Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 7, 1921, Page 7

(Written Specially For The Bullet The other day'I happened to {utn an oid erpty suger barrel half-way ‘round #0 as to expost a big yellow-papér: la- bel which had been pasted on jts #lde when I bought it some ten or twelve years ‘zn. This label, about four in- chel end two feet long, was pasted d'ggonally astoss the staves, like . the twist of an auger, and bore staring letters: “You could buy this r for two cents a pound less than ‘it cost you, but fof the protective tariff” This had been signéd at one end by some re- y, but that end was torn #6 badly I coudn’t certainly make out ;[”‘nfl time, 1 rememb er. -&umn: wp the stuft, with a similar im- |- It was all a part of the. game ‘which ocertain big interests were piay- ing to secure, if rhssible. cheaper raw material. Those of us wh ber eo far bagk have no difficu¥y in remlling _goores, of similar | arguments, addressed from all possible solirees to the voters in ‘ah attempt to get them to 3 the existing tarlf. - wihile I.usually buy wholesale and in quantity, it that this was the only granulated T I ever bought by the barrel. Most of my purchases have beén {n; hundred-potnd cloth bags. Hence I rémember. the pice. where 1 have forgoften other prices of ‘less umisuml purchases. ‘It was $4.30 a hundred that T paid-for the whi! granulated sugar -in -that . barrel... . copding to the refiners’ campaign .la- belling, it was ohly the tariff on raw sugar which prevented me from buying it ~gt $2.30 & hundred pounds, - - --- Well, T, for one, never believed thaz label. Nor any other of the equally niendacious campaign slogans of the free- traders. But, as Mr. Lincolp ones re- marked, “You ean fool some of the peo- ple all the time” and this sort of thing, kept up for years by a-rich, cunning and ungerupuious propaganda, finally resu'ted in fooling enough of the voters to bring about the.election of a fi@e-irade con- grees and a free-trade adininistration. After eight years of which, sugar is sugar at ns ‘Wwholesaling in the large. city nearest me|. for $9 and $9.50 a hundred. This seems to the vounser ‘générdtion an almpst ridiculously low price, after the exmperi- ence we've had with twenty-five and thir- ty cent sugar. T It ien't. MY ‘stii abominably high, an compared with the times when a “rob- ber tariff”. was making. the. poor people pay $4.30 a hundyed for it. . A But hew about those wondertul prophets from the refineries who were promising it 40 us.at $2.30-a hundred, if we'd only let them remove or reduce the tari®f? f s ; They got the eangress and the pres- they wanted. They tinkarggrfim to sult thejr own wills., Navihg T to make it just Lt they ok thing we' knéw, siv, eight. ten, twenty cents-a: pbu It was “rationed” out to us in half- pound lots. We were besought-to use honey at thirty eents, gnd mable-sumar at event more as substitutes. We could not buy enouzh to put up.a can of blue- berries without getting a speclal govern- ment permit, and swearing we'd return the tablespoonful which mhight be left over from- canning. Then it went w thirty cenis, and. we farmers beggh to plant gugar-beets in land not suited and under climatic corditions not friendiy to them. in order to supply ourseives with Lome-made beét eyrup, efc., etc. ©Of course, the war was responsible for some of theee high prices. Disin- genenous and knavish profiteering was responsible for much more. But the war aid not come on £ill the prophets of $2.30 sugar had had five years to bring their cheap swestening to our tablea. . They didn’t do it They are not going to do it Probably they never expeted or in- tended to do 1 5 But, as onc result of the war which they bungied and the graff wWhich they facilitated and