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THE FARMINGTON TIMES. FARMINGTON. MISSOURI. MARCH 26, 1920 PAGE SEVEW ' After 2 hearty 7 avc:-J that I " JfjF ' ctulfy feeling jjf ' if you cnciv ' a stick of PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great World War? MEN CHANGED BY BATTLE Other benefits: to teeth, breath, appetite, nerves. That's a good deal to get for 5 cents! Sealed Tight-Kept Right Soldiers Have Learned What Can Be Accomplished by the Use of Force, Sternly and Efficiently Applied. Article IX By FRANK COMERFORD. Making n soldier out o a civilian does wore than change the 'clothes ho wears. It changes the man. Men who had never owned a revolver or rifle, who had never even shot one off, who hnd never killed anything In their lives, were given firearms. They were drilled, taught to shoot, taught to kill. The education was thorough and scientific. They learned to look down the sight of a rllle, pick out a human heart for a target. Are and eagerly watch for the man to fall. They were trained to rush madly at a wall of human beings and drive bay onets Into men's heads and bowels. Many of these men a few years be fore would have fainted In a stock yards where cattle were being killed. For four yenrs they have been In a human slaughterhouse, not only as spectotors, but as part ot the place. It steeled these men. Many of thein contracted the undertaker's point of a fatalism without ki Earn fl i Wii3TTJf vo&3&l no -The Flavor Lasts WHO WANTS THIS FORD? For Sale One Ford car with piston rings, two rear wheels, one front spring. Has no fenders, seat or plank; burns lots of gas, is hard to crank. Carburator bustfd half way through; PUBLIC NOTICE State of Missouri, County of St. Fran cois. In the matter of Application of Frank Smith for parole. Notice is hereby given that I, Frank Smith, convicted of the crime of in the county of St. Francois. State of Missouri, on the 13th day of August, 1917, and sen tenced to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri, where I am now confined, have made application for parole and will be given a public hearing before the State Prison Board at the hearing office in said penitentiary on the sec ond Monday in April, 1920, same being the 12th day of said month, when rea sons in favor of or against the grant ing of said parole will be heard by said State Prison Board. All persons who favor or oppose said application are invited to communicate with said Board on or before said date, giving in writing such facts as they would have considered in this matter. FRANK SMITH, Applicant. March 19 and 26. engine missing, hits on two. Three years old. four in spring; has shock absorbers and everything. Radiator busted, sure does leak; differential dry, you can hear it squeak. Ten sboKes missing, front all Dent; tires blowed out, aint worth a cent. Got lots of speed, will run like the deuce; bums either gas or tobacco juice. Tires all off, been run on the rim; and a d good r ord for the shape its in. Owned by Lawrence Woods, Fowler, Colo. We are now showing a nice line of Ladies Spring Wraps and buits. Come in and let us show you them, Farmington Mercantile Co. BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY ORDER OF PUBLICATION State of Missouri, County of St. Fran cois, ss. In the Circuit Court. May term, 1920. Amanda Bell, Plaintiff, vs. James F. BeU, Defendant. Order of Publication. Action for Divorce. Now at this day comes the Plaintiff herein by her attorney and files her petition and affidavit, alleging, among other things, that Defendant, James F. Bell is not a resident of the State of Missouri: Whereupon, it is ordered by the Clerk of this court, in vacation, that eaid Defendant be notified by publica tion that Plaintiff has commenced Buit against Defendant in this court, the object and general nature of which is an action for divorce upon the grounds of abandonment and deser tion for more than one whole year without reasonable cause; and that unless said defendant be and appear at this court, at the next term there of, to be begun and holden at the Court House in the City of Farming ton, in said County, on the 10th day of May, next, and on or before the last dav of said term, answer and plead to the petition in said cause, the tame will be taken as confessed, and judg ment will be rendered accordingly. And it is further ordered that s copy hereof be published, according to law, in The Farmington Times, a newspaper published in said County of St. Francois for four weeks success ively, published at least once a week, the last insertion to be at least 15 days before the first day of said next May term of this court. Order made and entered this 28th day of February, 19ZO. A tma nnv from the record. Witness my hand and.th seal of it Court of St. Francois CountT. this 28th day of (SEAL) Feb., 20. . J. C HE3FNER, Circuit Clerk. March , 13, 1$ trt 86. On March 19, 1920, Mrs. John H. Cook tind her little granddaughter, Pauline Marguerite Cook, celebrated their birthdays together at the home of H. L. Cook in Desloge. Little Pauline is the daughter of H. L. and Elsie Cook. "Grandma" and Pauline always enjoy their birthday