Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-21

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 The trssble with aIf s4hess psnties- anaassnr sehenes Is thst they don't rec ognIze the real Alsment thsy assume to suggest remedies fer, They pretend tt treat cancer of the stomach w;th medi- cinea intended for winter-itch. Yet these two diseases are, physiciAnB inform me, dpite unlike. Those who have had either corrobosate that opinion Whersfrosn reasoning creatures weuid deduce that they. call fer differing tfsatments. ,I
 The amaAear practitioners in the ps- 1itjeal free dispensary don't, any of them, senss the real cause of the malady they prssune to offer TnediclEes for. They don't know what the sickness is or what it is due to. And yet, 1t has been diagnosed correctly by . few specialists. Thls was done. thirty years ago, by Dean Ro6efts of the New York Agri- cultural college, in the case Of wheat-l growers 1t has occasionally been dope by others In regard to other erup4 But these pAinetakinS diagnosticiaas have always been private citizens, 4Sither holding nor willing to bid for public of flee They have not been of the sort sent to, congress or the legislature. They have not been adepts in duAckery OF the seed they have Seatsered has, thus far. failed to- take general root and nroduce 3 reapIable, harvest.
 what Is &hs' trouble with farsalnr and farmeEs' Simply that they do not get wages for thssr ,Eork nor pay for their
 Fair vas-s are meant, se course. and fair play.
 That is z true statement. et. the ease and correct diagnosis 6f the disease When lsgislatArs and ofseials in pow erican be brought te see So much they will, fer the first time in history, be able to consider rensdisg with intelligence. Ii will be the biggest, step. ever taken to- wards 8 hopeful treatment of the sick. ness when It's real nature and cause .are 1 admitted by the medicine dispensers 1 Anyway, when they know it's smallpox they'll have TO excuse to eontinua dosing | for measles!
 It may be that the disease, like som. others known. tp medical science, Is in, curable. In that hopeless case it will. be best to know the truth, desperate thougf 1t be. But we are not forbidden to hope that things are not quite so bad as aI l. that -.
 There was . time when smau-pox VI, always fatal In even later days a pa tient with consumption was invariably given up as doomed. Yet today, witt better, knowledge and wiser sanitation, cures. even of "the white plague" ar. l not infrequent.
 I find 1t more comfortable as well a, more truly scientific to cling to the 'belief that. Somewhere and sometime, { l real remedy will be found for thu cankering~ murrain which infects tn, | farming situation. .'
 | It may be there is.. a specific for, i which will be as effective as quinine fo 1 0P will consist in. a long course of genera treatment. But I cannot and will no give up hope that the cure win event ually be found and. applied.
 One idea which has been incubaAinr fo | a long time at tho back oe the head i, shat enforced publicity Of all charge. along the, road a product travels be tween producer and consumer would b. at least helpful. There are enor1nou. difficulties in such procedure, diff culttes due to the interfering cornplca ! t,nns which would ensue. as well as, f, the natural opposition of producers. But 1 'f the main idea fig right. its execution | however difficult, is not impossible. r. For so Illustration of wf,ak I mean, Las. week . neignbor took a load 0. ] rfrr notatoes to the city. Tf1e best prics 1 offered him hv any dealer was 85 cents " FDusHeE The very next day. bif ~rocery In the the city advertised, as ar l extra special ilarEain." to cash buy | ITS. "rice. white potatoes at &r.S5 a ,hsshel."~rEow the dealer wouldn't have done thRt. had he beaa. compelled ti brand the package in which he put .lir {. inc sn'uds: a.a . Paid John Farmer Sb cents 3 bushsi Wv prices s1.S5 a bushei"
 ! Orawnrds to that effect. If he had. hi. ''Istoners woulf have left him bald ! beaded and crpn-eared the first hour h.: store opened! They wouldn't havs "stoot | For it." Nor should they be asked to Nor should he be permitted to attemp t. Of course he would fight, tooth anC nall. against such open truth-telling. a! N"ing an interference with his business 'rrnv. Their business is quite as i'm >ortant to them as his to him. Ant H'"re are more of them. Their welfar,
 '"1iild of right receive the greater con
 ,'deration. ,' To say nothing about Joh, t Farmers interest In the transaction.
 r TIds ease Of the potatoes is a com ,ora ativeiy simply one. There. are other where the route travelled by commodit, 's mu"h longer and crookeder. ant ] where the application of the principal 0 l charge rubiicity would be vastly more complicated do not say that 1t would b universally practicable.
 But the lawsoin many states alread
 require. that fertil!zers shall be truth fully branded with their exact nitrogen
 nhosphoric-potash content. And tha
 food packages. shall truthfully state. thei
 composition and net weight And tha certain seeds shall truthfully set fort
 the proportion of impurities they con
 tain. And that no meats shall be sol
 till official inspectors have certified t
 their wholesoneness.
 If some tAinEs can Ae done. why m
 others? It Is not only the ultimate cor
 sumner who has right to legal rfrotet
 tion. the original producer has at Jeaf
 equal right to protection for his inter ,ests. II But do not set myself up as eithe
 an expert economist or g practical Ngi,
 later. The idea above suggested ma
 he impraeticsbie- It may, -Se as inpo,
 siole of enforcement as, say, the Vol
 stead act. But. if my scheme won't work, the, 1 are thousands of bright minds . in II 1 country, on farms as well as off ther
 some of whom, once the real charact
 of the disease Is understood and adrnj I ted. may be able to suggest a nj,
 which will work.
 The one absolutely essential fac4n-
 the problem Is the necessity of 9rno,
 ing what We have to cure before we I,
 deftaEes to write the prescription.