I Do You Know?
; From Wroe’s Writing*.
Do you know the young fellow who works for $25 a week and who j
is wearing a new winter suit that cost $85“ _ i
Do you know the wage earner who loafs because he is afraid if lie ^
does too much he'll “work himself out of a job?
Do you know Ihe housewife who is ashamed to be seen with a
market basket on her arm or to carry home a brown paper bundle?
Do you know the factory girl working for $18 a week who is
H buying and wearing a $350 fur coat? , .
Do you know the man who lets a fresh clerk sneer him into buying
a $15 hat for fear he'll seem “cheap” when he can buy a satisfactory
■’'Vme for $7?
Do you know the investor who has traded his Liberty bonds for a,»
promise of a 100 per cent profit in a stock company backed by a dis
honest promoter? ,
Do you know the shopper who says “Wrap it up ’ instead ot
“How'inuch?”
Do you know the- person who lets the desire for the momeut
destroy the results of days and weeks of thrift and saving?
Do you know the man who thinks it is not necessary to save?
Do you know the married couple who do not think enough of them
children to buy War Savings stamps for them and to teach them to
save ?
Do you know the man who says that the government savings
securities—Liberty bonds, War Savings stumps, and Treasury Savings
certificates—are too slow or too small or too old fashioned for bis
investments?
IF YOU DO, YOU KNOW PRETTY WELL WHAT IS THE
MATTER WITH THE UNITED STATES.
The Uses of Adversity. j
From the New York Times.
The present test of labor and capital is worth all it costs if it leads to a
better understanding of their relation to each other and to the public welfare.
Last week Mr. Schwab set an example of resolute optimism worthy of cominen
and emulation. He is as serene as even Mr. Gary, who now is able to
*^^^make steel with less trouble than before the strike, and to pay more wages to
workers. Mr. Schwab is sure that the common sense of the common people will
bring all right in the end. Things may be worse before they are better—in fact,
he thinks it necessary that they should he worse to reach tHat result—hut lie is
not letting that worry him. He is going on with his daily tasks and leaving the
loafing to others. Others are luxuriating in waste, hut he thinks he is doing
more for the common good by making profits through industry.
The public cannot fail to remark the contrasting attitude of some leaders of
labor, now breathing forth threats not alone against capital hut against the
general welfare. Nobody shall have any coal to burn if the miners cannot
exact the wages they demand, and they will have nothing to do with arbitration
or official awards.
The economic outlook Is now like that of the “silent panics" of the ’90s and
later, when values dropped away ceaselessly, and apparently causelessly. The
weaker brethren lost their hearts, but the wiser were braver, took courage, and
comforted themselves with the saying, “This, too, will pass away. And better
days than were ever before known ensued.
So, too, there will be another chapter in the ever changing relations of labor
and capital, w'liich will always benefit labor in proportion that capital is not
destroyed. Capital is not now dismayed, because it is beyond dispute that labor
never before received a greater share of what it produces than now, together
with a greater share of that personal consideration which is the due of those
„ who help the general welfare in proportion to the efficiency with which they
help themselves. Labor’s attempt to dominate capital is in reality an attempt to
dominate economic conditions, and will meet the same defeat as capital’s
attempt to defeat economics by statutes. Thirteen times was the Statute of
Laborers passed, when the Black Death which halved the population of England
/ put the labor market in the control of the emancipated serfs, who stopped indus
/ trial activities by the wages which they extorted. Capital’s attempt to keep
/wages -down failed, and labor had to be paid what it was worth.
New labor thinks itself dominant, and is passing its own edicts keeping
wages up and procuring statutes in its favor. Labor thinks that profits are
waste, and has yet to learn that wages which stop profits.may keep up the
rate of wages, but will surely lesson the number of those receiving wages.