together, both being March 19th. Mr. Bell of Leadwood baked a special birthday cake for them. The rest of the de licious dinner was prepared by Mrs. H. L. Cook. They received many use ful presents. The dinner was also enjoyed by Mrs. J. L. Myder of Bonne Terre, this same date being her birthday anniversary I also. For Colds, Catarrh or Influenza Do you feel weak and unequal to the work ahead of nou ? Do yon still cough a little, or does your nose bother you? Are yon pale? Is your blood thin and watery? Better put your body Into shcoo. Build strong! , An old. reliable blood -maker and herbal tonic made from wild root and barks. Is Dr. Pierce's Oelden Medical Discovery. This nature remedy" comes In tablet er liquid torn. It will build up tout body and protect you from dis ease terms which lurk everywhere. One nf the active Ingredients of this tem- mwiu literati re and tenle Is wild cherry bark with stUllngla, which Is so good for the lungs ana ior congns; site Oregon grape root, blood root, stone root, Queen's root, all skilfully i-omblned In the Medical Discovery. Thaaa. roots have a iroct action on the stomach, iroprovlnjdigestlon and assimi lation. These herbal extracts In the "Discovery" aid in blood-making and are best for scrofula. By improving the blood they fortify the body against ai attack of grip or coles. Catarrh should be treated, first, as i hlooddlseaaa. with this alterative. Then In addition, the nose should tie washec dally with Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, Sond 10s for trial pkg. ef Medical Dk tovery Taklnts orcatarrtTaweis w it, rtamrs iavaiia' new, aumw, a. i. iew towards life, fear. Experience In battle taught them the meaning or tne worn rorce. hey discovered that the Individual as only Important and efficient when he acted In concei t with a great group. everything depended upon team work. Men learned tliut n group or men working In harmony, with nerve and rifles with fixed bayonets, could tio wonderful things. They could take an objective. In other words, take the thing they wanted and needed. When these men came back Into civil Hie and took off khaki and put on over alls, the taking off of the khaki and the putting on of mufti did not erase from their minds this lesson the war had taught them. This lesson has borne fruit. The men look at the employer as an en emy. The employer thinks of thein as a commodity. Hatred Is cordial. The men want something. They de mand It. The employer refuses. Their objective Is to get the thing they want and need. The war taught them there la a way, a weapon Force. Today In Europe men reason, "ir we can't get what we want, and need, we must take It. We have the force." Having grown habited to suffering, ac customed to blood nnd death, they look with Indifference on the question of danger, of price. They saw that when nations could not ngree they re sorted to force. They discovered that victory generally went to the nation possessing the greatest force. Threat of "Direct Action." In the labor movement of Europe we have tins idea in waai is omen "direct action." "Direct action" Is nothing more or less than applying war methods to peace conditions; It Is an effort on the part of great groups of working men to compel recognition of their demands. They Beek to se cure their objective by force. No al lowance Is mnde for the fact that methods Justifiable In war are not right In peace. Few people will deny that war Is the supreme expression of force- Many men got their first taste of fresh air and decent food while In the army. Very properly the allied gov- ernments gave the best of everything to the men In the nrmlcs. It Isn't diffi cult to net accustomed to good food and fresh nlr; It Is hard to go back to noor food and the tenements. Back home, many of the demobilized sol iliers are not eating as well or as much as they nte during their service. Notwithstanding the rigid discipline of army life, men are treated as men. The humblest man In the ranks has rights that must be respected. This Is not always the ease In civil life. Then, too, while In uniform the pri vate was made much of. Class dis tinction wns obliterated. He was looked upon as one of his country's defenders. Since he has been demobi lized he has been forgotten and neg lected. This has soured him. He re sents It. Social distinctions have come back. lie Is only a working man now. Another conse of unrest among the working man of Europe grows out of the war. Mobilization took millions of men from their Jobs. A great short age of labor resulted. Employers were forced to compete to get men. The usual competition was among men to get Jobs. The law of supply and deruniuj affected the labor market, wages went np. The soldier went off to war. While he was In the trenches the wages bnck home were high. His pay wns small. Our fighting men were not interested In pay. They went to fight for a principle. With the coming of pence a large quantity of labor was (lumped upon the market The demobilized men rushed for employment Comrades competed for Jobs, The same old law of supply and demand sent wages te boggantBf. ! aaer tt uxm wn wanted Jobs was much greater