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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.
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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!
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LISTEN TO WORDS OF WISDOM
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“ 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!
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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