Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 17, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 September 1921 — Page 4

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JASPKIt. DÜHolM COfJ? Entered rb 8conil-cIi U tf tisloiliceat Jaiper.Inrt. ei iht of Marcb3,lW7 nnrmcrioiion Od Per Year, ihla papei ta mailed regularly tci t lorcribeti until a JefinHeorderto lißemtinaeic received ard all amertpaid nfnll; anlese in the discretion of th publiaher a different ccane should be deemed advisable. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1921 POOR SALESMANSHIP. Did you ever hear such a remark as this: "I've gone Into that store for the last time. I've lieen there two or three times and each time I go In with my mind made up ns to what I want and come away with exactly the thing I don't wont?' asks the Omaha Ilee. The answer Is that some clerk more zealous to make n sale than to Iii ease has messed things up very badly for his establishment by inducing or persuading this patron to buy an nr tide which he did not want Most any skillful clerk Is eloquent enough to do such a thing if he sets his head to it. Hut the clerk who appreciates the Indispensable value to his store of a satisfied customer will hesitate to use his power in that way. While It Is strictly the business of the clerk to make the best possible Immediate Bale, It Is a larger part of his busl ness to build up and hold trade, and that Is not done by cunningly forcing a patron to choose between two nr tides the very one he especially ob Jects to, even though the margin of profit be wider than on the other. Salesmanship Is something of an Inexact science, as successful merchants and salesmen, of course, realize, and the more of the sound theories th;t get Into practice over the counter the better for both the man behind the counter and the one behind him. No store cun have a more valuable asset than a satisfied customer.

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in 1020 reached a total of more than TiOO,000,000 was the point to which V. K. Mallalleu, New York, president of the National Fire Protection association, drew the special attention of qelegates In ojenIng the twenty-fifth annual convention of the organization at San Francisco. Though there had been no single great conflagration, he said, accumulated carelessness had produced loss almost equal to that of 11K)G, the year of the San Francisco': tire, and greater than that of any other year In our history. He ui; d that the convention must weigh this fact carefully. Fire prevention, he said, is the outstanding problem of human society upon this continent. The part played by Australia in the war has directed world-attention to her in a way that nothing else could have done. Prior to the war the commonwealth was but imperfectly known even in nations claiming to be widely Informed; the role Australia sustained in GalllioIi and the other war theafers radically altered matters in this regard, says the Western Mail (IVrth). ; ot only has she become better known, but with Increased knowledge has come recognition of her as a factor to be reckoned with In international, political and commercial relationships. The decision of the admiralty to rely for the future upon oil-burning ships means a change greater than It is easy to measure. The special monopoly of Welsh coal, which gave It a constant market at high prices, goes. That will not be without permanent effects on the coal situation, especially as the big passenger steamers are also turning to oil, says the Westminster Gazette. At present, apart from other advantages, the admiralty discovers a financial saving In burning imported oil rather than home-pro-duced coal. A Harvard professor explains that as a result of coming- too close to the earth, the Pons-Winnleke comet has swung out of its orldt und wlfl not cause the expected meteoric shower. In oihcr words, it came too cle to come closer. Ain't science wonderful: Now Japan takes the popular initiative by megaphoning vociferously that Nippon wants nothing quite so much as certainty of peace with America. That leaves our Jingoes clinging to the precipice. One lady says men's criticism of women's dress does no good and that they might as well look and forget It. Hut when they pKk It is almost Impossible to forget it. It appears, according to a correspondent of the New York Tost, that Tahiti fchould be pronounced to rhyme lth nightie, which Is ubout all they jvcar down there.

MYTHICAL ESTATES. The supposed heirs of the mythical Philadelphia estate, which was represented to be worth some $STjO,OoÖ,000, and to be ready for distribution on expiration of a nonexistent lease, will not be lonesome. A favorite game of swindlers has been to stimulate the hopefc of persons who have been waiting for go h1 fortune to befall them, and next to the celebrated SpanIsh claimant" device the pretended title to old estates that have been made valuable by the growth of cities Is the most common, says Portland OregonIan. It Is not long since certain Seattle tieople were being besought to lay claim to tlx? townsite of Chillicot he, O. Perennially the title to Harlem, In the upper end of Manhattan island, Is brought into question, and the holdings of Trinity corporate n. Including some of the most valuable real estate In New York, furnish the material for at least nn annual hunt. The mathematical chance, to say nothing of the legal probability, that these cases will ever yield anything to the claimants Is infinitesimal.

