The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-08-29
Democratic Ticket.
Stop the Noise.


Many people are complaining
about the high cost of living, and yet
lots of these people haven't right
to say word. The underlying fact
of the whole business is that most of
us do not want to work. We heed
not the lesson that SIN the sweat of
thy face thou shall eat bread" and
we go ahead making a noise about
everybody's mistakes but our own.
If the American people would stay
at home and go to work there would
be another story to tell. But with
half the population on the trains and
in the hotels what 10 the other half
to do except to make provision for
this state of affairs. 1t is remarka-
bic, but the truth that, notwithstand-
ing it cost twice as much to travel
and more than twice as much to stay
in the hotels as it did a decade ago,
there are more American people go
ing from place to place, touring on
trains and in automobiles and vast
ing time; more people idle, more
gambling and loafing, more extrava-
gance, more abandon, more shiftless-
ness, moro actual trifiing incompe-
tency than was ever known before.
If these people would stay at home,
go to work and learn how to do
something, then there would not be
such a storm ragged against those few
men who have put their shoulders to
the wheel and emerged from obscur-
ity and poverty to the heads of great
Industrial enterprises. These people
are not saints if they have made
success of business. There are no
saints in this world-that is, none
too good to take the money; and COM
mon sense will compel us to accept
the fact. But these people stopped
bowling at somebody else. they didn't
gamble, or stopped gambling, stopped
loafing. They went to work and the
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reason why the bulk of the wealth
has gone into the hands of few
people.
There is only one road to the solu-
tion Of this trouble, and that road
is not thru socialism nor thru any
of the devious paths of political pro-
paganda. It is plain road and there
are no rainbows at the end of it.
There are no gambling hclls and pub
lie houses on the road; there are very
few midways and carnivals. 1t is
not very coaxing and tempting road.
Pilgrim did not expect to reach
Heaven thru Vanity Fair. The road
to work is the road to wealth, health
and happiness.
The only way to reduce the cost
of living, as we have been trying
to say, is to go to work, and the key
to the whole situation is to make
everything at home-produce every
thing we eat and make everything
we wear and use. If we do this and
work with will to achieve the best
rcsults, every town and every COM
munity will become independent, and
1T will not be necessary to keep the
cars busy bringing us something we
haven't got at home. If we do this
if every man becomes producer
there will be no social problem; there
will be no exclusive wealthy class
w ealth will become matter OF
common property.
Can we become producers? Look
around at the small beginnings made
in numbers of communities. 1t may
take little time, but as sure as God
made little apples there is no other
way, and it is waste of breath and
life to chase the visionary schemes
of half-baked prophets.
Stop bowling, stop the disturbance
the cabal and rabble Call halt or
Congressional investigation jugglery
and compound extravaganza. Cut
out the cure-all legislative formulas
Stop the noise and go to work.