Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-09

more merciful, or insolently denounce
| Are we then to sit down inertly and
| take things as they come without IN
effort? Because we are not masters OF
to be merely its helpless and hopeless
slaves? l think there is no more me-
cessity of our being the latter than
there is possibility of our being the
former 1t is not possible to rule; II
| is not necessary to be ruined Be
tween the two lies the road of lowly
but aspiring cooperation with the uni
verse. Between them is seizable the
! chance to become learners from the
universe and co-workers with it,
There is no likelihood we shall ever
| be able to foretell all the future But
ence, to forecast some probabilities in
it-and get ready for them.
! Take that Illustration Of the July
| drought We may not know that one
| is coming this year But we do know
| that one is liable to come some year.
II we put all our farming work into
one crop. on one dry upland, and the
drought actually comes. then goodbye
to all our hopes for the year. But We
are not compelled to do that We have
land which is not susceptible to
drought as we'll as land which is. We
can plant crops which are drought
resistant, as well as crops which are
not We can, perhaps. prepare q means
for irrigatfng when the need comes.
We can. perhaps, have ready tools for
intensive cultivation. to conserve -ex-
istent moisture and save even the dews
when the rains deny themselves While
we may not be able to forete1l the
drought, and certainly shall not be able
to stop it or shorten 1T. we may still,
by previous preparation and shrewd
foresight, be able to minimize its dam
age.
And the farmer who does this il
fairly sure to suffer less, to come out
better OF. than the farmer who thinks
he can do nothing-and does it
Because we can't do everything Is no
reason why we shall not do what we
can Because we don't know every
thing is no reason why we shall not
use the little sense We have.
The other day found a nsiahborinc
housekeeper busy putting up q great
quantity of preserved citron- This, as
you ladies know, takes sugar. And
sugar costs money, these days.
Whewi" said l, you must be get
ting rich to handle sugar az recklessly
as you do They're ask1n' eight cents
for ii at the store
John, the sugar provider, overheard
me- That sugar cost me Just four and
three-quarters cents a pound" said he.
L bought q years supply last spring
one day when was in town and sugar
was way on"
Now John didn't know. last spring.
that sugar was going to be sent up in
a balloon the coming fall. Probably
no one knew it then. But every pur-
veyor for any household knows from
many years experience that sugar
usually goes up about canning season
and that it can usually be bought
cheaper some other time of the year
This particular John didn't know that
he was going to save about three dol
lars hundred on his sugar when he
bought It But he was rea souabIy pure
that he would save something He
simply used foresight and common
sense II paid big interest this time.
II would have paid a fair profit any
year, almost
But this John seems to have been
the exception. I had a whackinR good
crop OF fine citron in my gardens this
season l hoped to sell lot But thew
were mo CO." My own home market
took a very few. Neither of the two
city markets which can touch wanted
any The explanation lay simply in
the high price of sugar. Housewives
couldn't AFFORD to put UP preserves
which took SO much sugar when thew
had to pay eight cents a pound for 1t
50 l know very. very few had used the
foresight which John did in the sugar
business.
That IS just one minor phase Of n
great economic and industrial eouation
sugar Is only one of score of things
We have to buy on which we could save
money If we looked ahead Drought ,s
only one of a score of enemies we have
70 meet which we might ambush n we
looked ahead.
Il is not only in tho realm Of the
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