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Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-05-13
GENERAL

n. G. Brown and ]. w. Creole were
were injured in fire which destroyed
n boarding house at Richardson, La.
Frank Miller is held ut Muskegon,
Mich, on charge of mayhem. 1t is
alleged he twisted off his wife's ears
because of her relations with Jaseph
Romenoff.
The theft of jewelry and money to-
falling $10555 while she dozed in
moving picture theater in Chicago, was
reported to the police by Mrs. Bessie
Morrison, wife of an oil operator of
Salt Lake City.
Fire destroyed the Usage cotton seed
oil mill and small buildings in the
age of approximately S2,00O,0OO at
Shawnee, Okla. Flames reached more
than 100 feet in the air.
Five thousand people are facing
semi-starvation in Cork, Ireland, and
100000 farmers are impoverished as
result of the wrecklng of thirty-five CO.
operative creamerles, according to ad-
vices received in New York by the
American committee for relief in Ire
land.
Five hundred city laborers of Lima
Ohio, petitioned the council to be al
lowed to work ten hours n day, instead
of eight as heretofore. No increase In
wages was asked.
The Portuguese steamer Mormugao
went to New London under her own
power after having been floated by
tugs from the west side of Block ISL
and, where she grounded in a heavy
fog All of her AIS passengers were
transferred to naval vessels and were
taken TO New Bedford.
While cleaning out a box of sup
posed rubbish a waiter at the Hotel
Ambassador at Los Angeles. discovered
neclSlate with 100 small diamonds. 1t
was found to have been the property of
Mrs. Arthur Il. Gage of Los Angeles
and is supposed to have been accident
ally lost. 1t was returned to the owner
The value is $4,000.
Forcing four clerks in the depart
ment store of a. j. Carlan to go into
n rear room, lone bandit Mt Matea-
wan, n. Y, robbed the cash drawer of
several thousand dollars and escaped.
The robber previously had called seek
ing to buy pair of trousers. When he
returned he wore no mask. Police be-
gan hurried search for the bandit
Creation of new state of northern
Illinois was advocated by Senator Den
vir of Chicago, ILL.,, who introduced a
resolution in the Illinois Senate calling
on Congress to divorce Cook county
and seven neighboring counties from
the other ninety-four counties in the
state.
Burglars who blew and plundered
the safe deposit vaults of the Bank of
Campbell at Campbell, N. Y, escaped
with Liberty bonds and other securities
valued at $4,000. No details or pre-
else statement of the valuables taken
have been made up yet.
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-05-13

write US about your con-
dition and we will send
you expert medical ad-
vice free. Address Chief
Medical Advisor, 339
Swift Laboratory, At
lanta, Georgia.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-28
By William AthertOn Du Puy

their unfortunate condition. II Q man were
i'll and could not work-whence had
come that illness? II he, had typhoid fever,
for example, 1t was established as q fact
that the fault lay with the municipality
which distributed water bearing this disease.
The problem was more than relieving the
suffering Of the individual affected. The
actual problem was to see to it that the
municipality furnished pure water.
1T there were delinquency ON the part
Of the children in q workingman's family,
It was decided that the problem was not
merely to render what aid could be given
to those delinquents, but to 90 further back
and ind the cause Of the delinquency. A
workman and seven children, for example,
might be living in q three-room tenement.
One room was kitchen nNand dining room, one
was bedroom for parents and two small
children, and the other room furnished sleep
ing and living quarters for Eve half grown
youngsters. The lack Of privacy and the
lack Of attractiyeness in this homo was such
As to drive the sons to the saloons and the
The Washington herald., 1921-08-28

