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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1915

WHERE WILL SUNDAY BE?

"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

Thus reads a passage from scripture.

Since entering into the business of paving the way to

salvation, base-ball evangelist Billy Sunday's rating in Badstreet's has

risen from nothing to two million dollars - proving that there is

money in certain kinds of evangelism.

So if we are to believe the Good Book, Millionaire Billy is liable

to have a hard squeeze on judgement day.

THE COST OF RENT.

The editor noticed this week in an exchange, a pathetic plea, evidently signed by some man who was out of work, for some form of employment. The writer thereof said the cost of rent had so increased as to prevent working people from accumulating any savings for use in such need as has resulted this year from the political

and industrial conditions. In many cases the landlord must now pay twice as much as formerly to get a house painted. Plumbing, papering, and mason work are similarly costly. It is only to be expected than the mechanic should now be asked to pay a largely increased rent bill. Social economists must give a great deal of thought to the

question of how a comfortable home can be provided working people at a moderate cost. A man working on $15 a week ought not to have to pay more than $12 a month for rent. Yet the letter

referred to stated that the writer thereof earned but $12 a week in good times, yet had to pay $15 a month for his rent. In many places cheap wood "three decker" tenements are the

favorite means of housing work people inexpensively. These are often of the most flimsy construction, and may constitute a fire risk and also injure the appearance of a city. Some social reformers say the solution of the problem is to be found in blocks of connected houses. Possibly this is the case, though it reduces light, air and comfort to such an extent that seems needless except in the larger

places.

If people would acquire the habit of living farther up the outskirts of a town, and depend more on walking to work and social pleasures, they should be able to balance the higher cost of building by the lower cost of land. The habit of living in the outskirts makes room for gardening and gives the children healthful life. To many of us, such a home would look far better than a tiny flat or crowded block.

crowded block.

SLEEP

Mr. Edison says sleep is a bad habit and that we shall some day get over it. Like drinking and smoking, it is to be among those

things which we shall try in time to give up on the first of the

year. He says people call him crazy when he said that electricty would supplant all other motive power in transportation, and one therefore hesitates to say that he is crazy about anything. However we will hazard a guess that if he is off his box anywhere it is with respect to the pleasant custom of indulging ourselves in a good sound snooze. How else we are to refresh ourselves from the day's work we cannot imagine. The trouble with this objection, as it applies to Mr. Edison, is that he doesn't think we are wearied by the day's work. He and some of his associates worked at something for a given period of time for 21 hours a day and they all gained weight! He leads us to infer that it is what we do when we are not working that wearies us. Thinking it over briefly, we believe there is something in that. Probably half the things we do in our leisure time is very hard work. The celebrated tired business man is only tired when his wife wants him to go out somewhere after dinner. It is the opera and the fox trot that wear him out. Still, think of giving up sleep! If it is a habit, it is a nice one. We have got some glimpses of what Mr. Edison means when we have tried to sleep in a chair, but given a feather bead and a soft pillow, we don't get him at all. Last night, for instance; wasn't the habit delicious last night? --Pittsburg Post. THE HIGH COST OF DISTRIBUTION. A farmer living in the outskirts of a large town tried to market source potatoes at the grocery store in that place. He was unable to dispose of them. Finally he sent them to a commission merchant a hundred miles away. Coming into the near-by town a few days later, he found that some of the grocers were selling his potatoes. They had paid freight over 200 miles or distance and at least one middleman's profit, plus several carting charges. Another farmer near a medium-sized city went in one day and tried to market a supply of apples. He spent the forenoon going _____ of the grocery stores. None of them would look at his______.At noon he sold the wagon-load to a

