Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-13
A PROTEST AGAINST ECONOMIC lDlocY.

1 of weod-pulp and more than 1.200, ,00o cords of wood to make pulp out of. | This, because we did not have enough TtSl7o- wood available in our own forests to surply the demand Of the hungry presses all over the land
 i The natural, nay the inevitable result of l this domestic shortage and these foreign 1 inportations is to keep up the price of | wood pulp and the paper made from it. l There isn't enough to so around, and ] printers whose necessities com lei then. 1 to large use of paper are forced to bid i against each other In order to secure any | think like their fair share of 1t.
 | Yet 1t is stated on authority that. the very year we imported those 600,o00 tons, of pplrs and those 2eO,OOo cords of making wood. fully twice this amount of good paper-naking material was thrown away by the sugar planters of American 1 plantations
 ] When petroleum was first pumped out 1 cf the earth It was solely to get kerosene from 1t to burn in lamps. When this 1 Illuminating oil had been extracted the residuum was thrown away. It was class l ed as refuse, waste, a nuisance to be got l rid Of. But this lasted only a short time. | Gradually, one after another, uses were discovered for this refuse of the rpetroie- um refneries Now the Ecrld gets nos only kerosene. but also gasoline and ben zine and nspttro ard dyes and Navorins l extracts and Dord knows how many other useful products from that waste.
 The big meat -packers' report, and cheTe is no proof that they are untrutil- tul, that they often sell all the meat trom steers they slaughter for less than they paid for the steers. Yet they take money and big money, at that, by utilz- ing the wastes. It is their boast that, when they kill pig, they save every | thing but the squeaI. Same with other meats. Of course they always have util- ized the lard, tallow, hides, etc But none Of the rest is wasted. From what butchers used to throw away, they make glue and buttons and bone-meal and tankage fertilizer and brstle brushes And score of other articles of wide de- mand. Enough to more than make up any losses they may bear on the meat Itself. and to return good profits.
 Other industries follow the same course, saving with meticulouS care the hy-pToducts which formerly were scorn- ed and rejected as mere wastes. Ever the beet-sugar makers Of the west sAl 'heir beet-puE3 to cattle feeders and are Hy the additional income it produces, en. ;'bled to keep down nroportionately tn, cost of their sugar product.
 But the sugar cane planter still stick, to the old ways of wasteful ignorance
 He throws away about ninety Der cent
 of the bulk of his crop. after taking ou his ten ner cent. of sugar and molasses
 He calls it 'i5agasse" or trash. ant D dumps t in tayous or burns t just t, get 1t out of the way. He does this witl some three and a half million tons ev cry year. This is an amount which, 1 f saved and made into paper, would hay
 more than supplied last years shortag
 in our paoer-pu'1 supply, would have ob , viated the necessity Of importing hun
 dreds Of thousan6s Of tons from Canal. and Norway would have brought dowI
 nearer to normal the prize of White na
 per and, at the same time would hav
 given the plaeFers an additional reve nue whioh would have no-niitted them |
 sell their sugar orrorecial}ly cheaper an = yet Ttai5e. themselves. more money
 Instea,' of which. they continue f
 throw their valuable ou'3 away or bur
 it It1-aDd call on congress to put a sti!
 hirhH- duty on sugar to protect thei
 business
 There used to be a saying that Go l helps those who help themselves With
 otl- any irreyerent ascrDtion to cor
 gross of any of the functiors or quail
 ties Of Deity, that body might we'll SUE
 gest to ;he Louisiana sugar planter
 that they had better begin to hep then
 selves little more intelltsently and q
 fcientlT before they demand further ou
 side aid
 We aN know what shortage cf sugs
 with accompanying high prices mean
 We have been through several years
 rationiug in soaring markets. Also V
 can all a-."Tectate what 1t means to
 able to get all the sugar we want at
 reasonable price. But few of us know.
 even suspect, the extent Of the burde:
 and the grioing Of the worries whit