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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, July 04, 1919, Image 6

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America fs Influence Abroad.
A nation, like a man, has some
kind of a reputation. In order to
achieve any standing in the world
that reputation must be good and
it must be earned.
Just now the good standing and
the reputation of America among
the peoples of the earth was never
better. In fact it was never quite
ao high as now. The main thing is
to keep it so.
We went into the war with mo
tives as clean as any nation that
ever went into any war. we went
into it to maintain our reputation
before the world. We had been
bullied by the Huns for a good
while We had tried arguments
tried turning the other cheek. Ger
many had outraged us, had scoffed
at and humiliated us. There was an
open belief in Hun-land that we
were gold-worshippers, money chas
ers, indifferent to everything save
our money and our selfish comfort
And it is a regrettable fact that the
world bad begun to swing over
to Germany's way of thinking.
We changed that, so swiftly and
ao effectively that such memories
are almost forgotten. League of
Nations or not, it will be many a
long day before another Imperial
upstart picks trouble with America.
What happened to the Kaiser and
his junkers when they finally
brought us into the war will remain
in tbe memories of men for a mighty
long time.
Foreign nations know now, what
they expected or feared. That
America once aroused is always
willing to throw in every man and
every dollar and that her resources
are so great as to be nigh well
limitless.
Now we have won the golden
opinion of the world let us set to
work to hold it We have a lot of
obligations growing out of this war.
Some of them are legal, some of
them are financial and some of
them are moral. All of these obli
gations are vital and imperative
Some of them have to do with tbe
future of the nation and the trend
of the world in the days to come.
Some of these obligations, many
of them in fact, can be met with
hard cash. Those should be the
very easiest for us to deal with. We
have the money in this country to
deal with them. Our financial
strength was not strained by the
-war.
we nave Dills to pay and loans
that must be paid for the rebuilding
and rehabilitation of our allies. And
all the while we must keep in mind
that the Allies were fighting our
battles for us, long before we came
in to take our own part. The Bel
gians were fighting for us at Liege
back in 1914 The Britons were
dying for us at Mods in that same
year, but we never knew it.
The French were holding for us
Verdun, but we refused to realize it
then, though we had begun to bus
pect the truth. Thev were fighting
for us. and we would be a nation of
ingrates if we refused to take these
things into account now that the
war is over.
The way to hold the good opinion
of the world is to hold up our end,
pay our debts, take care of our ob
ligations and see that the weaker
folk among our Allies get a chance,
It is then an obligation that finally
comes back to each and all of us,
individually.
lo tail to oo tnese tnings now
will amount to throwing away all
that we have won the expense of
blood and much treasure. There
must be no letting up now that we
have won tbe fight.
An improvident people cannot
finish tbe job that has been cut out
for us. If tbe United States is to
be the paramount power of this
world, and exert the influence that
it can and should, this country
must continue to be prosperous. -
The prosperity of a nation depends
upon the prosperity of the individu
als comprising the nation. If the
people are improvident tbe nation
is impotent
The Administration even before
the war was won began the recon
struction work And the ablest
financiers and the greatest states
men worked out the plans to in
culcate thrift among the masses.
It was to reach the masses that
tbe War Savings Stamp and the
Thrift Stamp were brought into ex
istence. The Treasury Department
wanted to give to the man with
tbe smallest amount of money to
invest just as attractive an offer as
it made to the millionaire. That
was why the baby bonds were made
to bear four percent, with interest
compounded quarterly. And a
more liquid investment cannot be
made. Tbe interest adds itself au
tomatically. If adversity should
come, and the bolder really has to
sell, he may cash his securities on
ten days notice. The Treasury De
partment still further protects the
man with a small amount to invest,
by making it impossible for an in
dividual to acquire more than $1,-
000 00 of the securities in any one
year.
Care in Handling Eggs
Good fresh eggs put in a basket
and stored in the hot kitchen for a
day or two may reach town in such
condition that they must be used
at once to be available for food. A
basket of perfectly fresh eggs left on
tbe back of the wagon and exposed
to the sun during a 10-mile drive to
town may reach the country mer
chant in such shape that not even
immediate chilling will make them
available for long shipment to the
cities. This is tbe story constantly
revealed by tbe candle on the egg
car Lggs of wbicb the farmers
wife is very proud will show that
they have been allowed to remain
24 or 48 hours in the nest or at
some point in their history have
been exposed to heat which lowers
their value. It is evident, therefore
that if the egg is to be palatable to
tbe city consumer care in its hand
ling must begin on the farm. The
farmer must gather his eggs twice
a day and must keep them cool
afterwards, just as he would cream
er milk, until they are delivered in
town. There there the merchant
must at once put them into a dry,
cold place, or. if he wishes to be
strictly up to date, must chill them
in his own little refrigerating plant
or in tbe larger refrigerating plant
of the town, to a temperature well
below 40 degrees F.
