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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1926)
1 « 7 S' t * k WORK IS HEALTHFUL TOO GREAT A SPREAD BETWEEN CONSUMER AND PRODUCER Few people look upon their work «a an alley to their health, yet it is and it should be ia All, except a favored 30,665,000 people on the farms of the United States who produced and put better off for it. The »work of an in on the market from - eight td »»ne dividual should be inspiring and stimu billion dollars worth of farm,. prod lating. - It should be pleasant and ucts. When these products had run thru profitable. It should have a definite purpose. If it would meet these ends, all the middle channels and reached his health wonld be better. If he fails the consumer they had risen in price to live up *to these requirements, his from the eight and nine billion that the growers received to twenty-eight health may be impared. Strain should be avoided by those and twenty-nine that the consumer employed in work. Strain may be paid for them. Between the producers of the eight either physical or mental? It may be localized in ‘the muscular or nervous and nine billions worth of farm prod system or in both combined. It may ucts and the ■ ultimate consumers, lower a person’s efficiency and make nineteen million people were in some him ready for an accident. There arc manner connected with their handling, many way» of avoiding strain. Good and the middle toll of expense and profit was from twenty to twenty- posture will do much to prevent physi one billion dollars, or an average of cal strain, and faulty position of the $1078 to each person who had some- body will do much to help bring it on. tbing to do with the product in their A man who aits at his desk all day journies from the fields to the kit should get up and walk around every chens. The producers of these prod new and then, or work for a while ucts received but $280 per capita, or standing up. Working conditions 75 cents per day. They received only have a certain effect on a person’s about one-fourth as much per capita health. The environment, as well as as those who handled them after they his mental attyude, has much to do wefe harvested. - with his personal welfare. The work One of the results of this condition, place should, in the first place, be the report of the comptroller shows, kept clean and free from dust. An that from June 30, 1921 to June 30, atmosphere full of dust causes irrita 1925 there were 340 national bank tion to the nose and throat and pre failures and 2148 bank failures other disposes to acute cold and other in than national banks, making a total of fections which enter by these canals. 2488 bank failures in the four years, Places where people work should be or 622 per year, nearly two per day. well ventjated and airy. - • Lighting The total loss of deposits was $598,- important. The 524,055. light ^lould be sufi font but not too Of these failures, 1388, not national strong. A person should not look banks, and 242 national banks were in directly at a light or have it shine ten of our agricultural states. The failures ran very low in industrial should be directed pearly over the centers and abnormally high in agri left shoulder. Natural illumination, of cultural sections. These statistics conclusively prove course, is much better than artificial. Nature hates tn idler. A man who that the one great industry of agri has nothing to 0o is worse off physi culture is hampered, and held back, ologically than one —bo toils a good ■while other industries are enjoying eight hours a day. Idlers form that profits and prosperity. Far seeing men vicious class of people who find time know that the time will come when to write long windy epistles to news this failing of our basic industry will other industries. papers taking exception* to every pro-, be reflected gressive movement. There is a most With the buying power of over thirty happy medium between idleness and million people curtailed to necessities, over-«work, which evgry useful citizen there can be no other result. ought to* try to attain. Hard work, property done, never harmçd anyone. Health and efficiency always seem to go together. The combination of physical and mental health is essen tial to the mind as it will not perform wonders by itself. All persons who want to live rightly should endeavor to cultivate serenity of mind along with such physical benefits as fresh air, exercise, proper food, water, rest, proper care when needed and avoiding disease. agree, whs shall decide? That was the question which some might have •Ch Century club in Boston the other common words, put as an intelligence THE “FOOL’S FARAD1SE’’ NOT TO RR POUND IN WORLD TODAY It it a noticeable fact, that ease of contentment, while adversity strength ens the character and offers an in centive to accomplish seemingly im possible results. The phenomenon is witnessed in both family and na- tional life. The wealthy individual with all the material things that should help bring contentment is of- tea satisfied, when his poorer neigh bor has little of this world’s living. finds peace and happiness. And "so it is with nations and states. The United States which is probably and democratic form of government for 150 years, is constantly attacked by political theorists who would ex- for a dangerous mess of pottage. 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Saturday, Angnst 14, 1*26 fardi ng their correct pronunciation. which there was so much difference of opinion that It was put to a test Ing recent months Prof. 8. Parker Smith of Glasgow university has been lecturing before the various sections have lost that money within a few “ WONDERFUL SPEED BUT LACK %f the Institute of Dectric Engineer« on the subject of the "AU-Dectric years. Lack pf training and experi CONTROL ” CAUSE TROUBLE House." It Is possible and oconom ence, and failure to’ consider the fu ture is responsible for that sorry state “In my observations of automobile of affairs. As a nation we are today drivers, I am reminded of many bush tion, household cleanliness and many like the beneficiary of a large insur leagues who have been tried out for of the ordinary domestic services by ance policy; we have the cash bene places on the big leagues and have electric devices. Professor Smith has fits which have resulted from certain failed in the pitcher’s box,” said Installed these fieri see tn the ten-room economic conditions. In other words, George O. Brandenburg, general man the country is prosperous because we agcr of the Oregon State 'Motor As have a sound government, because sociation. “In practically all instances our money is worth its face value, be with the pitchers, they were sent back cause property rights are protected, to the ‘sticks’ through a lack of con because Our workmen have good trol. Wonderful speed they had, but wages and because our nation has no control. Now you get the point. great consumptive power to offset its Too many auto drivers have wonder ful speed bitt lack control.” ability to produce. In analyzing the phrase as applied desired. Thia Is deduced from the As a nation. we should recognize to auto driver’s, “Wonderful speed, but these facts and realise that any pro- no control’’. Mr. Brandenburg pointed very first little granddaughter be gram, political policy or agitation out that the lack of control was doe named after the mother. Lady EH m - which tends to interrupt or discour- to too much speed in most instances. age sound government and safe busi When a car gets to a certain speed on the duke of Yovk. AU Britain ness conditions will destroy our pros- ordinary traction as found on our high perity and our savings just as surely “Mary for its « ways, it is beyond control, and with but grandmamma as unsound investments or profligate our highways crossed by intersections, ly asked that the child might be living will use up the insurance be and vision obscured frequently by quest turns, there is ever a warning to be On every one of na*rests the re issued to the fellow with wonderful sponsibility for maintaining the happy speed and too little control. Even on and Iphigenia "after grandma," we conditions that exist in Our Country a straightaway, a car becomes a haz can think of many a daughter-in-law today. We cannot pass the buck to ard beyond a certain speed, as blow someone else. We cannot indulge outs, or a dozen mishaps to the tn visionary political experiments; any mechanism of the car will result in a ynore than *we can indulge in wildcat spill that will not only endanger the stock speculations without paying the lives of the occupants of the car but fiddler. We have thousands of years of those in the immediate vicinity of {.experience to profit by, and if we the unlucky one. fail to heed the lessons which are Strict attention to the path of the written on the pages of history,^we motor car is another item that receives will have no one but ourselves fc too - little attention, tyany drivers, than discover the blafnc for seeking a fool’s paradise traveling at a good rate of speed have would sing and which exists only in the rosy brain a habit of looking everywhere but down of some visionary dreamer. the path of th« auto If on« must look into the eyes of other occupants of his auto while talking, he should tem per his speed to suit such occasions. it is tu li teener cumbent upon the driver to either stop or forego the pleasures of such la the world are called securidoa attractions. 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