Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 3, 1920, Page 7

e ETN, FRIDAY, DECEWBER, & 152U [THE FARMERS TO FARMERS (Written Specially for The Bulletin) | won't debate that theory with you. There seems to be no longer any room | now. I'm concerned only in noting th: to doubt that the inevitable reaction has | set in. The last three yea reckless ‘and wasteful ~ spending brought jts natural results. From lirfum of extravagance the natio Whole, has wakenad into 2 stake of | equally deplorable stinziness. The men who. | six months ago, were buying silk s I tand still and sce the salvation of t} Lord come to pass, but must ver boosting what it happens ation. Syrup_of Figs| ception name California.on |$15 apiece to dig ditches and ha hold the same su dear.” And the ing because they 12 cents “too winter, Waterbary.—Among the half hundred brash young men who, six months aso. alled, s that it can‘t remember. i paintings at the Mattatuck Historical so- | were buving a new s and bruiss over night. They ¥'s gallery are {wo by Valentine Moli- | three months and paying from 0 $90 m to teach it any us:ful lesson g canvases, incinding | 7 it are now Inking the se: and | s into a wall one side of the A Bit China and Flowers from My | mming the ravelings off their old| bloodies its nose and tears B o e era awewou | Clothes because they won't pay $30 for Next morning it stills its ve fatteri- from critics in New | "¢V °nes- ions of anger and smashes the o it goes, and so It is, as dear old |SAme nose against the wall on the other Manning used to say. est traits of that queer combination One of the queer- we Just queer trait of human nature which won't need be think at the time is the chariot of that The ldst few yewrs have been no ex- to the ruie followed during all ing how we are going to get through the Another queer trait of human nature. room for wonder that its o are preparing to burn corn for fuel. They simply can’t sell their corn for enough 'to | buy coal with an equivalent amount of heating capacity. ' They are going to burn their corn in their stoves—as thou- sands of farmers did once before under similar stress, “because there isn't de- mand for it sufficient to pay fer market- ing it. So with pork, so with onlons, &0 with cabbages; so With nearly all the praducts of the farm. They've been tumbling in price all the fall. Farmers in one New York county where hundred-acre cab- bage fields are not uncommon and from which cabbages are usually shipped by the train load, farmers in this county are feeding the crop to their cows because there isyno demand for them for human consumption. > z The great American people which sfx months ago, was chasing its legs off in its mad haste to find somebody - who would, take its money for useless luxu- ries, Bas utterly. reversed its course and is now refusing to buy what it used to call “necessities” unless it can get them at a reduced price, balf off, and with a discoant’ for cash! 201 We farmers kot the mews first. Tt came to us, early In the fall, when: po- tatoes dropped, overnight. from o dollar a peck to severivesre cents a bushcl. It has come repeatedly, since then, when similar blows have fallen on fields ‘de- voted to other produets. Some of us have been wondering quite awhile whether we should be able to get through the winter he to istory. We've heen 'way up in the air. i or- then you ate sure your |freight in. are now refusing to bi Now we're cofning back to earth with | ne oy NEVIDE fo fall back o the £ the best and OSt | cralls at $1.00 beeause they are “too dear.” | more or less “sickening thuds” And a| i e ysic for the little stomach, { The housewives who, six months whole lot of us are getting hurt. . A| Now the same news has reached the owels. Children love itS8|were tumbling over each other to whole lot of us are are beginning 10| manufacturers and their employees. Full directions on each |sygar at 25 cents a pound are s squeal. A Whole lot of us are wonder- | yrpis th, Pk arivay terials must say “California. fig-the” Saiany'h Gaffiecups. of o the manufacturers' raw mater have fallen somewhat, the wages of la- bor, the cost of power, and the exactions of transportations have steadily increas- ed. They cannot continue to make goods unless they can el them at some profit. That implies high prices. They cannot sell them at any profit if the public re- fuses to buy them excent at low prices. Consequently they shut down. The emaployees have been demanding and getting higher and higher wages. only the factory's employes, but also the 3 1o " S i ty nearly all the time. |coal miuers whose wages make up much “:" ]h"m‘,‘" g s i ek ‘I'f' oo of the cost of coal, and the railway men \ v r»-': vn:v ; flm'war " rationally You can't pick up the morning paper.