Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-25
CONDITIONS FOR WHICH THE FARMER IS NOT
 RESPONSIBLE.

1 in this world for the simple reason that
 no such thing exists in 1t. Our lives are the best compromises we can effect be- tween compounds Of good and evil. If 1.-the good in any case overbalances the evil in our judgment we are as lucky. as we can expect to be.
 The country dweIler can have his own fresh eggs and his own sweet but I ter and his own fruits and his own veg etables and his own juicy Spareribs and his own fuel ad libitum. But he can't
 have a trolley passing his door, nor ! delicatessen store just around the corner, nor. a dry goods palace across the way, TOT movie show in the next block. The lefty dweller can have all these latter con- Yeniences. but can't ind room to store even barrel of apples or bag of pota- l toes if some eyer-stocked country cousin makes her 9 present of them.
 There you have it.
 But, for the life of me, can't sec why either one in country or city, having chosen, his or her environments. should
 blame or criticize the other for it's disad- vantages. I don't find fault with my city neighbor because he has electric lights in his house while I have to Wo-- | ny along with kerosene lamps. He isn't to blame for it. Nor is 1t clearly ap- ! parent HOW ne Cdu even up l1lc 1usttlcT. Why should he. on his part. have any grouch against me because have plenty
 of room to keep things, while he hasn' t enough to swing the proverbiai cat. Strange such a difference should be I Twixt TweedIedum and Tweedledee,' =
 But, the difference, being admitted, why
 should Tweedledum expect to be himself and Tweedledee both at the same tinae2 It can't be done At least not in this lpresentB state of existence
 I The stsrage problem, of which my anonymous correspondent complains, is a city problem, to be met : and solved, if lever solved at all, by city builders and lefty dwellers. It is one over which we
 country people have no control. no infisl-
 ence. even. and of which we have but slight knowledge.
 d The same is true of the middlemen,s
 exactions, of which city buyers make loud
 complaint. That too. Is an urban prob lem, fo be settled between the city con sumers ard the city retailers. We wht have chosen country life-for one req son just to avoid such exactions-are b.
 our very position outside the quarrel
 unable to understand it fully, and pow erless to compose it equitably or any oil
 way.
 I If the disputants get so unduIy ecit ed as to throw Dr1ekS over tnelr oppon ents' heads and through our windows, ",
 may properly enough send them back, '
 0. D. But it is not our fight in any sense And we ought not to be asked to stalS,
 any share in it, nor be compelled ever to swallow any of the dust raised il :he squabble.
 Should our unhappy friends reai1.
 want more room, there are several hun kdred million acres of land in this cohu 1I try begging for tillers. acres whereoi
 .hey might reach ont and stretch ui land expand like the frog of, the .fabl
 who would be an OK. If, however the, Iprefer to live in upstairs closets amonl
 the white lights and the movies, they cal do thaf.. Within the limits of their ow } capacities they are their own masters.
 But candidIy object to being calIe } on to help them settle problems they hay | themselves chosen o- even to being ask ed for much sympathy with them in thei 6 various predicaments Every man to hi 1 trade, and every one 10 his own job. :. It 3 those whose shoes pinch them elthe
 have them a1tered--or wear them in s 5 lence and with as near to a s1nilesas thel 3 cramped toes will permit.
 THE FARMER