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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-11-26
First Cement ship Sold as Junk.

The steamship Faith, the first con-
crete vessel built In the United States,
has been sold as Junk for $500 to sat
iGfy the crews wage claim Of $4,000
the last cargo ives 2l.e2o tons Of
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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-11-26
Remove STAINS.

Soften old stains with castor oil or
lard and they will come out more cas-
lily. The gasoline or benzine will re.
move all traces Of the medium.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-CHARITY
BY DORO THY DIX

good many things that life left her. She's a
never ceasing fountain Of woe, perpetual
guyser of tears, and most people avoid her
as they would the plague, but as meat is to
the starving, so it is to her to recount the
story of her wrong. Could any charity be
greater, more direct than giving her
happy hour or two by listening to her tale
of woe, and handing her out the pity she begs
for?
There's B. AS good and kind fellow as
ever lived. man who has been model son,
and husband and father, but the most tire
some creature who ever talked, with an as
sortment of stories and jokes that Adam and
Eve must have told each other in the Garden
Of Eden.
If were in financial troubles any of his
friends would see their duty of helping him
by lending him some money. Isn't it just
as kind an act, and benevolent one, to
lend him your ears when he starts forth on
his wearisome stories, and to tide him over a
bad place at a dinner table by starting the
laugh at one of his ancient quips?
There's Miss c, bitter and lonely in her
fine house to which no one goes, boring too,
because she has got to the place in life where
she tells the same things over and over again.
When you take her new interest, new
thought to feed upon, have you not done as
worthy an act as if you had taken starving
woman a basket of food?
And the strangers who move into your
neighborhood. Nice looking people. Evidently
were somebody in their home town, but they
are pariahs in their new environment. No
body notices them. They are invited to no
parties They are asked to no clubs. They
are so forlorn and homesick they could die.
If you have ever been a stranger in q
strange place you know that you almost enA
Wed the people who were SO poor that the
church people and the philanthropist had to
take them up and relieve their wants. If
you have always lived among the people you
knew, take my word for it, that no mendicant
standing hat in hand at your door in rags,
was ever in more desperate need of succor
than is the stranger at your gate.
Go to see the woman next door if she looks
respectable. Take the trouble to welcome
the new girl or boy who comes to work where
you do. Introduce nice young people to
other nice young people. Do what you can
to abate the curse of loneliness, and 1t shall
be accounted unto you for merit
Once upon time a woman said to me:
81 have never had any money to give, but ]
never let anybody go from me without giving
them kindly word, and trying to give them
cheering thought.
That woman I rank among the great phil
anthropists. She did just as much good as If
she had given away millions of dollars.
Copyright, 1921 by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate, Inc)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20

7 out of work and money tight, the retailer is
doing a smaller than normal business. But
he still pays the same rent and he probably
has to maintain about the same staff. His
reduction in expenses, in a word, is not in
proportion to his reduction in business. That
means that the cost making each sale Is
higher than it would be if he were doing a
big business. If the butcher only sold one
pound of pork chops in day, he would have
to get $40 or SIS for it in order to break
even.
AS matter of fact the. profiteerins re-
taller is probably rare bird just now. A
few of them are perhaps making large
profits by sticking to wartime prices; but
lany more of them are only hoping to make
expenses until better times come along.
The difficulty, explains an expert, lies in
the fact that retail prices, wages, and farm
ers earnings are all on different levels. In
order that our clumsy industrial system may
work at all, they must be on about the same
level
Farmers Felt Drop First
When prices began to drop, the drop fell
on the farmer first. With unsold stocks of
foodstuffs on hand, the buyers refused to
give him high price for what he raised
But he had to sell. So he took low price
Wholesaler and retailer refused to follow
suit. The cost of their operations was high,
chiefly because wages remained high, and
b. cooperation and storage, both of which
the farmer lacked, they were able to keep
But the farmers, form about 40 per cent
of the buying public. Having very little
money, this arge section of the buying pub
lie bought very little Manufacturers of
farm implements Immediately felt the pinch
Their sales in many cases fell off moro than
half. Other manufacturing lines also felt it.
AS a result factory employees were thrown
out Of work. Unemployment set in. 1t af-
fected millions So the buying public was
still further reduced, demand declined still
more, the cost of every retailing operation
rose, and the retailer, with his high prices
was less than ever in a position to reduce
them.
1t is a stalemates whieA is easy to under
potatoes would buy pair of shoes in 1913,
and it takes two bushels of potatoes to buy
pair Of shoes now then the potato grow
ers can only buy half as many shoes now as
in 1913. One result is that employees of shoe
factories will be thrown out Of jobs. Then
they can't buy any shoes either.
Really, the farmer, if at all intelligent, is
in enviable position. He at least can eat
1t is only the farmer who raises nothing but
one money crop who now suffers-the man
who raises only tobacco, or cotton-for ex-
ample. The farmer who produces hogs and
chickens, and keeps dairy cattle and raises
potatoes and beans and other vegetables
need go to market for very little of his food
He is vastly better off than that ex-shoe-fac-
tory employe, for example.
Business will never pick I'D until the farm
er once more is able to buy a pair Of shoes
with a bushel of potatoes. That can be &C
complished either by givins the farmer more
or the shoemaker less. The diagnosis is
easy, but the only remedy seems to be a slow
process of readjustment.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20