| wpoge wages make up much of the cost won't look ah yond th vit re =z i t s 3 = . = nose. It won't look e e LR T of transportation. Now there are many fo: s doze OEiCS SN thes out of work af e vel open- es or stralght ahead shutting down completely. A | fog' ot wint en see the stones in the b keep the middle of the road. 0 in I to four It won't Any Woman can Dye now A very shrewd chauffenr, Whose exy €aid nature behind z We are all tarred with the same stic! patience th t of 1t gathering. 0 other kind guaranteed | lums are alw e er dyed before. |to the other, ju w you Diamond Dye | ments will let t makes the I have means for knowi who have no -lots and can’t affor wheels o © . 2 X'l‘ 1 'rlT«\ 4 i 1\{ | | vt B 3 T LSRN S ” S b/ RN = =—— (L T e e T e e TR 1e Housewifes Burden When a woman 1s almost distracted from overwork, her home is in disorder, crying children, and on top of all is suffering from backache, bearing down pains, or some other form of feminine ills, then she should remember that hundreds of women in just her con- dition have been restored to health and regained their youthful strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable’ Compound and not rest until she has given it a fair'trial, : Proof that it Restored the Health of These Two Women Cairo, TIL—* Some time ago'I got so Chattanooga, Tenn.—“I nsed Lydia bad with female trouble that I thought E.. Pinkham’s .Vegétable Compound I would have to be operated on. Ihad before my baby came when I could ng a bad displacement. My right. side longer keep up. "It strengthened my would pain me and I was so nervous I back and relieved we of the ill cffect could not hold a glass of water. Many which so often develops at such times. times I would have to stop my work That was wmy first experience with the and sit down or I would fall on the Vegetable Compound. Years after- fioor in a faint. I consulted several ' wards I took it during the Change of doctors and every one told me the same Life and got along so well I scarcely but I kept fighting to keep from having ever had to lie down during the day the operation. I had vead so many and seldom had dizzy, fainting spells, times of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Iam now well and strong, can do all Compound and it helped my sister so my honsework with perfect ease and it I began taking it. I have never felt is a comfort to me to be able to say o better than have gince then and other suffering women ‘take Lydia E. 1 keep house and am able to do all my Pinkham’s medicine and be strong’ work. The Vegetable Compound is Iwill be glad to have you use my name certainly one grand medicine.”—Mrs. J. if it will be the means of helping any R. MarTnEws, 3311 Sycamore Street, one.” — Mrs R A. FAmRBURN, 606 . Cairo, I1L Orchard Knob Ave,Chattanooga, Tenn. Ailing. Overworked Housewives Should Rely Upon #l LydiaE.Pinkham's b R e g e 2 e P - A B A v.'s shop employing 10,- neighboring city cut Yesterday's e orchard lands because there at prices suffl- picking. undug because | for them sufficient | Des- | fals of certain t the west farmers | ing of winter, because the public won't buy their products at a price to insure a continuance of previous wages. And there you are. Farmers dispirited ence has extended fro appeara S NOW Ut | ang gloomy over their inability to sell of the first “horseless c " to th three day MANALET | noir crops at a Jving price: manufact- times of the twelv speedster. y he is holding on only bY|y,rers shutting down by the score and fhe who has driven almdst all makes of car &t his tecth, and shall have|pyngreq because they can't sell their over _almost _all varleties of roads on !> in or shut down entirely, Un-|wares unless at a-loss: workingmen and Wiine SonMhenth: W Y and picks.up very soon. In ome working women suddenly deprived of all met with an accident, told usetts county largely given over | or nearly all their income. And four that she had but -orie’ sy . [ read that 80 per cent. | monthg of winter on the threshold. driving. That was, brief are closed and 80 ; for granted eve » oneratives_out’ of work.| If ever there was ~a time speclally d—— fool ard T must look ou | r the reason that there is mo|made for the pessimist this is it. “Take gelf_and him, too.” | 4 for their goods. courage.” says ome of Kipling's charac- This was not a bit of cynictsm put on| To uns farmers this is already begin- |ters, “the worst is yet to come! Rvery as a pose. but a simple sta t o bb e fave heen | indication of the present, every experience |long experience based on t condition the whole fall. | of the past seems to suggest that this is | wide observation, 3 1 eants 'of | true of things now. Personally, I am not | Who that has lived th v I on the irecs or rotted|® pessimist. “Will ‘this rain ever stop?” of ord - thousands of barrels |asked a querulous passenger of tho old sea captaln. “It always has, Madam." was his response. 