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Homes De«royed "I have heard some Socialist speeches and like what little I know about the subject, except 1 am told that it will de stroy the home. How about that — is it true? Ido not want to espouse social ism no mutter wlmt it will give us if it will rob us of our home life. An answer will he much appreciated by The essence of tin* question is "Will Socialism destroy the home? Now I will be obliged to answer "Yes or No," just as your understanding of home is and in order that I may answer correct ly we will l»e obliged to analyze the question, partially at least. Now I will ask what do you mean by There are thousands of people who live in sqtrallid tenements, sometimes six to ten people, children and adults, often two or more families living in one room. All of them who are above (5 or 8 years old are employed for wages somewhere or working in some sweat shop. Is this home? Beautiful Los Angeles, the city of liomes where half of the people own their own homes; who go to their work in the morning before their children get up, and return at night after they have been put to bed. The only time they can see them is when they are asleep and a little while on Sunday. Is this home? The great number of families who live by getting up sometime in the night and going to work — not only the head of the family, but father, mother and children — and continuing at con stant toil until sometimes in the follow ing night, so that they are all tired, tired, tired. The mother who is tired brings forth a tired child, who grows up tired under the constant strain, and at last takes the road as a "Weary Willie" or fills an early grave. There is the most meagei kind of a house upon which there is no time to spend. There is no furniture, no hang ings, no pictures, no books, no flowers, no ornaments, nothing but the plain, bare walls, and these, too often, do not turn the weather. Merely a place in which to prepare some food and lie down for a few short hours to yield to nature's demands for rest. If these are the things) you call homes and the life those people lead home-life, then socialism certainly will destroy the home. However, if socialism destroys the home, it will be in the sense that the full-blown rose has destroyed the bud. It will destroy what we have now by Ihi I ting something intinately superior in its place. What kind of a home could you make for yourself if you had $1500 per year; v nominal day's work — say 6 hours — and a guarantee of constant employ ment; do you think you could make a home with that as good as capitalism gives you now? Socialism will give to every man that much and more. Modern capitalism has destroyed the possibility of the vast majority of the people ever getting homes or enjoying home life. If capitalism keeps up its ravages a few years longer there will be no more homes in the land to destroy. They si . ii being destroyed now as fast as any tuing could destroy them. It you aspire to a home— if you have none— or to keep a home— if you have one— you can do no better than to vote for Socialism and induce others to learn what is and then go after it. Someone has helped you to the truth; repay your debt by helping someone elHe. Frank A. Marisk. Out on the Farm D. L. TAYLOR, IN ADVKUTISINd BXPBRIBKCB Out next to Nature's heart. Out where the dumb things live and the green things grow. Out wliere your eyes catch the first |>eep of the rising sun and the last of its departing rays. Out in God's own quiet. There you find Nature's noblemen in the rough — rude, picturesque, powerful — the American farmer. There he wrests a living and an average of from four to six hundred dollars a year in ex cess — from Mother Earth. Writers have made word pictures of life on the farm, painting in glowing colors an existence of contentment, in dependence, ease, peace, quiet; the full larder aud the groaning table of plenty. Did you ever see a farmer going into action with an old mule or a two-year old colt and plow? Mighty little ease and contentment liitting the furrow trail from sun-up to sun-down behind an obstinate beast and a heavy plow. Not much poetry standing on a border near your head gate while the water flows into your field, when darkness covers all and the good people are fast asleep in bed. Milking kicking cows, and feeding hutting calves that nearly chew one's fingers off while standing straddle of their necks teaching them to drink, is not much of a delightful finish to a hard day's work in the fields. The robin redbreast's morning an them is pretty well drowned by the bawls and whinnies of a hundred head of hungry stock, and the "smell-of-the soil" is not incense to the man who's pulverizing stubborn clods. The "beauties of Nature" kind of pall upon the man who has his eyes, ears and mouth full of dirt and dust, and his nerves shattered from riding in a jolting wagon. Outdoor life may be God's patent medicine, but pitching hay in the hot sun makes it mighty mean stuff to take. Farming is hard work. Never fin ished. Hard work makes hard-minded men. Hard-niinded men make hard headed men. Hard-headed men are not to be wheedled or got around by pleasanaries and pretty talk. ■ They want reasons. Want to see why and how— they ask for the "because," and have got to have it. This is the key of the whole agricultural proposition. Once you have got the farmer's confi dence and trade by square dealing, telling him the things you have to sell, and getting in close, intelligent