of treatment they are recelving. 1t makes .my usually coolish blood sim- mer to read the stories of exaction and extortion which come to me from the cities. It makes that same blood boil over to see the actual pillage of the country and of farmers which is perpe- trated by the same two-handed greedy- guts under the once honorabls name of trade. I have a neighbor who raises a good many onions. He had a fairish crop this year. Not a big one; far from a record- breaker. And he is compélled to sell his onions at 75 cents a bushel or leave them lnbout the treatment they are receiving. parts of the country.” In three daily Ohio, the retail price of potatoes to the consumer varied from 45 to 55 cents a peck. This makes.the average price to the grower 85 cents a bushel and the av- erage price to the consumer §2. This isn't quite so bad, but it's bad enough. If it's only - grow a bushel of pot.¥:s, certainly it isn’t worth $1,15 merely to weigh them out and pass them over the counter to a customer consuther. Per contra, if it really is worth that §1.15 to handle them, once, in a city store, then it's worth a good deal more than 85 eehts to handle them seven times, cultivate them four times, spray them three times and haul them an average of nine miles, which is the producer's part of the stunt. Apples mext, Pve alreuds told you the experience of a neighbor who was charged $2 aplece for empty apple barrels, and could get an offer of but $2 a barrel for the same batrels filled with good fruit Another neighbor, who has a bigger or- chard and even better fruit, is selling such as he can sell at all for $1.50 a barrel, deliverad. These £0 to a city where similar apples are retailing at 35 cénts a peck, or $3.85 for an eleven-peck barrel. Jrth 85 cents to | Handsome Autumn Wraps Coats and Blouses FOR WOMEN 'AND MISSES HERE ARE SPLE! AND COMFORT ! SUMPTUOUS WRAPS AND TRIM, SWAGGER, STRAIGHT-LINE COATS IN THE RICH, BEAUTIFUL, VELVETY FABRICS OF FASHION. VELOURS, SIEVERTONE, CHAMELEON, YALAMA, SOMELY TRIMMED— to rot. them, in_quantity. of schemes and a wide reach of markets. He hasn’t the means for peddling them out by the peck or the single bushel and 1so is taking that so-called prict. They %0 to a neighboring city, where they are reckoned at 52 pounds to the bushel. And consumers in that very city pay five cents a pound for. the same onions, or $2.60 a bushel. The farmer, mind you, has to deliver them to get his 75 cents; #o that transportation charges don't enter That is simply all he can get for Ho has tried all sorts | o wrs 18 & proper price for apples to into the dealer's footing-up of cest. Now.if 75 cents a bushel is a fair price for onions to the grower, then a charge of $2.60 a bushel to the eater is next On the other hand, if $2.60 a bushel is a fair price to charge consimers, then 75 cents a bushel is a wickedly unfair price to pay producers. door to robbery. Oniens are but ene example; take cab- The buyers talk $7 a ton for it at the shipping stations. It's & rare field which will average tén tons to the acre; six tons is_more nearly an av- That offered price does mot pay for the seed and the labor, to say Efom various parts of the tountry come Yeports that big cabbage growers, despairing of getting a decent price, are beginning to feed their cabbages to their cattle bage for another. erage yield. nothing of a profit. to save hay, which doesn’t cost as much to raise and sells for much more. But various market reports which come to me from widely separated cities quote the retail price of cabbage to consumers at from three to five cents a pound. Taking that lowest figure, it means $80 a ton. Now it $7 a ton is a fair price for cab- Dbages to the grower thereof, then $60 a ton is next door to robbery, when charged the consumer. On the other hand, if §60 a ton is a fair price for cabbage to the consumer, then $7 a ton for the same cabbage is a wickedly unfair price to of- fer the producer. Consider diso potatoes, the standard and universaily used vegetable. Says one e iiieces 00000808 08ncunanauan.. Sn When you wonder how the new Karo Maple gets its delicious tang of rich maple syrup remember— The makersof Karo Maple use annually overa thousand tons of the purest and best flavored maple sugar from the finest maple groves in Ver- mont and Canada. Thisis one reason why over five million cans of Karo Maple were purchased by American house- wives last year. ‘This is a greater sale, by far, than any kind of maple syrup offered. ‘The moderate price of Karo Maple is also an attraction—it costs less than any other syrup of approaching quality and flavor. Go to your grocer today and get a can of Karo Maple, in the GREEN CAN, Compare it for price and flavor