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PAGE FOUR THE PRINCETON UNION By MRS. R. C. DUNN Subscription Price |Z.0 O. I. STAPLES, Business Manager Office: First Street. East of Court House THUS. H. PROWSB Editor We wonder if a number of people in this day an age are not developing the habit of using the word radical rather loosely. When a man who is oc cupying a public position of considera ble responsibility and presumably re ceiving a fair salary smilingly an nounces to rn audience he is address ing, "I am a radical," we cannot re frain from wondering whether he is not really conveying a false im pression. The majority of these men who R: around the.country talk ing so blithely about being radicals are really not very radical at heart. It probably uld be safe to wager that most of them could not be forced even at the point of a bayonet to commit an extremely ladical act. Farmers who share in the govern ment's dis -lbution of picric acid, salvaged f. war material, says the United St* es agricultural depart ment, need not fear to use it as an agricultural explosive. All they have to do is to treat it with respect. The records are filled with stories of men who forgot this precaution in handling dynamite nd other dangerous ex plosives, et dynamite, guncotton, nitroglycer le, and even the formida ble TNT, are perfectly tractable when proper con ideration is given to their peculiar rcefulnes in resenting rough hant mg. The frequently occurring stories told by men who have been found gagged and robbed in their places of business of thousands of dollars worth of gems and large sums of money are beginning to look particularly fishy. The peculiarity of some of these al leged robberies is that, although they were ostensibly committed in broad daylight, no passerby could be found who say bandits enter or leave the stores at the time stipulated by the persons gagged. It would be well for the insurance companies interested to thoroughly investigate these cases. r^.r*' ^r^my:4 f^*-^*W^ GRACE A. DUNN Associate Editor roreien Advertising Representative TI IE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 VALUE OF AN EDUCATION. This week the national educational association and the American legion are making a special effort to bring be fore the public the need of more and better education in this country. It is not surprising to find the American legion interested in this movement be cause only through education can we hope to raise the standard of citizen ship in our country. Very frequently the question is raised these days as to what is the real value of an education. Many of our eminently successful business men are of the opinion that a college edu cation is apt to be more of a liability than an asset to a young man enter tering a business career. There may be some grounds for this assertion but the majority of thinking men recog nize the value of college and universi ty training even if they themselves never had the privilege of attending such institutions. It is a fact which is so well recog nized as to need no reiterating that a man may become well educated with only a very limited attendance at any school. However it is an equally well recognized fact that the average boy or girl progresses most rapidly when teccivinc some regular course of in struction. Possibly three of the most distin guishing characteristics of a truly edu cated man are the power to think clearly, a highly developed sense of perception and the ability to correct ly estimate relative values. Fre quently the uneducated man makes the mistake of supposing that the boy or mrl who has oeen awarded a college or univeiMty diploma should be a walk ing encyclopedia. Any man with much brains is not going to attempt to store his head full of facts. He knows it is much more important to develop the power to think clearly, to obtain a faL* general knowledge and to know where and how to find the specific facts when needed. A highly developed sense of percep tion and appreciation Is of more value to a man than great sums of money. Of what real benefit is a man's wealt'i if he is not capable of appreciating ihat which he can purchase with it? He may have the means to collect a most valuable library and still, as far as the veal worth of his books is con sidered, be as destitute as the beggar on the streets. He may employ ex perts to lay out beautiful gardens and still those gardens may not belong to him as truly as they do to the laborer, with a keen sense of appreciation of the beautiful, who clips his hedges. Possession does not always mean real ownership. The third characteristic of the edu cated man, the ability to correctly esti mate relative values, is a priceless asset which tends to maKe for success in any business or profession. A man cannot succeed who is not capable of distinguishing ":ecwee the important and unimpor: it and who cannot cor rectly estima the worth of his asso ciates. The r^ who wages a winning fight never ur, lerestimates the strength of his oppon nt. This ability to cor rectly ostimr .e relative values is a trait to be cultivated not only by those who v, aid achieve