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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1914)
a HOM E AND FA RM MAGAZTNF SECTION Home and Farm Magazine Section Editorial Page Suggestions From Our Associate Editors, Allowing For an Interchange of Views, W ritten by Men of Experience on Topics With W hich They A ie Fully Acquainted—Hints Along Lines of Progressive Farm Thought. TO ADVERTISERS. <•> Advertisers in this local <s> ity who wish to fully cover <s> all sections of Oregon and W ashington and a portion <?> of Idaho will apply to local <s> publishers for rates. <•> General advertisers may <•> address C. L. Burton, Ad <•> vertising Manager of Farm <» Magaz.ne Co., Publishers Oregon - Washington - Idaho Farmer, 411 Panama Build ing, Portland, Oregon, for <s> rates and information. <î> The publishers will rxcept <s> business from no advertiser <•> whose reliability can be <5» questioned. <S> <?><?> <j> <i> ,-s> <s> <3, ❖ Oo - - » ♦ ♦ •• ♦ •• - «> & <S> YOUR BOY'S L IF E WORK. his am bition. Encourage it. I f the Boy would ra th e r play w ith tools than eat, stan d b y him. P itch your own notions to th e winds, and help him develop his in d iv id u ality in its own n atu ral direction. The bent of your Boy w ill reveal itse lf in one w ay or another. “ My own Boy w anted one o f tw o things, and th e desire came out in a queer way. G ettin g o ff a tra in and w alking p ast thu pow erful loco m otive behind which we had been trav elin g sw iftly , my Bov pulled a t my arm and pointed to the cab of tho engine, say in g : 'U p th ere is w here ! w ant to be, p a p a ;' then ho added, ‘ or behind th e guns in the navy. ’ “ I had a lto g eth er d ifferen t plans and desires fo r my B o y ’s fu tu re, b u t thence on, I dismissed them , never m entioned them to him, and w illingly helped him to a realiza tion o f his d esire. I am glad th a t I did, for he is not a m isfit, and has made good. “ H istory is rep lete w ith eases w here the fa th e r has attem p ted to tak e a Boy aw ay from n atu re and m ake a m isfit of him, and naturo has alw ays won out . . . It is wise for you to find ou t which way n atu re is leading your Boy in tho m a tte r of life work, then cheerfully acquiesce, and help tho Boy on his way. ’ ’ 1U A R E w rapped up in your Boy. W h at is he to becom ef H ere is a helpful artic le by K enneth H. W ayne from his book “ B uilding Your B oy,” republishefd by perm ission of A. C. MeCIurg & Co., publisher.*. I t is well worth reading: “ Then th ere comes th e question of the life-w ork of your Boy. It is here th a t some o f the g reatest b lu n ders of p aren ts are made. These blunders are needless because heed less. * ‘ The n atu re of th e Boy has d e cided, or is deci lit"’, the place in life th a t lie can fill w ith the g re a t est : atisfai t on to him self and oth ers. The nntural bent tow ard th is or th a t occupation is m thp Boy. As his fa th e r, it is your business to fin d th a t bent in his early life. W hen you have found it, fo ster it in every leg itim ate way. N ever op pose it by Irv in g to make som ething else of hint. “ N ature has put w ithin vour Boy th e em bryonic q ualities of th e en gin er, the carp en ter, the black sm ith, th e physician, th e law yer, tho m erchant, the preacher, th e teacher, the farm er—some one o f th e many occupations of men in life. These q u alities you are to d is cover and aid in th e ir realization. T hey may run ath w art your plans fo r him, and counter your d earest w ishes; hut if you are wise, and have garnered an y th in g worth while out of your experience in the •world, yon will not atte m p t to force your Boy into some sphere o f life-w ork for which it is ap p aren t he has no n atu ral bent, no ap titu d e, no earnest desire or th o u g h t or en thusiasm . “ You may sincerely desire a re production o f yourself in your Boy, so fa r as occupation is concerned, a desire to make him an o th er YOU; and happy a re you if n atu re in the Boy is w ith you in it. B ut the blunder of all blunders will be tho e ffo rt to m ake him u m erchant, or a law yer, or a preacher, if n atu re has o u tfitte d him for a farm er, a me- 1 chanic, or an artist. “ Study his orig in ality , his in itia tiv e. Recognize tho personal pecu lia ritie s of your Boy in these m at- ' tors, then cheerfully guide and aid his developm ent along his own leanings. f “ I t you do not, and yon push him or persuade him in to some oth er i place, perchance because it an guishes your soul to see th e sm ut o f tho shop on him, you will see him as a square man n a round hole, or a round man in a square hole— a m isfit for life, a sadly p ath etie, spoiled life. In the w retchedness