Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 March 1921 — Page 4

JASPER WEEKLY COM By BEN CD DCANE.

ASI'KK, tlUH.ifr roUMV, INDIAN Eatered i c n l-c ' oistodireat Jaipur Ind.nn er the ace of March 3, ISA7 nhM ri,. un 0 IVr Year. This ppei ie mailed regularly tclf iibrsriberi until a Jtfn;te order to liaortinaeitreceired r ' nrrc repaid nfall. nniesfl in tin. aiaexetion of tin publisher a different coarse ehoald be deemed advisable. FRIDAY MARCH 18. 1921. PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN The Trouble Collector figures that Everybody is trying to Put Soinethinu' Over on nlm and so vs Around with his Suspicious Mind hunting Trouble and Alwiiys Finding it. In ; World so full of Everything, we can (hurrah y find -rnt w iin- Looking for, whether Joy or Sorrow. DIG FOR IT. Great material wealth has .:, ie from dicing. Down through the eiili:rle the remote parts of the have been searrluvl and burrounl for gold and silver and precious stones, weaph in its most concentrated form. It is necessary, loo, to dig that there may be harests. Everywhere the fullness of the earth awaits the sou of men. but they must dig for it. And though the toil be great, the rewards are great. Hut man's prolilabie tiiing is not eon fined to the work of Iii.: hands, says Three Partners. Equally liberal rewards come from digging for ideas. This also is- hard work butjt pays. The production of worth-while ideas sevuis to be confined to the few, while the many past thefr days content with the Ideas of yesterday. This is Inconsistency, when you think .." livery head has a brain and his mind was 'iven to man to be used,. to be a means for his betterment. And even the poorest heads have some ideas worth developing, if they are dug for. The trouble is most folks won't dig, at least not as often as they nsiirht. .More than 17.'.1KH) children were brought before ourts in this country during the last yenr, as offenders. What American youngsters need is the bringing up their fathers and mothers had regular duties at home, steady attendance nt school, Sunday school once a week, very little spending money, time and opportunity for wholesome play but none for loafing, some real work to do every day, reasonable wishes gratified If the family purse permits, knowledge of the value of money and of the not Infrequent neessity of self-denial. Many homes nowadays are not rearing children to be sturdy, self-dependent men and women, but social butterflies, says CapTor's Weekly. And the more they are indulged, the mom they want. Few of them are taught enough about real life to stand alone when the time comes that they must. A serious professor of Manchester, Kngland, luw lcen putting In a plea for the fairies, or at any rate for those of Welsh nationality, y Tylwyth Teg., as they are called. So much that is contained In Welsh fairy or folk tales i borne out by urcheological on geological research that they merit serious consideration as a traditional record ot history. They were, he thinks, stories told by men of the iron age about what happened to men of the bronze age In their conflict with men of the neolithic age. The little leople. apparently, have only become Incredibly small and acquired their cither characteristics? with the years. No matter how shrewd a man may be nor how keenly developed his InMlnct for acquiring wealth, he will never be successful unless an element of thrift is woven Into all his activities. The so-called plunger the meteoric financier may at times seem able to defy prudent practices and the principles of thrift. However, such success Is seldom permanent, says Thrift Magazine. Wealth gained by a ort of leKrdenialn rather than through the working out of sound business practices nearly always proves transitory.

INFLUENCE OF MATERIALISM. Th introduction of so much materialism In our public education will make the future unrest and strife worse than It Is now. The trouble with the .situation is that professionalism and big salaries are content with it as it Is. They love materialism. With many It Is the larger life. They regard spirituality as a rosy sentiment, too vague for practical life. They doift understand if and look JIn It as a mere limit to the domination of pleasure. And there Is the nil), says Ohio State Journal. They don't know what pleasure Is, never think it is mostly sensual, never make any difference tetween that and happiness, which is the most fatal ignorance In the whole edueational outfit. Hut the one fact which protrudes through human experience everywhere Is that the rejection of the spiritual life makes all prospect dark. That Is the trouble; with us now the trouble with religion, education, trade ami politics. The world will growbetter with spirituality, but worse, with materialism. , Hut how much materialism embraces, the popular idea does not understand.

