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COURTESY and prompt attention are bringing us trade that
oftentimes has to go out of its way to get here. We
are glad to get your trade and we believe in showing
our appreciation by supplying your every need with all possible
speed. Old customers are bringing us new ones right along
through the recommendations they are constantly giving us.
High quality, low prices and prompt service are a combination
that is hard to beat and we have found them all to be worth
maintaining.
T. A. Caplinger
The grand jury brought indict
ments against seven merchants of
Ralls County for selling cigarettes
to minors. The grand jury did its
duty in the matter, but there are
extenuating circumstances, if the
merchants are guilty as charged.
It has been only a few months
since we were all "hollering our
heads off' to send cigarettes to the
boys "over there." Some of the
youths of the land many of them,
in fact thought if the boys over
there were entitled to their
"smokes" they were, too. So they
learned the habit of smoking cigar
ettes, and you scarcely ever see a
young man or a boy these days
who does not have the "makin's"
on his person. So the merchants,
perhaps, were a little careless in
selling the cigarettes. In the future
however, we trust that all will
track the law and see that none ex
cept such as are duly qualified
have the right to "smoke up."
Ralls Co. Record.
Missourians who went to Florida
some years ago and planted orange
groves and expected to get rich
have discovered lately that there is
more money in growing apples in
their home state. Not a few of
them have returned since their vis
ion became more clear. A good
Missouri apple is retailing for more
today tfian the best oranges on the
market. In the central part of Mis
souri where much attention has
of late years been paid to fruit
growing, apples are worth more
than oranges. At the fruit stores
and 6tands one can purchase an
orange for 5 cents, but a good Mis
souri apple costs 10 cents. The
dealers, say, too. that about 100 ap
pies are sold to one orange. The
apples are infinitely better than the
oranges, and the public has discov
ered this fact. It is easier costs
less to grow apples than oranges.
For the first time since the out
break of the European war Countess
Laszio Szecbenyi is visiting rela
tives in the United States. The
countess, who was Miss Gladys Van
derbilt. became by marriage an
Austrian subject and as she was in
Hungary at the time the war start
ed was unable to leave the coun
try. She is technically an alien
enemy and it was only by. special
arrangements with the State De
partment that she was able to
come to America.
SERV
Courtesy Builds
Our Trade
MONROE CITY, MISSOURI
When it looks like a lot of U9 are
going to have to be out of business
because of the scarcity of paper, it
almost makes us sick to look at our
waste basket. There is an arm
load of mail that comes in every
day, and we know it goes to
every other newspaper offics in the
land, that is never read. A big
force of typists, writers and printers
are busy filling this paper up so it
may go out, burden the mails
over half of it goes through the
mails free, only to be tossed into as
many waste baskets as there are
newspapers. The man that runs a
paper is in a good deal the same
category as you would be, if you
were worried almost to death for
fear you couldn't get enough food
to keep yourself alive, while you
sat and saw a big hotel employ a
great force of people' to prepare
and cook great loads of food that
were taken straight from the kitch
en to the dump heap. Lamar
Democrat.
Bud Dodge in his Milan Standard
last week said that for many years
he had refused to accept advertis
ing from merchants of other towns
because be thought bis duty. The
merchants of Milan did not seem to
appreciate his position in the mat
ter and, notwithstanding the fact
that bis paper covers that trade ter
ritory like the dew covers the earth,
they quit advertising with him. Bud
says if the merchants of that tow
want Milan to die, he is going to ac
cept advertising from any source in
the future to keep from dying with
the town. Sensible boy.
No one should burn leaves, but
especially should people in town
conserve their leaves, since stable
manure is a difficult thing to obtain
these days when automobiles have
superceded horses largely and when
cows are scarcely to be found in
towns of fifteen hundred or more
population. Most gardens badly
need humus, and grasses, leaves,
and all manner of vegetable refuse,
if saved and allowed to rot, will
help wonderfully to supply the
need.
"Which is correct," said the Bos
ton scboolma'am, who was spend
ing her vacation on the farm, "to
say that a hen is setting or sitting T"
"I am not interested in hen gram
mar," aoswered the farmer, "but all
I want to know is when a ben
cackles is she 'lying' or laying.'"
CH
Garage
Cheer Up, Dad
There was a movement awhile
back to establish a day for dad.
Father was going to have one
day of respect and tribute along
with mother.
But dad is such an easy going
unromatic person that even holiday
maniacs couldn't get up much en
thusiasm. And when.q holiday maniac gets
discouraged it must be a dreary
topic indeed, for the maniac de
lights in nothing so much as inject
ing a half dozen more holidays into
an already overburdened calendar.
With the returning of the legions
to school we feel that dad should
Teacher and mother and pupil
all have their kind words, but dad
gets nothing; all he does is dig.
And how the poor man has to
dig this fall.
The children have to be dressed
decently; they have to be equipped
with books and tools and charts
and maps, and the hundred and
one expensive incidents that mod
ern and technical training de
mand. Shoes for a family of four will
take a week's pay check of the
average laborer.