of d issatisfied existence, the fre t and c h afin g o f it, in its failu re of suc cess, your Boy will pay the p en alty o f your heedless, needless blunder o f try in g to d efeat a natu ral law. These thing s have th e ir priee, and th e priee m ust be paid. AM UEL is a wise and success fu l man. He says th a t w hen ever he-buys a made in O regon chair, suit, calen d ar or cake of soap lie is saving money for his own business. The same th in g is true of W ash ington people buying W ashington- m ade goods. “ I f each o f us used a 5-eent eako o f soap a week, and nothing b u t th e made-in Oregon brand, th a t would mean $2,000,1100 saved a n nually to Oregon and a made in- Oregon in d u s try ,’’ he explained recently in th e courso o f an im prom ptu sermon on the business righteousness o f fostering Oregon industry. “ And look a t this su it I w e a r,’ ’ Ito invited. “ The wool in it came from the back o f an Oregon sheep and when th e grow er got the money for the wool lie was provided with m eans to grow more sheep and increase th u s an in d u stry fo r which O re -’ g o n ’s n atu ral ad v an tag es are u n usual. “ When the woolen mill o p erato r received the money for his work lie w as helped to pay employes and thus sustain th e m an u factu rin g branch of an im p o rtan t industry. When the tailo r received his priee it m eans more money d istrib u ted among w orking people, and all of them spent th e ir money rig h t here am ong us again. “ I make it a study to buy all the fu rnishings fo r my house, all the statio n ery , ad v ertisin g calendars and o th er made in-Oregon supplies fo r my office, if possible. “ E very t me I keep a dollar in Oregon I pu t it in the w ay o f coming back to me again. E v ery tim e I send a dollar out of Oregon I bid it farew ell forever. “ I f we of Oregon co n tract a h ab it of sending our money aw ay wo will find th a t we m ust continue sending money aw ay as fa s t as the com m odities we buy are used. " I f we of Oregon make it a h a b it and a system to spend onr money in th is sta te for made in- Oregon articles, we stim n latt every branch of in d u stry , th e money re m ains where wc can in v ite it baek into onr own bu sin tss again, and to g eth er we work to r ard a develop m ent w h ire we can send out com m odities and get b re k th e money o f o th er d is tric t» .” “ If your Boy has a natural taste and aptitude for mnsie, do not spoil a successful carehr in this direction by trying to make him drop it for the tools of a mechanic. It is safer, .,*nd far more sane, to let him follow Mr. Samuel if manager of the Oregon Life Insurance Company. He quoted from an article he con tributed to the Chamber of Com merce bulletin to clinch his asser tion! Y LISTEN TO WORDS OF WISDOM S “ No other s ta te i the U nion is so n a tu ra lly fitte d fo r self suste- naneo. N ot only can O regonians liv e w ith o u t help from an y other section, b u t th ey c ar live more h ealth fu lly , more com fortably and a g re a te r num ber o f y ears th a n the in h a b ita n ts of an y o th er state. “ T his is not a m ere assertion. It is proved by governm ent statistics. The fa c t th a t o th er countries p u r chase our cereals, tim ber, fru its, fish, etc., m ust not bo construed as a desire to be helpful to us. The su p erio rity of our products is the only fa c to r th a t creates th e de m and fo r them. “ One thing, how ever, m ust be re m em bered— up to th is tim e nature has done p ractically ev ery th in g for Oregon. M an has done b u t little . We have not developed as rap id ly as w could have by converting n a tu r e ’s g ifts of raw m aterial into th e fin b u e d product. We have ex p o rted raw m aterials, leaving to o thers the b en efits o f developing forces of m anufacturing. “ Such m an u facto ries as have been sta rte d hero have not been as loyally supported as they should be. E v en m an u factu rers and house and store room owners, blind to th e ir personal in terest, th o u g h t lessly send aw ay fo r things th a t are produced a t least as good in O regon as anyw here else. “ O regon w ill ev en tu a lly come into h er own when selfishness and thoughtlessness is frow ned down anil lo y alty to th e comm onwealth made tho keynote an d rally of O re gon women and O regon men, and when all unite, as is done elsewhere, fo r th e b etterm en t of conditions in Oregon. ’ ’ Oregon and W ashington people should tak e Mr. ¡Samuel’s advice to h e a rt and follow it. How easy it would be to build up tw o big, prosperous sta te s if wc did act upon th is suggestion! -------------'i>------------- clean up the entrance to the system , and do more to p revent tuberculosis than