wv HEN we think Of giving we think of
wv it in terms of money. We stamp
the dollar mark on all charity. The
only people who rouse our putty are the pow
erty stricken, and we only feel it a duty to
help those to whom we can donate food, and
clothing, and shelter.
We dig down into our pockets when we
want to help our fellow creatures and hand
out a few dimes to the poor wretches who
are in physical need, but it never occurs to
dig down into our hearts, and give of it's
treasures to the men and women who are
starving for sympathy, and companionship,
and shivering in the icy blasts of loneliness.
Yet Christ himself set us this example
Of the higher charity. He gave love to the
unloved. He gave back the dead to those
that mourned them. He gave sympathy and
understanding. He gave wine to make the
wedding feast gayer. He gave health to the
sick, but He never gave any one money.
1t is a great pity that we put the price
tag on suffering and its alienation, because
it keeps us from doing so much good that
we might otherwise do. Because we can't
build hospitals, or endow clinics, or erect
model tenements or pay the rent of needy
widows with seven small children, we feel
that there is nothing we can do. And be-
cause we don't know anyone who is starving
to DEATH or is on the point of being evicted
from their homes by a cruel landlord we
lance from us, and so our philanthropic i'm
pulses are strangled in the cradle.
We have not vision enough to see that
there are needs of the spirit just as there
are needs of the body, and that it is just as
true charity to relieve the one as the other.
The poor rich is no idle phrase. Some
of the most needy people in the world are
those who have everything that money can
buy. There are men and women who sit
down every day to feast who are so hungry
for a little appreciation that they grab at
kind word as a starving dog does at bone.
There are men and women riding about in
limousines, and paying for expensive seats
at the theater, who are just as forlorn and
lone in a big city Robinson Crusoe was
on his desert island.
1t is these calls upon our charity that we
are too dull to perceive. Because the rich,
and well-to-do don't stand on street corner
and rattle tin cup, we do not realize that
they are asking aims of us, and that they
are ready to kiss our feet in gratitude and
call down all the blessings of the saints upon
us if we hand them out little friendliness,
If we give them a little Of the gold of our
time and attention.
Run over the list Of your acquaintance
and you will see what I mean. There's Mrs.
A. Lots of money, fine social position, but
she set her heart upon worthless husband
who betrayed and deserted her. She's never
had the strength and courage to put her sor-
row behind her and make the best of the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
THE MAN YOU WORK FOR
By H. Addington Bruce

| THEY tell me, friend, that you are not
| feeling any too we'll disposed toward
the man you work for. Indeed, hear
| that you habitually make slurring remarks
| regarding him, and otherwise show an atti-
| tude almost amounting to animosity.
| That is very foolish on your part.
| Whether or no he has given you any valid
reason for disparaging comments, it is GER
tain that your indulgence in these and the
state of mind they betoken will react to your
harm. Even if they do not some day cost
you your position they are sure to lessen
your working power, hence your earning
power.
For no man can do good work when senti-
ments of hatred, envy and the like possess
him. The effect of these is to produce in
his system veritable poisons which decrease
his physical strength and cloud his mental
faculties.
So that if you feel you cannot conquer
your dislike for your employer it will really
be to your best interest to leave him and fin =.
work with some one else. Consider first,
however if your attitude of hostility Is JUS
titled.
What chiefly troubles you, I am told, is
that you have to do hard manual labor for
comparatively low pay, while he sits in a
comfortable office, takes things easily, and
draws big profits.
Is it so certain, though, that he takes
things easily? Do you actually imagine that
you are engaged as an employe, runs itself?
Do the goods you help to make for him
find buyers of their own accord? Do they
never have to be sold at loss? And do the
raw materials of which those goods are COM
posed make their way to the factory without
effort and risk on somebody's part?
In word, has it never occurred to you
that the man for whom you work may, after
all, be about the most important cog in the
industrial machine in which you yourself are
a constituent part? Suppose he really did
''loaf' in his comfortable office, do you think
you could long be ION the job yourself?
The fact is that you are free from all bust
ness responsibilities and cares when the 5
o'clock whistle blows. His working day con-
tinues long after that, even though he may
frequently leave the factory long before
you do.
He has weighing upon him by night as by
day the problem Of keeping the factory going.
Because of the intensity of commercial COM
petition, he has necessarily to cudgel his mind
for business getting ideas.
Worries of a sort unknown to you, but
vitality affecting your own welfare, persist
emily beset him. And "let down" by him
means "shut down" for you. That you
may work at all he must in the long run
work far harder than you.
Have these facts-and they are facts
been given by you the consideration they
should receive?
Hardly, or you would not be making your
employers job more difficult by your failure
to cooperate intellectually with him in
productive activity. You would not be SLAM
dering him as you now do, but would in
stead, if only from enlightened self-in-terest,
be giving him the most loyal support.
copyright, 1921, by the Associated Newspa-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
1T TAKES A GENERATION
By DR.. Frank Crane

