The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-09-11


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The charge that employers have
entered on a concerted campaign TO
beat down wages below the Ameri-
can standard will not stand up before
the facts The reduction of wages has
not, as a rule, been in keeping with
the reduction in many products, es-
pecially the products of the farm.
Also, there have been some advances
in wages. The steel corporation has
increased the pay of common labor
ers 20 per cent, while the coal oper-
ators in the non-union districts of
Pennsylvania, have raised wages al
most SO per cent Increases have
also been made in the cement and
other industries. There is an increase
in the demand for steel and the other
products mentioned, and this increas-
es the demand for men. Wnen there
is a demand for the product of the
factory, there is nearly always a de-
mand for labor at fair wage. The
wages are paid out of the production,
and when the production is light
wages are certain to be affected and
men will be idle 1t is a condition
which employer cannot control.
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Thirty-eight hundred is given as
the average of Americans who go
each day to join the unnumbered
hosts who have gone before. Of the
$500 81 are murdered and Al COM
NIT suicide, according to statistics.
Disease, old age and accidents pick
the others off, the grade crossing and
the automobile, combined, doing their
part. During the year, If everything
is running true to form, about l.
100000 Americans will pass over the
divide, slipping away one at time |
all over the country, their going at |
tracing but little attention, only |
among their immediate circle of |
friends, while if something had taken |
even one thousand of them at one |
time, their going would have been |
looked upon as a great catastrophe. |
This only goes to prove, however, me
value we place on life. When large
number of victims are claimed by the
sinking of a boat, the wrecking of
a train, or by an earthquake, we
look upon the victims as having sac
rificed their lives without a chance
to save themselves.
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MEN-AND MEN
There are men-and men. There
are hardfisted men of wealth who
withhold their money from charity
while they live and tie it up out Of the
reach of charity when they die. And
there are men not so wealthy who
would share their last crust with a
beggar.
There are men-and men. News
paper men, for instance, are hard
boiled" and cynical. And yet pause a
minute to think of Delevan Smith Of
the Indianapolis News. He left
around $1,3OO,O0O when he died the
other day. And he left it like this:
100000 to one hospital.
10000 to another.
5000 to a hospital matron.
100000 to one church.
5000 to another. I
10000 to a mission /
10000 to the "Y."
5000 to the Salvation Army.
10000 to an historical associa-
ton.
$4,000 to college. Z
Upwards of 100000 in trust S
funds and gifts to relatives and O
personal friends.
Other large requests to bust
ness associates.
All the remainder to certain =
charity foundation. 8
The living hand gave; the dead G
land continues to give. AS we re- t.
marked before, there are men-and
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People of the United States are now e
ating more beans than they raise.
eports say. But that doesn't neces-
arily mean that beans are getting
lore popular. It may be that we are n,
1erely raising less beans han we u.
at.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. n,
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A Methodist minister in Nebraska
assigned the other day because he -.
dn't believe that story in the =,
ib1e about two she bears coming out th
I'D destroying AZ children who had DC
ll1ed Elisha an old baldhead. We
nagine that if this preacher had sc
zen pious enough for his job ne pa
'uld have found plenty of material