wholesaler. He ____and around the town until night. ____ before leaving, he had the satisfaction of seeing a ____ being opened in front of a grocery store who had ____them direct from him. The grocer had paid one ____middleman's profit, all of which was cheerfully charged up to____ consumer. Whoever stops to ask whether all this machinery____necessary? Govenor Glynne, of New York, in a recent address before____convention of co-operative societies, remarked that the farmer ____ only 35 cents on every dollar that the consumer pays for his produce____. Several farmers present said the Governor had put the farmer's share____ too high. Who gets the rest? At this meeting one farmer told of making a personal investigation in New York City, to see what the consumer was paying for____ very scarce and the farmer was getting $1.35 a bushel. The consumer was paying $1.50 to $2. He looked the matter up a second time when potatoes were very plentiful and the farmer was getting only 15 cents a bushel. He was not able to find that the consumer was paying appreciably less. No wonder the middlemen become wealthy! THE RECOGNITION OF HEROISM The annual award has just been made of Carnegie hero fund medals and prizes. It is a significant place of this work that the 44 acts of heroism, 13 of the heroes lost their lives. They took desperate chances. Most of the heroes are young men and women, indicating that persons with older heads and more prudence do not take these risks. Apparently the recipients of these prizes are mostly obscure persons. As the people who do things are little given to talk, it is probably that they would attract less than the average amount of attention. A man capable of these generous acts has large possibilities for service. The result of giving these awards must be larger openings in the world for young people possessing fine qualities, who otherwise might remain in the background unnoticed. The larger part of the heroic acts thus noticed result from someone's carelessness. If people kept out of deep water until they could swim well, if they were cautious about fire, if they kept off thin ice, few people would have to risk their lives to save others from peril. Many would be rescuers would to-day be alive. Acts of heroism are performed in every locality for which no recognition is ever made. Physicians, nurses and others who care for contagious diseases, firemen who venture into burning shells of buildings, police who hunt out criminals from dark hiding places are heroes to whom no medals are ever given. The fact that such acts are a part of the service for which people in certain professions are paid, does not detract from their generous quality. The annual distribution of handsome rewards through the Carnegie commission is thus a fine act of service. Also it might well be wished that more recognition could be given, and more gratitude should be felt, for those daily acts of daring service that are constantly being performed around us in the ordinary callings of life. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM. (ED. NOTE - All letters to receive recognition must be signed by the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as evidence of good faith. The sentiments expressed must be considered as the opinion of the Editor.) A correspondent, realizing the danger to civic development., in the mail order honses, submits the following timely and able article: "We farmer need awakening to the fact that we have unmistakably reached the period where we must think and plan. I am one of the slow German farmers what had to be show, and I am now giving my experience that others may profit, for knowledge is more expensive now than ten years ago. "Twenty-nine years ago I began my farm career. Ihad an old team and $50. Our furniture was mostly home-made chairs, cupboard and lounge made from dry goods boxes, neatly covered with ten-cent cretonne by my girl wife. We rented eighty acres. Being a boy of good habits I got all needed machinery and groceries from our home merchants on credit until fall crops were sold. The first year was a wet season and I did not make enough to pay dreditors. I went to each on date of promise and explained conditions, paying as much as possible, and they all carried the balance over another year. They continued to accommodate my until I was able to buy a forty-acre piece of my own "As soon as I owned these few acres the mail order houses began sending me catalogues and gradually I began sending my loose change to them, letting my accounts stand in my home town where I had gotten my accommodation when I needed it. "We then had one of the thriftiest little villages in the State - good line of businesses in all branches, merchants who were willing to help an honest fellow over a bad year, and a town full of people who came twice a week to trade and visit. Our little country town supported a library, high school, band, ball team, and we had a big celebration every year. "A farm near a live town soon doubles in value. I sold my forty acres at a big advance and bought an eighty, gradually adding to it until I had 200 acres of the best land in town. I then felt no need of asking favors, and found it easy to patronize the mail order agents that came almost weekly to our door. I regret to say that I was the first in the county to MAKE UP A NEIGHBORHOOD HILL and send it to a mail order house. Though we got a bit once in a while, we got in the habit of sending away for stuff.