The real reason why the United States OF
America abandoned it's Allies at the close OF
the war, would have nothing to do with the
movement toward world unity, as represented
by the League of Nations, and gave itself up
to Sulky and selfish isolation, is that the
proposed step was too great for a thorough
democracy to make.
Other nations moved fast because they are
accustomed to being led by their rulers Amer
lea moves slow because it moves only as push
ed by its masses.
1t is not the Lodges, HarveyS, BorahS and
Reeds, Who to accomplish selfish ends manip-
ulated the great reactionary crime, it is not
these who are primarily to blame Their
vicious efforts would have been fruitleSS ex-
cept they had a mass of popular prejudice,
ignorance, and inertia to work on.
We will take our place among the nations
of the world, but it will take generation
1t took a generation for Americans to pull
entirely free from monarchy. The people of
the colonies, though they fought England, were
yet sailed with mCnarchic ideas. 1t was only
afterward that George Coombe could say:
"But the condition of affairs is now changed.
| The generation trained to obedience under
monarchical institutions is extinct, race oc-
| cupies the field which has been reared under
the full influence of democracy"
| The great new thought in the world today is
World Unity, just as the great new thought in
Washington'S day was Democracy.
| This idea was born into full vigor during the
war. The nations had to get together or perish
| before the attack of Germany.
| And they realize now in Europe that they
have to stay together if they would avoid
| other evils.
| Russia and red madness confrontS them
Bankruptcy and economic disaster threaten
them; and the only remedy for that will be
some sort of economic unity, even as military
unity was imperative in 1917.
| The United States will get around to it when
| his generation has died off.
For their children are growing up in an at
| moSphere of World Councils.
| DemocraceS move slowly, and usually very
uncomfortably. AS Fisher Ames stated
"a monarchy is like a merchantmen. Yet get
on board and ride the wind and tide in safety
and citation, but, by and by, you strike reef and
go down. But democracy is like a raft. You
never sink, but, damn it, your feet are always
| in the water"
| 1t took a generation for the New South to
| get away from the prejudiceS and passions of
| the Old South
| 1t has taken a generation for many an Ameri-
can in the North to realize that the Civil War
| is over.
1t will take generation to establish Prohib
| ton.
We need not wonder if 1t takes generation
| for America to get hold of the idea of World
| Unity.
Copyright, 1924, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20

No, dearies man doesn't take girl mo-
toring by moonlight, because he admires the
beauties of her soul, any more than burglar
enters your house because he is interested in
interior decorations.
Good Judgment is the beautiful inspi-
ration that comes to you the morning after
you have bought the wrong stock, backed the
wrong horse, or proposed to the wrong girl
There are moments when the wife Of
fascinating man feels like apologizing to his
women friends for taking up so much of his
time.
We sigh for "the privacy of home" but
'home" is the one place where a man can
never have a private. thought, a woman can
never have a private opinion; and the only
private property that anybody seems to have
is his toothbrush.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Newspaper
Syndicate)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20

A woman may not get as much excitement
out of life's pleasures as man does. but she
certainly gets a lot more thrills out of her
sufferings.
Central has nothing on Hymen, when it
comes to connecting the wrong parties, and
then getting the wires crossed.
The heart of a woman is a secret sane
tuary, where she is constantly burning in
cense and candles before a succession Of
idols OF clay!
The Greatest Thing in the World! Croe-
sus couldn't buy it; Midas never possessed it;
Nero sighed in vain for it; Napoleon lost it;
and Solomon got too old for it. The thrill
in the heart, when young eyes meet young
eyes
A man never can understand why woman
will draw the line at kiss and then stand
right on the edge of it and dare him to
cross over.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIEs

