Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 29, 1920, Page 7

\ ! 3 g 3 THE BIGGEST PROBLEM BEFORE THE COUNTRY ¥ TODAY % (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) New Jersey, Pennsylvania and! other.pop- ulous states show similar decreases in H As the census figures' are given out | ;. number of farms and similar in- H ccemeal, somewhat in the order in | .. oo S5 B Sh T ot eities) Even 1 ch they are made up and xanumed,‘in The MoLCAlETAT AR LEINE Shiag tthe b ! ory few of us get any clear idea of the | a4 peen g slight decrease in the number ; weneral result as yet. Of course, we can | ¢ o008 ¢ ¢ all rémember the big fizure of something | over 103,000,000 for the population of the | While the pepulation of the - entire eatire country. Perhaps a few remember | country, cities and all, increased about he population of New York, stili the |15 per cent. from 1910 to 1920, the num. ' jeading state in numbers as il has been | bers of farms in the whole country in. arly 4 century—about 10,400,000, | creased but 1 1-2 per cent. The average iz almost exactly one-tenth of the lincrease in the ‘number of farms for tir P - | population of the country. And of | whole country had.been about 30 per gent. his onc-tenth more than half are counted [ for each ten-year period during the :pre- E 10 the city of New York. To be |ceding half century. % ¥ R ¥ exact. 5,620,048 Do you begin to appreciate ‘thgfimpor- ¥ it is to say. the state of New Yeork | :ance of the change? g 7 o tall of the dog, Wwhich New | g 40y more than-half the eptire popu- 3 Tomk (city Wags: st will. Jation of the country, live in cftied having i When you wonder. as yon sometimes | mure than 2,500 nopulation. Leks than § must “the ineredible folly and mi half live in the country % L L ment which mark the corduct of Of that. minority only about ' thirty s . in that state—affairs political, | millions lie on farms. The rest live in | 5 &ocial. cconomic—nlease recall these fig- | villages or are engagdd in other than | ¢ res aml refiect that the folly and mis- | farm labor. -And, of.course, Hone’of the g it are products of the city al- | majority. who_inhabit. cities ate farmers. | i the city | The burden of thelr maintenance and sup- s inhabitants | port. resis on thefarms, but they them- the majority | sclves touch it not with onme of their . T ers. > k< Indeed, the moat significant and, at the | In Ohio the gtatistician of the bureaun Tt t ominous fact which | 6¢ agriculturc reports - that last June revela- | there were 70,000 men and boys working land the cities are | for wages on the farms of the state. In K the expense of the country. |June of the vear bcfore 100.000 were so ‘ York, for instance, where the |employed. Exclusive of hired {mer, there i s ‘povulation has increased 11 per | were 340,000 men ‘And boys.’ at. work . iast ten years, the number of | farming in Ohio iast June. The, June of the cities has decrcased | 1919 there were” 370,000 thus at work 4 There were 21 farming. This makes a total decrease & . 3,060 in | of 0,060 workmen in_one, year on the g . the decrease | farms bf one state; Last June there were 1 been even |aliso 26,000 habitable farmhouses, unoccu- .} greater, amounting to fully 17 per cent. |pied in tHat same state—an increase of i Hartford Man Takes First : g Vacation He Says in Twenty j Years-and Gives CINOT Credit Mr. G. H. Abbey, of 17 Albany Avenue, Hartford, a Well ' Known and Respected Citizen, Says He Was Absolutely Amazed, ‘Astonished and Perplexed With the Quick Results CINOT Gave. 3 b dation that CINOT can have. Its sales | _FOT .seven years the experts of the have been enormous and for the past | United States department-of agriculture six months it has crowded both fac- | Bave been keeping close waich of every tories 10 supply the demand.’ Mr, Ab- operation gn 185 representative farms in L bey makes this statement to the pub- | the three farming states of Ohio, Indiana 1i and Wisconsin. They have noted every - ‘For many years 1 have been a |cent’s expenditure and every 'cént's in- = great sufferer from kidney trouble, [ €ome. And now they report of the farm- which ran my system down and |€rs on these 185 representative farms i ~ destroyed my appetite and.whatever | three separate farming. states. that ‘“the | I would eat did not agree with me at all. T. have tried many means and ways to get well, but with no success, | T had a pain in my back all the time, and at night was completely; exhausi- ed; my head ached it wouldt burst. I decided. to try CINOT and I 'was never so surprised, in my lif the pain in my ck ceased, my head- aches disappeared and my appetite re- turned and I can now eat most any thing. I am going to take a'vacation. and have a good time, and it will the first one in twenty vears. CINOT is being ciomonstrated in Norwich by. an expert, at the H. M. Lerou Drug Store, 298 Main Street, and can be obtained at all other first- class druggists everywhere. MR. G. H. ABBEY The CINOT Expert wishes the pub- ‘ ic to investigate and convince them- ! selves of motives of i CINOT Syndicate, in regard to testi- monials and advertising, and if they will he the biggest recommen- the honest the { possible 61 cenit. in ome year. & I:ethn_t'shwle state 30,000 hired men had deserted farm work for city oceupa- tion. And 29.000 of the houses they used to occupy stood vacants Moreover, 30,000 former farmers—owners, knten. ete.— Had accompanied them in’ the cityward exodus. . Are these just figures and meaningless signs to you? Or, as ydu think them over and grasp their sinister significance, do they startle you wide awake? They ought to. For they mean trouble; trouble all‘| ‘round trouble not onlv for the farmers but for the city consumers. The latter arc kicking like crazy steers about the high _cost of living. Do they reaily expect that cost to e permanently lowered if the number of produgers comtinues to de- crease and the number of non-productive consumers 10 increase in the ratio of the last ten vears? > If it has heretofore taken five farmers to feed ten consumers, what will happen when therg are only three farmers left to feed twelye consumers? Will the three be able to-shell out as many potatoes and cabbagesi as the five? Will the-twelve consumers use up only as many as the tel ecither . supposition is _reasomable: Water will always run downhill, and no stream will cver rise higher than its source. © Just now potatoes and cabbages and onions and some similar products of the farm arc low in price: That is, they € Jow in pricc to the farmer. He can- t sell them at a reasonable profit; usu- ally not at any profit. Some of the rain- bow chasers assert that this is due to over-production, when it is instead simply the result of profiteering greed. Why. the total potato crop of New York state, for onc concrete illustration, is already set down as a million and ‘a half bushels less an last year's, withs widespread rot threatening a reduction even of that fig- ure.’ And the average price offered the farmers of the state runs between 70 and 80 cents a bushel, ,against more than double that last vear, when the crop was bigger and rot was almost unknown. It is an insult to anv man's intelligence to say, in face of such facts, that the pres- ent low prices of farm potatoes are due to excessive nroduction. They are due simply and selely te the profiteers’ determination’ to soak the farmer and-skin the consumer! And to their ability, through close or- sanization and larger capital, to coerce both producer and consumer for their own advantage. The Intest statistics nut the aggregate of firm proper;y in the whole ntry atfifty-onc billions of dollars— hillio not millions, if Yyou please. “This," says one authority. “is more than the combined capital of all the manufac- turing. establishments. ‘all - the railway all the mines, and all the quarries in the country. s So? That being the case, wouldn't it seem to A man up-a tree, or to one under a tree, it the farm owners, who are both owners and operators, both capital- sts and laborers, ought to have at least as much tb say about things as the fac- ries and their help, the railroads and ieir help, the mines, etc., and their help? Do they? Well, you answer that, if you please. 