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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1923)
RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, OHDOr JOHN Q. POTTER DIES IN DENVKK, COLON A DO Word has bcOIri (reived of the do h of John Q. Potior tic died at ln ct,, Colnv.do on Friday, the 1'th. IU liody will bo brought to thV city for inlcrm'cnt nnd funeral scrire? will to hsM Wcihcwlny at 1 :!10 p. in. from tnc Congregational church. John Q. Potter, was at ono time one or the most notable men of Hod Cloud. With li's brother, Jacob, lie came to this county in 187.1. The two met. immc'liutoly became interested in the Abater power facility in this valley They b'ilt the fitvt dam acres the Republican river, southwest of Hod Cloud, and erected a m'll Iticro in 1871 They were also somewhat interested with Polly Brothers & Huberts in the bui'ding of the mill on Elm Cicck and in Franklin county, possibly the one at Naponec. Previous to the building of the flour mill, in the spring of 1873, John Q. Potter erected a saw mill south of the pro-sent s'te of the laundry. This saw mill furnished the pioneers with the cottonwoori lumber which was used quite freely Jn the early buildings of the countpou Mr. Potter wns a man "of intense energy, activity and- enterprise. Not only in a bus'ness way hut 'In social nnd religious matter;. lie was the leading man in the organization and maintenance of the Congregational church of this community. He was the recognized leader in all move ments nnd activities looking towards the moral and spiritual development of this vicinity. He developed and organized the musical ability dls-ov-cretl among the pioneers, nnd led thcrr s'nging, especially, in religious ser vices. During nil his life among us he was never even suspected .of any conduct unbecoming the highest char actor of a christian gont'eman. Not withstanding his 7onl in religious matters he was always affable, courteous and gentle of speech and demeanor. Mr. Potter was one of a family of brothers who were somewhat unusual. There were six of them. Five of them were more or less familiar to the people of Red Cloud. The young est and smallest of them fs our pres ent townsman, Spence Potter, who walks the streets in vigorous health notwithstanding he has already cele brated the 81st anniversary of his birth. His next youngest brother, diaries Potter lived for a number of years south of the river on Penny Creek, conducted a merennti'e busi ness down at the river mill, removed to Wilcox, nnd is now located at Alma. He recently celebrated his 83rd anni versary, and there were sixty-three of his famly present. The brother older than John Q. was the largest of them in stature. His resemblance to Grandfather McKim mey in size, general appearance and manner, was so striking that one wns often mistaken for the other. He was the shortest lived of the family. He is the on'y ono of the brothers who did not attain the age of four scoie nnd upwards. All of them retained their mental faculties to the last. The three youngest served during the Civil War. Mr. John Q. Potter, lias so far, raunted more years than any of his 1 rothers. He lacked a few days of reaching his 88th birthday. He was twice married. His first marriage was to Helen Curtis from New York in 1865. She died in 1893 leaving one daughter, Mrs. Helen Gamel now residing at Arapahoe. His second wife survives him. Mrs. Olive Crook, an adopted daughter dives at Hanni bal, Wisconsin. Monday's Commer cial Advertiser. Matter of Diction. A hurd-worklng, motherly woman, born nnd bred n a farm In ono part of Missouri and eventually summoned by destiny to prepare the meals for n household of miners In another section of the state, nursed u grlevnnce that la bound to morlt one's sympathy. "Here T stnnd the whole day through'," she complained on one oc casion to a friend, "boiling and sweat ing over the hot stove, trying to fix up Botnethlng tnsty to 1111 up'tho stomnchs of a lot of men folks, and then they up and calls my good grub tchccfc !" New Exposure Meter. A handy exposure meter shows the operntor how to sot his camera to oli. tnln properly exposed pictures under the existing light conditions. It con sists of a metallic scale with a slide nnd live circular windows of gradu ated degrees of transparency. The