Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 1, 1922, Page 7

(Written Specially for The Bulletin) v paper of Senator Capper of the farmers got tion In 1921, amd aly 3 per cent. un \gricultural confer- these factd Farm 20-1921 represénted be- d $460 a family fof each v farmer. The striling minefs do better than this. past’ year was less ton af o department of agricultute confirmed the above quota- He took up the average Chrnings i miners, raliroad men, oto., age earnings of farmers, while the strikers’ pres- sied them to buy more Take for ilastra®iom the mimer who s paid s cortsin wage for getting out In 1913 the average wage n of coal would buy ome hels of corn from the n the same minérs wage ax A fon of coal womid buy. two ‘ushels 6f corn from the same i miner's ton-wage would | nths of a bushel of wheat| nine-tenths of a It wouid buy seven poands of in 1913; fourteen pounds of pork | in 1902 it would buy three-quarters of potatoes in 1913; & bushel in 1921, It wouM buy three and two-tenths, pounds The same ratios hold for numerous other products, and run even higher In the case of railroad workers. Summing & all up, the purchasing power of min- ofe’ :lm is about thirty per ‘cent. greater in 1521 than it was in 1913; and the purchasing power of raiircad em- wares iz about fifty per eeht. greater, while, as has been already stated, the earnings of farmefs average from twenty-five to forty-five per cent. lass. Sesretary Wallaes made no bones of faying, with all the emphasis he couM that farmeérs have suffered more y after<the-war defla- ey not ereated dis- - kept on producing. in law and order. nment. He beHeves @ prodicing cifident-, cted with recurring dis- lsbor and capital espe- | tiel Industries. He sees no | without interruy s cost him o ddarly. n right to' demand that c mined continuously, and that \» Sopl WOVing. And_lw addel the significant warning #hat If hase various groups contifue to *pwey mpon one another and abandon Pw and order for strong-arm methods e farmier can take care of himself.” JMorteet. Jic can, and by Jminy, if fHings continie” much longer as in the tmmediate past and present, he will Bave tol As I see the Ameriean farmer, ho is ntusually a rather slow-tiinking, care- ful-acting chap; one who prefers to fol- iow the old rut, s long' as he can @0 ® without too imminent risk of tipping MS ®ppleeart over: a rather patient plodder, so accustomed to the nageings and broom-handlings of Step-Mother Nature that he becomes slow to resent Whe $mpositions of his fellow-men. With U this, he IS apt to have a fair chare o the old Adam In him. It takes him » long ime to get mad. When he onco So8s, however, it take him an even jonger time to get over it. Also,, when Be is mad, be !s mad ciear through. It is no superficial flarry of thin-sicianed | Sraecibity with aim, but a flood of enger which swells from the toe of his bott to the crown of his hat. It waso't the peppery tea-drimkers 0!! Beston Lown who laWl the corner-stone # fmgtican indspendence, though their fusping of taxed tea into the harbor Whe embattied farmers’ who, by the &ude beidge which spanmed the brook st Concord, “fired: the shot heard round | the world.” 1' was the farmer-armies in their ragged regimentals, Jod by Farm- tr Washington of Virginin, who achieved the final victory. They bore misgovern- ment and over-teas tyranny without re- voit for generations. But, when at last their anger was fully roused, it burned for aeven long Years: of hardship ‘and struggle and suffering, through defeats fike Brandywine and starvation winters ke that at Vailey Forge, till it swept our ehores clean -of foreign domination and hurled it back across three thou- sand miles of sundering ocean. — “Bewnre the fury of n patient man” #id Dryden. An old Roman, Publius Byrus, sald much the same thing, two thousand years ago, “An over-taxed pati- #nce gives wajPto fierce anger” That #ame wise old Roman added in another Blace, “Thé Bow too tensely strumg is sasily broien." : It 4s hardly. conceivable, in view of Beir desceht andtheir character and et eht,’ that the fafmers of America will always bear with bovine pitience the domineering rapaoity of seganized greef, . whether it weats the| & livery of predaddry wealth or the wni- form of so-called “labor.” It Is enly a question of how far the Bow will bend before it breaks; of how much over-taxation the patiehcs il eisdure before it flames into fury. The lnit is not so very far away, either. It may not be reached today or tomor- row, it will be reached, sooner or Ister, i things continue along the lines of today's unregulated industrial an- 1 talked, the other day, about the short-sighted foolishness of picnic van- S8ls. What shall be said.of the short- sightednees of the mildons who are to- fay doing their selfich worst to bring about their own undoing? Can't they see that the Tarmer hoids the keys to the food cupboard? Can't ey see that, If worst comes to wosst, bp can at feast live on the products of his soil, while they can't oxist unless ha shares these produdts - with - them? Haven't they any beitér brains than the idiot who killed the poose which laid din a golden egg every day? Just as a matter of simple common selse, it would seem.ns ¢ even the preediest of profiteerts, whether ' in ' the pockets if én. the process he shuts off I olip the following from Capper's | the supplies for his stomach? more than disgusted at the which ‘both. combattants ignore the rights of the vastly more numerous public. I haven't found many farmers who pro- fess to krow who is in the right régard- ing the pretexts now beinz squabbled wage scale’” over, that the government, that greater pubiic and is supposed to act for it, ought to take both parties by the napg of their necks and the seats of their breeches and souse them impse- tially /in the duck-pond til they ready to listen to reason, and act hence- forth less like hogs and more like hu- man beings. 