Labor cannot now compel the payment of wages above worth any more than
capital could compel labor to work for less than capital was forced to pay. Both
must defer to the judgment of the labor market, unless they agree to accept
Impartial judgment on their relations. Labor has not freed itself from the
slavery of the Middle ages to accept the worse slavery of bolshevism. Labor is
not so foolish as some of its leaders think it. Mr. Schwab knows his workers
better than do the steel strike leaders. The coal strike leaders are riding for a
fall like that of the steel strike promoters, who captured the Federation and
turned it from Its conservative policy. There is neither novelty nor merit in
the “progressive” idea that property and profit are robbers. It is so far from
being a modern discovery that John Bail preached it in the Peasants’ revolt
about the time that capital was passing its futile statute to control wages. Said
Ball to the mob:
Arc we not descended from the same parents, Adam and Eve? And what can
thev [the upper elosses] show or what reasons give why they should be more the
masters than ourselves? • • • They are clothed in velvets and rich stuffs
ornamented with ermine and other furs, while we are forced -to wear poo® doth’
thev have wines, spices and fine bread, while we have only rye and the refuse of
the straw, and if we drink it must be water; • • • but it is from our labor that
they have wherewith to support their pomp.
The centuries have not altered the fact that the poor depend on the rich as
k much as the rich depend on the poor. The workers now are wealthy compared
with the peasant revolters, and the rich of that day are paupers compared with
the rich of today. Both classes have thriven together, and will suffer if they
^^ight each other. The public interest requires that neither should dominate the
tinier.
Back to Purgatory.
From the Los Angeles Times.
Among the recent news Items In a N’ew
York paper was the report of the suicide
of a member of the family of an alien
about to be deported by reason of bis rad
ical activities In this country. The unfor
tunate was a woman. She had come to
America to escape political and class ser
vitude In Russia. While her husband had
been abusing the sanctuary granted to
aliens in a land of liberty his wife had
lived the life of the lowly. But she found
It infinitely preferable to the miserable
existence from which she escaped nine
years ago, and to which she was about
to be returned.
Her husband was one of 1,000 Slavs in
America whose heads were turned when
Russia freed itself from the dominion of
the czars. He believed all that the bol
shevist emissaries told him about Russia
under Trotzky and Lenlne, and he Joined
a movement to overthrow the American
government through violent means and
establish a soviet republic on the ruins,
m wife knew what that meant. She
was as one who had tasted the Joys of
paradise only to be thrust back, because
the man had sinned. Into purgatory. The
picture of the penury and the misery of
the past was engraved too deeply on her
brain to be ever forgotten. The tragedy
wa3 greater than her simple mind could
sustain so she sought surcease from it all
under the bridge.
This woman was bound by heart and
by law to this man. Her only crime was
to have married one who was not immune
to the virus of radicalism. We shall never
know the effect of that tragic death upon
the husband. Perhaps his crude radicalism
has steeled him to remorse. The Mephis
topheles responsible for this tragic death
and broken home is probably too busy
spreading bis radical propaganda and
spending his foreign subsidy to take any
account of the flower that he crushed
ander his ruthless heel. He has walked
/ on so many of them!
/ Bulgaria Signs Blank Check.
wmf From the New York World.
if The treaty of Neuilly, signed by Bul
? garia, is In some ways definite. She limits
her army, gives up arms and ammunition,
surrenders for trial -offenders against the |
laws of war, pays a heavy Indemnity and
kisses Thrace goodby. But one vital ques
tion is left open.
Almost more Important even than terri
tory to Bulgaria is her long for window
on the Mediterranean.” Her trade rolls
k downhill to the Black sea, but at the
^ mercy of Constantinople, sitting at the
cross reals of commerce. For more than
40 years Bulgaria has achemed, fought,
plotted, sinned and suffered for an Aegean
port.
So far as this national object Is con
cerned, she signs a blank check. Her cor
ridor through Thrace to Dedeagatch is left
to the future disposition of the allied pow
ers. Practically they say to her, “We are
busy just nof: come Into the league, and
later we shall see what we can do for
you.” Hardly satisfactory to Bulgaria,
but she has no option.
Whether Bulgaria should have her road
to the sea or be perpetually penalized be
cause her czar and general staff were
hypnotized by Germany is a question upon
which honest men differ. But how can
there bo honest dispute that the covenant
of the league Is an essential part of the
treaty of Neuilly?
1 reave open a question so urgent to Bul
garia as the gain of a trade outlet to the
sea—and unless there is a League of Na
tions to hear and finally determine her
case the seeds are sown of future Balkan
wars that may once more pull down the
peace of Europe.
Demoralizing.
From the Kansas City Star.
A dirty, unpaved street In a city is an
invitation to slipshod housekeeping and
a rundown house.
A muddy, unpaved road in the country
is an Invitation to poor farming.
On His Way, Perhaps.
