The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-11-21
of friendliness and reciprocal helpful

of friendliness and reciprocal helpful
ness among our people.
The strenuous. business life, tn tel
ephone, the closing of the stores at
at six, the elimination of the saloon
and other changes have practically
done away with the social part of our
business life and the effe ct can not
but show up in the running, If some
thing is not provided to take the place
of these avenues for the cultivation
of friendships, without which, do
not believe, the business of Hillsboro
will grow to any greater extent than
would naturally result from the nor
NAL increase In population; but do
contend that the business of any com.
munity can be promoted far beyond
the proportionate limits of increase
by numerical growth If the proper
effort is made. So also in the social
and religious worlds. Close friend
ships and spirit of confidence In one
another, consistently maintained,
will increase the business, FIJI the
churches and eliminate that fendish,
secretive and selfish disposition to 90
1t alone for the honor and glory of
self at all hazards, even though the
doing of 1t may wreck all ones neigh
bors and fint-lock the soul hey vnd
recall.
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and to the county If we all could see
that by helping our neighbors we are
also bettering our own condition and
that selfish, individual business meth
ods rarely help any.
1t Is to be hoped that the business
of the town can be so conducted, that
there will be a stop put to the habit
of sending away for commodities by
the farmer, whose trade legitimately
belongs to Hillsboro, but to do him
justice can he be blamed for bnying
where he can save the most money
when he well knows that the grocers
are shipping in car load after Car
load of potatoes, for example, from
abroad, thus killing his local market
for that product when the miller
will pay him only within ten or eleven
cents of the Cincinnati markets for
hie wheat (the freight to Baltimore
being only six cents per bushel and
much higher marke. than Cincinnati)
and charge him almost 30 much per
pound for bran and middlings as he is
willing to pay for the whole grain
and when the butcher will allow
him but two and half to four cents
per live pound for good beef cattle
and then charge him fifteen to eigh-
teen cents for good beef per pound,
and that for animals that will yield
ffty.eight to seventy per cent of edi-
bic meat beside the hide and other
offal?
Those things and many others, In.
cluding the filing of the roads with
automobiles, have frightened the
country women into remaining at
home and set the farmer to thinking,
and the result has been the flooding
of the mail order houses with business
and cultivation of spirit of every.
body for himself, regardless of the
fitness of things.
The remedy lies in an universal
awakening of all the parties to the
difficulty, to better understanding
and friendly return to the old con-
ditions, based upon mutual conces-
siOns from all sides, for there are
sides, to the end that there will be
open frank dealing and no mean ad-
vantages sought to be taken, for
really you must know by this time
that the farmer he knows things. He
sees more of the world than you do
he has more money than you have,
and he Is broader man, speaking
generally, than you are, and the
sooner you find 1t out, Mr.. Village