the tariff which they emasculated, the farmeérs of ‘the bountry, at least those of the east, are being sub- Jected to = sweating process, rieht now, such as hasm't been heard of hefore since the Israclites In Egypt were forced to make bricks without straw. A neighbor told me, yesterday. that he had fifty barrels of potatoes in his cél- Iar which he couldn’t sell for .3noysh. fo pay the cost of hauling them ‘to mharket He pad about the same numbur of-barrels of apples in October. He rold twen'y of these. and can't even give the others away. He has about 500 pounde of wool which he has sent to storage, because he ean’t sell it at any price. For years he has raised early lambs and sold,them at fairly renumerative rat:s. Now, He oan't get an offer, even, for larabs, Wheth. er early or late, or for mu‘inn, Biiler This neighbor depends- mainly upfh . ais potatogs, his_apples, and wis. shegp for an ingome. Yet he can't sel! any pt:the three for epough to pay . the. fepd-hills of his sheef. Another neighber whe, Jast mongh. rold fat gheep at sixteen tents-a prind live weight, has just got four: cents a pound for z fancy lob, vhippéd to New Yor% city. Tiat did nét pay ifor 'the grald required to fatfen them. Anptiier nuighbor, who. is tryiag.to sel his wool because he must et money from somewhere to pay his taxes, reporte] that he hasi’t yet been able to'sfcure an offer of over eleven cen®s-u. hobpd It was seventy cents a pownda Iitti: over & Year ago. v . Two others fell me they aze being oi-, fored eight cents a pdund fm-'drm;‘i pork, such as brought twenty-four.cén! sONIoN PALNI] Utley & Jones Pharmacists 145 Main St appenl wiis mede |’ 2l the sugar sold’ in. Ht‘;nfi B the 0 can remem- | , fine, | Ae Z [ there -was profitéering .involved,' - e el it the equally fevent supplication: “And please he'n. lican: §Lord, be mereiful to me, a sin-| Westfield, Mass., Putnam and New York. Bat jt isn't forbjdden to add to me outof this holel” we're hole, and an V- us dwnlfi“e.(lnub&flow Also, as ususl, we fatmers are at (he very botsom of the hole. It really doesn't matter so vitally whether we plunged . recklessly -or Were pushed. into it by ache,” trampiin a noupd a ;year,agp, theugh, in both :un the ' plis e > fosd. s 1. hepr rephns thit several largh sheep and- cattle’ raisers are o ring to sell oft ihelr stock for anything o%ersd,. .sim- bly 'becduseé. ‘the dan't’ get. encugh for| the produggs ,of, their, hergs .to_pay for the hay fequired to wintér then To, ‘#ay "nothing of the time and labor in-'f: volved and’ £he:risks; indvithble to all animal indusiry, which ‘be run. ““Tielve years ‘sgo 1 wis' offered $6.50 2 thousand.for ;my. stapding -timber, on the stimp. Three months ago a4 neigh- bor whose woods gdjoin mjne, and who | had 4o sell. to.get money tp meet a ma- Luyiig oblisatio .t $a d, t;r,ne e ghe, | honis: the sawyer wag.getting-$3 a thausand for suwing, the teamsters were geiting $2 ‘asthousend for-haulirg: Now’ the cutiers get $4 5. thousand: ~the sawyer $8°af thougand, and the tearhsters $6 2 thous- apd. The r, which used to sell for an ayerage of $22 a thousand, now fetch- s $60 and $70. But the farmér who has .‘:M taxes for forty years on the Jand| hel e timber grows, .50, & Uromad than the ?(’néum a dozen years back! ; vy SETE X Mequrkiuh:::;:r l‘sflfgp "“Never before has the Americah farm- ¢ been confronted With more, seriqus problems. Never before has he paid for shed, fertilizer and afm supplips. - Neyer Dpfors °has he paid such high wages far plowing, plant- ing, cultivating, harvs ing for market all-of-lis:foed products. | Never before have the railroads Amerioa demanded such a -heavy toll from the farmer for carrying. the ae- preciated products of his toil ‘to the murkets of the United States. Never before have the the comntry: tax collec- tors and the sfate.and federal govern- ments demanded more of his sweat; stain: of dollars."