1t was a pleasant enough house in its way,
but the daughters were not famed for their
beauty, and their matrimonial prospects seemed
| remote Still there was one young man, sup
posed to partake largely of the "Johnny" Spe-
ceS, who it was thought might be brought up
to the scratch With this in view the dowager
asked him sweetly one afternoon: "A1d now,
Charlie dear, l must really ask you what your
intentions are?" But Charlie was not such 4
"Johnny" as they supposed; for he rose from
his seat bowed to his hostess and made for
the door, Madame" he paused to reply, 81
make it rule never to have an intrigue with
married woman"
There is not boy in this town who is as
clever Tom,' said Mrs. Brown.
"How is that?" inquired Mrs. Black.
Mrs. Brown-"Look at these two chairs.
Tom made them out of his own head, and he
has enough wood left to make an armchair"
Reggie" said old Goldbags, as he handed
over a banknote for popnds to his son, but
still kept hold of one corner of it as he de-
livered his homily: reggie, I don't want
to stint you spending money; whenever
you go out with the boys-and girls-I want
you to pay your share o. the expenses, but
The old man stopped, then continued:
But, Reggie, every once in whole / want
you to remember that it takes a hundred
pounds three hundred and sixty-fve days,
working day and night and Sundays, at per
cent, to earn pounds"
A territorial battalion was on parade. After
the usual inspection the colonel gave the order
to march The band struck up lively air and
the battalion moved on; but trombone player
on the left of the front rank stood still, caus-
ing the band to cease playing
The colonel, riding up to the man, exclaimed
furiously: "Move on, man; on; What
earth you stopping for?"
"Be aiSy, sor; aisy" said the man, give got
fifteen bars rest"
Little Billy, being at the seaside, was taken
ill and confined to his bed for a day. timid
caller came to inquire, small boy unknown
at the house, evidently some playmate of the
sands.
Little Billy'S mother was touched, praised
the caller, kissed him for his thoughtful atten-
ZION, and gave him chocolates.
Billy'S playmate then backed nervously down
the steps, gathering courage as he went for
final inquiry: "If Billy dies" he said, when
safely on the pavement, "can have his Scoot-
err"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
As Business Leaders See
Americas FOREIGN Duty

i America S + Ore7q71 Duty
l A COMMITTEE of the Chamber of Com
IA meroe of the United States. after a
first-hand study of conditions in Eu-
rope, reports certain findings and makes
certain recommendations that bear vitality on
the business problems of America Made up
of men of divers political faiths and address
ing itself wholly to economic matters, the
committee is above suspicion of craftsmanship.
so that Republican and Democratic leaders
alike can well afford to study it's suggestions
open-mindedly, for what they may be worth.
These unbiased business Investigators al
| firm, first of ALL what has been said repeat
eddy, but the Importance of which cannot be
over-stressed American business, they de-
clare, will not be duly stable and prosperous
as long as Europe is unstable and depressed.
This they infer from the fact that whereas,
prior to 1914, European countries trans
acted about two-thirds of the international
business and purchased more than one-half
of the exports of the United States" Europe
now is operating ION a basis of less than
one-half Of the pre-war standard" This be-
ing true, it is inevitable that all fields OF
our production and commerce which are in
any wise concerned with foreign trade will
feel the reflex from sorely curtailed pur-
chasing power across the Atlantic.
Thus the problem of unemployment with
which the federal administration is rightly
concerning itself not be effectively dealt
with apart from the European predicament
Reduced demand for American products
means, Of course, reduced opportunity for
American labor. 1t means, moreover, be-
calming of enterprise, loss of initiative, a
lack Of incentive to new investment, re-
preston of nearly all the withdrawing
energies. Not to be interested in the needs
of Europe Is to be Indifferent to our own most
practical and most pressing wants.
The committee of the National Chamber
Of Commerce recommends accordingly that
America participates in the Preparations
Commission, which has to do with world
affecting questions of industry and COM
merce, and that in other matters of great
common conceru to the nations our country
bear her rightful measure Of responsibility,
because only thus can she secure her rightful
share Of prosperity. This is no new counsel;
it was urged upon an unperceiving Senate
with all the cogency of President Wilson's in
innate knowledge of the world situation.
But there is new force and, it is greatly to be
hoped, new responsiveness in the testimony
of this body of distinguished business OBJ
servers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
Bad Bills

Members of the board of trade OF White
stone, Queens, N. Y, decided recently to put
unco1lected bills up at auction, first adver-
Using them, with the names of the debtors
and the circumstances, on a public bulletin
board and in the store windows Of the cred
itors.
The bad bills are to be placed in the hands
of the Credit Association of New York for
compilation before being offered at auction.
Creditors are said to have received threats
Of retaliation if they pursue this method OF
dealing with delinquent debtors, but they as
sert that the method is legal and will be fol-
lowed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-20
Smile Awh;7e

One difference between Halloween and
Thanksgiving is that Halloween doesn't fall
on a holiday.