Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-12
ndN, them on hand for a days work when imperatively needed.

An6 now, when the necessity for unusual measures is past and the need for 9 return to normal conditions and | noImaI production on normal terms is pres Sing-now whole lot of us seem | to be unwilling to agree to that re- tUiI A whole lot of us want to con- tinue indefinitely the abnormal allow | ances and be granted indefinitely the | abnormal indulgences which were per | mitted under wartime stress. Per- | haps they were necessary then; per l haps they were not There is room for | argument about that. But they are neither necessary nor permissible now.
 When a man is sick he is dosed with medicines and fed up on dainties. When he gets well he stops taking medicine and resumes eating corned beef and cabbage That is, if he pos sesses judgment and desire to take un again his share of the worlds work. Hr mustn't expect, because he was given chicken soup and jelly when l sick, and required to lie abed and loaf when conYalescing, to continue that diet and that loafng when he gets we'll
 1 Nevertheless, that seems to be ex- | actly the present attitude of altogether i too many in this home of the free and 1 land of the brave. They had a sim l ply beautiful time loafing when a pa ternal government was willing to pay | big wages even to loafers. They ex- 1 pect to keep 1t up the rest of their | lives.
 From all parts of the country and | from all varieties of industry comes the same report, that wages are high 1 CT than ever before known, that hours of labor are less-and that production | iS O11lI a n whole rar | hour and per man, In other words, l the loafing poison haB spread every | where. This does not mean that all woIkmen are infected. Far from it. If they were. the situation would be utterly hopeless. But so many are that while not hopeless, it is serious and mcnacing
 The worst os it Is that there's no earthly use in preaching or exhorting about 1t. The rest of us have got to | stand it, as well as we can and as long aS We must.
 I'm not inclined to set up all farm CTS as saints or even as self sacrificing laltruists. There are some farmers lazy enough to belong to the I Won't Works-if it wasn't too much trouble to iein: and some mean enough to profiteer off sick baby's needs. But such critters are exceptions. The rest of us despise them more than city peC pie can. As a rule, farmers are still ready and eager to do a fail days work for fair days wage.
 And we've got to insist upon it tha
 others shall do the same, or suffer tho consequences. So far as other cause! l.lead to high costs, we must continue
 to suffer with all other classes. But so fac as loafing on the job contributes to the hign cost of living, we must no only fFown upon it. but refuse to com
 promise with it.
 If we can't get competent and eff
 cient helD to assure normal and eco nomical farm production, then w must refuse to join the squanderinI | hordes. and let production dwindle 1 There is no use in our holding the ax l on the grindstone if no one will tur1 t the stone. It would be folly for us [ F attempt the impossible. We can, per . haps, make bricks without straw, but 3 | by ginger, we can't make them with 5 out clay or something to burn ther : with:
 I It may be that there are those wh 3 will never learn that they must ca
 bread in the sweat of their brows-ti theT have to go without bread for
 while. Loafing is pleasant to man
 pec7le-so long as the waistband
 kept reasonably taut. But even loafn I'leses much of it's charm when ths
 waistband has to be buckled up
 notch or two every day, by reason (
 the emptiness within.
 THE FARMER.