Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 22, 1922, Page 8

(Weitten Espectally for The Bulletin) One can hardly pick up ‘a newspaper trom any part of the country thess duys without finding fresh evidence of the ut- ter failure of the food transporting and distributing machinery. Papers sast, from west, from south all add their \tems of con&rmation GOUGING THE FARMER; SOAKING THE CONSUMER - from | Other products direct to consumers!” The city consumer iz being soaked with utter-| ly disproportionate and unfair charges for the same goods, Oply a very few) farmers, living as ons might say in city back-yards, can peddie their fruits or mm grower with a hundred acre peach rchard a hundred miles from city mar- kau. can't take his fruit, a few baskets Michigan papers tell of an apple grower | at & time, to that city and sell them from near Frankfort. thal state, who shipped | door to door. Even with the speediest of forty-seven bushels of Duchess apples|speed wagons, it would take him all the across Lake Michigan to a Wisconsin| time just to go and come. And he must sommission man. check for three cents. Another farmer sent over fifty bushels. anybody to milk cows or feed pigs or pick He got a checi for five cents. A third hadn't even so good lueck as this. He despatched a large consignment and, after due lapse of time, recelved a! at the orchard or not at all. bill for eighteen cents to cover deficit in | treight and broker's charges. Pears, plums and peaches are in about the same boat. Plcked. sorted and deliv. ered at the Frankfort docks, fruit of all these kinds brings only from thirty to forty cents a bushel basket. The bas- kets. in small quantities, cost twenty-five cents aplece this year. Farmers are giviag their fruit away to anyone who will come and plek it. - In that one Michigan county alome, experi- enced growers estimate that ten thousand bushels of apples, pears, plums and peaches are rotting on the ground, be- cause it costs the growers less to let them rot than to pick and macket them. And this with peaches of inferior grade retailing in the Chicago markets. just across the lake, for an average ef $3.75 s basket. Water freight between the Michigan orchards and the Chlcago fruit stores all the way, too. In the blg Missouri fralé belt fancy ODxark peaches are wasting by the carload chardists can't ~get hel for them. Only a few n St. Louls,.they are selling tor\$2.50 a basket A Georgia watermelon grower shipped 1 load of monsters to New York city last month. Two thousand of them, all of the tind which were. then retailing in that *ity for a dollar aplece. He got $20 for he two thousand—one cent apiece. In the western New York frult country nore carloads of noble peaches are being rilowed (o fall to the ground and rot be- ause the farmers can get only thirty ent sa bushel at the best and can't sell a tuarter of their crops for even that. Yet n - Albany. two hundred miles away by lirect raliroad route, the dealers are de- nanding $3 a bushel for those same »eaches. The Chicaco Journal, commenting on he renorts it has received, says of the ituation there “Apples, pears, paaches. plams are all wlling in wholesale carload lots at figures which nay the grower the scantiest profit. It he picke, crates and ships the outpyt vimsslf. his returns from the commission And transportation comnantes are as like- y to show a loss ‘as a profit. . When anples, for Instance, net tha Michl- tan grower five cents shel at the or- “hard, and a few days later ell in Chi- sago’s retail stores at a rate wquivalent to 15 a bushel. there is eomethiag obviously wrong in distribution methods. . . . . Fransportation facilities a*e ample. The| of foodstuffs, fruits included, | deny any nlat to rob consum- | it the fact remains that the grow- rm get about one-tenth what Chicago's ‘onsumers pay “Who gets the rest?” A Kansas paper Treight rates too remarks that. with hizh and orices oo low ‘o pay for plcking nacking and sorting ‘more than half of this coure®y's grea fruit cron ie eoiting where it ‘grew. The loss rune far into the millions. It is a rageds Seme years ngo an emstern farm paper | was furiou ed by the city organs farmer aveeazed no more than thirty- | fve cents on the dollar the consumer ( ald This assertion was nounced as a.libel on the who stond between t onsumer. Tt em hogs or thrieked Tn this frait matt rears ~ent it now clearly ap- the gets only from one to ten cents “of the dollar tha eon- ramer nays. “Who gets the rest?” asks | ne eritic. “Tt 1= a tragedyy’ declares | that_shows some gain. Tnstead of tuperating the man who tells the teuth a5 2 liar and libeller at léast {wo new: Japers are now themse'ves pointedly met- mg forth the truth Tt might ould get and ralling for an well be wished that but they woa's. They the simnle reason that the only ‘xplanation would involve a confession and 2 plea of guilty, Realls when vou get down te brass tacke it im 2 city problem. Tts selution should be laid on the cities and their sonsumers, eather than on the farm For. while the farmer s deprived of & fair price for his goods, the grieves? song. away. An’ Autumn came a. trippin’ play, lane. share. The hapiy kids romp off to An'it's a tlme to kick your right. After the latter had| have some little time to pick and basket deducted freight and brokerage and othec | the fruit. sharges, he mailed the apple grower 2| barns at least twice a day to milk the i the farms lie right against'the {serve wages by indesd being | show. WHY SOLEMN TIME ? Why be melancholy at the fallin’ o’ theleaves, Why sit weepin’, wailin’ jest because -the cool wind Fall time needn’t be a time to pull a face that’s long, An’ the Bob White's clear cut whistle needn’t be a funeral The old time poets seemed to think when Summer passed They called it melancholy days an’ sang a doleful stram At the first leaf that drifted down an’ No,. fall time is a_happy time—with promxsc everywhere, An’ business starts a pickin’ up; you’re goin’ ter get your —Phil. \H Armstrong in" Flonda Tunes-Umon. Also, he must be around the cows and feed the pigs. He can't hire fruit, these times, for all the cows and the pigs and the fruit will bring in. And so he has to sell in quantity and Nor can the average city consumer af- ford to take a day off and drive a hun- dred miles and back to pick up a couple of baskets of cheap neaches. That takes too | many shiilings for the pork. But that city consumer could combine; with ninety-nine other neighboring con- | sumers to send a special truck that hun- dred. miles, buy up two hundred baskets and- deliver them at mere cost of peaches, gasoline and one man's day’s wages. | They could, if they chose, go over the heads of both: gouging railroads and| profiteering .dealers. How much they might save .would depend on circum- stances. Partly on outside conditions and partly on‘ the amount of gumption they possesséd and the degree of cc«o')eratlonl they were disposed to give each other. Of eourse, such a proceeding would take some trouble. Tt would cause some to all the sharers in- its benéfits, and a | £00d deal to the two or three leaders who | would have to make the arrangements. | That brings the whole matter to its head. Aré_city consumers really ceady to meet farm producers half ‘way in Inaugurating a direct farm-to-kitchen trade? Are they disposed’ to ‘take the necessary trouble and do the necessary work? Thus far small signs of such readinsss are apparent. The farmer keeps the air of his fields and orchards blue with de- nunciations of the speculative buyers who won't offer him quarter value for his crops, d the city consumer turns black in the fdce over the extortions of dealers who charge him double price for the same crops. For all of which neither one is to be blamed too severelv. It's hard to be hurt without yelling. “That’s human nature. But why not take some pains and give a little thought ‘to avolding the hurt? In comparatively small citl