- e TR . When aueh, things as - these' which I ' have en QU mildness | is wrong. “Wrong?” Something | . ably permissible langhage clude the only terms fit to chamotefize he sitdation.. O to stigmatizeé the scala- wags who are recponsiblé for it."" ° And yet, we're all on practically all of us more or less blameworthy. Few of our garmentgs ‘Maye -ascaped; smirching. We're ‘al tarfed Wwith thé 'same stick. Farmers,*too? . Yeg; farmers; .too. Wheh a city selesman gave ‘me the:pricz of certains artidle I ‘was-in pore:. néed one day last fall,-I bius out: *That's scandaloys ; it's-profiteering !” -He griki- .med, superior. #Gf coursg ft-4s he cheerfuily assented ; “wa're-all profiteers. ‘these days.” ~When" 1 peotested -to the. ‘ manager-of a -publicvservice plant against a third increase of pates; the. other. day, and ‘bluntly : exnromnd.: my - lef < thaw a2’ outrage: Qus—are ncarhdte to sty thHat Bomdtiing | blandly angwered:: 1 ‘Oh, . weil, we're il out for we @mn get, of course.” eiling for seventy it. tho i t everything i at U they never really “Wwarth® that price. dressed pork wks cents & poutid We itook If,- thdugh it was never really worth that pricd.” We camu Junbiushingly -assune any - “holier-than- thou” attitude: = We ‘excused Gutselves to ‘ourselves by arguing that' it wes *the market,” and,’ anyway, weld got to have twenty-four : cents- for pork, if*we must ‘pay twenty-five cents for sugar; we'd got to have- sixteen 'ctnts- for' Taitoh,” sb -Jong as-we-had-to pay- $18 a barrel for flour, and so em, ' 5 = We'll not enter on nny- ai that phase, now. F simpl gest that we farmers are ngt : flawlessly perlct saints, nér seli-gacri- ficlhg ‘servants’ of the Meve in the greatest' est numb, %aid Afwenhis some other humorpus philosopher. what is the ‘greatest nutmber? Number Ome,” was His instant onest prayeér “For we can't live there, permanently, 5 Were fedflon $60-d-ton | M | ng -and prapar- of |’ lling ‘for’ twernty-fofir|” into it through greed or stumbled into it othe: We're in it. And we'll have to Zet B A e with @il the rest of the world on our heads and shoylders ‘and our~wtom- ¥ .:.ufi,deuper jn. their les to extricate them- . THE< FARMER. iss Melba - Shuttleworth of Spring- fleld, Ma: been - spending a few days at S: Colling', . _Miss Enily Jones of Woonsocket, R, I, has been spending several days with iss Emma Bradiey. -She formerly lived ere. & Miss Ethel Colling, who has been spend- ing twa weeks a:.her home, has returned tp Sunapee, N. H., whers she is & teacher." ' % ‘Chester Burdick and doighter Dorls, of- Stafford Spriugs, ‘have heen visiting relatives here, where -Mr Burdick for- merly- lived. -~ ¢ Lester Gardner of New London has been .visiting ‘at his home. Mrs. Arthur Hirst, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- bert Hall and Mrs. J. ‘B, Hall united with the church Sunday by le.ters. Misy Mildred ‘Richmond, who has been at her home, is able to be.out of doors. Mrs: -Addisop' Tourtellotte, Malcolm and Alice Tourtellotte \of Putnam spent Frie day :at] L.-Howard ' Cross’. John Moore of Palmer, Mass:, a former own frantic il .