with other maple syrups. If you are not satisfied your grocer will give your money back. NATIONAL STARCH c0, « ° Sales Representative for Corn Preducts Refining Co. Mr. W. A. Cahoon, Manager - pape Prod- FREE 227225 fFock= beactifally il "g{" %’8. Box m:m, Vork. . Onee agaln, 16t me mote that if $1.50 e orchardist, then $3.85 a barrel to the $3.85 is a just price to charge consumers then $1.50 is an indecently unfair price to pay producers. Take tomatoes for another example, Quite a few are grown in my neighbor- hood. If we pick them judiciously, sort them relentlessly, pack them with finicky care, and transport them, unbruised and fresh, to our nearest city market, we growers will be offered 35 cents a bushel for them. The consumer in that same city will pay seven cents a pound for those same tomatces, at retail, or about $3.50 a bushel. Of course, no producer can break even, or anywhere near it, with laber, seeds and fertilizers at present prices, if he sells at the offered wholesale price. Nor can any consumer really afford to buy freely at the quotéd retail price. The same general condition exists all over the country. A letter from Maryland, where lomalo cannming is an important industry, says: “The odor of rotting tomatoes per- vades all the roads in every direction, and the loss to the farmers is pitiful, for in thig section every farmer usually plants 2 field to tomatoes.” Onece again, I want you to take .nots growers and those charged distinetion. on their “patience.” one class should bear it. it at the same time? country, The Rural New Yorker, edito- rially says: “This year hundreds of tons of cherries remained on the trees m New York state. Apples are wasting afl over the state. Tomatoes by the ton ret on the ground. At the same time city people groan under the burden of high prices, and many go hungry.” “How Iong, O, Lotd. how long?" How long will the ten milfions of producers and the hundred millions of consumers stand for this sort of double-action har. rowing, which tears the howels out of the farmers and starves the stomachs of the consumers? Sald one impulsive city woman with whom I was discussing the situation re- cently: “That's the sort of thing which makes bolsheviks.” Heaven forbid! We all trust and believe that the vast ma- Jority of Ameriean producers and con- sumers are too level-headed, too sane, too securely based on the principles of ever- lasting righteousness, ever to be stam- peded into that cesspool and latrine of detestable horror in ‘which Russia is at present wallowing. Murder and arson and pillage and riot are no answers even to profiteering. Es- pecially when the proper answer, made ready and fitted right to our hands by our present form of government, is quite as effective and much easier. There are a hundred and ten millions of us who are being plundered by a few hundred thousand profiteers. And tina. s a country by whose fundamental law the majority rules—whenever it will take the trouble to do so. ; We let cabals of self-seeking politicians | select our government for us—because it's too much trouble for us to,govern our- selves! e let organized gangs of prof- iteers pillage us from year's end to year's end—because it would involve a littie self-sacrifice for us to choke them into submission by strangling their pocket- books, which are their most vital organs Ts, this sort of conduct “patience?” Or is it something much less pralseworthy? Something deserving of a much less hon- orable title? “Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.” That isn't a highfalutin’ campalgn cry; it's the simple statement of a primary truth. “Eternal vigilance is the price of lib- The best _that ws B b _it the highest grade the United States. So good, it does not gequire bleaching— King Aethu is Unbleached in consumer is next door to robbery. Or if, LARGE ASSORTMENT OF EXTRA SIZE AP- PAREL, IN SATIN AND TRICOTINE— that the difference in the prices oflered‘ consumers Tepresents something so near akin to rob- | bery that the very coplous English lan- guage doesn't afford & word to denote the | And yet both producers and constmers | wiggle along under this system ot rene | handed extortion, and plume themselves | There might be an explanstion why' But what word can desetibe the way in which botit bear One of the leading farm papers of the |* food | 4 | mmake arrangements which, so far as they w Lrty," That ien’t a bit of e combe ; it's the simple state rock-based fact. To believe that a nation of a & and ten million people Will alw n tinue to lét a few hundred thousand avaricions and predaceous vrofiteers say to the producers: “You shall slave for us at whatever pittance we may choose to pay;” and to the consumers: “You shall g0 hungry and starve unless you devote all your incomes. to enriching us;"—to believg'such a thing is to cast discredit on human intelligence and blaspheme the iaws of the universe ! \ But just that sort of thing will continue ection ent till the stolid majority wakes from its somnolence, rubs its eyes, agitates its brains, and substitutes sensible action for swinish snoring. 