where ¥ limits, the situation isn’t g0 bad as in large cities with far flung fringes of parked and tawn-clipped subuebs. Likewise, on farms within easy reach of v markets the conditions are not so .serious as' on those at a great distance and beyond the poss: bility of nersonal deliver; But it's bad enough, anywhere and everywhere. T can't for the life of me s why lnhor unfons with their close organization and machinery for ,concerted action, don't more widely follow the example of thase In Toledo and Chicago and some other | western citfes and usa their facflities for saying money to their members by buying for them in -wholesale uantities. They assume to act for the weiare of the wage earners comnosing them. Any reduction | in the cost of ‘foods would cer- for such welfare. Isn't a ust as biz as a dollar earn. | Wouldn't it be wiser to con- constructive economies than to attempt to increase them by de- structive strikes? There's nothing new in the fruit wasting eporte of this nresent fall. The same thing happened last fall. and has been 80ing on for vears in greater or less de- gree. It will continue next year and the vear after and 5o on till the consumers get ready to take the bits in their teeth and defy their would-be deivers, the| profiteers. Bawling and boo-hoot won't get us| anywhere, though we bell all the bulls of Bashan. " in’ the former days when apples wers worth saving, the old farmer found that tossing twige and sods at the boys in his | Pippin‘tree dfin’t brins them down So he tried a few stones. THE FARMER. ow as loudly as -Mr.’and Mrs. Willlam: Robbins and daughter Eleanor of Waterbury spent the week end ‘with Mrs. I P. Chase. Mrs. | Phebe Potter returned to Waterbury with | them. I Mes. 1. P. Chase and daughter Nellie visited in Daniclson and Putnam Sunday. J. F. Seamaps of Brooklyn, N. Y., Is visiting here. | Rev. 1. W. Carpenter was In Putnam Monday. Mrs. Ethelyn Gove and Grace E. Hill were ‘in Putnam Sanday. Many from out of town were here Sat. urday and’ Sunday to view the flower * The ‘annual flower show proved the in 'twas wrong to laugh an uttered "long the Wheatena The Cereal that “Tastes Good” Your Grocer Sells Wheatena—Recipe Book Free. The Wheatena Company, ‘Wheatenaville, Rahway, New Jersey usual success. The display of blossoms was large and beautiful. Probably Cyrus Smith and Mrs. William Pray had the largest collections, with Deacon LLuther Smith and Walter L. Bartlett close sec- onds, while Mrs. Danielson's dahlias were exquisite as usual. In fact, all the flow- ers and vegetables deserved a blue ri bon. All were effectively arranged. A. M. Paine had a large and varied assort- WEST KINGSTON past week, returned home Sunday. day. Wyoming relatives Sunday. ment of vegetables and fruit. It showed | wich spent last week with Mrs. what fruit can be grown m New. England. | Bristow. Elmer Wood had a large diplay different | School ‘ bezan Monday after from that of the ordinary gardemer. The st week. vegetables were just as fine in their class as the fiowers in theies. Mrs. W. B. Wilcox of Norwich Town, who had been visiting relatives here the Mrs. Annie K. Webster ana daughter called on friends at East Greenwich Sun- Richard H. Bristow and family visited Mes. Joseph Hatherway of East Green- Flora a vaca- Annie Weeden and daughter, Miss have returncd to their home at (awlo the beautiful surface. school, the Injun Summer’s heels an’ say the world’s all A triumph of helpfulness— so it’s called the VICTORY WITHIN slightly more than a yard in' length, the Victory Crawford gives P you three ovens, the Crawford Adjustable > Broiler, the full advantages of coal or wood cooking, the quick response of gas, eight places on the cooking top on which you can prepare cight different dishes if the emergency de- mands—and in spite of all it offers it is amazingly simple. In grey enamel all you . need do to clean it is to run a damp cloth over It’s made in black, if you prefer. Whatever the size of your family, it will cook better and last longer than the utmost demands of your investment— and the investment is surprisingly low. SEE IT TODAY AT Hourigan Bros. Wickford after a few weeks’ visit with Mrs. Carroil Arnold and family, Frank Bills and family of BlackstoR, Mass., visited relatjves here recently. Mrs. Lord and her father, Mr. urgd(. here Larech is¥in of Providence, called on Thursday aftecnoon. very poor health. friends Mr. Van Deren of Lexington, K Buckelew Helme, son of Mr. Helme of New York Greenwich. Greenwich.