80 far 2s I can find out from he talk of my fellow-farmers, they have pre- clous little sympathy with the operators and railroad " executives in the present ruction. They -haven't a bit- more for But I have found many who think winich Tepresents are I don't ihink the ideas of the farmers, any more than those of others who com- pose the general public which is always the iiggest victim -in industrial = wars, are very clear as to the Qistinction be- tween . government manageément and government control of mines and rail- roads end other public utilities As I heard them talk, I shouid say that the more thoughtful look with much misgiv- ing on any proposal to so greatly ex- tend the .functions of government. But “any port in & storm” is a pef- fectly natoral human feeling. It won't take & great many recurrences of -strikes aiming at the fregzing and starvation of the country to @rive public senfiment into @ demand for any action,- howev drastic, which shall put an end to su oocurrences. It employers and employees are jiher or both so greedy and 8o stubborn and so short-sighted that they can't agree upon what are fair profits ~and = falr wages, Why, then, somebody with a biz stick has got to lay down the law Lo them and stind over them to see that tirey abey. it. If they are prudent. men they will foresee the eyil and héde from it. That's up to them and not to' us farmers,— yet. THE FARMER HOPKINTON Teachers of the public schoois of this town have been o far engaged as fol- rows: Hope Valley, Mavbeile C. XKenyon, principel of high school; Laura S. Yeaw, essistant principal; Mary H. Mulligan, grades 7-8 ; M. Id2 Dockery, 5-8} Paulinte Elina Thomas, 3-4; May E. Hoxsie, 1-2; Annie D, Bohning, kindergarten. Ashaway—Robert J. Torrey, principal of hizh school; L. Gertrude Stillman, as- sistent prineipal; Inez Jordan, gradés 7-8; Mrs. Samuél Watrons, 5-6; Elsie Jordan, 3-4; Sara B. Weloh, 1-2; Lillian Budiong, kinderglarten. Parberyille—Bila ¥, Barber, Rockvile—Rath G. Lindahl Deacon Roger W. Lewis. who was op- crated on at a Providence hospital last Fridey, is reported as recovering. B Razin Saturday and Sunday somewhal affected the attendance at the Seventh Day Bentist canference at Ashaway, still 2 Jarge number filled the ohtirch, also made a geod audience in the parish house. The music and speaking were of high order end all the mérvices of the week were interesting. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Brown and daughter Bettié and Rev. B. P. Mathew- son attended the pictric of the Pendleton Hill Sunday school and ocommunity at Beach pond Wednesday, Aug. 23d. During the past week many former residents have been weldomed back to town @s visitors and atténdants upon the 8. D. B. conferenoe. COLUMBIA Mrs, Annd Peck of Danbury was in town last week Vvisilibg her cousins, Mrs. Al E. Brown and Mrs. J. N. Clark. Mrs, Peck returned recently from a three months’ - tour in Edrope. Miss Milred Robinson of New Haven is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H W. Porter. . Miss Lily Littie of Bast Hartford is the Bues of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Abbott Little, an Woodward Hill, Aiss Mildred Little of Springfield, Mass., i spending & vacation at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Fred A. Hunt, at Whose #88 becorne a tradition. Rather it was|home her parents, Mr. and Mrs Harry Littls, have been during the past week. ing compaign in the town of - Colurs! during the past week fesuited in the o) Jection of $75 at the close of the week, The Jocal committes coltected $55 from the Chestrut HINl section and the Center and $20 was coliected by a member of the Salvation Aemy from the summer resi- dents ‘at the Jake. It is expected that further contributions -be received from other section's of ¥ie town wheh the visit the people. A very successfut sgpper and sale was held Thursday afternoon and evening at Yeomans hall, the mttendance being esti- meted at from 300 to 480. The supper was delicious and the fancy articles wers handewme. The total receipts were about 250. The net receipts will go for the use of the Columbia Improvement society, which has” already made improvements the Green, while others are In contem. wation. At the ciurch service Sunday morning William A. Collins, Jr., sang 29 a temor Solo Awe Maria; O Divine Redeemer. Rev. T. Newton Owen preached on the desire of our livés to do great works, which lesire s not alwavs realized, as illustrat- ed in David's wish to build a beautiful temple for the worship of Jehovah, but was =llowed only to collect the materials for his son Solomon to finish the work. The Saturday evening dances held dur- ing the swmmer mnder the management of the Victor orchestra of Manchester b=ve all been well attended. PHOENIXVILLE Bids are stiil open for transportation of pupits from General Lyon school to Phoenixville. S Mrs. Sarah Lathem is visiting her sis- ter, Mrs. Jane Barrett, of Mamchester. “Mrs. May Etbridge took four fresh air children who were from New York to Putnam Wednestiay so they coald Teturn with the party with which they arrived. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lyon, Mrs. Anne Russ and Daiel ize meeting in Willimantic Sunday.” Friday the con tal lake was attended by the pupils of the thrée schools. Peter Ozut was a Putnam visitor Sun- day. z Stanley Schumanski ied. £ At T Now BT By ot J¢ or thé labor fieid, might see| ‘Mr. and Mra.:Herbert Towne and fam- endangering here sapitalist the - tolly of Jamz, 7 What will his own ra-'lly . were £ Tecent " visitors ‘e - from golicitors have had the opportumity to This Fine Nine-Plece Dining Room Suite In Jacobean Oak 51 78-00 ‘A handseme, exceptionally weil made Suite in'the Quesn Anneg fesign, Oomprizes Extension Table, China Closet, Buffet, § Bide Chaira and 1 Arm QCbair with genuine leather weats, A won- derful yvalue you should not fail to see. 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