Heat is the great enemy, for once
a good egg nas stood for any time
at a temperature of over 68 de
grees F. it begins to incubate, if it
is a fertile egg. or to spoil, if it is
an infertile egg.
Capital Punishment?
There has been considerable hys
teria hereabouts in the past few
weeks anent capital punishment.
Newspapers, organizations and indi
viduals have been working them
selves into an excitable demand
that Missouri restore the death pea
alty abolished a few years ago.
Let us look into the situation
calmly. Has the passing of the
noose and the electric chair caused
an increase in the number of
capital offenses? What is the ex
perience of those states and coun
tries which for many years have
done without death punishments?
Wisconsin abolished the capita!
penalty as far back as 1853 and no
increase in homicides was observed
Tbe average number of convictions
for capital offenses per annum for
' 18 years after the abolition was 2.7,
It was smaller in tbe last five years
of the period than in tbe first five,
; showing no tendency toward pro
gressive increase, althougn the state
was growing rapidly and absorb
ing rough elements of population.
Michigan abolished capital puu
isbment about the same time. How
many lynchings have occurred in
either state? It maybe remarked
in passing that the death penalty is
in vogue in all the Southern states.
Holland abolished capital punish
ment 50 years ago and no increase
in crime resulted. Norway dropped
tbe hangman in 1905 and had the
same experience. There are many
more murders per capita in spam
where death penalties are common
and swift
Back in 1877 Pennsylvania made
a classic attempt to demonstrate
the deterrent effect of capital pun
isbment by banging ten men on the
same day. The next night after the
executions two of the witnesses in
the case against the banged men
were murdered and within two
weeks five more witnesses were
killed.
In addition to Missouri, the fol
lowing states do not punish murder
by death: Arizona, Kansas. Maine,
Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota,
Oregon. Rhode Island. Tennessee,
Washington and Wisconsin. Have
you ever beard any of these states
pointed out as being notorious for
capital offenses or for lynchings?
When Speed Mosby was Pardon
Attorney for Missouri several years
ago he asked the Attorneys Gen
eral of five states which had abol
ished capital punishment whether
there had been an increase in capi
tal crimes as a result All answer
ed NO.
What, then, is the case for capi
tal punishment? Presumably a
man is banged not for reverge, but
to deter others from committing
crime. If banging does not keep
others from murder or crimes
against women, what is gained?
or assuredly we are a Christian
people, and a Christian people does
not justify hanging for revenge on-
y. St. Louis Republic.
Go
to Miss Belle Johnson
for
high-grade enlargements.
$4,580 a YEAR
MEN and WOMEN
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Tell me why you were asked to send the Govern-
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M.600 a year; about your Higher-Accounting and
Business-Procedure Course; now, by your new
method and in half usual time, you will train me
at MY HOME or at IJRAUGHON'S COLLEGE
for position as bookkeeper or stenographer, at $75
to $125 month, or as accountant, at S2.100 to '
$4,500 a year; why training by your new plan is so
easy and interesting one may forget he ia studying.
may absorb instruction j why 98 per cent of verbatim
stenographers write the Shorthand you teach; why
concerns employ 800,000 persons you trained. I
prefer training at state, home or coliegt.
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FR1ENDSADVICE
To Try Cardui Proved Sound. Ter
rible Suffering Relieved.
Albany, Mo. Mrs. Lillian Akes, ol this
place, writes: "I think Cardui is a great
medicine. I suffered terribly for four
years with weakness and different female
troubles. I took different kinds of med
icine and was doctored by our family
physician all this time, but did not get
any better ... A friend of mine recom
mended Cardui, so I decided to try it.
By the time I had taken one bdttle, I
wu to much better that I continued right
on taking it until I was feeling fine and
able to do all my work, and take care ol
my baby. L
Before taking Cardui, 1 was in a very
weak condition ... I also suffered with
awful sick headache and dizziness. I
was notable to do anything . . . But since
taking Cardui; 1 am a well woman and
have do more trouble."
