Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 6

(Written, Specially For The Bulletin.) I clipped ti® following paragraph from & big city paper, the other day: “When a' farmer invests farm earnings as in apother enterprise of which he knows little, it proves that he had smal| faith in his own bdusiness” 1 suppose that the smart Aleck who got that off really thought he had said a mouthful. Quite likely he may have patted his \type-sriter on the keyboard and sald, “Very good, Liza Jane. That gets tne ol hayseed mght where the hair js short. Guess thatll shut 'em up for'a while.” = One day, last summer, an nllclsl of the government bought a Georgla water- melon in Baltimore. He paid; the regu- lar price awked by all the dealers that day, viz: Ome dollar. It turned out to DBe not a very good melon and the offi- clal somewhat regretted his dollar. Then Tt oceurred to him that he'd like to know hat dollar went, Who got teni an Jusf it anq how It was divided up. Being & government official and having not-only & pull but something of a push, too, this was a comparatively short job for him. Me found put that the farmer In Geoggla who w the melon and de- livered it to the rallroad got seven cents for ft; that the rafiroad which hauled !t from Georgia to Baitimore got twelve cents for freight; and that the Baltimore dealers got eighty-one cemts for taking it off the railroad caf and banding it to him. They made a gross profit of eighty- ome cents on an investment of nineteen cents. Thelr receipts for the .melon were something over eleven times as much as the farmer's receipts for it We do not know nor does thers seem to be any way for finding out just what the dealers had to pay for overhead and other expenses of marketing that water- melon Nok ig there any apparent way of as- eertaining what the farmer's overhead and other expenses were for growing the melon. Whatever they were fn eit dealery had eighty-one ce with which to pay theirs; Parmer had just seven cents in hand with which to pay his Na-ow, s they used to gay da-own #ast—and also In Virginta—Tet's suppose a case. Let's suppose that Mr. Smart Al who wrote our fext had d few @ollars in his pocket to invest in the wa- termelon industry. D've s'pose he'd in. west it [n the end which realized seven cents per melon, or in the end which Tealized eighty-one cents per melon? Just as a fairly sensible fnvestor look- Ing for returns on his investments, which end of that poker would he take hold Would he pin his faith to the sever cent tafl or to the eighty-one cent dog? Or, would he refiect that wisdom is fustifigd @f her children and keep his money inVhis own overalls Dockets? Really, this is what the literary fel- lers call an “academic question” rather than a practical one. For mighty few tarmers, these days, have any loose mon- ey lying round for investment in any direction. All threugh the west and southwest Parmers are cutting down on their plant- Ings and sowings, or planning to do so, for the simple reason that they can't get their mooney back for the grain they- already have on hand. In many ptates they are bumning corm iIn thel: own #toves or selling it to publie light | and power plants for use as fuel unde the big botlers, because thev can't T any other way:; becanse they haven't money to buy coal: and hecause ye got’ to"Yurn somethipg or {reeze 'fl death. They are offered seventeen to nineteen cents a bushel for thelr cormn. That 1n theé vicinity of v tundred pounds. my grain dealer to me, the other Tm charged ninety-five cent a relght on corn, now. Used to -six cents.” ve centy a hundred to the he corn : nineiy-five cents a for delivering it. five cents a hundréd to the T the grain and all the value n It; ninetv-five cents to the raliroads for pulling it around, The rallroads arem’t getting rlch even out of this outrageously uneven gobble, for they have to pass the greater part of their income over to their bosses, the hrotherhoods. The farmers Rren't pgetting rich— aren't really coming omt even for-they make the grain-=elling and the buying ends of their business meat eanwhile, the road brotherhoods | resisting .every ort to reduce rail- | road wages even by a beczarly ten ,or twelve per cent And T read that the anthracite coal miners promise to strike |8 When their present confracts expire, next April, for an !nerease of at least twenty per cent. in their pay. Algo, the one-time farm laborer refuses to get out the manure or plow the oat.ground un- less he's pald, more for the work than al the oaty will sell for, with the manure 1mde them. Button; 2 ut tiv er En whid's got 1 but- Jetting Rid of a - Stubborn Cough is’ Childs Play Now Make the Medicine Yourself at Home I¥’s Cheap—But You Can’t Beat It H’oumt.toukowoofuutbu) cough and do it in a few get one ounce of Parmint (douhh strength) and a half pint | |8 at home. You tan do this in ‘minutes by and enouth ‘water ton?" cause consumer: 1y all Europe is ;w