Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 17, 1922, Page 6

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to double your output by éonbli This simply run up ex| nu! - basket of Ger- o& ‘March, mukl paper curncy in clmllnnnn This’ sort of inflation 18 ‘the reason why i Gemnn commo Flces advanced an thing as a ghenl over-uupply 91 good'a. All of the Eper: cent in March, prennt talki about ‘over-production is fallacy. Both 10w ‘money is hard here and abmd there are millions now in great - " that, owlbg, as it was found, to i ‘"' "‘n-'{':a:.utnnanm ‘the. lfl“fl."ul ] moonnmmmmu LAYING A FOUNDATION Roger Babson, the world’s.greatest statistician, in & most interesting manper tells what the future has in store for business and gives his reasons in the. following manner: . “There is a way really, to help business during this period of re-djnutmept' The reason that the various campaigns to' cheer up business-have fail- ed, is because, in the early part of a period of ‘de- .pression, business needs something more than- . cheering up. ., These periods of hard. times are not ;merely & state.of mind, ; They are the result of . ¢Xgesses, the same:as a mll of sickness. . They can 3 ibe cured only by first rgmovihg ‘the causés. So- called “snnnhme" and "bqostmg" ctmmugna jare. as . 1utile,as trying ,to cure L) pnhent with ltlmulxnts £ when what he needs is g dose-of physic! “The present depr_uuan in business was not an_ accident. If you were watching fundamental con- - ditions during. 1919 or 1920; you knew full well ' that. s depression: .would; result. Moreover, you knew , approximately ‘how serious the depression i wopld bave to be. ) “If.some one starts borrowing ‘money at the : ‘bank, neither we nor anyone. else-can tell how - maugh he will borrow. When, however, he has gone the limit, it is a simple matier. of arithmetic to fig- ure how. much he -will have to pay back. Just so wlth 3 country’sibusiness. . In the period of expan- ..sion we_.were borrowing, and the inflation of .all ‘business statistics shows approximately how much .we borrowed., Now we are paying back, and the extent of the depresslon ;hows that.so far we have not quite paid back half of the, total.” The. whole sum. must be paid back before we can hope for a period of full prosperity, ».“We_can, however, reduce the waste of this re- - |’ adjustment period.. We can have very much better times thap we.have now. We can do this if we . increase the production of every person. I do-not refer to mass produgtion.. It would’ help nothing CYPRESS IS 800 YEARS OLD', “Qreat Tree of Tule” in 8fafe ‘of Oaxaca Is Beginning to of W an The' “iGrent Tree of Tule” fn the state_of Oaxaca, after some 800, yeurs of recorded exjstence, s beginning to' how signs ‘of wear and tear.' Thix glant cypress, .with g trunk so huge. that thirty persons with 'outstreched arms can’ sédrcely -span it, is known to have been a fair-sized tree when Columbus discovered America,, and history reco at Cortez and his’ ‘Spanish: "soldlérs’ slept beneath its branches four centuries.ago when en route to Honduras following thelr con: quest of Mexico. .. Although time has dealt kindly with the. monarch, & correspondent during a recent visit to the tiny village of Banta Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, .noticed; that the wrinkles of age are beginning ly. call the tree, will wither away e the present generation has_passed on. Even if 1t should, Tule has & son some ffty yards away .from the parental boughs that is showing hedlthy aigns of maintaining the fam- fly honor in the matt§r of robustness. (8on), as the Indlans have named it, already is 60 large that twelve per-| wons are needed to span it, and Hijo | 18 only a“coupje of hupdred years old. The Great Tree of Tule rises about . hpwever, that Tule 26etl branches™ 18 alniost ‘150 ds In the courtyard-.of a *tiny chutch and 18 the only. llndmnrk, An.the,yillage of Santa Maria del Tule, wh the, people. reyere the tree al: || s'much as one of thelr salnts. Anatole %‘nhce. who the other day eolo];nmd ‘his. eighty-second birthday, once received | a ‘commission for & “serial,” and took 4l the_installments -of hjs story ‘to the™ hewspaper office, his“emoluments and went off on long holiday. On returning to Parls he turnéd up the files of the journal to see’how 'his ‘work looked in”print, go;;his : ampzemen discovered “jrstalments’ having' been wrongly ar- ranged In the editorial pigeon hole, the eflitor hdd begun his story at the end ang. printed the serial backwards. “It made no difference,” the editor bland- {1y ‘assured him, when he Wwent to, pro- teat. . “No . one noticed anything wrong.” . Manufacturé¥s™. need pl xoudl Theré never will be a general over-supply of goods until everyone has more than he can use profihbly “Whnt we. do see i§ a larger supply ot goodn ) 4 than 'the consumers can buy—Airst, because ‘‘the price is too high; second, because