As they established our nation our forefather practiced thrift, both in the conduct of their personal and governmental affairs. Prosperity has lessened the need for frugality as practiced by them, and tin develoje ment of a larger and fuller life, with all its refining influences warrants a larger expenditure for the happiness and development of the home life. Vet we have passed from liberality to extravagance and even to wanton wastefulness in the conduct of private and public affairs. With wiiat effect upon our youth? Many of them look upon thrift and frugality as stinginess and are not Sieing prepared for the effort that will be required to establish themselves in the future. It is a mistake parents, teachers and leaders are making, that Is ajl but a crime to encourage present habits of many, says Thrift Magazine. Let's get back to our forefathers' Iduis. The last five or six years have wrought a noteworthy change in the tjpes of immigrants coming to America, (hie of the most significant things about the present in How is the virtual absence of those large groups of big blond men and women from Sweden who for generations before the war were much in evidence at the landing places. Norway and Denmark, likewise, are sending comparatively few immigrants. Penmark. Norway and Sweden, says the Interracial council, are better able to provide for their own needs than a decade or s before the war. Through the cultivation of farms and new Industrial enterprises, they are apidly proi!ing all hands in their pective countries with full-time employment. Records of weight of school children In relation to age and height have been made in six high schools and eighteen elementary schools of Baltimore county, Maryland. Of 8."il girls in the high schools 171, or about -0 per cent, were underweight, and of l.Kil high school boys 17, or about Id ler rent, were underweight. Almost the same condition was found In the elementary schools. Of 1,0S girls 21S. or about JO per cent, were underweight, and of 1J71 boys 18'J, or about I t per cent, were underweight. In all 1.1N7 girls and boys were examined. Japan has a new form of exercise, called "Judo." that is reported to be an Improvement on Jiu-jit s.i because It provides mental as well as physical deolopment. Japan will have the bahlheads of this country doing rows of somersaults yet for a hair restorer. Spanish women are starting a crusade to abolish laws which they declare are entirely unjust to women. The only question, "Are women people?" is going to be decided with emphasis. Melting the guns back Into plowshares cannot be classed as one of the rapid and enthusiastic processes, and will never be. long as there are so many men who would rather tight than work. Different Colors of Paper Many business men have aayttem of using different colors of paper for different printed formt, thus distinguishing each form by its color. We can work this system out for you.ujinf SD3D the Utility Businet Paper, and you will find that it tavei you time ind money. Let us show you the advantage of standardizing your paper and your printing.

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, PRODUCTION IS URGED. It was Josh Billings, we believe, who warned a waiting world of the dangers that lurked In the processes of monkeying with the buzz saw, says Thrift Magazine. Like many a word spoken In Jest, there was the wisdom of the ages In this homely quip. We are doing too much monkeying with the buzz saw today. We have been monkeying with the laws of supply and demand. We have endeavored to amend or repeal economic laws that can no more be changed than the forces of nature can be altered. Amateur economists, visionary politicians and rampart reformers cannot, through the formation of boards and committees, the adoption of resolutions or the assembling of conventions, change the fundamentals of life one Iota. We do not need any more panaceas. All we need do Is to get on the Job and work, save, speed up production, eliminate waste, quit looking for Utopia and sighing for the millennium. The world will grow better only through the development of education and the adoption of wholesome habits of life by the people. What we need above all things else Is a better understanding of thrift and a closer application of Its principles. Let us quit monkeying with the buzz saw.

Boyhood days without a hayloft are like a play without a stage. The automobile has vanquished the big red barn, as the cement bottomed pool has the old swimming pool. The center of boyhood life has disappeared, says Summer Session Kansan. Imagine the gang sneaking off from trusting parents on a hot afternoon and congregating in the shiny new garage. Where can they conceal the forbidden weapons, or the thumb-marked yellow back that mother thinks has long since fallen Into the ash heap? Where do they hide to escape Xhe starched shirt and stiff shoes and the party? Where are the circuses given? The train robberies planned? And the hair-raising stories repeated? The care-free scenes of boyhood are gone. Imagination has no field to grow and expand In. Half the joys of youth have vanished with the passing of the old red barn. Two third's of Canada's forests have been destroyed by tire In the last 73 years, according to figures of the forestry department of Canada. The amount of timber burned wbuld have supplied the world for -!.".) years at the present rate of . consumption and represents .a loss of a billion dollars. The white man is not alone responsible for the destruction of American forests, t bough be has enough for which to answer. An eminent scientist and historian, according to American Lumberman, states that if the discovery of America had been postponed live centuries the discoverers would have la mied on a treeless continent. Indians and lightning set these fires. Te Indians were burning the woods to make pasture for deer and buffalo. Most of the forests had been destroyed in the region between the Ilocky mountains and the Mississippi river before the advent of the white man. DISTRIGUTION OF VVEALTH. It would greatly simplify the industrial atid social problem If everybody would grasp the fact that the great function and purpose of all legitimate business Is to supply the needs and wants of the population, and that the aims of business should be to increase constantly the supply. Tin? effort should be to meet the constantly expanding wants of the people. Then? is no limit to them. There is no danger of over-production, so long as production Is kept In balance, so that everybody has something to offer in the exchanges that Is In demand, says Nation's Business. Kvery class and group In the population Is interested in Increasing production, so that the standard of living may be constantly raised. When this general function of business Is understood and all classes concentrate upon It. the test of every policy will be the effect It has on production. It will soon bo discovered then that there Is no other employment for capital except In production for the public market and In distribution thereupon, and therefore, that accumulations of capital are beneficial to the entire community, no matter who own them. The Mail Goes In JN LWhilc the SalesmanWaits, Wc can furnish you the kind of printed sales letters and circulars on HAMMERM1LL BOND that will get your message in the right way to the man who can buy your (goods. .Use more printed salesmanship. lAikui.