WTNHERE is . certain advertisement"
L says Dr. Lee K. Frankel, (which has
made q nation wide favorable impression,
and which announces the sale Of milk from
eontented cows Ifsdairymen find 1t adyIs-
may render profitable service, may 1t not
also be considered the part of wisdom that
employers Of labor should take steps to
maintain happiness among their workers?
'As q matter Of fact, during the last two
decades employers everywhere have. tried
experiments In contentment In their shops
and Offices and have demonstrated beyond
question that this effort has been . good
Investment Now the United States Gov
srnmsnt, having Jagged far behind other
employers, is making . study Of the adVis-
ability Of applying contentment methods in
that branch Of its service which employs
Department- Mr.. Win Hays, Postmaster
General b enthusiastic over the idea Of dis
pensing human kindliness and considera-
tton, and b organizing his department to
that end"
One Of he outstanding authorities Of the
nation upon this subject of relations be-
tween the employer and the employe was
speaking. DR.. Frankel has been one of
the few men in the United States who has
made q profession Of this question Of making
the workers happy and is recognized as
knowing As much about 1t as any man in
America For ten years be has been in
charge Of such work with one of the most
progressive of employers. the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co. Of New York For ten
years before that he had occupied himself
with public welfare work with the Russell
Sage Foundation and other such agencies.
He has pioneered unknown fields. He has
developed much fact that lies at the very
root Of the welfare Of the nation.
/ asked him how he happened to choose
this peculiar field Of endeavor as his life
work. He said It was quite BY accident and
was . possibility which he had hardly real
tsed existed until he was q man past thirty
Jears of age. He had grown up in Rhila-
delphia and had graduated from the Uni
Jersity Of Pennsylvania, specializing In
science After graduation he had become
. professor IN that institution and had
taught chemistry for six years. Afterward
he had become associated with Franklin
Institute, Likewise in Philadelphia. 1t
was while connected with that organization
that he began giving his spare time to char
ity work In Philadelphia. He became some
thing Of Q student Of the problems Of carry
ing relief to the suffering. In those days
little specialized attention had been given
to this problem and his meager studies,
therefore, brought him more of reputation
than he would have attained at a later
period As result Of that reputation he
was asked to 80 to New York City and to
associate himself with an organization Of the
various charitable agencies at work in that
metropolis.
"TlHAr was twenty years ago." said DR..
= Frankel. Nothing can better Illus
trste the changed attitude Of mind in this
last twenty years than the nomenclature
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round hole. We want to know what are
the physical defects In this individual, that
they may be removed, II possible. We ex-
anime his heart, sight, hearing, teeth.
Where there are defects. we direct him to-
ward their removal. The proper glasses, for
example, may save q mans sight. The
proper treatment may arrest tuberculosis.
We have q sanitarium in the mountains 10
which we send any employe who gives evi-
dence Of the development Of that disease.
There d not better tuberculosis sanitariun
in the world. We have hundreds Of girls
in our employ who would have gone to the
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daughters to the dance han. The cure was
in improving this home condition. Probably
the cause was inadequate wages to the
workers in the family. A better income
would make better living possible.
80 in this case, relief of an unhappy
condition led to the employer. We found
that the cause Of many Of the ailments Of
the derelicts Of the city lead back to the
employer. A man may have been injured
at his work and thus become incapable Of
holding a Job and supporting his family.
Wrong lighting in the factories may have
injured the eyes Of an employe and driven
him to the bread line. He may have been
broken by improper sanitary conditions, By
the physical tax Of over-long hours. In
fact, the further we went, the more
thoroughly We became convinced that the
causes back Of the fact that individuals re-
quired charity were usually Industrial causes,
at was upon this discovery that has
been based that remarkable improve
ment in the relation that exists between
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RANKES EXTRACT DIsCONTET FROM JOBS OF OTHERS
cvsrsh. Iszl. =, rasl,o L.as.r G.