than the number of places available. The returning soldier seeking a job was offered a much smaller wage than he knew was paid for the same work while he had been fighting. It In censed him. He figured that he hud given four years out of his life, had come home tired and broke. He look ed upon the decline In wages ns a positive discrimination against hi'". Comparison Breeds Discontent. Everywhere I have heard these men say: "We are out of luck. The bands played and we were applauded when we left to fight While we were gone the wages went tip. We don't begrudge the men who stayed at home the wages they got, but It's damn funny that when we come back down go wages. The cost of living don't go down. I guess we're out of luck." I found two phrases Inseparable In the speech of the discontented, "the high cost of living;" "the profiteer." Worklngmen with whom I talked, freely admitted that some of the high cost of living was the legitimate re sult of the great demand for every thing and the natural shortage, hut In the snme breath they Insisted that much of It was due to the mercenary, ghoulish profiteer. The profiteer took blood money dur ing the world's greatest tragedy. He exueted usury from the toller nt home and the fighting man nt the front. He drew dividends out of the tears and walls of broken-hearted women and frlght-strlckcn children. He minted his gold out of agony, starva tion, heartaches. He stands today the Judas of the war, the most de spised man of earth. The profiteer Is not an Englishman, a Frenchman, Itnlian or American. He Is found in every country of the world, a man without nationality, without conscience, without humanity. He Is the pimp of civilization. He Is still on the Job. The profiteer has given the United States a terrible black eye. A com mon comment of Europe Is, "The United States made money out of the war." These people do not refer to the money we made legitimately. They point to the fact, a fact that has been given great publicity In f.u- rone. that in August, 1014, there were about T.ikiO millionaires In the United States, while nt the time of the sign- Ine of the armistice It wns estimated the millionaire colony had Increased by 23,MK), making a total of 30.000 millionaires in the United Stntes. The profiteer Is still on the Job. He Is holding up the world, a starving, cold world. Profiteering Case In Point Under date of November 17, 1919, J. S. Bache & Co., members of the New York stock exchange, in their financial letter say: 'In mercantile circles there Is proceeding at the present time a vast amount of speculation on very larae scale In commodities. An Incident Is cited to us of one con' cern thnt Is carrying $15,000,000 worth of vegetable oils, which are In great demand, and the concern Is holding them for higher prices. This is distinct damage to the consumers, and keens living prices In these things, used dally, at top nnd Increasing lev els. Speculation of this kind is a real detriment to the community. The pair of shoes the worklngnmn once bought tor im.du are now 3 ami $10. It Is true that the cost of labor and material have gone up. but not enough to wnrrnnt any such exorbi tant prices. Business men have taK en advantage of the situation, and Jus tify their Inrcenles on the ground of the law of supply and demand. shoe rann with a prominent Chicago firm, a mnn long In the business, told tne thnt the present unwarranted nnd outrageous price of shoes was due to the fact that American shoe manufac turers could get almost any price for shoes from the barefooted people of Europe. , Governments are blamed for not dealing with this species of holdup, The discontented ask "Why Isn profiteering treason why shoirtdn these Fngans lie sent to the wall with a firing squad as an escort? (Copyright, 1920, Western Newapaper Union! ii (Get What Ton Give 'HEN a business fails the finan cial statement reflects the con- Htlnnc of tliof imp fiiit flip TPftl reason for failure is seldom shown. In many cases the true reason is that the business performed no service which was necessary or useful to society generally. Every individual must give a useful ser vice if he is to prosper, for society will refuse to maintain him if he foils to Le useful to society. When we find a business which has been notably prosperous over a long period of years, we may be sure that it has won its position by performing a service useful and necessary. That, in a word, explains the continued, ever-increasiny success of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana.) This Company is included in the list of bijr business becmise the ideals of service which it holds and maintains arc big. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is big because it recognizes the necessity of developing its sphere of usefulness to the highest degree find of maintaining this high standard in spite of every obstacle. The success of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) proves that it is performing a useful service and that every link in its chain of achievements is delivering an added benefit to civilization and to you. 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