Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 10, 1922, Page 7

THE FARMERS TALK] TO FARMERS 5 \-—-— CURING “THE ECONOMIC DISTURBANCE" (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) There has been 3 good deal of discus- sion abow: that startlinely frank address of Secretary Wallace, since you and I eaikved it over several wecks ago. Yowll remember what he sald-in that speech— it will bear re-reading: “Prices of farm products are still al- together too low. They are. below the actmal cost of production, and far lower, relatively, than the prices of mest other commodities. The farmer |is putting less pay for his ‘work than any other group of works Ho is getting less return an his invested capital than any other comsiderable group.” To verity this gemeral stajement, new appears Senator Ladd of North Dakota, with a report of farm conditions in that state, from which he has just come east. emator Ladd expresses the comviction that things are about the same all @ough the west, but he confines himself to his own state, because he has seem #ow things are there with his own eyes. 1n brief summary his report is that the farmers can't sell their crops at evem oest of production, and can't get what Ithey do sell moved b¥ the railroads. Potatoss, for e. He sald North Dakota farmers could get only 19 ceats o bushel for potatoes and that if 8 [Easmer lived seven miles from market it fwould eost him 23% cents a bushel to dig the potatoes and get them to mar Wheat is, prodably, the chiet grop & /s # * In the mext year- thousands ifasme in North Dakota will be sold for |the mertgages.| Farmers cannot get enough out of their crops to pay interest gveater farming states. are sufficiently outspoken, % 10 atiract the attention evel city consumer. They have some such attention. The In- News, for one, after summar- ‘Wallace's statement, re- that it is not simply a questiom farmers, whethe# they sball go |bankrupt and be fdveclosed or not. “This Jcountry camnot prosper permanently and |soundly,” says The News, ‘while the gveat industry of agriculture is being af a loss. The farmer cannot without all the people suffering. * + ¢ The social effects of such a sit- uation, are bad in the extreme and most dangersus.” Aod so on and s0 on.' The facts are E enough They are admitted by o one denles them. No one’even o minimize them or pooh-pooh to explain away i s, What are we go- ?° And that is where cures proposed as there are schools of political medicine—and that's saying a mouthtal. One wants legislation to emlarge and stmplify farm credits, so the farmer can borrow more money on easier terms.. One wants il dealing in grain futures forbidden, so s to shut off the specula- tors from speculating. One wants the tariff on all farm pro- ducts put up.so high that no foreign products can possibly squeeze through its bazs. . Oae wants the reilroads compelled to take all the wheat and potatoes that are offered and to carry them wherever told, instanter, and on pain of confiscation i they don't. In spite of disastrous experiences with government management only three or four years back, some few still want government to take over and operate the railroads. Others want all regulatory, laws re- pealed to permit a return to the old days of cut-throat competition one week and monopolistic extortion the mext. No great number seem to agree upon any one medicine. In the meantime, the patient isn't getting any Dbetter. We thought, a year ago, that the murder- ous deflation of 1919.and 1920 in farm products had ended and that farmers, as well as other people, had got started back towards economic health. But it seems not. It is not demied by any in posi- tion to kmow the truth that things in the great farming states are worse than ever before. The Cincinnatl Enquirer doesn’t think legislation of any kind is going to help much. It asks : “What then is to be said of the fail- ure to produce the results desired? Sim- | ply that the congress of the United States of America can not alter world conditions. | Beonomic disturbances affecting the globe | are at the bottom of the farmer’s un-| fortunate tgoubl Ye-es; perhaps. That sounds sort o' sensible at first reading out loud. But— “Econgmic disturbances affecting the globe” don't seem to have a similar ef- fect on the prices of manufactured goods or the wages of railroad brotherhoods, say. They don't seem to have any mark- edly depressing effect on the prices of building materials or the wages paid to the building trades. 