success but is essential to those who would enjoy real peace ar happiness. It cannot be denied that when two such prominent men in the steel in dustry as Charles M. Schwab and Judge Elbert H. Gary unite in hailing the government's program for a naval holiday as marking the epoch of the greatest business prosperity, as well as the largest amount of happiness the world has ever witnessed* the nar row view which would measure the proposals by the extent to which they "injure business" is relegated to ob livion. Before the members of the American iron and steel institute in New York last Friday Mr. Gary de clared even unworthy of passing no tice the suggestion that the limitation of armaments would result in the manufacture of less steel. He doubt ed if there would be any reduction in the product at all, but believed it would, in any event, be small. And Mr. Schwab, speaking as head of a great naval shipbuilding corporation, voiced the same doubt as to a loss to the steel industry, but emphatically repudiated the thought that such a thing as financial loss could be con sidered when compared with the ines timable benefit to mankind which would be involved in the plan to stop the present ruinous competition in naval construction. The motorization of fire departments has placed many a faithful horse out of commission. Some of themmore's the shamehave been sold to sheeny junk peddlers to eke out an existence of semistarvation and drudgery in their old age, when they have sur vived their usefulness and been sup planted by the electrified or gasolized fire engine. This merely goes to show the inhumanity of which man is capa ble. Some of these horses have gal loped to fires for 15 or 20 years and the firemen loved themtreated them as friends, which they were. But the edict is issued from headquarters to auction these faithful servants off to the highest bidder, and many of them have been sold to the most cruel mas ters. Firemen have wept to see their old friends and associates knocked down to the junk gatherer and others of that ilk, but they could do nothing to better the situation. Why are not these horses either humanely put out of existence or placed in the hands of men who will well care for them by municipalities which have motorized their fire systems To say the least, the manner in which fire horses are disposed of is an abominable shame cruel and inhuman. Many of us are inclined to think th?t the woWd we live in today is so much better than the world our fathers and ancestors lived in that we some times give them small thanks for what they have done. But supposing we could put ourselves half a dozen generations aherd and look back at what we are doing now? This would show us that the future will be as much better than the present as the present is better than the past. Let us remember that the development of modern business has made it possible for us to use and enjoy all the efforts of the past and that we, by the same token, are required by the obligations we owe to civilization to put forth our V,est endeavors, not only that the present may be ~ood, but that the fu ture of business may be as flourishing as that which we are now helping to make. Bitterness in a degree r.eems to ac tuate many of the special correspon dents writing from Washington to their papers. This is particularly noticeable in the dispatches of certain foreigners. Having come here pre dicting the imminent collapse of civil ization, they see fit, as the limitation of armaments conference continues to promise a successful outcome, to vent their spleen by sneering at all the powers participating. Foremost among these literary cuttlefish is a certain British correspondent who de lights in upsetting the accepted ways of mankind, and whose fondness for the Russian soviet experiment makes him view with alarm anything that may help to firmly re-establish order throughout the world. To avert accidents, of course, the Southern Pacific railroad has warned motorists that they are likely to be killed if they drive recklessly over grade crossings. But we fancy such a warning is wasted. How can the man who drives recklessly over crossings be expected to heed a warning? Dr. Bates has invented a device which he has named the retinoscope and by its application he says he can detect liars. But what's the use? Didn't David tell us that all men are liars, which of course means women too? People will tell you that the days of miracles are past, but they are not. While in the days of the apostles the Lord turned water into wine, in the present age the prohibition agent turns wine into a river or a sewer. OPINIONS OF EDITORS The Giver Will Win in the End. We heard one of our prominent citi zens this morning say: "It's just one thing after another! If it isn't tag day and the starving children in Cze cho-Slavia, it's Red Cross roll call, Salvation army, city relief or some thing else! Now its Christmas health seals!" Say, man, stop a minute! You can't take a cent with you when you die! If you can't help others while you are living in this old worldwhy, what's the use of hanging around tak ing up space! Your