object to bo photographed Is first viewed from tho most transparent window and then tho slide Is moved to the other windows until the one Is reached through which the object Is Just dimly visible. The correct MmttorpHpeed and diaphragm opening jivlll b? Indicated on the chart. Many of Ue Misplaced. It's a funny old world where most of us are misplaced. For Instance, "Whoa" has been ulci-icd clilef of the Apache Indians, whereas he ought to be captain .of ..your wife's expense uc count. PitUfiurth Post. EDISON-FGilD FLAH UNFAft TO F&RME3 Third Article S'nws How Credit Tost Went! Fail Him in KiS tMecil. Tlio unfclrtu-an to the farmer of the Edison-Fowl commodity money" scl'pnio, although ostensibly aimed to 111. prove bin economic position. Is dls c,tin-ud In tho present nrtlclo, which Is tho third In a series prepared by the American Hankers Association, ro vlowlng tho exposure ol tho weak ne?SP3 of tho plan as presented by William T. Foster. Director of the Pollack Foundation for Economic He search, Ilrlclly, tho plan, sponsored by Thorn is Edlaon and Henry Ford, would pro Tldo for Government warehousing of basic commodities, against which cur roncy would bo loaned, during storage, to tho producer without Intorest, up to half tho avrago valuo of tho prod ucts for tho previous twenty-five years. On tho other half of tho value tho producer would recolvo certifi cates which he could soil or uso for hauls loans. Restricted Credit In that provision nllowlng for Gov ?rnmoi. loans only up to halt tho averago valuo for twenty-five years Mr. Foster finds particular weakness !n tho scheme. He points out that prlco3 havo risen so high slnco 1S0G that tho fanner could borrow on most products much less than half tho pros ent valuo of tho products much loss, In fact, than he could borrow directly from tho banks. Loans on tho other 1 half tho value, which would bo on virtually a second mortgage basis, ho says, would not ho desirable for tho banks. "The plan .Is not fair evon to farm ers; It Involves unjust dlscrlmlnn Hon," Mr. Foster says. "Tho Edison plan fixes tho loan values of all prod ucts absolutely, uniformly and arbi trarily. It Ignores tho rolatlvo pros pects of different commodity markets Only by the merest chanco would such a method glvo a fair loan valuation. Fifty per con; of tho average price for tho previous twonty-fivo years would bo too high for some commodi ties and too low tor most of them. With such details tho Edison plan Is cot coucerned. Banks Fairer to Farmers "Tho general practice of the banks ts not only fairer to farmers, but It Is sounder business. There Is no Justi fication for baBlng the loan value of anything upon -verage prices In past years. Sound banking practice ldok3 to the future. A bank for the pro tection of its depositors, If tor no other roaaon miiBt consider abbvo everything the prospects of getting Its money back. And a farmer s pros pects of repaying a loan from tho salo of his product depend entirely on fu turo prices, not at all on past prices. Last year's runs do not count In this year's game." As to tho claim that tho Edison plan would curb speculation In farm products, Mr. Foster Bays: "Thoro Is nothing In tho Edison plan that would tend to abolish spec ulation. Even after the farmer bad stored his products and obtained a loan from the Govornmont, ho would still bo froo to sell his products out right to speculators. Tho farmer would havo all the Inducements to sell that ho has today, and speculators would have all tho Inducements to buy. "Clearly, then, tho Edison plan would not provide a money that Is so'inder than gold money; It would not provide a monoy less subject to fluctuation In value; It would not en able farmers to obtain larger loans than they can now obtain; It would not dlyorco agrlculturo from tho banking system; and it would not eliminate speculation in farm prod ucts." PAPER MONEY PIPE DREAMS By JOHN OAKWOOO Hitting the pipe seems like the groatest way In tho world to got somotbjng for nothing, a whole para- dlso full of Joy far a few whiffs of opium smoke. But , By tho way, tho big luro about flat money ts that It seems to promise about as much for nothing as a whiff on the plpo. They are Just coming out of such a dream now In Germany. Hero Is tho way that German soft monoy dream