"GRADUALLY OUR MERCHANTS LESSENED THEIR STOCK OF GOODS - for

lack of patronage. Finally we began to realize that when we needed a bolt quickly for machinery, or clothing for sickness or death, we had to wait and send away for it, which wasn't so

pleasant. One by one our merchants

moved to places where they were appreciated, and men of less energy moved in. Gradually our town has gone down; our business house are "tacky" in appearance, a number are empty, our schools, churches and walks are going

down, we have no band, no library nor

ball team. There is no business done in the town, and therefore no taxes to keep things up. Hotel is closed for lack of travel. Go down to the depot when the

freight pulls in and you will see the sequel in mail order packages. "Nine years ago my farm was worth

$195 an acre; to-day I'd have a hard

matter to sell it at $167 an acre. It is too far from a live town - so every farmer has said that wants to buy, He wants a place near schools and churches,

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where his children can have advantages. I have awakened to the fact that in helping to pull the town down, it has cost me $5800 in nine years. ROUSING MEETING (Continued from page one) personalities, he advised. Of particular interest was Mayor Headley's talk on how Ocean City Commissioners regard the Board of Trade and Young Men's Progressive League of that place. If these two organizations do not support the projects of the Commissioners, the projects are dropped, he stated. Messrs. Swan (President of the Ocean City Progressive League), Mowrer (Cashier of the First National Bank and ex-President of the League), Stillwell (Treasurer of the Ocean City Title and Trust Co.), R. Willis (Attorney) and R. Sogg were called upon, and each spoke of the benefit of an organization such as the Young Men's Business Association. The last speaker of the out-of-town delegation was R. Edwards, Freeholder, real estate man, and promoter. Mr. Edwards was the prime mover of the later-County Bridge movement. His words lent encouragement to the members, especially when he cited how the now strong and successful Board of Trade of Ocean City started and for a long time ran, with just five members; how at times they would be forced to get out in the streets on meeting nights and almost drag another member into form a quorum. How the Board developed and grew, with a final word to the Sea Isle folk not to get discouraged, concluded his interesting talk. President Cronecker then called upon the following gentlemen in the order named: Charles H. ____, Edward B. Arnett, Lewis Chest___ and Wayne M. Struthers, and all pledged their aid and wished the Association success. A committee of three went among those present, and eight applications to active membership resulted. After the meeting adjourned, the speakers were taken to a local hotel where a supper was served.

____TIMES' Health Talks ____a Physician INFECTIOUS ___AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES The ____disease may be broadly divided ___classes: 1. Direct___such as heat, cold, poison,____ and vital (those due to ____) 2. Indirect disposing, such as age, heredity,____ environment, race or occupation. Infection___contagious diseases are due to vital____influenced of course by predispostion____factors. These vital____consist of the multitude of ____ and animal organisms, which ____ various ways gain entrance upon____the human body and cause the development of a specific disease. Germs___bacteria belong to the class of ____ vegetable organisms, which are vital____only under the microscope. They___ found throughout nature, but____them are harmless to man, only a ____proportion being capable of causing disease. An infectious disease is which caused by the presence of bacteria. The infecting germs may gain access to the body through various channels, directly or indirectly such, for example, as contaminated food and water, insects such as mosquitoes and fleas, through____contact with infected clothing, furniture or other articles; direct contact with the sick; domestic animals. Some enter the body through the digestive track, as is the case in typhoid

fever and various intestinal infections,

summer complaint, etc. Others enter through the air passages, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and la grippe. Some enter through slight wounds or abrasions

of the skin as lockjaw and erysipelas.

Malaria enters the blood through the

bite of a certain species of

mosquito, which carries the infecting

organism and inocculates the blood

directly with its bite. It was formerly believed that malaria was due to breathing bad air, such as the air about marhy undrained districts, hence the survival of the old term "malaria" meaning "bad air."

A contagious disease is on that is transmitted by direct contact or proximity. All contagious diseases are infections, but all infections are not contagious. Typhoid fever for instance, is an infection but is not regarded as contagious. Among the common infections and contagious diseases the exciting causative germ of which has been discovered, are typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, erysipelas, influenza of la grippe, and lately, whooping cough, besides many less prevalent diseases. Among those which evidence points to be due to an infecting germ, but which has not yet been found, we have small pox, chicken pox, measles, mumps and scarlet fever. These latter are most highly contagious.

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