School books change faster than
do the styles.
And the knee pants suits of Ed-,
die, suits that get shabby and tat
tered and patched so quickly, eat
up dollars like waffles do butter.
And bow to afford enough fresh
milk, and butter and eggs, and
meat for growing children is some
else again.
And as to rents why they are
impossible.
So dad digs and dig, and stands
off the butcher, and keeps the doc
tor and dentist waiting and gets
shabbier and more frayed out
around the edges every month, and
keeps scratching: hoping that some
how, he will dig out to daylight and
breathe a contented breath'
Poor dadl Mother has her
troubles but she also has her biog
raphers and her chronicles, but dad
who is beneath the entire load, and
just barely stumbles through, gets
nothing but bills.
Cheer up. dadl
For Sale Five passenger touring
car in perfect condition and will be
sold at a bargain if taken at once.
Sterling Hays. 1
Points for Rural Schools
The National Rural Conference,
arranged by the United States Bu
reau of Education to consider rural
school problems, issued at its recent
meeting at Sioux Falls, S D , a
problem for Better Rural Schools
which might be arranged in the
familiar and popular form of 14
points as follows:
1 Professional traiuing for all
country teachers.
2 Agriculture studied in all rur
al schools, and teachers required
to prepare to give such instruc
tion 3. Adequate salaries for country
teachers
4 Consolidation of all one teach
er schools.
5. At least one public health
nurse for each rural county
6. English language and Ameri
canization work in all schools.
7. Taxes distributed so as to
give more help to rural schools.
8. Women's Clubs to be organiz
ed in all rural centers.
9. -Compulsory attendance at
school of all childreu until eighth
grade is completed.
. 10. Rural school terms to be at
least nine months
11. Training of music, with pa
triotic songs emphasized.
12. Schools to become commu
nity centers for promotion of educa
tional and community interests
among all the people.
13. Schools to have playgrounds
and playground equipment.
14 State wide educational
drives to lift schools up to this
level.
What do the people of Monroe
County say to this program? Its
realization would be a wonderful
uplift to rural life It would ad
vance prosperity for the whole
country The centers of wealth and '
population could afford to double
their taxts to help the rural schools
put over such, a program.
Let all the people of the'state of
Missouri take hold to realize this
splendid plan Some of the sug
gestions will take time, but in the
main five years of earnest work
could accomplish it.
Miss Helen Taft. daughter of the
former President, and acting presi
dent of Bryn College, said in an ad
dress tbatt.be wished the college
professors of the country would or
ganize a union and strike for higher
salaries to awaken the public to
their needs.
For Sale -Ford touring car. 1919
Model, good condition, fine engine.
-W. J. Hill. Withers Mill. Mo.
OUR customers are our friends to the extent that
we guard their interests as zealously as our own.
It is a trust that is placed upon usiy reason of
our relationship with them. .
To help each patron or friend constructively is
our special privilege.
We invite you to test our service.
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War's Aftermath
All the world was im Dressed bv
the high ideals and humanitarian A
iuuiivcb wmuu uuiuaieu me unuea
States in entering and prosecuting
the war At the close of the great
conflict there was a universal
disposition to make a peace which
should adopt Ameica's unselfisbnessr
in all international relations. The
various peoples s(ood willing and
waiting for the United States to
take the (pad and through the
League of Nations to give force and
effect to this new order of things
No sooner had the League emerg
ed from the Paris Conference than
it was attacked by men in the very
country which was everywhere ex
pected to vitalize and perpetuate it
as a guarantee of concord and jus
tice between the nations. A3 this
opposition in the United States Sen
ate continued to grow in influence ""TS
auu viruience, me peoples ot Europe
showed signs first of bitter disap
pointment and then of despair. The
workers, who are at once the prin
cipal advocates of peace and the
chief sufferers in war, began to
doubt the establishment of the
League. Their misgivings bred
discontent; they 'sought to obtain
by strikes and demonstrations what
they believed they had lost through
the failure of the League. That
spirit of unrest and resentment
and antagonism is manifest in the
strikes and general disquiet among
wage-earners in the United States.
The greatest war in history seem
ed at its end to have accomplished
the most promising and peimanent
peace of history. Men were con
vinced that they need make fewer
sacricfies to insure international
understanding and comity than
were required to conduct wars. But
instead of an aftermath of love. '
there has been an aftermath to
bate.
Senator Lodge and his associates
in the- fight against the treaty,,
against the League of Nations and
against peace have disappointed
and embittered the world. They
may have to bear a terrible respon
sibility. The temper of European
peoples today may easily bring a
break down of law There may
come a reign of anarchy. Inter
national war may have ceased only
to be followed by internal revolu
tions. The League of Nations ha
been kept out of operation for six
months. That is a long time during;
which to deprive the whole world
of a means of making and keeping
peace.
Victrola Records, big supply now
on tale at Walker's Store.
