The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-11-09
WIG WILL WEAR
IMMORTAL GROWN?

J. J. Fecl1ler in the November issue
of The Pioneer Life says; Many have
been the comments on high cost OF
living but few have advanced logical
reasons for. our present deplorable
economic condition, or advanced the
ories to remedy II Our presidential
aspirants attribute this condition to
political intricacies while others blame
the trusts. combinations of capital or
the butcher, the baker, the middleman,
the farmer, all of whom 1t is said
charge exorbitant prices.
The consumer who complains about
high cost never stops to consider how
little he really consumes and how
little he wastes In his frantic effort
to live, ns he thinks. within his
means.
The money expended to place in
once our administrative machinery
is far greater than the salary they
earn during their term OF service. The
amount OF food and drink We consume
that ia not only Unnecessary for gus-
tenance and absolutely detrimental to
health costs more than ten times as
much as the nutrtttve life giving prin-
cipals naturally absorbed by our
bodies. The cost OF unnecessary dec
oEative clothing and jewelry is thou
sands of times greater than that
which comfortably protects us. Every
p4ShDuT6, we Duy COSt8 AuhulSu
times. more than the one we create
and oftentimes we enjoy It less. We
burn UP dollars worth of gasoline in
a. mad rush to go nowhere and then so
home and chew on an s cent steak.
We gaturate our system with poison
Gus nicotine and go without fresh
fruit. We 60 without light and re-
main in ignorance of the best Htera-
ture. We save fuel and freeze, all to
initiate others, to make as good an ap-
pearance as someone else.
Socially we are a. mad crowd, ready
to buy and waste anything and every
thing in Imitation Of another which
creates a demand greater than the
supply and the price of every COM
modify gose sky high. Economic ex-
in the opinion OF some,
may seem like, taking a step back
ward, but 1t Is time we should step
back. Most deaths under the age of
four score and ten are attributable to
nerve waste, a disease known as
tmerlcanitis that primarily effects the
commercially and socially ambitious
whose principal object is to waste.
We have reached point where we
can see, the necessity of a movement
for the conservation of human life,
nerve energy has been overtaxed for
wealth and waste. Now let us bal
ance our stilliards! ..E'-.-~. -. -.
.-.t The Solution. 1884,.
4 Let us live in imitation of those
who initiate us and the problem is at
least partially solved. Let US point
with pride to our cheap new frock
and call attention of our neighbors
to the fact that it adds to. our ap-
pearance. Let us discard all unneces-
sary personal decoration and speak
of it's wearing as an antiquated and
barbaric custom. Let us teach our
children through our public and pri-
vate schools the chemistry of foods
and refuse to put anything in our
mouths that is incompatible with ma
lures requirements. Let us chids
the scoffer of our eccentricities by
paying cash for our groceries, point
ing to our savings bank account, old
age annuity and the. worry from
which we have been relieved.
Who dares proclaim himself a hero,
a. saviour, and live his own life inde-
dependently of what he thinks others
think of him.?
The Psychological moment is b. at
hand for influential independent
Americans to set the pace and save
us from the calamity of waste. For
such awaits a crown Of immortality.
J. ]. Feckler.