From Blighty, London.
She was a professor's wife, and she was
awfully proud of her hubby. One day
when the plebeian Smith-Jonese* came
along to tea, she told them all about him.
"He's a wonder, is my husband," she said.
“Just at this minute he la tn the labora
tory conducting some experiments. The
professor expects to go down to pos
terity-”
B-r-r-r! Crash! Rattle! Another B-r-r-rl
from the direction of the laboratory.
“I hope he hasn't gone," said one of
the plebeians, anxiously.
Regardless of Cost
From Blighty. London.
Merchant—You can pnt Chat cloth at S
and nine a yard.
Clerk—Twenty-five and nine, sir? The
cost price was three and tuppence.
Merchant—Cost? Cost? What do I care
about cost? This Is a sale regardless of
cost
The State Department's Job.
Undoubtedly there have been genuine
outrages perpetrated by Mexicans upon
American citizens, and equally beyond
doubt there have been “stage managed"
outrages Inspired by ulterior motives. It
is the sad and thankless task of the
American state department to sift all out
rages and determine to which class each
What Are They Drinking Now.
A while ago I traveled from Oklahoma
City to Tulsa on & night train and was
kept awake by two noisy celebrants. The
next morning the porter consoled me with
the information that our noisy friends
w'ere drinking cologne.
A Misosuri editor asks for the composi
tion of lemon extract, saying some of the
j>eople in his section are using it for booze.
Lemon extract is 6 per cent lemon oil in
80 per cent alcohol. Whisky is 40 to 60
per cent alcohol.
The Chicago health department inform
ant tells me that some confirmed booze
fightersr are fortifying temperance drinks
with,denatured alcohol and wood alcohol.
One drug store keeps some formalin solu
tion in a tumbler. When a person buys
eight ounces of alcohol the clerk squirts
in a medicine dropper full of the solution
from the tumbler, puts on a poison label,
warns the customer, and passes the bottle
across the counter. Since fomaline is vol
atile the solution in the tumbler gets weak
and there is no taste or smell of formalin
in the alcohol.
Wood alcohol carries a punch equal to
that of grain alcohol. It is poisonous and
whenever the druggist sells it he puts a
poison label on the bottle. The newspapers
say 14 people have died In Chicago from
wood alcohol poisoning since the author
ities began tightening up.
However, this does not give any idea
of the prevalence of the use of wood al
cohol. The boozers see the poison label.
They pour a fair shot, but far less than e
fatal close, of wood alcohol into their tem
perance drink. They swallow the mixture.
When they sober up and find they are not
dead, they think the poison label is a liar.
So they take another drink. Occasionally
they keep it up until they get a fatal dose.
More frequently they stop short of a fatal
dose, but take enough to bring about
otiier_hannfuL effects of the drug.
[ E\en though a min gets drunk on co
logne, bay rum, patent medicine, lemon
extract, denaturued alcohol or wood also
hol and surprises himself by not dying
and loses ail faith in poison labels, he
docs not go scot free. If a man will stick
to some of these substitutes and “kick
providers” for a fewr months he will find
out that he was unlucky when he did not
die as the poison label told him lie would.
I am not at all disturbed about this in
formation. 1 have seen communities sober
up and I know they also have their kat
zenjammer. When the regular supply
shuts down or the price goes out of reach
there is a group of addicts who will g-t
their drug regardless of law, even regard
less of personal risk. Not very much can
be done about this group of people.
Fortunately for the community they do
not last very long. Some wink out rap
idly, some slowly, but the drug gets
them all before long.
In the meantime their influence for
harm, so far as other men are concerned,
is not great. There is nothing heroic or
appealing about a man drunk on cologne.
They do not write poetry, indulge in ora
torical flights or do heroic deeds. They
generally fall down somewhere and sleep
it off and time gradually brings a new
order.
War Helps African Hunting.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
A Frenchman from one of the colonies*
writes that, due to the suspension of hunt
ing in Africa for the last five years, wild
beasts abound in all parts and one has
only to remain in one place long enough
to have a whole menagerie pass before
his gun. Along the valley of the Niger
this hunter found the partridges so thick
that the natives were killing them by
spearing into the thick flocks which flew
up on every side.
