Semi-weekly herald., 1911-05-18

this is a mighty good and true say
| ing but when 1t comes to waging any
valuables that it is scriptural quo
tation it is our advice to you that you
| don't.
The story Of the old colored man
who prayed long and earnestly each
night that God would send him fat
hen for his morrow's dinner, but ut
terly failed to get the hen, and it was
not until he changed the form Of his
prayer to petition asking the Good
Lord to help him find fat hen and
then went out, in the dark of the
moon, to find her, that his prayer was
answered, illustrates the point quite
well, for we are taught to seek and
we shall find"
There is no promise ever made that
We shall be fed with spoon or that
we shall have meat and drink brought
to us. We can get it by going after
it.
In every branch of commercialism
the fact that "God helps he who helps
himself" is recognized and the effort
to help ones self is made persistently,
politicians also recognize the truth of
the saying and are frequently known
to help themselves" to about all there
is in sight.
The question of helping yourself is
one which has many sides, you can
help yourself at the expense of your
neighbor or you can help yourself in
such way that you are helping 9TH
ers as well as yourself, self help is
not necessarily selfish proposition
for he who helps the community in
which he lives participates in the ben
efits and becomes doubly helped.
When a town helps q manufacturer
to establish factory in the locality
the town helps itself as well as the
factory owner, employees are brought
in and demand made for resident
property, wages are paid and this
puts money in circulation, demand
for greater amount of provisions
is created and this helps even those
outside the town while inside the town
every form of business interests are
benefited.
Now, to get down to the gist of
this argument, or we might aptly say,
the milk in the cocoanut, we will
take up the question of the establish
nient of creamery at this point. A
creamery located here will help not
only the town but the county but
creamery proposition is pre-eminent-
ly one of the propositions in which
those who are helped must help them
selves for the farmers must band to-
gether and show that at least q fair
amount Of patronage will be given
before any man of capital will invest
his money in the proposition. If
fair patronage can be assured there
are men who are experienced in the
business. and of capital, who stand
ready to erect, equip and operate, a
creamery in this city.
Mr.. Thompson has pledged himself
to furnish, to reliable institution of
the kind. the milk of at least one hun
dred cows and if few more of the
ranchers of the county will agree to
do likewise creamery will be estab-
lished here in the near future.
We would be pleased to see more
interest taken in this matter, the mer-
chants should talk it to their country
trade. the preachers might drop a
hint, the attorneys might advise and
the doctors might prescribe, in that
direction and if the good seed sown
should fall in likely places and grow
1t would surely rebound to the good
OF all the country. Remember that
If we want help we should get busy
in an effort TO help ourselves.
The Board of Trade is working on
this matter and are doing all they can
do to secure creamery for this point.
but to accomplish anything they must
have the co-opration of those who
should be interested in the proposition
for they can only help those "who
help themselves"