Grand Forks herald., 1917-02-02
When MI. Pubuc.D Business Gets to
Work, There Are Many Things to do'
Mostly in Correcting What He Does'
Writes BENJAMIN Winston, OF Orr' N'D'

:.,, known beforehand. Denev onse
wen s,'1;o aeue widened their rams ma
. YOU. ,,sars ago. and one OF them .u
soa .'on th.t after they returned tina. ..,oraI
NE ne .ham had no appetite for sete t aat
1avs and some of them coulu no, osk-
.,,sat for several weeks. so tnsy oh.
Cd. "Why can't We have q 'ea eo.v-
a..oir? Sure we can: l'eau ,e SIM
Sour walls. a roof. floor: sonie paep
nle machinery, open the ccoiS ". aud
clean. and away che goes. ,,,i,c went
away she went. And Mr.. tuu',S n. as nil
ofs to take his usual nap Juso hefore.
ions upon millions nave 9o" .' small
and have done myself IN a snac- s
anu anu, uhen was acting in the capsu+ pa
we w.' ne Mr. public Do Business -.
~ ~ pnblic had not slumbered Seto ~
i,n. hefore Miss Civic League naa ~ ~
n,nch him in the ribs again anu .nt .
W., that the new abattoir dio no.
saan, s..e To he of the self-cleanlng w. w.
rietv. and there was hot time a" .hat
siee', ,, to,vn wv, that night. 1t seemed tnae e
NJ. Pnhl,c DO Husiness did not IN I'm
~ no n,,nched in the ribs SO ol.x'
about one thing. But he cooieo o't,
olaoned nm the abbatoir, ana now
cn,,erorrlate him on his success. ou. .
M puh}ic please remember that you
Nod hut one simple thing to do-kesp ,.s
clean. and on this you feil down In LIN,
n bushel of bricks. Ihen' 700. tba .ba
had no competition. You We're .d
only horse in the race. iou eo ~
fall hard and often ana yet VIII ,,t.io to
race. But suppose that your - -.
city abattoir had been DIE .,.mas
racking house with tnousaiie -, r'l,ro nro
to fall down on. and that you feli cor
resnondinrly often and instead OF De.
ino tho only horse in the race thaI
vou had been entered against all OIL
Inc brightest stars of the turf. and no
Civic league to spur you In the Iips
Now, do YOU think you would nave
come under the wire then!
And now my mind goes back 70 &,
the day when we used to thresh al
of our crops on the Public Do BIZ
principle. We called 1t the home
crew. And my mind also goes BACK
to the day when we dropped 1t as II
1t were hot brick at the very earliest
opportunity And why? Simply ne.
cause we discovered that we did not
love our neighbors as ourselves Eacn
neighbor said his own love was all
right, but that it was the other rel
low that did not come up to snun. 10
tell the truth he did not think that 1t
weigh up, that there was too much
chaff.
And now 1 wonder if our repre-
sentative. John Smith, has forgotten
all of this? 1 wonder if he still re-
members how he shook his fist at the
meek and lowly Deacon Jones and
said: when the machine was on
your farm I sent you good man, a
good team and wagon. They got
there early. they stayed there late.
They gave YOU good honest days
work. Now what do I get back. You
send me that measly team and that
measly half-grown boy in return. He
gets here about eight, he goes home
at five. He says he has Six cows to
milk. suppose that is what you
call honesty" And I wonder If Mr..
Smith remembers how the meek and
lowly looking deacon charged on him.
/ wonder if he remembers how the
deacon threw his coat about ten feet
out in the stubble and said that he
could whip his weight in wild cats
That no one had ever dared to call his
team or his boy "measly" before; that
he would not stand for 1t holy min
ute; that he could see something up
on wagon that looked darn
"measly" to him; that If 1t would only
come down he would show it that it
could have measles twice in about two
minutes. And l wonder if Mr.. Smith
remembers how he drove away lust
because he did not want to have
measles twice?
And I wonder if Mr.. Smith is 60
ing to start up his threshing machine
this fall on the public do business"
principle. as substantial object les
son to back up some Of the talk that
nc had been giving us, or will he Just
give us some more chin music" and
say that Mr.. Public will work on a
large scale, but not on a small scale:
that he can make a packing house
mum like spinning top and that he
knows 1t Is so because he has not
,rled it: and that he knows that he
is no good on threshing machines be.
cause he has tried it.
l suppose that may be all right
Brother Smith. but if it is all the same
TO you. | had rather you back thai
with your money than mine, not So
much on account of the monev but
somehow ! never did like to he
laughed at. "e
Orr. N. D. ~ '" 'i's'oh'