Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-06

money to sustain the life of the nation.
lBreadl breadl is the cry heard on the
streets. Portugal and Spain are over
run with poverty and unemployment.
The soldiers must keep order with the
bayonet on the public street.
And we wonder why! 1t is the same
old world as ever; there are as many
people with hungry mouths as former
ly; they all need to be fed and clothed.
And, notwithstanding the immense loss
of human life during the war, there
are to-day more people in the world
than there were before the war. Do
you know what is wrong with this old
world of oursp Better get wise, ask
questions, then dissect the questions UNI
til you find the solution to the great
problem. Every one has some idea ex-
cept you; now it is your turn to settle
the question with yourself.
s. 3
Little Denmark, whose cooperative
system is extolled all over the world
as being the very acme of perfection,
and an ideal model for imitation by
the rest of the world, is in the throes
of a general strike, forced upon the
workers by the employers who want
to increase the hours of labor and re-
duce the wages below a scale neces-
sary to preserve health and strength of
the workers and their families. Co.
operation does, indeed, benefit the
self-employing farmers in Denmark be
cause they possess and control the
means of self-employment, and the
wage workers in the factories and in
dustries are driven to resist unendura-
bic exploitative intentions because they
do not own and control the means Of |
self-employment and of self-support. |
Wouldn't it be a good idea for the
workers in the cities and towns of Dem
mark to own and control their jobs as
do the farmers of Denmark? How
about every worker throughout the
world owning his Job? What do you
think about it? 4 $3.50
Who has not heard of the million
aire Hobo" or trampP Few have be-
lieved that such person ever existed,
yet here we have the statement of Mrs.
Graham Duffield of Chicago, who had
come to New York finally to see if she
could not locate her l8-year-old son,
who had decamped from a private
school some six months ago, and had
not been heard from since. She en-
ployed the best detectives that Chica-
go had and they soon located her boy
singing hash in cheap Bowery hash
house, where he got $40 a week andi
board for his services. When pressed
10 go home with his mother, he declin- {
I'd until she informed him that he was
a millionaire in his own right, and :
would come into full possession of his /.
wealth in three years. Then he gave
n and went home in a special train.
The boy had on the crudest kind of !
oveTalls when found, and stated that
lie had gone to sleep many a night
hungry. He told some of the most I
startling tales of his adventures among G
he down and outs, and declared that i
when he came into the possession of 7
lis thirteen millions he would use it :,
o alleviate the wrongs that the down =
md outs now suffer from in all parts -
# the country. I
The Federal Statistics show that the D
.ost Of living in the United States is !
low from 26 to 8 per cent higher than - =
was in 1913. What about the wag- :.
So They have gone so high that they =.
ant be found anywhere! ~
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II want a good book, some knitting, F
rocking chair. and house full of -
hildren,' said Mrs. Leonora Medeora, =,
woman lawyer of Chicago, who has
cen in politics for the past ten years, :,
nd was public welfare commissioner .,
nder Mayor Harrison of that city. te
For the glamor of public life | gave .,
p my home, my husband and my chill =,
rem" she said. 1T doesn't pay. | =
m going to abandon this life and take 81
~ god-given place within the family h,
ircle. Perhaps | am bit old-fashion- R
i; but am going to quit the law h,
nd the practice of politics that goes G.
18th it, and go home and bake apple M
les for the kiddies. To hear them say =,
,ome home, mamma, won't you,' is er
.achino me- that I an, not ~ L,,,o =