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Soldier Peddlers.
It is complained that a good
many ex soldiers are beiog employ
ed to peddle articles about the
streets. People who have notions
to sell may figure that the uniform
will awaken sympathy and that the
soldier solicitor would work off a
Jot of stuff that a fellow in civilian,
clothes could not. Secretary of
War Baker has issued a statement
asking the people to remonstrate
with veterans who peddle on the
streets, particularly those who wear
their uniform while canvassing.
There has been a strong feeling
that a soldier's uniform ought not
to be used for any commercial pur
pose If all the soldiers attempted
to wear their uniform in their busi
ness positions, and expected the
uniform to help them do business,
it could not help making the in
signia of army service unpopular.
People would hate to have it con
stantly thrust at them as an argu
meut for them to buy when they
did not want to. So this practice
would detract from the dignity and
honor in which the army is held.
Mr. Baker contends that peddling
is a 'dead-end" employment, that is,
one that does not lead to any ad
vancement, and in this he is per
fectly right. Business men would
not be favorably predisposed to
young men who had sought to sup
port themselves in this way, and
would give a preference to a fellow
who had taken the humblest and
most mential job of work that need
ed doing for the benefit of the com
munity. A man who had dug
ditches honestly and faithfully
would have done more to demon
strate his serviceableness, than one
who had sold gbods ou sympathy
that people did not want
The vast majority of the service
men are now at work. The govern
-ment and philanthropic societies
have elaborate machinery for help
ing them. In these busy times any
able bodied and willing man who
wants a job can get it.
The October Opening at the Chil-
licothe Business College occurs Oct
6th when new classes will be or
ganized and more than a hundred
Dew students will begin business,
telegraph, banking, and civil service
courses.
Why Dot become a regular sub
scriber to the Democrat?
Industrial Warfare.
The wail of the calamity howlers
who think America is going to the
dogs because everything is dead
wrong, is not supported by facts
for the pictured dread of unemploy
ment is met by the force of the of
ficial statement that eighty per cent
of the returned fighting men have
been cared for by their former era
ployers, and there are left out of
work now only the number normal
ly constituting the labor turnover
Id the "slums" of the cities the men
are wearing ten dollars shoes and
the women having balances at the
saving banks
Of course Ireland is in a hole,
Fiume is in a fog, Shantung pigtails
are in the hands of Japanese hair
dressers, and the Prince of Wales
cannot get bis English yacht up the
Potomac to Washington. But why
worry and get wrinkles?
It is a truth as patent as patent
shoe-leather that the national mor
ale is low, in evidence of which we
have the steel strike, promoted by
a crowd of agitators and staged
principally by foreigners who have
not assimilated our Americanism
In addition coal operators, who
mostly all speak a tongue that
Americans cannot understand,
threaten to tie-up the mines as win
ter is begioning to send forth its
first frost-bites.
Skilled workmen and the more
intelligent employes of the country
are going about their affairs Boberly
and industrially; but the fact re
mains that the country is in the
throes of industrial warfare. It is
of deep concern that on the verv
eve of the meeting of a . conference
between leaders of labor and capi
tal, convened by the President, that
there are great strikes io progress.
The fact that foreigners are the ones
principally at the bottom of these
disputes ought not to be lost sight
of for as that "wake up America
stuff was the bone and sinew of
morale io war time, its importance
is equally vital in the piping times
of peace.
Patrons wishing photos for Christ
mas will please have their negatives
made before December 1st.
Belie Johnson,
Austria hasn't raised much, fi
over signing the peace terms
but then, there is fin little of Anotrta 1
left, "
The Country Center.
Great economic changes often
take place withou; people realizing
it. Then wheu the current of pros
perity drifts by them, they wonder
why they did not see what was so
apparent.
The past ten years have seen a
great economic uplift in country
life. The farmers are getting a
price for their product nearer to
what they are entitled to. The
country districts, which once were
undergoing a economic struggle to
achieve mere subsistence, are on
the whole prosperous and specially
favored ones are wealthy
All this reacts in favor of centers
like Monroe City that draw trade
from the surrounding farm country
With a policy of liberal advertising.
it is possible for merchants to draw
trade from a wider circle than
formerly, and to get more of it
from a given territory.
Also it will pay a country center
to look way ahead and plan for a
growing future. There should be
more money put into substantial
construction. The roan who con
templates erecting a business build
ing can afford to do it in a per
manent way.
The man who has an antiquated
or outworn building, instead of try
ing to fix it up by temporary re
pairs, should ask himself whether it
would not pay better to tear down
the whole thing, and put up aj
modern rusiness block of fireproof
material. Any business located in
an attractive modern building can't
help growing.
The country around here is per
munently prosperous and will grow
more so. The business men can
bank on it. Public buildiugs erect
eJ here should be in keeping with
the prosperity of the section. The
streets Bhould have a better surface
than formerly, the sidewalks should
be of good material and kept in
good repair.
All these things mark the pros
perous town, and help it become
more prosperous. ,
Tiio Country Home.
At a recent farmers' Institute, the
question was discussed, "How to
keep more of the wealth in the
rural community." Among solu
tions suggested the following were
prominent:
Cut out credit systems and do
business for cash.
More attractive farm homes.
equipped with modern household
conveniences.
Give salaries to the boys on the
farm so they will get interested in
farm work and want tostickto it.
Every one of these suggestions
will tend to keen in the numr n-
more of the golden stream of wealth.
The household conveniences for the
country home seems to mean ex
pense temporarily, but will keep at
home a lot of bright girls who now
go to the cities.
Missouri in Architecture.
Missouri can correctly claim first
rank in many things relating to ag
riculture and live stock, but the lat
est basis for fame is that of the
front rank of mid-western stutes-im
architecture. John A Bryan or
Kansas City, lately returned from
two years in the A E. F, . made in
vestigations along these lines io
Columbia University. New York
City, before the war. He suggests
the lively need and opportunity for
a popular illustrated bulletin oq.
"Missouri's Place in American Arch
itecture," citing the fact, that Su
Louis, Kansas City and St. Josenfe
and rural Missouri possess many
triumphs of the building art. andl
that the new state caDitol is at-
trading attention among artists
throughout the United States.
Plans for the nation wide Redt
Cross campaign, opening Monday...
November 3 and closing Armistice?
Day, November 11, are beintf beun
in every city, town and county by
Kcd Lross workers. The Drimarv
object of the campaign, which wilt
be known as the Third Red Crosa;.
Roll Call, will be to enroll members-.
for 1920. Twenty million members;.
will be sought throughout the coun
try, and in the Southwestern!
Division of the Red Cross, compris
ing ths states of Missouri, Kansas,
Texas. Oklahoma and Arkansas, the
quota has been set at 2,000.000
members.
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Lawrence Gordon, Monroe City, vs. Young Owen of Hannibal.
This is a return match for Owen, Gordon having won the first
bout a few weeks ago in just 48 minutes. Admission, including
the war tax
Ringside 75c. General 50c. Children 25c