constant crab- bing disturbs those who are happy in their attempts to maiie others com fortable and happy!Albert Lea Trib une. V Those Outrageous Freight Rate3. A car of coal recently unloaded at Fertile cost $224. The freight on it was $277. It is hardly necessary to tell any sane person there is some thing decidedly wrong somewhere. Such conditions cannot continue for pny considerable period. Patience is usually considered a virtue, but a time may come when it will cease to be such.Fertile Journal. Very Likely. It is stated that many of the unem ployed men in the cities when offered jobs on farms in the country refuse them because they don't want to leave the cities. Very little sympathy should be wasted upon these fellows, who evidently prefer a soup kitchen to farm labor. Maybe someone will be around soon soliciting funds to feed these loafers.Clear Lake Times. A Sorry Spectacle. The most disgusting exhibition of malice we can think of offhand is the airing of newspaper squabbles in print. There is not a thousand miles from here a weekly newspaper which disagrees violently with its more con servative neigh'bor. In some of its disagreements we can sympathize. This paper is edited by a man of no little ability, as his work shows, but it is spoiled by an unending stream of personal abuse for the editor of the other paper. Ability without dignity and soiled with spite makes a sorry spectacle.Faribault News. r? The Country Newspaper. The country newspaper is one of the greatest agents for civilization in ex istence. I boosts for the home town and backs every legitimate enterprise. But it's repaid, in altogether too many cases, is a swift kick in the seat of the pants.Worthington Globe. But no red-blooded newspaper man cares a whoop for the kicks. If he is made of the right kn of stuff he will go to the mat with any of his critics or detractors. He may not always be right, but if he thinks he is right he should stand pat and feai-lessly pro claim with Hamlet: "Lot the galled jade wmce, our withers arc umvrung.'' Fairmont Sentinel. Cash System the Best. Many of our local business men are now operating on the cash basis, o.' settlement within thirty days. This may seem hard to some, and will probably invoke a hardship on a few, but the merchants had to pu* such a plan into operation as a mearib of self-preservation. The wholesale houses haven't much sentiment. When they sell a mer chant a bill of goods they expect the! payment promptly, and if the monc.v is not forthcoming within a short time the met chant's credit is abolished, an in many cases he is forced to close hi doors. The old haphazard, long-tim credit system of doing business in voked hardships on both the seller an "ouyer. It is easy to contract for a lot of merchandise, with payment de ferred until some dim time in the fu ture, but when actual payment time arrives it is often like pulling teeth to secure the money to meet the obli- I BalBlliaiilSIl^^ THE PRINCETON UNION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1921 Attention Farmers GET THE FEED GRINDING HABIT. IT PAYS On Friday, December 16th, a representative of the International Harvester Company will be here giving an actual demonstration of our feed grinders and engines at our store. Save from 10 to 20 per cent by grinding before feeding, which in these times cannot be overlooked by the farmers. Please arrange to be here on that date. We Sell at Right Prices Lumber, Lath, Posts, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Etc. Wood and Coal, Cement, Lime, Plaster, Roofing, Building Tile, Brick, Etc., Etc, RUD LUMBE CO J. V. MORGAN, Manager Princeton, Minn. gation. The cash system will be a benefit to both ther merchant'and the customer. It will do away with reckless contract ing of debts^sndit will give the mer chant the' necessary cash with which to make his payments and to carry on his business.Winnebago Enterprise. Must Pull Herself Together. It is time to stop all loose talk about the cancellation of European debts and the prospective destruction of civiliza tion. Unless the latter is subtile propaganda in support of the former, it is the outpouring of hysterical weaklings which works in well with the wily statesmen and financiers who believed in the'integrity of obligations when these were owned in their hemi sphere, but disbelieved in them when the credit is on the other side of the Atlantic. Europe is Trot prosperous, admitted ly, but Europe is better off than she has been following any of her great wars. Nothing in Germany today re motely resembles the shambles and the desolation which followed the religi ous wars or the condition after Fred erick II had fought his Russian, Aus trian and French enemies in most of the kingdoms that form the German empire. Nothing that happened in Europe during the great war compares with the rapine of fire and sword which Napoleon carried to Berlin, to Mos cow, to Vienna and to Madrid, and which the victorious allies carried to Paris. Europe's troubles are small com pared to those of the thirteen Ameri can colonies ravished by British and Hessian troops, freed from the tyran ny of the