Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 25, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 January 1933 — EDITORIAL [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL

CALVIN COOLIDGE A great statesman has passed on. And the last ex-president has -answered the final call. Calvin Coolidge devoted his life to public service, closing his eventful life with the successful administration of the highest public office the people of the United States could give him. And in that life of service he proved always a man of quick and accurate decisions carried through to the end. And he made friends with the whole world. Calvin Coolidge freely GAVE to public service, rather than accept public office for what he might GET from it. He always shunned the public eye and publicity rather than sought for it. More public officials like Coolidge would make for better government and a better world. He will be sorely missed and long remembered in public life. And the nation mourns.

THE SHIPWRECKED FARMERS If a half dozen men were marooned on a desert island they would join forces to secure food, shelter and projection. It would be folly for each to work separately. By cooperation they would achieve results obtainable in no other manner. This illustration explains the farm cooperative movement. Farmers today are in much the same position as sailors , ; wrecked on a desert island. Their financal existence depends on profitable and permanent markets for their produce. Each farmer wo/king alone is powerless for he is Supposed by forces far stronger thar^he. But when ten thousand farmers join forces to study ' production figures, marketing, transportaton and like problem^ of agriculture, their situation has changed. Cooperation is just another name for economic salvation —Industrial News. . Yesterday (Tuesday) bright signs showed plainly in the way of better conditions as the United States Steel Co revealed that December business was w z ay ahead of last year and much better than was expected. Stocks showed some improvement, while wheat hit the highest point in three months, raising three points in Tuesday’s trading. Railroads reported car loading ahead of 1931 for Decemebr. One Chicago bank stock recently rose fiftyseven points in three days or an average l>f nearly thirty points per day for the period. The general -trend of the markets indicates the general trend of business. Higher prices for agricultural products will make for better times faster than any other one thing. Such reports as the above are at least hopeful.

ZANE GREY FILM NEAR END OF RUN. Zane Grey’s “Wild Horse Mesa”, which has been the current attraction at the Momence Theatre will close its engagement there Saturday. : The film is based on one of Zane Grey’s most popular stories, dealing with the great wild horse herd of the West, descendants of blooded animals that had escaped from early Spanish explorers; Chane Weymer, a friend of the Indians on whose territory the last of the great herd sought refuge, deals in these horses legitimately, and he fights -the barbarous methods of Rawlins and other horse thieves. ? | Randolph Scott, the lanky newcomer who appeared to advantage in “Heritage of the Desert” and “Hot Saturday”, has the.irole of Chane. Sally Blane is the heroine, Fred Kohler, Rawlins; and others of prominence in the cast are Lucille La Verne as ihe mother of the Heroine; Charley Grapewin as Sam Bass, an old cousin of the latter; James Bush as the young brother of Chane, and Jim Thorpe as the Indian chief.