has been done w ith the mil lions of dollars spent in open a ir sanitarium s, and all other measure* * w hich tr e a t results only. A large per cent of all tu b ercu lar infection tak es place through di»- , eased or ill kept m ouths; and w h at is tru e o f tuberculosis, is tru e o f all other infectious diseases. K eep vour mouth clean and go to seo a d e n tist once in a while. --------- » --------- H INTS FOR SUMMER W EATH ER. ERE are a few valnable hint» fo r use in sum mer w eather: B athe at least once daily. B ath in g helps th e skin to breatbeu I L earn to swim. B ew are of dogs and cats; th e y may be su fferin g from rabies. Bo sure your icecream and ice cream soda is clean and prepared ia a cleanly manner. C onvert your bock y ard into a vegetable or flow er garden. L et th e stom ach rest betw eea meals. E xercise before going to bod. Clean wounds, scratches and bruises heal very rapidly. T hey should be thoroughly cleansed w ith hot w ater and tied op in a d e a a (boiled) ra g or sterilized bandage. The b est tonic ia sunlight an d should bo tak en frequently every day. Germs o f tetan n s or lockjaw arw carried in d irt, especially h o n e m a nure. S tab le m anure is a m ighty poor ornam ent around barns and r e » donees. D irt is more th an undesirable; it is a m enaee to health. To clean up the city means tw clean out disease. W arfare on d irt never ends; it is a life and death b a ttle , incessant and aggressive. D o n ’t boast—d o n ’t hedge—don recite— w rite the sim ple tru th — i t h tho m ost persuasive! H K E E P YOUR MOUTH CLEAN. N FEC T IO N S for w h i c h the ------- ♦------- f m outh is p a rtly responsible in WEAPONS TO FIGHT DIS- clude tonsilitis, deafness (through EASE3. ) in fectio n of the eu stachian tubes), ca ia rrb , colds, b ronchitis, stom atitis, ERE are a few weapons with c a ta rrh of the stom ach, diarrhea, which to fig h t diseases. Best s f dyspepsia, indigestion, infective en- all they are cheap and w ithi^. d o card itits, enlarged glands, iritis, the reach o f all: gout, headaches, septic infection of Soap th e jo in ts, nephritis, pneum onia, per T oothbrush nicious anem ia, tu b ercu lar glands, N ailbrush general tuberculosis, ulcer of the Shovel stom ach, cancer of th e stomaen, py W ash tu b orrhea, L u d w ig ’s angina, and V in Scrub board cent ’s angina. F ly sw a tte r Needless to say th a t the victim of Covered garbage ran an y o f these diseases is in danger R ake him self, and endangering anyone Broom n ear him when he coughs, sneezes Scrub brush or expectorates. Even the b reath W ash boiler o f one su fferin g from an infectious S eptic t&nk disease is laden w ith poisonous Clean milk bottles. germ s, w hich may be taken up by Open windows your system and cause disease. Screens A foul b reath is a signal of n.xn- B a th tu b , g er and indicates an unhealthy con Covered manure bin ditio n of the teeth and gums, --------- * --------- w hich alw ays leads to disease and A D V E R T IS IN G A D V IC E . decay. B oth decay and disease may Ho who finds ha has goods to » i t be prev en ted by thorough cleanli And goes and whisper» it down a ness. well, P y o rrh ea is an infectious disease Is not 1 a p t to eotlar the of th e gums and m em brane su r As th e one who «limb» a tree rounding th e roots of th e teeth, hollers. w hich causes the teeth to loosen and • • • fin a lly to come out. This disease An ad vertisem ent is an fn v ita tia a is so common th a t it is generally b e to call, and buyers look upon ad lieved th a t the teeth should be lost vertiser» as progrcaaive people w te w ith old age. w ant th e ir basin« u I t has been said th a t pyorrhea is e e e a more subtle and dangerous d is A good advertisem ent is not new- ease th an tuberculosis, because it essarily w itty —nor sm art—nor fw m ay exist, doing its deadly work m iliar—nor spectacular; i t should fo r y ears w ithout being detected by be a tru th fu l, straightforw aw ^ e ith er physician or d en tist. By th is businesslike atory of your p r o p « » inflam m ation or infection, the v ita l tion. • • • ity r f th e m em brane lining the A dvertise in yoor leading tow n—* m outh is so lowered as to invite any this one—and do the bosiness. in fectio n s disease. In a recent in v estig rtio n , it wag --------♦------- - learned h at 16 2 3 per cent of all Consul A lfred A. V inslow, of those who die in th e G overnm ent paraíso, sta te s th a t f Ir ly good r i d i ^ H ospital a t V ienna, die of cancer; horses in Chile sell aa high as $100 O. and 40 per cent of th e cancer ia of H. gold, and the poorer grades as low the stomach. a $40. Coaab horses are valued a t $10$ In the fight against taberculosis. » Í .00 I H