| high =chool teacher here, psnet Sunday at Israel Squire's, 2 Mrs. Carl Mathewson and daugh'er Frances of Plainfield visited friends here Friday. S Conrad Popple, who is employed in ‘Worcester, spenc Sunday at his home, ‘Miss Lillian Stetson of Norwich and Miss Lucele Stetson of Jewett City were ai Mortimer Stetson's to pass Sunday. Friday, Williany Jowett of Norwich visited friehds here, where he formerly lived.. : § Miss Beatrice Seguin has returned to Bristol where she i a teacher. She has spent her vacation at her heme. Miss Marjorie Tillinghast is visiting in Norwich at :he home of her sistef, Mrs, Howard Clarke: 3 3 ‘George Martin has moved to thd Fam- worth-Pipney tenement, recently yacated by_Guilferd Pyer. - ~William ‘Broadhead -of Camden, Ma! has been at his home for a few days :The weave shop at the Central warsted | mill, is closed for a week. The teachers’ training class will meet ( Thursday evening wi.h Mrs. Wilfred fLawson. ~ : Miss Grace -Conneally, president of the (Christian Endeavor Society, will lead the servieg. Friday evening. Richard, the infant son of Fred North, | hds been il - < Many friends were surprised to learn of the death of Mrs. Edward St. John, of Canterbury, while visiting friends in Moosup Sunday. She went to Moosup to spend Chris nas and was taken ill - | with double pneumenia. Mrs. Amold Mathewson was in Boston Sunday to attehd the funeral of a rela- tive, Mrs. Susan Fenner Shepard, Who farmerly lived here. Miss Dorothea Gardner, 2 nurse at PBackus hospital, Norwich, is spending two weeks' yacation at the home of her fa'her, Dr. James L. Gardner. Mrs. R. T.. Bixby and daughter return- ed Monday from gpending the holidays in Menteliar, -N. J., bringing with them. as guests Mrs. Booth and son. The Auction Eridge club met with Miss Dorothy ~ Brown. Menday evening. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. E. K. Lefngwell. - Misa . Ellen. Hawkins is staylng with Mrs. hn Beckwith, who is ill. Benoni Bates ig taking a vaeation from i s at Johnson & Potter's and-is ing a few weeks with his children in - TORCED “No-To-Bac” has helped thousands to break the costly, nerve-shattering tobacco haBit. Wheniever you have a longing for a cigaretie, cigar, pipe, or for a chew, just place a harmless No- To-Bac tablet in your mouth instead, to Hélp relieve that awful desire. Shortly\the habit ‘may be completely broken, and you are better oft mental- ly, physically, finarncially. it's so easy, 80 zimple. Get a box of No-To-Bac and if it doesn't release you from all craving for tobaeco in any f6rm, your druggist will refund your money. with- most: of us can make'is that of the’ pub- out guestion. You -work it does " Otherwise you fail to * your vital energy as you expend it.. And if you Y depressed and all run- tzjuét‘bay ur body for the . restore quickly as tin}xe -to expend ' vital energy quitker than yolir body can re- -place-it—you tire easily—your. blood gets impoverished—your nerves get shaky—and you feel . Testores to the body materials whichhave beenused up in your . expenditure _of wvital energy. Thus Wincarnis enables you | to'pay your body for the work it does by providing the ‘miineral " elements — Iron, - cium, Potassium, Sodium and Phosphorus—which the body- . needs to enable it to create vital - power—to make the blood rich -and red —to " strengthen the . .Merve witality. Try Wincarnis for yourself. 12% oz 26 oz. Bottfe R A Bortie $1.10 con- Cal- d to promote vigor and of the week with Mrs. Joscph A. Elliott. An all day meeting was held last Wed- neslay at - the home of Mrs. Wellington Miger. The Missionary meeting was held in the afternoon. Monday ‘evening the Leffingwell Tocles- iatical ~sociely met the churca tor the election of officers for 1921, A. H. Degbe was nominated- modecator of the meeting.: Miss Al M. Leflingwei! and James Turnbuill were voted into the s0- 8. Q Mr. and-Mrs. Mitchell Little and”Mrs. George Little of Hartford were guests Tuestiay of Miss Mary Little, g‘hn ‘Woman's Missionary society met with Miss Clara Johnson Wednesday. The grammar school resumed eece’ess | Tuesday. ‘The intermediate teacher. Miss Elizabeth Branche. is boarding e yv. ». - . Lockman and Mrs. Jessie Githler, ‘Who have been at the Lockman summer home fer four