Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-02

Makes joy-bells ring in Heavens
Street,
And he who gives a child a home
Builds palaces in Kingdom Come"
JOHN MASEFIELD.
900
BOSh About Corn.
Propaganda at work, principally in
the Iowa corn belt, tells the farmer
he is losing money on his corn crop.
1t would seem that Nature was boun
tiful last summer and that big crop
was garnered. And it would also seem
that prices are good if not stupendous.
CSC to Use bushel for corn is not bad
certainly.
But the propaganda says it costs
CSC a bushe1 to produce corn on the
farm. Hence if the farmer sells it at
that Or less he is losing money.
This looks like part of the move
ment to raise Iowa's corn crop valu-
alton by one hundred million dol
lars. 25c a bushel extra on 400 million
bushels means just that.
The Herald for one would like to
see the farmers get a dollar for corn.
We do not believe they are losing mon
en- on 75c corn unless their land valu-
atoms are so high that they will not
show a profit on ordinary midwest
crops.
BOsh About City LOafers.
And another comon bit of bosh is
the tradition that the farmers do all
the had work in the world and that
the town fellers loaf around and
scheme to nick the soil tiller's bank
roll Many people actually believe that
town residents are nothing more than
lazy parasites who do no hard work
and gather all the cream And they
think the farmer is just worked to
death.
We will agree that farmers work
hard. And so does every other man
who makes any kind of an honest sue
cess The fine thing about this coun-
try is not that you can make an easy
living loafing but that if you have
brains, character and industry you
have the chance before you. The real
worker, be it town or country, has
small competition. Most people are
unable or unwilling to pay the price
of success with the coin of application
and hard work and they never get far.
The man who can and will is bound to
succeed no matter where he lives or
what he does.
The Herald doesn't feel sorry for
the man who works hard. We congrat-
ulate him on his industry but we don't
pity him. He is doubtless happy be-
cause he is busy and the last thing
he wants or expects is sympathy. We
leave that for the winners.
The Rule of Justice.
Thomas Carlyle, the "Sage of Chel-
sea" was one of the thinkers OF his
time. Born in Dunfries, Scotland, and
the son of humble and unheard of par
ents. he represented the freak product
of Nature when she elects to produce
a great man out of the mass just as
she produced Shakespeare or Lincoln.
1t is a common pious opinion to as
sumo that these men are sent by the
Infinite to serve a certain purpose. In
reality we do not know. These things
are inscrutable Sufficient for us or
binary folks to stand humbly by while
genius casts it's golden crucible and
to admire without stint when the gilt
tering project energies from the flame
and stands before us.
Carlyle's greatness lay not in his
"educatiOn" A misnOmer of a word
if there ever was one. 1t lay in the
beauty and originality of his wonder
full mind. His greatest gift, perhaps,
was an ability to group ordinary
words in manner to make living po-
etry even though it be prose. This
gift is not given to many. Emerson
had it. Thoreau had it. Markham had
it. A few others and Carlyle was one.
This is what he says about justice:
In this Gods world, with its wild
whirling eddies and madfoam oceans,
where men and nations perish as II
without law and judgment for an I'M
Just thing sternly delayed, dost thou
think therefore that there is no JUS
tice? 1t is what the fool had said in
his heart. 1t is what the wise in all
times were wise because they desired
and knew forever not to be. I tell
thee again there is nothing else but
Justice; one strong thing I find here
below-the just thing, the true thing.
= If the thing is unjust, thou
hast not succeeded, though bonf1res
blazed from north to SOUTH and bells
rang, and editors wrote leading arti-
cles, and the just thing lay trampled
out of sight to all mortal eyes-an
abolished and annihilated thing
Thomas Carlyle.
900
Coal Power Nanes.
A study of uses of coal for heat and
power as compared to other sources
of energy shows that coal is not hold
ing its own and that electricity and
oil are going ahead by leaps and
bounds.
In the past ten years the use of
coal has increased slightly. Its use
per capita has fallen off. Oil, as a heat
source has increased three hundred
percent in a few years Development
of water power electricity, ie., hydro
electric plants, has gone steadily
ahead but this source of power is
still negligible as compared to coal.
The anthracite strike has caused no
suffering or discomfort to date. The
users have found it possible to get
good soft coal with lower freight
haul for considerabl les money.
Thousands of househC ders have in
stalled oil to get aw Y from labor
and bother connected with coal firing.
This method seems to be in the ex-
detrimental stage as yet and it will
be some years before the true econ
monte factors of oil fuel are apparent.
We are in the midst of an economic
oil 10 fnJ,