14he THE FARMEP COLUMBIA The republican caucus was held at the town hall Monday evening. About 50 per- lvons were present, one-] of whom were women. H. P. Collins was chosen moder- stor and Wifliam Wolff clerk. On the first ballot for representative 48 vot were cast, 18 of Which were for Henry 1iutchins, 8 for Clayton E. Dwight A. Lyman and the ing. On the sccond ballot Mr. ¥ received 32 votes and was declared nomi- rated, and on motion his nomination was made unanimous. Nominatigns for jus- tices of the peace: Hubert P. Collins, T. €. Tucker and W. Clifford Robinson. As Mrs. Ethel Blakeley, who has been the mail carrier, has resigned on account of illness, Mrs. Raymond Squier, daughte; of one of the bondsmen, is carrying mail for the present. ! Mrs. H. W. Porter, with her son Ran- dall, her mother, Mrs. Robinson, also Mr. end Mrs. W. Clifford Robinson, started Saturday on a trip over the Moha trail, stopping at Shelburn Falls to Mr. and Mrs. Carlton P. Davenport, re- turning home Monday. The democratic caucus was held at Veomans hall on Tuesday evening. Ray- mond E. Clarke was chairman and Mrs, Raymond Lyman clerk. After several \allots, Erwin S. Collins was nominated for representative. The .nominations for justices of the peace are Raymond E. Clarke, George H. Champlin and Charles W. Bailey. The Columbia Congregational church will celebrate its 200th anniversary Sun- day, Oct. 24th. A committee of the churmch met last Tuesday evening to }are completed, will be a sermon Sunday morning; the 17th, by the pastor, Rev. T. Newton Owen, on The Changes' in Re. {ligion During the Past Two Centuries, a supper to be given in the chavel Satur- day evening, the 23d, the anniversary service in the church Sunday morning, the 24th, and a service in the afternoon at which the neighboring churches have been Invited to participate, when /speak- ers from out of town will address the people. Of those Who were members of ‘he church when its 150th anniversary was celebrated, there are but eight liv- ing. During the past 50 years the church building has been much improved. A gal- lery which extended around the sides of the church, in which-the girls sat on one side and the boys on the other, has been removed, the old pews with a sten to enter those at the rear of the church and all with doors have been removed, and rew ones arranged with a center aisle have been put in, there being only side afsles béfore. The o6ld high pulpit has wone and a fecess has been built behind the new pulpit to accommodate the choir 3 formerty: the - $25.00 w YOUR INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED. | 74 Main Street o . DID VAKUES IN STYLE, QUALITY \ 2% 3 fed DUVET DE LAINES, BOLIVIA—PI A1 AND HAND- $22.50 w» FOR IMMEDIATE WEAR : . ° . Tricotine and Satin Dresses - . THE STYLES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. . : THIS IS ONE OF THE SEASON’S MOST RE- MARKABLE OFFERINGS IN' DRESSES—SUPER- IOR QUALITY AND LOW PRICES—MODELS E ] STRAIGHT-LINE-BASQUE AND OTHER MODES —TRIMMED, BEADED AND EMBROIDERED IN FASCINATING WAYS. $17. 75w _ I Phone 715 where different musical in- sentatives, [van ¥. Wilcox and Edwi W the meledoen were used Slater; for justices of the peace, Gedrg: hymn tuncs, during the |H. Andrews, Richard Hamer, George & ich the congregation faced | Ri John L. uuh-i réar of the ] on the pa: lin, Clarence G. Cyame, > modern and comfortal John D. Mot dge of probate, ks J. | Storrs, ce was put im ¢ 5 Middletown.—On the farm of William SPRING HILL Kinsell, 22 Main street, South Farmg, an About 25 0 wers present at the repub- 8 e town Hall last Mon- Were several names ¢ re vietors won by small Albert. E. Anthony ~ for the nd Fred C. Parker for the hoice of the te_town in . Storrs eed himself ge -H unusual crop of potatoes has béém pro- duced. Early in the year four bushels of seed potatoes were Dlanted. AS & re- sult Mr. Kinsell has 80 bushels to stefie CASTORIA 1n Use Por Over SOYears Always bzars the as Allen. No Need to Sweeten Grape:Nuts 1Thiz:_ fieat and malted bar ey Food is naturally sweet, sijrrxce twenty hours’ baking and processing develop sudar from its own grai Grape:Nuts is ea digested and has a ri flavor unlike that of any other cereal. 3 It is healthful and economical “There’s a Reason’ By Made by stum Cereal Cm:q;any ~ Battle Creek, Michigan.