Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-20
THOSE WHO REQUIRE EXPERIENCES SERVICES
 MUST PAY HER BILL

other people, living under other condi- tions. The average city housewife simply has to depend on the daily visit of the -grocer's delivery clerk be- cause modern city apartments are not designed or constructed so as to fur nish storage for much more than daily wants. Furthermore in the city dis tances are shorter and methods for keeping streets open to traffic are sim pler The system sof hand-to-hand living which is practically universal in cities is, doubtless, the natural off, spring of city conditions. Whether 1t is equally applicable to rural condi tions. whether it's adoption in the country has been progress, is quite another question. t
 I, for one. don't think so.
 And I'm finding some comfort q this otherwise most uncomfortable winter in the though that its shutting in of so many country homes will tend to make their occupants take little more though for the future, when another winter sets in. =
 Experience is dear teacher. But if, as has been said, there are Shose who will learn of no other, the rest of us need not, worry X over her charges Let those who require her service pay her bill. If the bill in- cludes Inconvenience and lack, per haps even loss and suffering, it is sim ply the natural consequence of their own conduct. And the sharper these charges may prick, the more likely they are to teach greater wisdom for the future.
 Even if this winter had been as snowless and balmy cs Florida autumn. the fact would nevertheless have been clear to a good many of US farmers that we have got to return to the old ways in some respects; in this matter of keeping the farm suf- flcient unto it's own needs for one, cer- tainly.
 When the weather is fn> and the roads are smooth and the stores are well-stocked and the railroads aren't enbargoed and the switchmen aren't striking and everything is lovely with the goose hanging high,-Why, then we don't seriously need big reserves in cellars or barns. Unfortunately, that combination of serviceable convent ences isn't warranted to contin q in firstclass working order, every day and all day, nights and Sundays, twelve months to the year. Hades is i liable to break loose almost any min ute. Especially when you least ex- pect it. When your engine Is purring along most -contentedly and the road seems extra smooth is just the time for an axle to crack or tube to blow out
 Our experience during the last few years with various utterly inexcusable strikes ought to have been sufficient to teach any man with two eyes in his head and a brain behind them that the future of all manufacturing and ] transportation industries is very un- certain. They are liable to sudden and practically complete interruptions on the least occasion,-indeed, on no oc- casion at all.
 How city people are going to pre- pare ahead against such attacks on their welfare l don't pretend to e;uci- date. But for us farmers the sensible thing is as clear as day. We must revert in some measure to the old sWEtem under which, each farm was made pretty nearly "a self-supporting principality.
 l That this used to be done is proof that it can be done again. When a fortress is beseiged the safety of it's garrison consists quite as much in the adequacy of it's supplies of food and ammunition as in the strength of its walls. It cannot expect luxuries, but it ought to be sure of an ample sup ply of necessities.
 i If this furious winter leads some of us to take steps along this line for the future, it may prove real bless ] ing in disguise.
 l THE FARMER.