Golf to some iople Is as many anxious clergymen know the enKenderer of an almost rellgolus passion. To these zealots on one hand und to the folk who desire to see America first in all things good, the gradual and complete elimination of American contestants from the international tournament at llolylake, 1'ngland, will mean grief and pain. One by one they fell! Hut why worry! Golf, after all, Is a Britisher's game, - - - says tine Philadelphia Public Ledger. When an nll-1'rltish team of ball players loafs over here and trims an American nine composed of our best we shall have reason to feel that we are slipping backward In the march of civilization. That the remorseless persecution of the fiy Is not a hopeless quest Is amply proved by the success with which during the war the British medical service in France fought the deadly Insect under very dilluuU conditions-. The Ideal of medical authorities is to make it as extinct as the dodo, for of all living creatures the common house tly is Ihe one about which It seems to be generally agreed that It possesses no single virtue or use in its survival, even to the extent of "preserving the balance of nature." The latest way to beat the annoyance of summer telephoning Is to eat some ice cream while yon are doing it. Anybody in well aware of how hot It gets In the average booth. It ap proaches suffocation when there are. long list of numbers to be called. "Yes," said the soda clerk. "I often have an order to serve a sundae in 1 tooth No. l. It's kind of a nuisance, but folks are so grateful I can't refuse. And generally they leave me a tip, too." Opinion In Amsterdam is outspoken to the effect that the natives of Holland should be referred to as Hollanders, not as Dutchmen. It Is possible that "Dutch" sounds too much like "Deutsch" to be pleasant to them. Some writer In the Philadelphia Ledger Is tewalllng the decline of manners. Tin? inculcation of the refinemeuts of life can't be negotiated In automobiles, fiats or on the street corners. A New York structural Iron worker fell sixteen stories and only sprained a linger. It should be a warning to him ' not to go up In airplanes he might break a collar bone some day. It is a sad but true circumstance that Sir Isaac Newton didn't get half as much publicity for his discovery as Doctor Einstein lias obtained from - his efforts to overturn It. In view of the current value of the blossom for use in a certain chemical experimentation it is doubtful whether the dandelion may any longer be considered a weed. With May wheat quoted at the low est price since 19 Hi, the question :iV to what is normalcy again presents it self, especially to those with wheat for sale. .There is talk of making American j tourists pav a head tax in France. That will j.vt the dollar the tourist usimllv saves to avoid getting horn rokoKnouh people to make up a good

sized army are killed In accidents each. ear in America. There is a waste worse even than war waste. Some of these days It will be so that Llovd Ceorire will not be comfortable without a nock of crises to , , , . keen h s mind employed. . , , . The giwid legislator Is a man. who . , starts with the notion that li) out of LV bills ought to be defeated., . If everybody were good how In the world would the reformer earn his liv-