—Mc. and Mrs. William M. have an- nounced the engagement of their daugh- ter, Miss Mary D. Van Deren, to James and Mrs. and In Our Basement Department China, -~ Glassware, Housewares The savings offered are actual savings from our regular prices and are of timely importance to all housewives, within trading distance of this store. HERE ARE SOME OF THE SPECIAL OFFERINGS READY WHEN THE STORE OPENS THIS MORNING ChinaWare At Special Prices _ 509 Off : 2w gt o marked prices. Some great bargains in this lot. All Fancy China, including several new assort- 2 ments of Salad Sets as well as odd pieces, Tea and -Cake Sets—all at Z0 per cent. off marked prim. 209, Off o During this Eight-day Sale, we wil' give a ten ® per cent. discount on all open stock patterns, that are not specially priced. - 109 Off : Hand Painted Tea Sets, $3.16 Tea Sets, consisting of 17 pieces of hand painted [Ninpon China—Very special price $3.16 a set. DINNER sersar 929.76 100-piece American Porcelain Din- ner Sets, in Pheasant and Conven- tional designs—Special prices $29.75 to $39.85 a set. Cups and Saucers, 29¢ China Cups and Saucers, heavy jold nd on clear white china — pecial price 29c. DINNER SETS, AT $1 9'50 American Porcelain, 100-pisces, de- corated Dinner Sets, with flowered borders, choice of two designs — Special price $19.50 a set. CUPS, AT 5¢ China Custard Cups, with blue de- corations—Special price 5¢ each. Glassware At Special Prices o A collection of Boudeir and Table Lamps, a sm/o -vlruty of styles and sizes—all at bne-haif marked prices. All our licht Cut Glassware, Tumblers and 50/0 < Stoneware, a big variety to select from—all at 15 per cent. off marked prices. TUMBLERS, AT 5¢c Etched Tumblers, conventional cut- ting—these are very special value at 5¢ each. SHERBETS, AT 23¢ Rolled edge Sherbets in oolere something new—Special price 23 each. Housewares At Special Prices Auto Vacuum lce Cream Freezers, in 1, 2 and 209, Off o 4-quart size—this well known standard make ®lce Cream Freszers at 20 per cent. off marked pricess Welcome Seap, geod old-fash- ioned soap, at oid-f: lhmn-d prices, 10 bars for .. Single-faced Wash Boards — A real Medicine Cabinet, fin- ished in white uumd-Ounu price . $199 Bath Rcm Ctbln-(. wi -u en- Special ‘Price ....... . 34c | amel finish, gn'ad._vnfl\ two Whitelocks Clothes Lines, P Qiass Bowiss aiaies 5 40 ¥ lasla: f la, -tur-prod Hne—Spesinl pricy - o Pl Tt Large size Clothes Baskets — Five-piece Mixing Bowl Sets— R e e 8135 P Special prics @ Set . $1.18 H. re and Stone Crocks (covers extra) — Fbl e rolpi $1.93 | Special price a gallon. .. ... 2. Blue Enamel Round an R e | Elgctric Flat Irons, guarantesd Boddiel pal '"f.f o7 —Specialprice .. $444 | Aluminum Preserving Kettles, No. 6 Brooms—a -mnd quant- B-quart mu—-&p«anl prics. sl‘“ ity—8pecial price Flour Sifters, regular value 25¢ —Special price .......... Wax Paper, 60 sheet rolls — < | 7-quart Cold Pack Round Can- ners—8pecial price .......... 17¢ | Atiantic Col Pac Canners, 6- gJart sizée—Special price ..... $327 Special price, 5 for.. Mlmle Col Pac Canners, 12- Gln- ainlvn in four -Ixfi—‘l& 20, h size—Special price..... $433 nch—Prices are 94c to irro, 2-quart Percolators, reg '1‘3. aflnrdmg to size. Alarm Clocks, dependable in svery way—Special price .. . 9 dden bell, Allrm Clocks | price . $1.83 ular valus $220—Special price Q‘IM FRE!—'«M‘ each Liquid Venesr Mop, we will give a bottla of Liquid Veneer Polish—Price of Meop $1.00