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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.
When we are struggling for free-
adopt a constitution which would pro
tect the individual from oppressive
and power we listen to schemes that
would undermine our constitution and
detract from the liberty of the indi-
ridtial. '
We have seen North Dakota rwirp
toward a socialistic form of go ver u
meat where the state competes with
troying personal opportunity and ÛÛ-
But the
the English department at Harvard
ported, 26 favored tomato with a abort
“a," while 21 favored It with a long
"afly," "automobile," “cordial,’* “escs-
pade," “halibut," “Indisputable" and
“squalor."
Comparatively few people have yet
realised that every progreesive city tn
the United States not alone must be
rebuilt, but that the rebuilding is now
year. It is a natural development that
the better-to-do people should have
their mors modern homes first Build
In some
dal buildings of the higher type may
be nearly filled. New buildings in this
not tan to review ths condition In our
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'Wonderful speed, but no control”,
is an epitaph that might be written on
the «tone of a great number of cas
ualties that occur on the highways
annually.
Reading of advertising is worth
«Mie.
The Dalles, Oregon. Phone 35-J. Lady Assistants.
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. IA misguided auto at high
speed is just as hazardous to the mo
torist as too much speed with a lack
of control is to the aspiring twirler of
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