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jf By FRANCES E. GOODRICH. Si U(ffftfC(fftffff ft rrcrcrrrrccrret mm 1921. by McCI'jr .vrrr Syndicate.) Among his friends on the force he wan known as Big Arm John, and the reason was perfectly obvious when one looked at the great muscles swelling heneain the sleeves of his uniform. 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 ids wife. They found a modest little fiat 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 things you can. preferably of nil the many virtues of a man called Itig Arm John," and he winked at her slyly and swung her up to the celling 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 a Hushed 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 baffled for the time. That memorable afternoon John hurried home to let her know that he would be away all night. The 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 Herndon, 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 stun! 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. Margaret wants me tb 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, Iii say." Say, Herndon," he broke out suddenly. "Pull up on that car ahead. Looks rather suspicious1 somehow." Herndon pushed on speed and the little car pulled up dose beside the larger one. There 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 officers came abreast the stranger rose in his seat, and drawing a small black bottle from his pocket raised It to his lips. Then looking towards them he made a mock tlourish with the flask, and said In clear, ringing tones, "We who are about to die. salute you." "Stop!" shouted the ofllcer, and springing clear from his own car landed on the running board of the other. Herndon, meanwhile, by a skilful maneuver, brought his car directly across the road. John was now In the seat with the stranger, and grasping the hand with the flask demanded to know its contents, showing his badge of authority meanwhile. "My dear fellow, why should you to know what my precious bottle hohTs? If but this glass were clear you would see the wonderful golden i light of the liquid within. Surely you would not deny me the privilege of losing myself In its hidden wonders. I)o!'t you remember Omar's words: "Why. be this juice the growth of God. who dare Rlaspheme the twisted tendril as a snare? A blessing, we should use It, should we not? AjHi if a cur se. why, then, who set it there?"' "I don't know who Omar K and I don't care, but I do want to know what is !n that bottle.' and if you won't tell me I'll lind out.""It smells like liquor, but it' a queer smell, too. (5u I'll lave to j " astc ma!;e certain." John jhad turned to Wenu! n :is he spoke. ; j,md raising the t!asl; to his lips f ! of it. ' j ..W1 yoM Wt,M Jw u you kn,(. j

pni:Uli., tju. num jn the cnr. Yon ;hae taken my golden feleae and (while you go free my body. mut still i wear its fetters." . While he spoke .Tm looked at him with a queer, dazed expression in his - A range sa-ing appeared In .his limbs and a slight twitching in I , ; his muscles. i What was. It?" he gasped. ... 4I ,. , , ' Poison, came the one word, and rs the crump,rtl flt j the- stranger' feet, his great bulk i writhing In agony. w,th a shriek of rage Herndon leaped Into the car and raised the form of his friend In his arms.

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OUR FORESTS. The chief enemy of the forest is not the gypsy moth or any other trisect, but the ax and the lire of man. The moth, like most insects, has a para-! site which may be used to keep It Inj order, but man has nothing except himself to minimize his depredations. The saddest feature of forest destruction in the United States is that most of it represents absolute loss and Is due to fires, says the Boston Globe. During the last five years 81,000,000 acres of wild land, which means about four acres to each family, has been burned over, and all the young growth, seedlings and saplings have perished. Sparks from locomotives, coals left smouldering by campers, cigarettes dropped carelessly, have kept the conilagratlon constant. Unless there is a change and forests are conserved Instead of destroyed, America will be as bald as Euroie or the Near East, where a bundle of twigs is a treasure. We cannot save our cilivlzation unless we save our forests. The successful criminal of today Is a young man, well schooled In the ways of the upper as well as the underworld, studying crimes with scientific intensity, and as different from the criminal of yesterday ns the low-cut speedy racer is from the highseated horseless chariot of other Uays In the motorcar world. On this theory George T. Itagsdale, head of the civics department of the' Louisville (Ky.) school system, known to ponce circles throughout the country as a specialist on crime and methods of criminal pncedure, is basins a nation-wide survey and analysis of police py stems throughout the United States with a view to educating the police of today along new lines to enable them to cope formidably with the criminals. . The medical corps of the navy Is confronted by a discouraging situation. Approximately vacancies have occurred, and to till these vacancies during the lust year only six medical ollicers have been appointed from civil life and only 100 from the reserve nnd tenqorary medical otUcera. This situation Is due largely to the fact that private practice is more remunerative. Oiliccrs In the medical corps of the navy who believe that the right kind of material can be secured for the navy are hopeful that the department will take steps to intluence medical men. Argentina Is fortunate in havingmen gifted along such lines as make possible her recent expedition into the Strait of Magellan district, which resulted in the discovery of rich fosidllferous deposits, in addition toother things of value, Including peat and coal. In the past, northerners have usually, taken the leadership in such researches below the equator. Both close proximity and considerations of utility, argue for similar activity by, South Americans, j It is to le hoped that Argentina's example will be cupled by her sister nations. . :

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