goes. Say In 1913 a mnn put a ton yenr mortgage for 20, 000 marks on his farm. Marks wcro then worth, In gold, about four to tho dollar. Tho debt, therefore, was equivalent to about $5,000, In the ton years slnco that debt was contracted, tho Germnn Government has published, so to speak, trillions ol paper marks. What happened? What would happen to tho prlco of eggs II they had a hen nt Washington laying a billion eggs a day, oven If they put a govornmont stamp on them saying eggs woro worth a quarter a plocol German marks havo gono down from four to tho dollar to 120,00b to the dollar. Here is whore the pipe dream feU I i tlr"l"rly RO'-t! T' IP'S nort put Is i)-u i'.-ic- Z' i n.urks tre ti. 'ie paid Mirl, r ( otid 120,000 t the dollir Tv.-tity-thousMLd ir-iks, one--Ivb ( that, ti:erftre onral one-! .'h of a dull.ir. IG 2-Jt ct-nts On ihe tl ory t at "a marli l a mark." the debtor could wipe off his C".000 .niortsaso for 10 2 3 cents. Ios4 than tho value of a dozen eggs. That h, lie can unless tho pipe dream comui to a sudden end. For onf thing the German courts aro rul ing that the theory "a mark Is a mark" doesn't ro, thut a debtor has to glvo back a fair erpi'va't nt for whnt ho re cilvud nnd that prisent paper marks worth 120.000 to ;hc dollar are not tho fair equivalent cf former gold marks at four to the dollar. Furthermore nil plpo dreams are too gord to be fine. They are not what they seem. The smoke Is wear las off In Germany and they are com ing down to earth with a dull thud. It Is beginning to bu realized that tho not result of a paper monoy night mare Is that pro lucors aro robbeU and speculators enriched. Farmers are unablo to raise prices for tholr products fast enough to keep up with the falling purchns'ng power of un sound monoy. Tho value of such monoy slips away from them like a handful of dry sand. It brings back to them loss In purchases than they guvo of tholr products to got It The farmer uj a result can't make t:il3 moot and when he gets lnto'dlf M'-ultlos tho tin -ennd monoy specu l.i'or stops In and huys up mortgage farm lands eheu; and thus It la tr.mtly the specila'or who profits by paying off the mortgages with cur ri-:.ey worth less tl; m a dozen eggs, u:.less the courts stop him. More than thnt. If farm mortgage !:'lit can he p-.M off with almost worthless currency so can corpora Uorii pay off tln-lr bonded debt, the bunds In which ninny a farmer's sav ays, and many n widow's and or ohan's Inheritance, aro Invested. Before tho war. with marks worth 24 cents gold, the deposits of tho thrifty In German savings banks were worth over Ave billion dollars. Today, although these deposits havo multi plied many fold In terms of marks, their real value Is only about half a million dollars gold. That Is what a "loose money" plan does for common folks. Plpo dreams aro wonderful while they last but shattered health, mis ery "and despair aro the final penally Tho .ones who profit are, tho dope fellers. Unsound money. Is a pipe dream and the penalty Is economic ruin, misery and despair fox the ma jority. Tho ones who profit are the speculators. ' . ' "JUST LIKE DADDY," AN ECONOMIC FORCE By J. H. PUELICHER President the American Bankers Association. "Llko Daddy those two words, that ex press tho Imlta tlvo nature of children, occur to mo as I think or our parental re sponslblllttes I u respect to both tho thrittlnesa and tho thriftless J, H. Puellcher ness ot our boys a,nd girls. Tut accent belongs on bath aspects of thtj case, for wo have yet to find a person who ts tho perfect example ot thrift. Evon Ben Franklin admitted his lack of attainment after his years of jelf-admonlshmonl and solf-crltlclsm and his temptations wore not so great as those of today. Every reudcr will admit tils deficiency la thrift. So will 1. And what ot our children? Will they copy us? Will their attitude toward thrift bo "like Daddy's?" Will it bo thrifty or thriftless? It will at least be largely Influenced by It. Tho thrift ot tho next genera tion Is In the hands ot tno present If our children aro "out ot hand" on their habits, whom have we-to blame but oursolves? Remembor this: Tho next genera tion will be subject to tho same laws of economics, tho sarao rules ot suc cess, tho samo principles ot happl noss, as prevail today. A habit of thrift