parent country but with out organized government of their own, without a fiscal system, without communications and with undeveloped natural resources. From all the catastrophes above mentioned the victims rallied with reasonable celerity to infinitely 'better conditions than those which had pre ceded them. In the same way modern Europe will rally from her present despondency, which, indeed, is more psychological than actual but she will not rally nor begin to rally until she frees herself from the delusion that honest prosperity can be built on dis honorable repudiation, and that a virile civilization can be founded on the cowardly evasion of unpbasant truths.Chicago Tribune. Compressed Motion. "Why was he pinched?" "His father let him use his motor car for an hour." "Well?" "He tried to ride an hour in fifteen minutes."Boston Transcript. Hoke's Experience. "Hoke had a funny experience the ^ther day." "How come?" "He was in a place having a d'rlnk and when he turned around the bartender was wearing a blue coat and bras" but tons."New York Sun. Why He Objected. Farmers Co-operative Co. Bt PRINCETON, MINNESOTA WillyMother, how diet father getj to know you? I MotherI fell into the sea rnd he dived in and brought me out. WillyHuh! So that's wny he don't want me to learn to swim! We Would Be Pleased To Have You Drop In And jget your Calendar before]they are all gone* We want to thank you for the patronage extended us the past year with the Season's Greetings. Remember Our sole object is to keep the fact before you, expecting that when in need of anything in our line, you will give us a call. jt J- ANNUAL MEETING OF FARM BUREAU (Continued from page one) the number of cars ran up to 1,100, as many as were received by the four highest firms and 22 other firms. Last month the Central handled 1,292 cars or more livestock than any two firms have ever handled on the South St. Paul markets in the same length of time. The agency is growing. Dur ing the first week, we made enough to pay labor. The second week we paid expenses, the third we began to make money and at the end of the fourth week we laid aside some money. The sum of $24,000 has been put out on interest and if we had charged the old rates we would have laid aside $38r- 000 in four months. Any surplus that the association has will eventually go back to the people who have shipped through the central agency. Last month we handled livestock for less than $8 per hundred weight. We will be able to operate at less than $8 per hundredweight for the year's average providing we get the support of the livestock producers of this county and other counties. Thirty-five firms have representa tives calling on your shippers. You hear stories about terminal marketing agencies. Do not believe them until you find out whether they are true or not. The future prospects of the Central Co-operative Shipping association are good. Armour and Swift are not at tempting to boycott us, as seme peo ple might think. The day is coming when the livestock producers will have marketing agencies in all of the large markets of this country. By January 1, we expect to be in the St. Louis market by February 1, in Pittsburg and by March 1, in Chicago. A. J. McGuire delivered the second address of the afternoon. Mr. Mc Guire has for years taken an active in terest in the dairying industry. He assisted in organizing many of the co operative creameries, including the Mil aca creamery which was established in 1901. At present he is directing the organization of the Minnesota co-op erative creameries association. One of i the purposes of this organization is to standardize the product of these creameries and to place their butter on the big markets as the butter of the Minnesota co-operative creameries. Mr. McGuire believes that the cream eries must market their own produce if the packers are not to get a monop ly on it as they have on the cheese. He stated that the centralizers have already driven the co-operative cream eries off the Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul markets. Two hundred and fifty co-operative creameries have now joined the association. In closing his address, Mr. McGuire spoke very highly of David C. Berg, who has been chosen as field man in district 2 which includes Mille Lacs county. ffi i, is ifi i i I Box Silk Hose Florsheim Shoes GlovesCap A Silk Shirt Silk Mufflers Fur Cap Pair of Slippers Sweaters []oJgDix5f'/fas/en/ The store of gifts for men This is a store where the men buy their own things and when you buy in their own store you're sure to get the sort of things they want. May We Suggest Alfre Meli Co. The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes Princeton, Minnesota gooQPoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobooooooooooo CLEARANCE SALE Ladies9 Coats Entire stock of ladies' and children's Winter Coats on sale Saturday and all next week at greatly reduced prices. If you are one that needs a new winter coat you will find here the biggest bar- gains in coats you have ever seen. Saturday, and for one week. Princeton, Minn. 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