Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-22
BUSINESS IS NOT ALL OF LIFE ON THE
 FARM OR ELSEWHERE

(Written Specially for The Builetin)
 If | should suggests that one of the chief advantages of their calling to some farmers is the fact that such of them as don't want to be business snen" don't have to be, would you khink me | crank? or a lunatica or just a plain everyday damphool?
 Probably it would take much bet ter manager of the English language than I am to put my idea in such words that nobody would misunder- stand it. Indeed. it may well be that a good many. if they understand it perfectly, will think that it is pure pifHe.
 Nevertheless, here goes:-
 Different people mean different things when they talk about busi- ness The dictionary gives half dozen definitions to meet the varying twentieth century American world understands by business" is the mak- ing of money.
 A successful business man is one who has made much money. That's the general explanation. If he carries two pockets stuffed with mortgages and has an awesome bank account and is in the habit of writing checks in. five or more figures, then he is set down as as a successful business man. He has made good at what he started to do. And nobody thinks second time of the worries and the mental y work by which he won out. But if he fails of bank account and mort gages, if he is required to pay cash by prudent associates and has hard hunting for the said wherewithai,- why, then. .he isn't a good business man" nd no one thinks a second limo of his possible intergrity or his hnselfish generosity to others or his public spirited citizenship As a bus mess man he ceases to count in our everyday catalogue, because he has failed in what we understand as the one aim and end of business,-noney- getting.
 It's that kind of business I'm talk ing about. There are some farmers, perhaps they aren't many in pro- portion, but I fancy they are more numerous than some of us think who don't take to it. don't admire it, don't even think it ought to be their thief end in life.
 Pm calling attention to the advantage they hold as farmers. They needn't be business like in this fashion if they don't want to be-
 Of course, farming is business in the original meaning of that word i. ?. the calling about which one busies himself. Equally of course. the farm er must sell his products for money, in order to get the money wherewith
  from others.
 Thus far, the vocation is no differ ent, essentially, from any other busi- ness. It implies exchange of products for money. it demands consideration of proper values so that the farmer may get his crops worth of money when he sells crops. and his moneys worth of sugar or shoes when he buys sugar and shoes. That's about where business stops.
 But that's where farming does not stop.
 Farming is not only a business, but it is also and much more importantly a Life.
 And it is just as true, now. as it was nineteen hundred years ago, that 1 the Life is more than meat and raj 1 ment,-or bank accounts.
 not disposed to slang whang l the successful business man, just be- | cause he has amassed wealth. I am l not disposed to sheer at the business ] farmer who follows his natural bent l principal end of farming. It takes all | sorts to make a world and these do 1 aheir part in the appointed order of l things and are necessary to it.
 On the other hand. let us be willing | much devotees of the dollar as ser | wants of their own souls
 1t IS customary in practically all 1 that IS written or talked about farm l