touch wUh him, you can always sell to him. He will stick to you like glue, and no competitor can pry loose his patronage. There is just this to remember. Get rid of the idea that he is the proverbial granger, or hay-seed to whom might be Hold green goods. On the other hand do not get the high and mighty notion that lie is a picturesque, god-like noble man, wearing a halo and wrapped in the royal robes of ease and independ ence. He is just a plain, every-day, hard-working, hard-thinking, close buying citizen, to get and keep whose trade you will have to give the most and best for the money, stick to the absolute fairness and be willing to give, in your advertising, reasons upon rea sons. Hotel Imperial Arrivals A. T. Garnett, Jas. Porter, F. C. Paulin» Los Angeles; J. F. Boyd, Holtville; F. B. Preston and wife, Calexico; R.W. Edmonds, Norwalk, Cal.; It. D. Mc- Fherriri, K. J. Allen, Imperial; J. 0. Brown, Los Angeles ; Geo. Steele, Port land; J. N. Hagins, Riverside; J. M. Cardiff, tfoo. Bellamy, San Bernardino; IMPICKIAL I'KKHS Miss M. Ileiiduraon) St. Louis; Mrs. C. J. Carter, Mrs. L. It. Moore, Danville, Ky. ; George Steele, Portland; Mrs. Louis Keep, Miss Ella Pendleton, Holt ville ; Gcorgo Clarke, Longniont, Colo. ; W. O. Emmeraon, Los Angeles; C A. Scott, San Diego; E. L. Hendiicks, Los Angeles; Win. J. Magaw, Holtville; Hugh J. Baldwin, San Diego; Edward Hyatt, Riverside; Lewis Scott. Sacra mento; 11. C. Wasen, W. J. King, O. P. Keane, E. P. Maputo, Los Angeles; It. Henry, Win. Bayes.llumboldt; George Steele, Portland; M. I). Sayo, Ogilby; J. M. Butler, Kanses City ; W. V. Hardy, Ctilexico; W. E. Wilsie and wife; J. 11. Heber, Mrs. J. 11. Hebe'r, San Diego; B. F. Good win j ban Francisco; Ellen Gray, Silsbee; Do Witt B. Williams, San Diego; D. A. Murphy, San Francisco; I). A. Thomas, W. S. Corwin, Imperial ; F.WJ Jordan, San Francisco; J. F. Boyd, Holtville; John Woodbury, Charles It. Skinker, Los Angeles; N. W. Til ton and wife, Calexico; Lewis Scott, Sacra mento; W, L. Bogges, Lee M. Fitzhugh, J. H uber, Los Angeles; W. L. Manahan, Brawley; fcylvan Calam, W. Wines, Los Angeles; D. A. Wheeler, Holtville. Perfect Confidence Where there used to be a feeling of uneasiness and worry in the household when a child shows symptoms of croup, there is now perfect confidence. This is owing to the uniform success of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the treatment of that disease. Mrs. M. I. Basford, of Poolesville, Md., in speak ing of her experience in the use of that remedy says: "I have a world of confi dence in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for I have used it with perfect success. My child Garland is subject to severe attacks of croup and it always gives him prompt relief." Foi sale by Imperial Drug Co. Dr. P. S. Anderson Propr. Phone 78. * Hotel Thclnia Arrivals Nettie Robinette, T. J. Green, Chas. Estudillo, Calexico; M. V. Dutcher, Holtville, C. A. Brown, Los Angeles; Mrs. C. Hiiddleson, Ralph Iluddleson, Redlands, W. N. Cuddleback and wife, Tehachipi; S. B. Ilurlburt, El Monte; George S. Reynolds, FjOS Angeles; G. W. Martin, Boise City; T. Singimato, R. Crawford; V, Gaut, Calexico; Jos. Ryan, Satery, Cal.; Mrs. C. B. Cameron, Brawley; Mrs. A. J. Bennett, Los Angeles; A. C. GoVcher, Redlands; L. Fraser, S. B. Hurlburt, El Montu; R. Hanshaw, Imperial ; \V. N. Guddleback and wife, Tehachipi; T. A. Kikechi, 11. L. Kinnaid; J. C. Thompson, Sacra mento; Walter Winsoe, Imperial; J. Estidillo ; C. L. Fowler, Long Beach ; A. M. Oplin, Imperial ; Walter Winsoe, Bula, Tex.; A. C. Ensign, Silabee; 1 TO MEAT | S EATERS S £* Having purchased the "Imperial Mar- a a kkent n formerly owned by Thing Broth- i ers, we are prepared to furnish the *& rgk best of meats of all kinds. £k Special prices to hotels, restau- # rants and consumers of large amounts x£s. #ol meats **v S California-Mexico Land and Cattle Co S llobt. McCain, John Craden; L. S. Asbury, Holtville; S.T. Hammond, Old Beach; Miss Ina Walsh, Isaac Low thin; (}. W. Pendleton, lloltvillo; Louia Buckley, Rochester. The Real Issue There are two issues after all, Above the ones that speech may call Or wisdom utter; The issues that with me and you Are most Important — and the two Are bread and butter. Let patriotic ban tiers wave, Let economic shakers rave ; > 'Tis not potential That Art proclaim or Music sing; The Loaf is, after all, the thing That's most essential. Truth seeks some broader meeting place, For breed or clan or tribe or race, For saint and sinner; But after all thu noise and f uhh The issue paramount with us Is — What for dinner? New theories we may evolve, Old governments we may dissolve, New flags float o'er us, And Truth may search and Wisdom think Still these two planks of meat and drink Are yet before us. So let contention hotly wane, And let the wars of logic rage In discourse fretted ; When all the clamor \h complete The issue still is what to eat — And how to yet it! — New York Times. The Pkkss will bo thankful for per sonals or news items. Write them out or tell them to the Editor. I r|OINTED PARAGRAPHS * I I ABOUT PRESCRIPTIONS | * ! * The equipment of our * || Prescription Depart- 4t ment is complete. * * An ample stock em- * bracing every drug, |! * medicine and cheini- if * cal '.used; in prescrip- ; * | tion filling. Skill | * and experience * * — * ! If. A. E. MILLER I * ♦ "t Prescription Druggist J * • *? ■' ♦ FOR LANDS AN I) SILSBEE TOWN LOTS See P. O. PARSONS, Silsbee Local Agent for the Emerson Realty Company.