there made . survey Of an that was being
done. in various countries that would better
the condition Of the worker. In 1909 / was
on train going from New York to Philadel-
phia and discoursed to some chance &C.
quaintances upon the results Of my trip to
Europe and my investigations in New York.
drawing the conclusion that the improvement
of relations between employer and worker
would not only mean new possibilities Of
happiness for the worker, but would mean
new prosperity for the employer.
Come with u.s. said one of the gentle
men with whom was talking, and put your
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them $50 and the Curtis Co. that it cost
80 to put a new name on the books.
The Ford Motor Co inaugurated com
pulsory education among its foreign speak
ing employees and the accident rate was
decreased 54 per cent, which was attributed
to the ability of the workers to read the
signs of warning.
The Joseph & Fess Co., Of Cincinnati,
analyZed the production of their employees
and found that the non English speaking
individuals were least productive. They
established compulsory classes, during which
they gave half pay. Increased production
made this course profitable.
An English report Of = hundred years
ago states that the hours Of employment
for children in . certain industry were de-
creased from eleven and three quarter TO
ten and three quarter hours q day, and
that not farthing had been lost.
The Zeiss Optical Co, in Germany. cut
the working hours from nine to eight and
noted an increase in per hour production
Of 16 per cent and in daily production Of 5
per cent
''The Cleveland Hardwar, Co., instead Of
working its people overtime in the busy sea
son, a. had been its custom, maintained the
usual program Of nine hours . day. The
production vas greater than when they
worked overtime The next season, when
the rush came, It decreased the working
time to eight hours and the output increased.
"a button factory in Rochester finds it
profitable to. provide music. 1t Fpeeds up
production. In noisy parts Of the factory
II substitutes for the music potted plants
and other things pleasing to the eye.
''when the railroad liability law was en-
acted the number Of accidents was decreased
At per cent. twenty-five Of the foremost
industrial concerns of the United States re-
port an average reduction of 81 per cent Of
\ accidents after the introduction Of organized
vester Co. the reduction was 50 per cent.
Thirty per cent Of these reductions are at
tributed to educational work among the en-
ployes. I
'Tt was shown BY actual experiment that
workers were capable Of Is per cent more
hard exertion at q temperature Of 6S degrees
than at rs degrees and so per cent more
than at IS degrees. It b therefore better for
employer and employe 10 maintain rs nearly
ideal temperature ss possible
''In nineteen metal trades in which care.
ful studies were made, Il was found that %
per cent Of the workers required attention.
When one examination q year was insrgu-
rated the decrease In such cases was per
cent. In plants vhers semi-snnual exan-
nations were made the decrcsss was Per
cent. By Increasing the frequency Of thess
examinations The percentage Of Tines was
reduced % per cent. The iscr~ased en-
cisney Of the labor moro than paid the en-.
psnse and there was . hy.prcdset Of human
happiness that was all velvet.
"a rsvolutienary and ssiss ssrprisias
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which w:s IL, i. TO dec des ago municipal
work of tits sort WAS Likely to be designated
o. the Department of Charities. Today it
d designated a. the Department Of Public
Welfare.
Twenty years ago people who were in
terested in these problems were dispensing
charity, Their whole idea was the relief Of
suffering. The individual was Ill or un-
fortunate, without work or without means,
and the aim was to relieve the resulting
suffering.
'Tt was about this time, twenty, years
ago, that this New York group began in
telligent study of the problems that arose
out Of the dispensing Of charity. There
were those Of US, for instance, who began
70 90 back Of the fact that individuals re-
auired relief and to attemept to determine
xas circumstances which brought them to
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scrap heap but for this treatment We
nVe every enploye . physical examination
once year that he may be kept ft.
We have tried out many experiments q
70 working hours and have come to the
conclusion that it is most profitable 10 Ms
TO work our people not more than eight
hours day and to give them Saturday aft
ernoons OF. Thus we maintain them In
better physical condition, in a condition Of
greater happiness and they render more
service in the course Of a year than they
would If we worked them long hours. We
know BY actual experiment that we can get
better service If We pay q wage which Is
sufficient to maintain the worker in COM
fort. The smploye who has not the where
withs1 TO live decently cannot become .
satisfactory employe-
I'VE have worked upon the theory that
precedent and prejudice must be discarded
and that it may be to the employers pro6t
to make certain concessions to his workers
that seem unreasonably visionary. In our
home plant in New York City, for instance,
we provide an excellent, nourishing, hot
meal to 5000 employees, and we do it at our
own expense. We wondered If the amount
Of work We would secure from these EN-
ployes during the afternoon. would not b
sufficiently greater II they had this hot,
nourishins meal than II they had cold sand
wiches from a lunch basket, or pie in .
cafeteria, to repay the company for the
expense of providing that lunch. We are
inclined to believe that We recover the price
Of this hot meal every afternoon. We are
very sure that providing II b one Of the
elements that holds our best people and
allows Us to take the pick Of the labor
market"
0IJAvE other employers made similar
IL sdvencesY' asked. -
Zone finds them everywhere he turns"
said this gray haired philosopher Of human
kindliness. 81 have Travelled from coast
to coast to observe ths accomplishment Of
various employers Of labor. Let me eits
you a few concrete examples. ~. M
''The Industrial eommiuion Of Ohio
found that Job selling was widely in prae.
tice no longer ago than 1919 and that fore.
men collected from $5 b $50 for histrtbut.
ing them. The Introduction Of the proper
employment machinery organisation makes
this sort Of graft impossible. It reduces
the labor turnover materially and the Dsn.
nison Manufacturing Co. found that II cost
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thing il found when the psnaees Of higher
wages Is applied to IN industrial situstion.
II does not look reasonable, bot. a. . matter
Of fact, Il has been shown over and over
again that higher wages result In cheaper
production. The individual getting better
wages becomes phyricsl.y htter and, there
fore, capable o: 4 better days work. The
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Try to avoid placing a square peg in
theories into practice. We are, rsspsc.
lively, the president and vice president OF the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and II you
are. willing, we will hire you on the spot
This proposition I afterward accepted
and the employees Of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. Immediately became material
upon whom could try all my experiments.
Many other large employers were just
awakening to a similar consideration Of their
employees and what did with the Metro
politan Life has been done in many other
plants. -
When we offer employment to an indi.
vidual we want to place him in the sort OF
work for which he Is best fitted. We,
therefore. give him psychological exami.
nation to determine where he fits best and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-01-04
1rickinu Fate.