you haye the squ Practically,_all from abroad, agree that taxatio! DECORATED CAKE PLATES I remember it. “Money, money ; Who gets the moray?” That per-fervid inquiry seems to fit the present situation -better. - The farmer certainly doesn't get it; doesn’t get enough to buy coal for his kitchen-stove, and has<to burh the con- ts of his corn-bin, instead. The rafiroads don’t get it, for they havdly have enough lett after taking out wages and supplies to pay interest, on theif debts. ¢ The landlords say they don't get it, fo WMESANSS. Rt SPOMEY, WAL ger share of thelr income than ever be- fore. The wholesalers say they “don't get it, and point to their quoted prices as exoneratton. The retailers say they don't get it, be- re o finicky and lazy and want so much Walt{nz on and cod ing that it costs all they can_col t to keep thelr oustos \nd the people who work I“!"\l don’t get it, for 4 cents out o rn to keep the wol: accepted lon was that the con lied t is of’ a nega- cal- e sort. + "o’ tonkes 'down ‘the tipbre of eals you want to emit off; and want much rope than -here, That was the gld-fashioned same, drum-asker Italy and Scandangvia. ~They are e ing even greater burdens thart wi shouldeys, and enduring greater xnc;( even n those. which constrict. gur waist-bands. » Tthically, of Sourss, the oral of the old fable which illustrated the folly of the 'pot calling’ the ksttle black can't te questioned. consfdering man -mature as it actdally js, and ze Iing 1% srge inwatuess of lis (g0 able pots and kettles, I can't he} ‘lerjpe if the pot's critical o o 1ts®own sootiness with that of the kettle didn't, somehow, relieve the tenston a little, [ It isn't quite so easy to say dutright “I am a poor critter,” as it is to gener- alize and remark that “We're all .poor critters—and some of fem _are | poorer critterg than L” ‘Anyway, Whether this ‘sort of onso- Jation reatly consoles much- or not, it's tHe ‘only kind In sight. Nor do I notice any other confidently prophesied in the official. weather predic- tions. ‘ Danbury.—Ths . project to maxe the proposed new hi, school building a me- morial to Danbury men who served in the army or navy of the United, States during the world -war received further impetus last week at a meeting of the THE FARMER. 1 Bond, wife of Sterlir Price Bond, ;L(ed 2t her home in St. Louls Mrs. Bond an. 11th frofa pneumonia. was n."Bnllwn resident whei# a girl. “Miss Gladys Loomis of South Manchi e, Louls D. Eaton, plans (o refurn ho the first of February. Bolton assessors. M. W, Howard, F. inley_and Willam B. Williams, h list for lag v have they visited Mr. ‘Hanna. Miss Dora Pinney is Ul with gris. Mrs. Henry Austin of M iting_her brothér and_sister. and,Mrs. R. Kneelang Jones. t year is $380,184: 3nd Mrs, -1w ., have returned. from Mr. and Mrs; Louis H. Levey. ter, who is in“Tennessee visiting' her u P. 21 completed the-abstract and find the g-l‘;‘;’l Pinney ang-Charles M. Pinney returnefl from New. London, where Clarence | i8 vis- Mr. and Mrs. William Richard Tinker, Indianapolis, visited the latter's parents, Miss Hélen Mathein ot Hartford epent ng | es- |~ me Al London, teacher in the South spept the weelk end at her home, - ~Brnest F. S s e “annial m-a!ecte ‘office Mi Womester. Mass. week in Hartford. sympathy of all'in t] house, barn and nfdst/pf the contents by rs. Charles | v when she . Monday. Hurrying to | :ph!'l, éss, and Clarence Fries of Bollun. = : T fllLL ‘/ Richadd Dlnom and Ralph ids onal ; plticeh: -TiMiL G aved‘ also o heh house. The huildings ! spent @ day in New, Haven recentiy. ere -partially insured. The piace is| A number from this place atiended the my—clusmtam)nsan re by, Rev. Horace y Burs!fl’ evenicg in m. Willjpm Cahis of New Lodd dled onLeb-MLBmm fmrel heart {rouble last Saturday. He 'is sur-!- A.'S. Pe spent Wednesda; vived by‘his wife, a brother, Clayton Root | Willimantic an attended the leum* Miss_Annie M. Alvord js :pendlnsnu of Lebnon, a sister, Mrs, Carrle Fries{of churches of the Ashford. aksociation of ‘Boston. ' His_unéle sare Jol {held in Willimantic Baptist church. i and- Mrs\John Duby -have the|of Colambla and George Euiler'of- May.| The families o Palmer and.G. |senators ) loss of thelr 3;.;» and his nieces are Mrs. Charles | T. Chappell were t at the supper | heid’ at e mxdp-: n-m = [ enier of Leonard - Bridge, Mrs, |and missionary meeting held-ia the Bap-|ciy Friday, morh ay with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H, K H, Strong. 'T Helena Cih-we - the; s President, Miss Annie wich_and\were i 1”; E 3. vord ; glerk and treasurer, Miss Adelia | BOl ‘Walter E. Howe is' e At s Mr. o | Mr. executive committes, of Danbury post, American' Legion, and school officials. Our Year-End duplit;at\gd e NOTHING OVER ) 10c Each Value 39¢ Limited 3 to a customer. DECORATED ~15¢ Complete 1 PINT IMPORTED VACUUM BOTTLES e e SHELF OIL CLOTH 3ca Yard /GLARK’S O. N. T. 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