the consumer himsgelf hus nm. ‘produced enough to’earn the right to-buy yonr goods. . The second cause you your- ry little to remedy, except. as you the: people:with. whom; you-.come jin first, cause, howevar—mmely, the goods—you alone cmx change.. thers are doing, you have no trouble prders, while others in the, same industry are.suf- fering depression. . Remember, high prices do mot ' make prosperity—it is the amount of service ren- makes 'prosperity ! . hopeful sign todly is that an ju creaging number of business men are beginning to _ realize the above fact! - This is fundamental ime . provement. . A]ready it is ‘being reflected in in- creased confidence and a more smble tone in gerr eral bnsmeu conditions. “The outlonk for,, busmess in nearly every hne is better, . . We are now, laying the.foundation upon which a great period of prosperity later will be built. ‘ : s . A LITTLE_ SIDELIGHT ON WAGES A workman_employed by-the Anaconda Copper company in_Butte.saved money for quite,a num- ber “of years and then bought a ranch. . He was happy in his new environment and all went, well until the war broke-out.::Railway wages and min- . | ing wages were advanced so much that his help all .5 " deserted him. “He had a hard struggle, -After the boom : burst, however, he was again_ ableto. get men. But he is again in. a.delimma, He, ueently wrote a railtoad president asking if railway wages were to.be. maintained: at:their high level, “be- cause,” he-added, “if you are to go-on paying. war- - time wages'I Anow that I am going to lose my.mep, because they won’t feel like working three hours i more a day for me at less pay t.hnn you give for an emlle-hour day. - Let.me know what.you are going to do, so that I may know what to do. If you are not going to reduce wages, I am:going to sell out and become a wage-earner again,”—Forbes Mngg-_ zine. §——————3 VISITORS' DAY AT EXPERIMENT FARM The eighth annual -visiting day at the North Central Experiment Station at Grand Rapids is set for. Monday,. July .24. It is always an interesting event, and citizens of this community should avail themselves .of ‘the opportunity to visit this great agricultural develop- ment work. Twenty-five hundred experimental. plots, illustrating farm progress and the results 'of. i modern farming may be seen at this station—all of which will. prove of “educational, value to the man on the farm, COMES_IN HANDY . Keep one of our well li)n_aq ' hot water bags.in the house . and when you need it: yéu. will have. it. You can never: tell, when. you will want it for that ache or pain. -Opr bags are guaranteed for’ workmanship and wear. SCHROEDER BUII..DING Standard Méwers and Rakes—- “E. B 2 Tractm— QLR et S Brooks fi Nearest to-heing Fro oney - is plentiful, Be! uce and ‘gell” ydur produect a lee~ : arket.. - I can point to.certain gon-' <~ 8 g /Good Setvice—Low ‘R Splendid Cafe In ‘Connection: ' “HAKKERUP The Photogra‘pher’ in Your for the ‘gentleman who salts ting is good. SUWE I’OR THE the sale'of Bulck Sixes L Some men,. who are nelther hnd nor illiterate, c]alm smcerely that they' “never read advertlsements Yet, it you could mvestlg'ate in ““edch ease you woulh find that the ™ man who “never reads. ‘adve & ments” used ‘an advertlse(i tooth i paste or shavmg cream or soap‘ It h owns an automoblle it will be an : advertlsed car. TIE you ask hlS~‘ opmlon of any automobl]e he wil} . reply in words that might have been lifted bodlly from an advertlse ment Adpyertising has formed his opin- 1ons to a g'r”g% degree. : He may i Buch respo'\sxb ty does .not -end thh uick car. It follows the car throughouti its! entire life. Bmck owncrs do not neéd service often. But theéy have the comfortable feeling of knowing that they.can always be supplied with'genuine Buick parts and have their “work ‘dorie: by-Buick-trained mechanics wherever' they may happen to be. 2181365 39! A‘iubmfl lM G, That iz why Buick has organized a nation-wide authorized Buick service “that extends to, practically. every city, town and vxllage in:the Umted States. ‘Buick Fours Two Pass. Roadster - -8 895 Five Pass. Touring - = -935° .+ Three Pass.Coupo: = = 1295 # Five Pass::Sedan- - - 1395 " All Prlosd F: O, B: Plint, Michigan M. A, C, Purchase Plan wu;:, M for . Damnd Payments TOK INN GARAGE F M. Goughnour, Propnetor Bemldjl, an. have. recewed his mformatlon thru " other who obtamed thenr knowl- edge'from advertlsmg. Butitisa ~ fact that no‘ah can escape the ef- fect. of advertlsm‘."even if 'he does " say' he, “never Teads: advertlse-, ments 4 ; " Not one of us ever reasoned out en- tirely: from his own:mind that the “earthdsround. If we had not read it or heard it we/would never have known it. In these .days of good, truthful, helpful advertising to say, “I never read advertisements” is -merely your, way of saying,: all advertisements.” 1 don’t read TR ) SR TLT Y I Ay SROLL < 4

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