1 can’t trust my typewriter to Reep within the bounds of permissible spaper Englieh when T think of what is, compared with what ought to be! Congresses and presidents fall over their own feet in their eagerness to meet demand of so-called “labor’—when s unionized in shops or on railroads or in mines. Rut they give less attention to | the laber - and | capital. devoted to farm work‘than ‘they do to the rabble of Fiume or the peasants of Czecho-Slovakia. most of them are making less than $500 | h- each year.!” On! in the whole lot have attained an income of as much as $T,000 a year. and have failed of any_cash income at all. These last sim- ply ' Worked for ’ ndthing and boarded themseives. \Lived on turnips and corn- bread, doubtiess ! Yet I read the other day the assertion of a “social worker” in some city that the smallest cash income on which it was for an ordinary family to live 200 a vear! Here are 185 promi- nent farmers in three farming states, the best paid of whom are living on $1,200 | a year less than that, and a fifth of them | on $2.200 le Several years ago the best posted farm- er in my home town—which is solely a farming community—stated his firm be- was § The Winter I OF THE GOES TO PRESS « CONNECTICUT - TELEPHONE DIRECTORY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1st All changes or additions in present listings must be arranged for on or before Novem- ber 1st, in order to appear in this issue. "THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND . TELEPHONE COMPANY ssue The endless day, forever but begun... Nor long for spring through dreary wi And yet—no more to see the sun arise And mount the sky, the conqueror of No more to watch him as he proudly dies Better to bear stern winter’s chill disdain. Sometimes I dream of following the sun, With even pace, from land-to land-afar, Basking in sunshine, with no night to mar Then should I see no more the dying flowers, The naked trees, the fields ‘all brown and bare, The snow-flakes sweeping-through the icy air, In gold and purple clouds withdrawn from sight— If these were lost, what could we count for gain? —Ninette M. Lowater in N. Y. Sun. nter hours. night.” night, ) ing trip lief from his knowledge of their condi- tion that there wasn't one farmer in the How can we denounce people for | ing the farms where 14 and 16-hour day: labor bring in less than $500 a year cash income, when the walking delegate of one Yos ed must have an increase or else a reduction in_ their eight-nours d Werenidyou who desert the farms for the shops. The &u where they can get, or th poorest paid industry in the land What have you For that is the plain truth about the |~ matter. The farming millions, upon ‘_m'l'”"d = whose capacity for production depends | "*RL ANG was oy every last detail of every otkor industry pesTaa in the world, are paid less for their all- | Doris important work than any other class of | KiSS me when useful or useless workmen. lips just now The farms are being deserted simply | JaCk—No—er- because they do not p: If they' did, | 8Tit in my mout thie rush would be towards them, not from | SoBeten. {hem. .ok A o industries are the Mecca of work- | UUrgh Scotsman. men because they do pay. If they didn't. they'd =oon close their doors, and the tide would ebb away from them. But how long are they going to pay it farms decrease in of cultivation. and farm labor becomes unattainable, and | farm production drops away? How long | will the arms and hands continue to work must break I don’t want id Maud. ve it. Iny er friend hodies of all the administrations in the | iand who know or care one split straw | Pilot ‘an’ T about it ! . Floric THE FARMER. real m; et > music al WAUREGAN well known marc At the Wauregan Congregationa = HUMOR OF THE DAY Butler—There is a man at the door sir, who says he will work for nothing. 5 e fias ¢ miners’ union reported recently that the | * “The Sir—\What deos he want i do;| , TACUEh only eix inches in diameter | sverage wage Of miners in his district| = Butler—Clean up¢ the cellar, sir— | onginyented jn Kng! iy Shgedly 1 was “only” $1,251 a year, and that they | Jowa Frivol UL Comipresse: AL SRS Ior O] taste, George, I wish you'd lét me buy . at | they your elothes L per capl Ay get, the most pay for the least work Hubby You're on, Annabeller! |® ’,‘_”3"""(‘;”;4,“2 e Rather, it's a time for denouncing the | Scon as I have a t to sell I'll no-|ig4 52" azgigst $49.20 for . Sweden, system—or la tem—which has | tify you!—Buffalo Express. $73.17 for Denmark, and $235.34 for the long made and is still making farming the | Judge—You are accused of speeding. ¥ E A —I heard of a trying to get there firs I thought you were gol An English college professor claims |1 have discovered a cold process for | rubber by the use of sul-| minutes to o ofl€ 3 Fu ‘¥ toothed sheet-irop jaws, il ot which is used 10 rake’ debris together ¥ Judge. when the. other is shut down on the| first to help in carrying the ic | vehicle fuel can withstand $ a press afraid to start that|o }00 pounds to th are The per capital debt of Norway to say in your de- Mil obtain wurg, O., travel cegmmodations at erred to the keeper of unable house for | smissed.”