Card-u-l, the woman's tonic, hat been
In use for. over 40 years. Its ingredients
have been known and used by physicians
for female troubles for hundreds of years.
If you suffer from symptoms of diseases
peculiar to your sex, and feel the need ol
a good strengthening tonic medicine, try
Card-u-l. Qet a bottle from your drug
trist today. NCB-14
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Good Houseing
From all over the country there
comes the report of a shortage of
dwellings. In some places people
insert advertisements in newspapers
offering a reward for anyone who
will find them a home.
No industry, is going to prosper
unless there are comfortable homes
for the workers. They will go
somewhere else, and tbe business
will have to be constantly breaking
in new help.
Many manufacturing. concerns
took up the housing problem long
ago and have built hundreds of
homes for workers. They do. their
best to encourage home spirit, offer
ing prizes for gardening and the
best looking cottage. They make
it easy for workers to become the
owners of their little homes. Any
concern that has done that has
placed its.business on a much more
, .
8eCUre D8S1S.
Conditions Of CODgeStlODS in many
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manufacturing tOWUS have DeCOOOe
. - , , . ...
uiLuu&i&uueuuurtiuitr. rummes are
herded together promiscuously
without regard to common decency.
In rural districts much of the
trouble.in keeping farm help is due
to lack of suitable dwellings. When
tbe farmer puts up one or more
cottagesfor bis hired men and gives
them a bit, of land to cultivate, he
does not have to shift his help
everyisummer or oftener.
This is a problem that every in
dustry, from the big corporation
down to tbe lonely farmer, must
work out somehow. The man who
has settled down in a pretty little
horned very rarely becomes a bol
8hevist. If you can persuade him
to buy it on a mortgage, and pay
interest instead of rent, he is set
tied for good as a constructive
worker for the good of the com
munity. It will be for the interest
of Monroe City to take this up as a
community matter, and see that
there is a comfortable home for
every industrious worker who wants
to live here.
The Use of Luxuries
The New-York World reports that
importation of precious stones from
the city of London alone amounted
to $15,000,000 for five months end
ing May 31. as against $8,000,000
tbe previous year. High import
duties are also being paid on great
quantities of laces, perfumery, fan
cy underwear, silks, furs, antiques,
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For Infants and Children.
Mothers Know That
Genuine Castoria
Always
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nature
of
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Use
For Over
Thirty Years
til
tmi emuD sop. new ton emr
silver and glass articles and other
superfluities.
Many people who displayed econ
omy during the war, are now get
ting back to free spending. A vast
amount of new wealth has beeo
made, and some people are bother
ed to know what to do with it.
Meanwhile capital brings bigb
rates of interest- The savings of
the country are not sufficient to
develop its resources. Great water
powers flow to the sea unharnessed
Vast tracts having all elements of
fertility but lacking water, remain;
arid, because funds cannot be rais
ed to develop irrigation. Millions
of farmers would raise bigger crops,
if they could get some loans to pro
vide better equipment. '
And as the result of this failure
to develop resources, prices of foods
and other raw materials are very
high. The mass of the people find
it difficult to live in a comfortable
and decent way and educate their
children.
Tbe excuse is given for spending:
money for luxuries, that it keeps
labor employed. Yet if the money
spent on superfluities, was put into
Capital and spent in developing;
the resources of tbe country, just as
much labor would be employed. In
addition, a permanent betterment
would be made to the national re
sources, facilitating production and
reducing prices. When people spend
money on superfluities they help
thwart the development of the
country, and help keep the mass of
the people , suffering from hard
economic conditions.
For Exchange
A seven passenger White Steam
er car, in first class condition, in
cluding almost bran new tires, new
boiler and rebuilt engine, aluminum
body, beautiful leather upholstry;
with cold water will build its steam
in two ana one-nan to tnree min
utes ready to go. This is a luxury
car for family or private use, or
would make a splend livery car, or
easily converted into a truck the
best to be had on account of its
steam power qualities, and so easi
ly to operate. Will sell this car at
a big bargain and take in a Ford
car in deal. Call on or address W
H. Clawson. Clarence, Mo.
WANTED
Two girls who have had some ex
perience in restaurant work. Call
at or addresi Christians'Cafe, Mon
roe City, Mo. .
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