Is ono ot tho best possible char acteristics wo can mould Into our children's natures during their habit forming years. Its value will bo ap parent1 throughout maturity, whatovor tholr lot,- whether at tho helm ot large enterprise or steoring tho moro hum bio affairs ot a home. Thrift will bo tho basic principle In tho economic llfo of our nntlon and Its Bystom ot producing and exchnng Ing commodities. Thrift Is always both ot social and of ludlvldual advan tage. Each day flnd3 us expanding both In breadth and in depth of our resources ot enjoyment and our op portunities for scrvlco ns wo practice thrift. But how shall wo bring about nab its of thrift? Is thero any othor way than by teaching, whothor by direct precept or by tho unconscious oxampU of our own habits, continually Im pressing themselves on tho recoptlve minds of tho young? , "Like Daddy" expresses ono ot the most powerful social and economic forces thoro la. matsammammm' RI WMl i ! D t &$'Lrfe Yl If you must nrguo lenm the lawyer's trade nnd get paid for it. There is always plenty of good jobs to bo had when n fellow doesn't need one. If a small boy lias good table mnn ncrs ho will bear watching- in other ways. Anyone can remember a favor but it takes a broad gauge man to forget a wrong. Tho purchase of oil stock is a good investment, but, unfortunately, it pays tho wrong fellow. I find that my real friends are the ones who dislike the same people that I have no use for. Fools rush in where angols fear to trend and they usually got kicked out just as promptly. I notice thnt I am most apt to criticise those who have jobs that I couldn't possibly fill. Ono way to be successful is to know more about your own business than you do about other men's. President Harding must expect to remain permanently in his job. He has sold his newspaper. The American people may bo cre ated free nnd equal but they don't stay that way very long. The average man wants you to understand thnt he is ji nnrtv ilni-nor! good judge of human nature. Most brands of cignrcts smell like they are made of roots nnd yarbs, the same as old fashioned home reme dies. Wouldn't this bo a grand old world if people would pny their grocery bills as cheerfully ns they pay for gaso line? Someone wants to know if a man will be happier after he is dead. Well, so far, no complaints have been re ceived. If the daylight savers want to really benefit tho world let them start a campaign to reduce the use of night lights. Editors. of city papers think that all a farmer needs to be happy, and wealthy is an automobile "dn'd ' a tractor. l Mother knows how she feels to wards her own babies but she will make her small son drown a family of puppies. This, is the happy season when X-ray skirts come into their own. But they nre not half as bad as X-ray britches. What has become of the man who predicted last spring that this was going to be another year without a summer? You will have more friends and do more good in the world if you mail all your mean letters in tho family cook stove. It is estimated that the money paid for homes would pay off tho mort gages on every automobile in the country. A Grand Island man says Hastings is so far behind tho times that no one dresses up thero during the week except to go to a funeral. A certain Nebraska lodgo refuses to allow smoking in the lodge room but there is a dirty old cuspidor within reach of every chair. In every small town the people point to some individual and say he would have made a great success if he had only gono to the city. College graduates might get along better if they would realize that hav ing an education and knowing how to be useful aro not synonymous. A Nebraska bnnker said the other day that ho would bo willing to for give Henry, Ford all his other sins if he had never invented the tractor. Fred Price of the Newman Grovo Roporter, traded his flivver for a Buick so he would havo room for his family. Pel Barrows opines thnt ho will invest in a White bus next. ,, A mnn may find lots of fault with his wife but ho nlwnys admires her taste in selecting a husband. An cditur who devoter columns nnd pages of spneo to prize fights nnd big league bnsebnll is not very consistent when he refuses to donate space for other purposes. 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