Every Hindoo must have son to
perform the proper rites in his behalf
50 that he may be released from pur-
gatory after death. Especially cursed,
therefore, Is he whose fate is to be
sonless. One such, q Brahlnan, pro-
pitiated the god Vishnu and obtained
a boon. He asked for son, but,
since a son was not In the mans fate,
Vishnu refused. Twice this happened,
but the third time the BralIman asked
that his merriments might be shared
by gods and men alike. This was
granted. He then went home, locked
his door and, with his wife, began to
sing and dance. Thereupon, all the
gods and men, by the terms Of the
boon, were compelled. to sing and
dance with him, and the business of
the universe was brought to n stand
still. "Stop!" begged the gods. "On1y
when you grant me son." answered
the Brahman. And he had his way
W. N. Brown in Asia Magazine.
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father Of MODERN SPINNING
Invention Of Samuel crompton, Eng.
iishman, Of immense Importance
to the Western World.

At one time muslins were imported
from India for the reason that English
spinners were unable to produce yarn
fine enough for the manufacture of
such delicate fabrics.
The invention of Arkwright, by
which spinning with rollers was used.
md Hargreaves, with his spinning
jenny, led the way for Crompton to
combine both of those Inventions in
his mule, thereby enabling Spinners
to draw out long threads III large
numbers to more tenuity. than had
ever been done by the East indians.
This invention enabled Lancashire
to assume the first place t,as Gotten
spinner to the world. Samuel Cromp-
ton was born December g., 1873. at Fir
wood. He came of the farming class
and had rather a good education. On
the death Of his father his mother
carried on the farm and SGT Samuel
to spinning at home. Five years after
his majority he completed his mule,
\ "his mind during that. time being in
continual endeavor to realize d more
perfect principle Of spinning"
This he did at the expense of every
shilling he had; and he gave his in
vention to the world, but In such n
way that he gained no credit" Years
afterward his statue was erected in
Bolton.-Chicago Journal. =
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DIFFICULT TO HANDLE FORKS
When First introduced, Diners Gould
See Little Of Benefit in the
Innovation.