1 have » little good pime on my wood- lot, I was offered $6 a thousand for it, on' the stump, almost twenty yvears ago. At that time I could buy pine lumber, sawed, for $22 a thousand. Now, I can get no offer of over §6 a thousand for that same pine, on the stump. But if I want to buy some pine koards the lum- ber-dealer in town asks 390 .a thousand for them. Being but a simple hayseed, of per- haps not too bright mentality, I can’t for the life of me see why “economic dis- turbances affecting the globe” should be responsible for knocking down the price of my standing pine trees, while its ef- fect on sawed pine lumber is' to boost the price move than four times. Such a copdition irresistibly forces the question whether sauce for the goose'is, after all, sauce ‘for the gander? The wisdom of the ancients is in that say- ing, but, somehow, it doesn't seem to fit, existing conditions. There was once a time when the most talked about ‘railroad mapager in the countyy was reported to have summed up his idea of railroad management in “The public be ¢—4d,” and when the admitted rule of all was to charge “what the traf- {|fic would bear.” Yet in those reprehensi- {|ble deys the freight on a barrel of flour from St. Paul was only about half what it is now. Again, I ‘can’t for the life of me see why ‘“economic. disturbances affecting' ‘T:e Woodstock Dairy SHANNON BLDG. LOW MEAT PRICES FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY P TAURAGE 82¢ BT, b .. 40C Pound . ;. 16 NORWICH, CONN. FRANKS Pound e ———————— BONELESS HAM 9 SHOULDERS, Ib. 30¢c Pound . STAHL’S FAMOUS BACON, pound ........... 38c ORANGE-KOUNTY BUTTER, Ib, 43¢ Wch Market en’ Auoéiati;m R You still haye a wide range of home-grown vegetables to supply the needs of the family. The latest addition on the market is Kale, seasonable untjl mid-spring — cooked with any salt meat, it furnishes the succulent portion of 3 meal in a very satisfactory and appefizing manner. Try some for the vegetable part of a hearty dinner. Prime Hothouse Curly heftuce is to be had daily at all steres, and during the cold season Horse Radish is a very tésty relish, besides having an exceedingly beneficial and tonjc, effect on the system, Your body craves this well bal- anced, healthful food, known as vegelables—so ; EAT MORE VEGETABLES ! " Panne ~ Matrons Hats Ready-to-Wear Silk Velvets That borders on theSenmtxoml Hundreds ofNew'Trinmd & Tailored Hats _ A e of the entie'siodk of -one of the lagest manufacturers, offers this UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY. the globe” should knock down the price of wheat to the western farmer, and at the same time Pgost the cost of freight 1o the egstern copsumer. This *econpmie di 7 scems to be a Tather queer sort of gun. It shoots both ways at the same time; at both breech and muzsle. - And jts kick is manifestly more damaging than its ‘dis- % € \ FeaEiA] I think about it, the mdre icult it beco me to understand o the sarms JBetisbence” cah work 1a opposite directions- gt the same instant. Senator Lagd is s Jittlo more direct in bis cxplanation, He ‘admits that one souzge of trpuble is Europe's inability to buy. and .pay for our graims, but says flai-tooted that “90: per sponsibility for low prices to farmers is due to wlfill&fiu by hig forces. This, tep, is 2 little yague. Just what “big. mtu'an’w a‘m he mean the wheat ic t? Or the - 3 3‘ M mh‘p ‘;M f;.w Pew? Or the prathe ookl o€ il d i conductors e graim brokers of the east? - = a feel as gore about it as Y one. 20 ‘mad ‘at times mzt” Td really 1&? to hang somebody. But I want to be sure. it’s the real of- fender who is gt the other end of the Tope. 1 don't want to turn off an imno- cent party by mistake orthrough mis- information. And there gxe so many di- vergent accusers and defendapts that I can’t ifportion an informed and ade- quate yerdiet among them. They say' that farmer organizptide el s g iaiie Perhaps. . Or- ganization is a power, ithout But i organization. smong farmers should resuit in any such sbnormal growth of grasping greed as is the case in -uni i of New Vol rad it s Tades tiren into a farmer’s organization T s e T e ey Tt pan ‘woul TR rat e e sy mek Co-opération is. S oe vk anotier sussested sure. X contors that the whale question s o 1 HATS AT THIS PRICE, FOR THIS 1S THE SORT OF OFFERING THAT 1S SELDOM, IF EVER, DUPLI- CATED AT THIS TIME OF THE SEASON. in the co-operative movement in - this |mertown, Wednesday country. If it ever comes, it will come as a slow development; a growth meed- 8,10 attain results. generationt g Meanwhile the burden is crushipg, and e may |ing relief is nowhere in sight. have effective cqoperation ia or g hundred vears. But that won't relieve a breaking back this year. _ ' THE FARMER B GALES In the state election Tuesday the polls were located in the Country club house. The polls’ were opened by the town ficials sho came here from Ledyard €en- ter. ~JThe election officials for this, the secopd district of the town f Ledyard, were as follows: > \ Moderator, Fred E. Richgrds; .eheck- ers, Mrs. Emma S. Bennett, Miss Laura A,. Perkins; ballot te) village, resent affer the polls were closed at 5 p. m. after the votes were counted they ::-d- ce ;. e d and seyents at the riub house, § iblical [ || republionz aad § demegratic, and 1 epist The town of Leliyard polled'a largs re- pul wajerity. = - ? . The Nelghbarhoed Pinocle cjub of the Stoddard district held a m&..,.z the home of-its president, Mrs. Avery Main for reorganization reeently at meeting Samuel Lester the by oxl‘melp;(.r;,g. ome T i 3 Refredhments ..é’ 'lerv?d‘.ln‘ 2 hour enjoyed, % wilh O Ferry club make the the and Neilan 4 Lawson and Huributt and Satterice 1-5, * Richards and Parker 2.5, § Gales Ferry clup will play the uuhunnaq&u_ ais- ‘he otice has Yl ; upon telephone operators aad tel« BAKIN on Armistice Day, Nov. G POWDER /S €