The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-11

THE PERSIMMON
FUCKER Leaving
AND GUY FENNER WRITES THAT
CONDITIONS ARE GOING TO
KEEP GETTING BETTER.

There is a persimmon quicker anc
a pawpaw pucker.
There is a pessimism quicker anc
a quicker of plentitude.
There is pucker of pain as well
as pucker of pleasure.
There are Fuckers for many occa-
sions, and their exhibition depends
at times upon our preference OF
causes.
We've all been puckered up with
the persimmon variety for some time
because things haven't been coming
as smoothly as we had expected. The
old boat began to show signs of weak
ness. Springs sagged and the cylin-
ders were hitting systematically as in
an epileptic fit We had to get out and
get under and we were all mussed
up and out of sorts. Things seemed
out of joint and the once fair world
held for us little of it's former charm.
Everything seemed to be going to the
bOwWows on creased slxids. 1t was a
dour outlook, and there was no son
of York to mellow the winter of our
discomfort. So we were puckered up
until our faces resembled corrugated
tunnels.
But gradually the facial folds be-
gan to smoother, the wrinkles,
grooves and burrows to soften and
vanish-and, with the considerable
quicker left, we began to whistle.
Wasn't it a grand and glorious sem
sation when we let go of the persim-
mon and begin to chew on the paw
paw"
We had begun to look things
squarely in the face instead of allow
ing ourselves to be victims of illus
ion. We had begun to do the thing
absolutely necessary to relief-under-
stand the other fellows problems and
get help from those helped. We had
come to realization of the futility of
bemoaning and complaining. We had
begun to settle down to the new con-
ditions and to adapt ourselves to
them and to work. We found we
could help solve the problems better
when employed than when standing
on the curb or whiting. We began
to be inspired with a new hope and
actuated by a great rejuvenated faith
and confidence We commenced to
forget 81 can't" and to substitute 81
will"
Among the other things our at
titude is accomplishing is a closer
relationship between the farmers,
producers, ard the merchants, dis
tributors, and between consumers and
both the others. We find that the or
CARNATIONS and industries and insti
tutions and merchandising concerns
we had cuSSed so fervently had prob |
lens quite as momentous as ours and
that our welfare and future were in
separately linked with theirs. There |
fore, we are progressing, slowly, butt
surely.
The farmers have had their troubl
les and losses and plenty of them
have them yet-but with all of them,
and as tough as conditions have been,
it must be admitted there is not an
other country of the face of Gods,
footstool where the farming popula-
ton enjoy the benefits and blessings
and standards of living that are par
ticipated in by the farmers of the
United States. That knowledge has
helped them over the road and given
them fresh grasp.
The working man has had his
troubles. There was a big shrinkage
in his earning capacity after the war.
And, be it remembered, he had been
educated to more or less costly
standards of living by all the gov
agencies focused on the
home and by every woman's and
every other club in the land. 1t was
for him to reconcile himself
to the change, but he is doing it.
And, as hard as times have been for
him, compared to war times, he is
appreciative of the fact that there is
no other nation on earth whose labor
ing men are so we'll off-where the
labOrer's child has SO many advant-
ages and opportunities for social and
financial advancement, where the la
borer's home is so numerous and SO
comfortably provided
The merchant, the banker, the va
rious public utilities, such as rail-
roads, telephone companies, power
etc, have also had tough
shedding, but through it all how few
doors of mercantile establishments
have been forced to suspend during a
havebeen forced to suspend during a
period of depression that has COM
bined the worst elements Of all our
periods of stagnation since the civil
war? How few public utilities have
gone into the hands of receivers?
We have common sense through the
crisis pretty sound because finally the
hard common sense of the American
people reasserted itself The public
came GU. of the blue funk
md experienced, and is experiencing
| rebirth of confidence.
We have only started the other
way, toward an enduring prosperity.
Let's pucker up and whistle till the (
clouds have rolled by!