—Life. yru‘[ g to ered iup your inaugurate ctween Bare d Las Palmas, -Mallorca, a distance it was only a piece of h. Write for Cataleg CARL W. BROWN, Dealer * whole town who was making $500 a year ¥ 5 g hydrogen and sulphur di- - % Sl : ¥ Ie (to wife who is off* for the ! el ?xie:b(‘:l ,.’.’.';T.‘fif,'\’,’-',f,‘;f"fifi: \'!i,{n\: beach)—Now, don't forget me, dear. ention of a Nebraska man labor, expenses. Not one of them, he asserted, | a1 iremi ot b COUld, Jack. The surf i "o chine for making round bales, s : fabor disputes § ot as much as $500 a year off his farm EDL sounds just like you enoring. | ¢ iay bound with twine instead of are being formed to support himself and family, The above Ce o Transcript, “Which gre claimed to be more|nnmbers quoted figures of the Washington experts | “YOU recollect the story of the man | casily handled than square bales. scem to confirm this neighbor's judgment. 1‘1\3"1 ;‘:"‘i“j d thirty dollars’ worth of | .\ novel toel for cleaning lawns has argument on Friday the 13th? in- - t b Human nature is such that it wants the | qUEL N I A e w development in the = most dollars possible for the least BT . e recent importation of bee S 0," said Mr. Dolan. argu- e ble work. We're all tarred with that|ment. going to h:‘ nx:m,. "a;.\,;r.“,’\. - "MBH 114 pounds, 'x_nu.fl; at $2.- your bun stick. |5l s o e not| 4351118, Feaching, the United States |+ Lhr e fy =ninston S ter Trorh- foreign’ couftries ‘since January: [* It's mot n time for denouncing ‘iose | Wife — You have such execrable| 1920, g Hugh Clarke, Makuoketa, lowa, says: “The help to the women folks alone is worth the price of Delco- Light.” Also, “Electric lights in the barn are the finest thing world for tending sick stock at in in the THE KAI LEIDOSCOPE iot lsoilom-lrrs (112 miles). The as made4n 1 hour and d the return trip ia 1 hour and 49 minutes. 5 tional cimmittees, so calied, made employers and employes and in- 1ding representatives of the ministry have been so successful 1 Belgium that in increasing in various industries. They e exceptional in Beigium before the Union labor, which first regard- them with distrust, now favor them painful, FAIRYPOOT Utley & Jones, Fharmacists, 145 Main for goodness need some! sake, -Edin- the engagement, and people to say I Jilted | ite him to tea,” sug when the stomach is empty? 2 T iwelll Pbreal: i¢ - hifnselr. =3 the biggest prolem before the | Pittsburgh Telegraph. AT 8P. M. country today; bigger than any league of ;Come Sary, this instant.” nations, or any question of tariff, or anv 5 Loppyeock of olitics ve you talkin’ to that SPEAKERS And vet, from all appearances,’ there aren’t a dozen men in all the governing savs he's a fast mail | vou contami- Times-Unio an alw SECRETARY OF LABOR is willing | iy)—“Yes, even the h from ‘Lohengrin* church, Rev. William rFylin Sunday pastor, 't morning sermon will question, “Have You Been Nominated and Will You Be Elected?” The churck will meet at twelve o'clock. clock. l& ok CASTORIA For Infants and Childzen services will be resumed next Sunday a e ey i, X! suntay o InUse For Over 30 Years will be “Works That Keep Increasing.” | Always bsars DO NOT M]SS IT' The Young People’'s meeting will be ] the . Thursday evening at half past seven Popular Baby koods Mellin’s Food, Mellin’s Food, Eskay’s Food, large size._. 62¢ small size..__43c large size_.._70c ‘Eskay’s Food, hosp. size.._$2.90 Dextro Maltose, large size..65¢c Dextro Maltose, hosp. size_$2.90 Nestle’s Food, small size...___59¢ Nestle’s Food, hosp. size..$2.78 Horlick’s Malted Milk,, Ige....73¢ Horlick’s Malted Milk, hos $2.92 Borden’s Malted Milk, Ige....72¢ Borden’s Malted Milk, hos.$2.78 Imperial Granum 90c Just Food, large..___ $1.35 Honor Brand 60c Honor Brand, hosp. $2.30 Robinson’s Barley — . 49¢ Mamalla Food .80c Mamalla Food Peptogenic Milk 99¢ Saturday, Oct. 25 to Sunday, Oct, 31 NATIONA] ~" Every mother in Norwich is invited to visit our store and take advantage of this exceptional opportunity to lay in a stock of Baby Foods and other Baby Needsat : - . Extremely Low Prices g - DEMOCRATIC RALLY : To% Hall, Saturday, October 30th HON. WILLIAM B. WILSON HON. EDWARD L. SMITH ‘ U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY MRS. 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