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(. 1921. by McClure Newtpaper Syndicate.) j Anions his friends yn the force lie j was known as Iiis Arm John, and the ' reason was perfectly obvious when j one looked nt the jrreat muscles swellIn? beneath the sleeves of his uni-j form. j When he went away to France he ' carried with him the treasure of a girl's love, and the sweetness of realization came to him when he returned and made Margaret his wife. They found a modest little Hat near the station and settled down to what seemed a life of quiet happiness, but always in Margaret s heart was ! the shadow of coming evil. At times John noticed her abstraction and when he asked the reason she would tell him of her feeling, and he would laugh and kiss her, and tell her she needed more of the outdoor world and sunshine.! "You must take a long walk each day, dear, and while you are out just think of all the nice tilings you can. preferably of all the many virtues of a man called Rig Arm John," and he winked" at her slyly and swung her up to the ceiling as though she were a baby. Then ensued a scene that would have done credit to a nursery, and finally when John went away he left I a flushed and laughing wife. For some weeks that part of the city had been the center of operations of a party of bootleggers, and the police had been ha Hied for the time. That memorable afternoon John hurried home to let her know that he would be away all night. The1 police had received news that a few miles from the city there was a case worth investigating, and John was one of those designated for the work. He and Ilerndon, in plain clothes, started out in their speedy little car, just as it began to grow dusk. They had been pals in France. "I tell you. John, I'm getting sick of this business. This crime suiff Is getting on my nerves. Two years of scrapping in France and now chasing bootleggers here. Hah, laugh if you want, to, but I'm thinking seriously of taking the wife and kiddies and settling down on a little farm somewhere." John didn't laugh. Instead, he clapped a hand on his companion's shoulder. "Don't know but you're right, old , scout. Sometimes I get fed up on this stuff myself, but the pay's good, and I have to save something. Mar- i garet wants me to give it up. She seems afraid all the time something will happen to me. Funny they worry so much, Isn't it?" "Mine is that way, too. Imagine I'm killed about forty times a day. Well, It's pretty nice to know they think so much of us, I'll say." "Say, Ilerndon," he broke out suddenly. "Full up on that car ahead. Looks rather suspicious; somehow." Ilerndon pushed on speed and the little car pulled up close beside the larger one. Then; were two men in It. a chauffeur in livery, and a man about thirty years of age, evidently well to do. As the car with the ofilcers came abreast the stranger rose In his seat, and drawing a small black bottle from his pocket raised it to his lip-'. Then looking towards them he made n mock flourish with the flask, and sahl In clear, ringing tones, "We who are about to die, salute you." "Stop!" shouted the ollicer, and springing clear from his own car landed on the running board of the other. Ilerndon, meanwhile, by n skilful maneuver, brought his car directly across the road. John was now In the seat with the stranger, and gras-p-Ing the hand with the llask demanded to know its contents, showing his badge of authority meanwhile. "My dear fellow, why should you xilsh to know what my precious bottle hohTs? if but this glass wen clear you would see the wonderful golden light of the liquid within. Surely you would not deny me the privilege of losing myself in its hidden wonders. Io!'t you remember Omar's words: 'VJiy, be this juice the growth of (Jod. who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a snare? A blessing, we should use it, should we not? And If a curse, why, then, who set It there?'" "I don't know who Omar Is, and I don't care, but I do want to know what Is in that bottle, and if you won't tell me I'll find out." "It smells like liquor, but It's? a queer smell, too. (Juess I'll have to take a taste and make certain." John had turned to Ilerndon as he spoke, end raising the llask to his lips tusted of it. "Well, you would do it, you know," groaned the man in the car. "Von bare taken my golden release and while you go free my body must still wear its fetters." While he spoke Jin looked at him with a queer, dazed expression in hi .4 eyes. A strange sauging appeared In his limbs ami a "slight twitching In his muscles. "What was It?" he gapped. 'Iolson." came the one word, and as he spoke the officer crumpled at the stranger's" feet, his prent bulk writhing in agony. With a shriek of rage Ilerndon leaped Into the car and raised the form of his friend in his arms. .

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