months, have re- turned to New York. Miss Florence Simpson of Hartford is boerding at Miss Neale's for a few woeks. Miss ‘Alice Larrabee has: recoyered Irom a severe attack of ehickenpox. Miss Marguerite Cook s spepding a month in Providence. Mrs. Chauncey Wilson, who is a pa- tient in St. Joseph's hospital, Williman- tic, is improving. \ Mrs. Charles Pptter, who has been ill for several weeks, is better. The meeting and roll cail of the Con- gregational church will be held Thursday evening, Jan. 13th. Supper will be served as usual . Mrs. Susan Willls of Scotland is the guest of Mrs. W. F. Maine. LEFFINGWELL Miss"Myra C. Ellis was a recent guest of Miss Edna Morris, of Norwich Town. Pearl W. Ross of New Britain spent the week end with his parents here, Mr. &nd Mrs. Albert Ross. Friday evening a roast shoulder sup- per was served in the vestry by the Ladies’ Ald society. Over twelve dol- lars was realized. A number of the young people stayed for a watch night seryice. Miss Ruth J. Ellis, of Norwich”/Town, was a visitor at the ho.le of her par- ents, Mr. and @frs. Charles E. Bllis. Mrs. J. 8. Baldwin, ¢! Philadelphia, Jesse E. Rogers was reappsinted clerk, and Mr. Ellis treasurer. The solicitors are: Mrs. S. Clinton Rogers and Mrs. A. H. Beebe. Beebe are aul Sunday morn time. B. Y, P, U. at 7.30 led by Jotmm 1 re. The topic will be g ul Passage in the Bible. Ps. 119:129-136. 2 = M Myra C. Ellis entertalned eigh- ds at her home here recently. era_plaved by all and music enjoyed. Refreshments~were s2rv- s .Ellis\and her mother, Mrs. Ellis. ¢ 4 NORTH LYME teen £ Gam was ed 9 2 lliam st weel s . 4 Mr. and\Mrs. N. 8. Strong were in Ni- antic and New London Tuesday: W. M. Simson celebrated his 77th birth- day last week“Thursday and was pleas- antly surprised by reeeiving 43 posteards. Mr. iSsson expressed. appreciation of the Leeling of good will of his friends in re- membering. A very successful social was heid at he North Plain schoolhouse last Thurs- day evening. A play, Maidens All For- Sisson, who has been ill the 3rs. EL. A Rogers has been caring for | 18m, war presgnted by Misses Jennie and.| cond:tion, Charlotte Stark, Miss G adys Cone:and | Helen Baborsky, Mrs. Erwin Kogers and 'over the % Mrs. C. F. Jewett. were servad. The proceeds amounted Aoi Cake and sandwiches about $15. Dorothy and Gerald Sisson are recover | ‘ng from the prevailing epidemic, having | ity narrowly escaped preumos Only seven .out of the 23 pupils af the | North- Plain sghool have becn abl present the past week on aceount of i ness among them, . the Hyde : Hula families, Gladys Chapraan, dewett, Charles Way and Edward, to be York Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Gates have gone to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. place, who will assist Mrs. H care of Mr. Gates, who is In & very fceble | tes in |u.:‘ L he | Wiilam €ingk of Jartford was bowe, 1 NORTH STERLING and’ Mrs. Clarcmee Roth of Bast 5 T { Mr. and Mrs. turday. been spending u Providence o visited G. F. Mr. Sciool a1 the 7 3 afte one wesk! A = , Mfs. Lillian AL/ 4y . RN < PY . . = i R - 2\ s X = AT i ZOMIZ et ! A A “Pape’s Cold - Compound” Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowin apd snuffling! A dose of “Pape's Col Compound” taken every two hours un- til tbhree doses arg taken usuliy breaks up a cold and ends all grippe misery. The first dose opens clogged-up nos- trils and air passages of head; stops \ 1 d is Quickest Relief Known adache, dull- " 18 the n and coste at drug_steres. It | acts without assistance. Tastes nice. Containg no quiaine. Insist wupom Pap¥e. - Margarine @ Always Fresh ‘product. always has it fresh. it saerifices nothing to quality or flavor. . 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