It is hard to believe the sensation
produced when forks first came into
use. 1t was in 1914, at dinner given
by Henry III of. France Here is an
account by a royal lady guest. "The
guests never touched the meat with
their fingers, but with forks, which
they carried to their mouths, bending
their necks and bodies over their
plates.
''There were several salads. These
they ate with forks, for it is not con-
sidered proper to touch the food with
the fingers. However difficult it may
be to manage it, it is thought better to
put the little fOrked instrument In the
mouth than the fingers. IT,.
"The artichOkes,- asparagus, peas
and beans were brought. It was a
pleasure to watch them try to eat
these with their forks, for some, who
were less. adroit than the others,
dropped as many on their plates and
on the way to the mouth as they were
able to get to their mouths, ,.
'.Afterward great silver basin and
q pitcher Of water were brought and
the guests washed their hands, though
1t seems as If there would not be much
scent Of meat and grease on them, for
they had touched their food only with
those forked Observation-Disclosures
Home Journal.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-01-04
Where Ice Makes Crops.

We are accustomed to think of
Alaska as moist part Of the world,
but except ju the southern portion 1t
is rather arid, having a rainfall in
sufficient for the production Of crops.
When an area is first cleared for
planting the soil is moist enough, be-
ing frozen nearly to the surface the
year around. Then the ice In the
GROUND gradually melts, so that the
Hr4 few crops require only slight
rainfall-the melting Of the ice furn-
ishing sufficient moisture to the roots
of the growing plants ,....5.,-
In the course of few years, how
ever, the. ice recedes to a depth of six
or more feet, and this reservoir of
moisture is no longer available for the
crops. It then becomes necessary to
resort to various expedients. such { us
'mulching," for hindering evaporation
md econoinizfBg the ayailabk water. !
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INOIA's MILLIONS OF GOODS"
Country 10 Certainly Deserving Of its
y .5i,% AppeIIation, 1.-THE Mother Of
, .,.4.r.a-r .>.t Religions"

Stgsimeon, Stylites. the noted Syrian
ascetic, is the first of whom we have
record Of the many thousands Of reli.
7gious enthusiasts who have believed
in Furnishing the body that the soul
may be raised nearer heaven. st.
Simeon. it is recorded, passed the last
30 years of his life sitting for the most
part Of the time upon high stone
pillar set up In the ground, near Anti
och, enduring the scorching heat by
day and the biting frost by night that
he might thus overcome evil passions
and be better fitted for heaven"
p, Enthusiastic followers today of the
tenets of St. Simeon are the Sadhus
Of India, says Grit. While the prac.
tice Of doing penance to earn merit
is prevalent in other countries, there
is NO land where it is so universal,
or where it, is carried to. such a de-
gree. Of physical suffering as in India.
Every form of torture than can be
applied to the human frame is wit
messed in the land Of, the Sadhus.s.
India, that "land Of mysticism and
romance" has SO great variety of
religious faiths as to have received
the name "The Mother of Religions
The Hindus have more than 10000, 600
gods, and their worshipers, wear up
on their, foreheads distinctive "god
marks to show, which god they fol-
low. Out Of these religious beliefs
have come the various castles, the
bane Of India today, the giant hand
that stays the wheels of progress.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-01-04
Private Stocking.

A North Shore citizen took Junior
up on his knee and asked him: swell,
my little son, what would you like
Santa Claus to bring you for Christ
mas?"
"Oh, I want him to bring me hum
dinger."
"A humdinger, Ell? And may I ask
you to describe one?".
II don't know how they look, but
when you and Mr.. Jones came up from
the basement the other evening you
said to him: Wasn't that humding-
tr?' and lie said: 1T sure was!
would like to have one just like that
for Christmas So thought If it
was something nice for Christmas I
would like to have one, too."-Publisll-
ers Auxiliary. ;.
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Make Your Mind Your kIondike.

Every man has rich mine of
precious ores if he wants to work it.
The other day the news went out that
great oil fields had been discovered
In Klondike, the land famous for gold.
The papers say men are rushing to
stake claims as they did. in the palmy
days of the gold craze, and there will
be many who will part with all they
have and make their way to what
promises to be a quick fortune. In
the last rush the way to Dawson City
had many CHASTITY group of bleach
ing bones when the SHOWS of winter
melted away. The chances are this
present craze will duplicate the scene.
Only a few Of the many make money.
1t will ever be thus as long as men
try to win by chance the riches that
usually come by toil.-Grit.