The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-27

ton of life. The war-devastated and
dlsordered the life of the world. 1t
threw everything into confusion; 1t
left the scheme out Of balance.
Only Road to Prosperity.
We live by work. Prosperity means
production. Poverty is underprOduc-
ton. Stripping economics of all Its
high-sounding jargon, the simple truth
that everyone knows is that the world
has only the things 1t works to pro
duce.
1t may not be amiss to state a few
facts known by everyone which ex-
plain the meaning of production: we
live on the earth. 1t is land and wa
ter. In the ground are minerals. The
land grows crops. We need the min
erals that are In the ground. We need
the crops, but minerals In the ground,
as well as the fertile soil, mean moth
ing until man by his work brings the
mineral from the ground and makes
the soil yield. We must have food, we
must have clothing, we must have shell
ter, and the only way we can get these
things is by working. If little work IS
done we nave shortage. Ihere ISL
enough food to go around, there aren't
enough clothes, enough coal, and as
result the prices OF all these heces-
saries go way up. But this Is not 50
important as the fact that when there
Is not enough to feed the world some
| go hungry, others must starve. Wheh
there Isn't enough coal, some are coiu'
others freeze. When there aren't
| enough clothes for everyone, some
must be ragged and half-naked. EV-
erythlng by which we live Is the re-
suit of work. Stop work, and poverty
follows. Work, and plenty results.
Work is responsible for everything that
goes to make life worth living.
To understand Europe's condition
today, one must stop and realize that
the war stopped production. The re-
suit Is a shortage Of everything. There
isn't enough food, there isn't enough
raw material there isn't enough coal.
The whole story is told in the word
Poverty.
onI, cu-e Ia f., Work.
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.,rao hororo wa GOT VOL The nre-
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,yor,, rvorv emn,over must not con-
.u,n,,.o 90 Hnrost and nrovoke idle
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80 80 .,d Into this nocotiatjon he
sho,',d no NTH q fr,end,v snirit and a
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$50 ~ ,ooots ,ohor with the
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,,f, a. e,h. thor labor hecause
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80, ,,.h,,o ,ahor hos baap living from
hand to month and will starye. is
shorts,ch+od He had hotter get the
,doo on, of his head that Won can
etorva mon info submission. There
,rns dov whom that was true. but
tbot dov bos nosscd. never to come.
MA man who deponds unon his abIl
|, t., 30 tnrr bow in tha factory door
ona 90 ar on q vacation. imposing
, n,n vii an bis workmen will discover
.ha. thooo mon stonned certain
.ront" ,oto NJ pottsdom now of Hol-
,ond from doing t,ds very thing TO the
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