Next a herd of wild boars ran past, then
elephants came to the bank,' of the river,
and their large numbers disturbed a pan
ther which, upon leaping up a rocky part
of the shore, sent eagles soaring into the
sky. When another large bird was shot
at while flying overhead it dropped an
enormous fish it had been carrying and
escaped unharmed. And all this game the
hunter saw in less than 60 minutes!
The Talking Glove.
From the Children’s Newspaper, London.
An extraordinary invention is announced
lropi America, where a doctor has devised
a glove which can he worn by people who
are both blind and deaf, enabling them Jo
converse with others.
The letters of the alphabet are written
in Braille type on the fingers of the glove,
spaced out along their length, and the
gloved hand is held out or laid on the table
and the finger touched upon each letter
in turn to spell out the words.
Private Stock All Gone.
From the Boston Transcript.
Marks—Dr. Voronoff's idea of grafting
monkey glands
Parks—Oh. that reminds me. Poor
Boozer! Me asked me the other day if I
thought it would relieve him if he had a
few camel glands grafted on to his thirst
pipe.
Wouldn’t Be There Long.
From the Edinburgh Scotsman.
A country yokel was brought before a
London magistrate for stealing a bicycle.
"I've a good mind to give you three
months* imprisonment;” said the magis
trate, frowning.
"Yer can’t,” replied the offender dis
dainfully.
"Indeed! And why, pray?”
'Cos I've only coom oop for three
days.”
The Farmer and Labor.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
Evidence accumulates that the farmers
are not going to work well in double har
ness with labor as a political grouping.
Points of difference tend to multipy.
The farmer, for example, cannot be ex
pected to grow enthusiastic over national
ization of land. He doesn’t see how the
six-hour day will benefit him. Radicalism
that puts class or group interest above
the general welfare goes directly con
trary to his instincts.
Thd laboring and farming Interests
would doubtles like to enter into a mu
tually helpful enterprise, but If such a
thing as a political alliance should happen.
It would be on the basis not of common
Interest hut of "you do something for
us and we'll do something for you.” A
contract of this kind would stand only so
long as both parties felt It to their Interest.
The farmer’s Interest as a consumer
merges Into that of labor, but his Interest
as a producer U different This Is the
rock upon which the alliance will split.
Farmers are determined to free themselves
from Interests that have heretofore used
them to their own disadvantage, hut that
Is no reason for going over to any other
Interest which may alseo want to use
them. The farmer’s best course Is to stay
Independent and use his Influence In be
half of no special Interest, but only of the
public, national interest.
War Dogs In Parade.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
In Milan a parade of dogs which had
served in the war was held recently. Led
by soldiers, 12f> canine veterans, many of
which had been wounded along with their
companions, passed in review Home of the
dogs pulled machine guns, others limped
along willi wound stripes on their collars,
and ttiose which had suffered amputation
were carried upon the shoulders of their
soldier masters. Many of the dogs wore
flower wreaths donated by the feminine
admirers, and at the end little wagons
holding the badly injured were dragged
along by large sheep dogs.
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I
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In a “Bayer package,” containing prop
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Pain, Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheu
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Aspirin prescriled by physicians for
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tablets cost few cents. Aspirin is trade
mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mono
Itceticacidester of Salicylicacid.—Adv.
Measured in Time.
“The League of Nations is the ques
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j “More than that. It lias already
been the question of a year or so."
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An Insinuation.
Edith—Jack lias spoken at last.
Marie—And was Ids answer “yes?”
— Host on Evening Transcript.
The Cuticura Toilet Trio
Having cleared your skin keep It clear
by making Cuticura your every-day
toilet preparations. The soap to cleanse
and purify, the Ointment to soothe and
heal, the Talcum to powder and per
fume. No toilet table Is complete
without them. 25c everywhere.—Adv.
Wrong Move.
Mother -Why don’t you struggle j
when he tries to kiss you?
Daughter 1 tried that and he
stopped.
“Cold In the Head”
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Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may
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It is impossible to defeat an Igno
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Stimulating Rainfall.
By way of experiment die Australian
jovenmient will insHtll two machines
hal a scientist of that country has In
rented for stimulating rainfall hy lib
■raiing hlgh-tcnslon electricity In the
upper atmospliere.
Mail limy he as deceitful as woman
in some things, Imt he never tries to
transform a yawn Into a smile.
The wise woman rules her husband
uy permitting him to think he’s “it.”
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