Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-11
FARMERS MUST SOLVE FARM PROBLEM

body seek to discourage" them from such an ambition?
 Faurth, "A law that will require truth full labelling of every article, whether it be clothes, paper, shoes or sausagen This is the only one of Dr. Ladd's four pro- posals which is not open to exception We all agree that the buyer has a moral right to know what he is buying. Also that no honest producer or manufacturer or dealer will deny his own moral duty to describe truthfully what he is making CT selling.
 And yet, tlls admittedly right proposi- ten would be the very hardest of the whole lot to put into practicable form It would, in the ivst place, require an army of officials to enforce it-an army which would have it's inevitable proportion of in cofnRetent and cerruptible agents, whose folly and graft would combine to make it easy of avision by any who found eva sion, profitable.
 Moreover. it would require a compIete and total reversal of the business habits of the business world as practiced from time immemorial. According to Solomon, the buyers of 5000 years ago were just about what they are now Ut is naught. it is naueht," saith the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasteth. D Eh, MT. Notwithstanding horse-jockey? ? And, 2,eo0 years ago, in Rome, the then
 worlds capital sellers were likewise just as sharp as now. "Caveat emptorp is a
 naxlm of Latin law which in English means simply .Let the buyer beware" i.
 e., the buyer must take his own chance l of being deceived and cheated It will 1 be difficult work for even the U. s. sem ate ee frame a law which shall reverse the currents of human nature. Especially a. i the population involved will be dead sot'i
 against any such infringement of their his.
 toricas sight to swindie or be swindled
 Altoseth>S T these pIaRks be the best four in Senator Ladd's platform, it
 doesn't give great promise of strength ol enduranc>
 And yet, I am almost ashamed of my lself for criticizing any scheme no matter
 what it be which seeks farm betterment It is easy to criticize a builders plans 1 It is not so easy to draw up better ones Obstructive work is always simpler thar
 constructive eSsort.
 l Of one thing, though, I am reasOnabIy
 confident. That is that the farm problem win never be settled right, until it is set tied on lines ls i'd down by working far mers. Not by lawyers not by tradesmen mot by mechanics; not even by agricul tural college presidents. Said the olC i Roman: Behold my shoe: it is we'll imade and looks comfortable, you'll al I agree But not one of you knows. wher, I it pipches me"
 Some years ago farmer neighbol who had need of a new barn had a set O.
 plans made for him by a prominent ar
 chitect. They looked fne-on paper But as he puzzled over them, first one ana | then another inconvenience began to dis 'tclose itself. He wanted a strong barn The wanted a roomy barn; he wanted
 handy1Nbarn. Some of the architect bracings didn't look quite right to him some of the stabling devices suggested lmanufa acturer's idea of something to sel rather than a farmers idea of some
 thing to use; and the feeding arrange ments weren't wholly convenient. H
 tried to work out improvements on tn existing plans in these and other partic flnlars The more he pencilled and erase and re-pencilled and re-erased, the wors T.