1 always expect any storm to clear up, sometime, 1 alw: take it for granted that a good many folks will get wet before the rain stops. Some Whose recklessness in rainbow- chasing has_led them far afield without rubbers or umbrellas; and some who have to go out and drive in the cows and sheep. The first may deserve their soak- ing and the second may not, but both will | get it, just the same. = The present disturbance will, rd doubt- less, pass away with the coming of a meral Comprehension of its causes. uch disturbanecs always have passed even when they have been as bad se than this. # One thing is dead sure: If the conm-| suming public won't any longer pay ex- travagant prices for products then ex- travagant costs for making (hose pro- ducts must be cut out. If the farmer or w: to sell cheap potatoes, he must have cheap laid and cheap labor. If the man- ufeaturer is to sell cheap goods, he must have cheap materials and cheap labor. No man is going to make a bus- iness of selling potatoes at a dollar a bushel or cloth at a dollar a yard, if it costs him a dollar and a half to raise the bushel of potatoes or make the yard of cloth. . In other words, It 1s perfectly clear | that wages, whether on farms or in fac- | tories or on railroads or in mincs must. | sooner or later. come down as cabbagzes | and clothes and shoes and sugar have already. And it won't be the employing farmer nor the employing manufacturer who wili force them.down, but the people as a whole, who are now refusing and prob- ably will continue rcfusing to pay the high prices of which high wages are the present chief cause. THE FARMER. EAST COLCHESTER The hunting season being over, during lelsure hours some “are trying their luck at trapping. One local trapper had the experience while taking a skunk from a trap to have the captive take him by the fnger «id remove the nail. Mr. and Mrs. George Gray spent Thanksgiving With the former's. brother, Charles Gray, of Ledvard. Walter Mahoney of New London was at his home here over Thanksgiving. Edward Gray of Boston spent Saturd at the homae of his brother, George G SAVES TIME AND LABOR Albert Knoepke, Moccasin, Montana, says: “I would rath- ler quit the ranch than do | without Delco-Light. 1t sayes| lat least 14 hours per week in labor, at a cost of approxi- mately $1.25 per month.” Write for Catalog CARL W. BROWN New Uncas Bank Building - NORWICH, CONN. PHONE 348 DELCO-LIGHT “Electricity for spent_mostly in sanatoriums, except for an occasional visit in Mystic at the home of Miss Eleanor Fish. | years she had lived in California. culture and charming' personality. She had a wonderful gift of expression and an unfailing sense of humor, and her letters were a source of délight to her friends. ness she.maintained the same, spirit of cheerfulness and her zeal for knowledge never lessened. years of her life she course from the University of California and her ambition her physical member of the Mystic Bri tional chure terests. of a family prominent here for gener: friends Who grieve for her death. arrangements for the funeral have been acl and Mrs. G song. Mrs, New York Thursd and seventh birthday of her grandmother, Mrs. trey. ed in for the p 7 ] .| Yegetable Compound S LSS NN AN T S 5) SRR T = 2 i - MYSTIC Residents of the entire village were Saddened to learn of the death of Miss Laura Hilliard Mallory, 36, carly Mon- d'-:ly morning in a San Francsco hospi- Mystic except for a: few years spent in study and travel. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, took a special course at Williams Me- | morial Institute, she entered Wellesley College but was obliged to leave on account of the ill- ness of her mother. of travel she was graduated Bridgewater ) to enter the teaching profession but was forced to give it up on account of il health. She had lived most of her life in Aftey graduating from N. Y., she New London. Later | After several years from thel rmal School and intended | The last ten years of her life wore The past two Miss Mallory was a young woman of She Throughout her long ill- ven in the last two took a special as limited only by endurance. She was allory was a member tions and although the last of her fam- ily, there are numerous relatives and No announced_yet. Mrs. J. M. Noy s was a caller in New, London Tuesday. Charles .H., Latham, Percy Morgan, Bergen 1 Greene, e B. Stinson and William Donsbach were in New London Monday evening atténdng a_meeti Union Chapter, No. 7; R. A. M. Misses Isabelle and Geneveve Macs Kenzie of Westerly were recent guests of ther uncle, Harry B. Mackenzi At the meeting of Mystic Counc 29, R. & S. M., Friday evening, in Ma- sonic Temple, the royal and select de- grees are to be conferred on a class. The committee in charge at the Mys- tic Country Club Thursday evening com- s of No. iprises Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Lathrop, Mr. and Mrs. Noyes Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Raul, Mrs. Albert Haley gad Mrs. William D.’ Breaker. k David Seamon of Poquonnoc Wis a s caller here Mond Gray has ret after a visit w and Mra W. H. Gr Contractor HMewit! caller here Monday. d to New 2 her parents, Dr. of Montville was ‘a Mrs. J. beth MacGown, a former t here, has left for California to spend the winter. Rickard Adamson of New London was @ recent visitor here. Miss Carrie Rogers is to for Washington to spend Dr. and Mrs. Rhodes Tecent visitors in Norw Leland Perkins ha where he has secured At the meeting of Fan Ledyard Chapter, D. A. R, in Masonic Temple, Wednesday afternoon, the for membe were received. gram following the busi sibted of a very interesting talk by Mr: Helen 1. Cutler on the people who came over i the Mayflow rank W. Eatty gave a compreher ketch-of the ements of the state of Connceticut, a poem wag read by Mrs. James Brown, A. Thompson read the state Refreshment: served by the following committee Helen 1. Cut- ler, chairman, Mrs. Grinnel, Mary .E M. leave soon e winter. Burrows were h gone to Boston ployment. The pro- meeting con- P, Amie W. Bradley, Mrs: Wheéeler and Mrs, ‘Addie P. Batty. Rev. Herbert A. Grantham of Haven was a business caller here East Wed- nesday. Dr. and Mrs. -J. K. Bucklyn were in & Miss Jeanette Godfrey, daughter of Mr. Mrs. F. A. Godfrey, o el hoer his week at the home Nettie A. God- friends “wei t- Seven you applications! birthday cakes and numerous gifts for the little girl. The_stockholders of the Mystic Indus- trial Co., are-to meei at the rooms of the B. F. Hoxie Engine Co. Monday evening next. Capt.. Charles P. Maxson was at his home in West Mystic this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haynes have re- turned from a visit of several weeks in Kansas Cit; villiam N. Palmer of Bo: business caller here Tuesda: § The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Meth- odist church met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Otls Abell. Benevolence Chapter, R. A. M., will meet in Masonic Temple Saturday eve- ning. | at whist Tuesday afternoon at her home on Broadway. Dr. C. F. Pierce of New London was here Tuesday = ards of Brooklyn, N. Y. who spent many summers in this piace, regret to hear of her death recently in that city. Thomas Gilmore is working in on the new thread mill being there. ‘William McMullen has left for Flori- ble ere met Wednesday evening. Mrs. John Rathbone has returned from a visit in New York and New Jer- sy, Albert Thompson has returned from . rip to Waterbury William Bliven of Westerly risiness caller here Wednesda: David Scott is visiting in Boston, Miss Callie Gallup has gone to Tiris tol, where she will.make a visit of s was jin_Great Mrs. Barrington, Mary Burton is ill. SOME WoILN Mrs. Christopher Morgan entertained | Pringing out their hair. for, and that is so Mystic friends of Mrs Charles Ea-| Wit X erties v tions of pri ™ tones the The Ladies' and food eral weeks before réturning to her home day - MEI NSy 0 i n was a, LET, THE SCALP PREATE] — HA wémen It desired. keep the sc prepa antisepti OLE KEEPS SCALP o LIKE A BABY'S CAUTIFYING THE HAR' = DURING WARM Wflm 1 out the natural beauty of fl1 applications soon makes thel ecalp as healthy as a baby change is almost apparent! - first. Barbers everywhere' an's Hair Petrole for 18 Afew drug the bottle. for $1.00 or from. facturer, T. Noonan & Bons, and Streci, Boston. Christonher M e |da to spena the winter. ® bus y 40 Arthur Avery has returned from a vis- it in Nor h. b v o = E. J. CIift was in Westerly. Thursday. HAP Stonington Lodge, No. 26, L. 0. O. F.. CHAPL S e and is being assisted] sters } 1 Sunday scheol IB) mas tree and exers) ristmas eve. ere this weel Jocal post of Veteransd was organized at a Judge A. P. Brade was voted to mame it} ek post. | Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C N lel ASTORIA | § TICS AND XMAS Brockton Sam 138 MAIN REMARKABLE VALY b ? ,—! en’s, Women's and ( AT 309, 409, 509, OFF TI RUBBERS, RUBBER BOOTS, ! Can you afford to miss this o Open Evenings Un Brockton Samp ey DEL Pk ] % SLIPPERS o (¥} & ’OR MEN A Department to Facilitate Shopping. 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