The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-01-07
RELEASE JANUARY i, 1920.
Statesmen and Advertising Men to
Lead the Way in 1920.
By William H. Rankin, New York
Chicago.

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4 Work -Work-More Work.
| More work to the hour.
| More hours of work.
/ 8-10-12 hours Day.
/ We're behind. Let's catch up.
Let us put more work into every
hour and more hours into every day
Ito serve as an example to other work
ingmen and the rest of the world.
Let us do our best to make Pro-
lgress and increase Production through
more work done per hour and work
more hours per day.
Let's work with all our might-all
our brain-all our heart to make the
world see that the only road to per-
manent prosperity is hard work.
1 The world needs more of livery
ithing. 1t looks towards America to
Iproduce. What will America do? Lis
ten to siren calls of the false gods
of unrest, Or get down to business?
4 Will we shilly- shally, parley, delay,
linger and wait while the word
starves?
| viii our American workmen be
blind to the cause of the High Cost
of Living.
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themselves up by their boot straps,
in an attempt to beat the high prices?
| viii they fail to see that every dis
turbance-every hour of ''lay off,
costs them more than their higher
wages?
Will they be blind to the fact that
shorter hours, higher pay defeats the
/ end they are seeking? That higher
pay for less work means higher price
for less of everything they need?
| Will they persist in their frenzied
"dog-chasing tail methods" until
the erase of unrest spreads to the
farm?
Will the farm hand demand a A
hour week, and thus boost prices still
more?
Will the American workman contin-
ue to be the unconscious tool of Boil
shevists and L. w. VS.? Will labor
act as "cat's paw" and SINCE itself
in the fire of discontent-to further
the cause of destructionists who would
immortality for morality?
| Will Americans let few "born in
bitterness" foreigners whip them in
I to a tempest of discord, that will
] wreck their life and Liberty?
4 No, thousand time no.
We have faith in the American
spirit
Deep down in the heart of every
American working man or employer is
a patriotism as sturdy as that of the
men who made the Declaration of
J independence
: This was shown in the great war.
1t helped to win the war 1t will de-
feat the insidious foe of American
Progress and Prosperity, disguised as
the friend of the working man
Production alone will cut down the
cost of living. PRODUCE ion means
work-an honest days work for the
farmer, the plumber, the carpenter,
the office man, the office boy. 1t
means work with hand, with heart,
with brain.
The price of prosperity is work.
sae price of contentment is work.
Good, faithful service for good pay is
the salvation of America and of the
world
We are away behind on production.
Prices are soaring. The old law of
supply and demand always works. In
crease the supply by work and prices
will come within reach.
Because men are now off their men
tai balance, the country is off balance.
1t is up to the advertising men to
work to help to restore balance, to
reduce prices by increasing produc-
ton. Increased production will make
present wages buy more. It's the on
ly way to break the vicious circle of
higher wages-less work-higher cost
of living.
Most laboring men think that the
men in the office, the statesmen, the
advertising men and the clerks-all
have an easier time than they, that
the inside men work fewer hours per
day than the laborer or the skilled
is not true.
Let's talk less and do more.
Let the advertising men, the sales
men, the clerks and their associates
set the example by working s, 10, and
16 hour a day. / know hundreds of
men-advertising men-working for
newspapers, magazines, farm papers,
trade papers, billposters and outdoor
advertising, advertising managers
and advertising agency men who, dur
ing the past four years, worked 8, 10
and 16 hours day every day in the
week in order that they might dc
their own job and work for the Unit
ed States Government besides.
These men are working that way
now because they have to keep up
with the present day advertising pro-
duction.
But let us all go step farther and
let everybody know there is no eight
hour day in the advertising business
and by our example show our fellow
men that the way to lower the cost Of
living and increase production is fol
all of US to do more work per hour
and work more hours per day-Satu
day included.