Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 14, 1919, Page 7

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES HOUSE DREAM GHOSTS Receptacles Crammed With | Fake Securities Represent- ing Wasted Millions. Washington—If the safety deposit | boxes of the United States could give up their dead stores of fake securi- ties, enough wasted money would be | disclosed to stagger the imagination. | If a man expects his financial barrel | to fill up, he has got to stop up the leaks in it. This is the keynote of a | message sent by William Mather Lewis, director of the savings divis- | jon of the Treasury Department, uw the Twelfth District savings directors | urging them to impress the wisdom of | holding government securities. “Thousands of people in the United | States are losing their hard-earned | savings every day because they lack | knowledge of financial dealing,” con- tinued Mr. Lewis. Untold numbers of fake scheme promoters and regiments of investment sharks, because of this | popular ignorance, are pointing out short roads to big fortunes to those | whose Liberty Bonds and War Sav. | ings Stamps they hope to secure in exchange for beautifully embossec but | absolutely worthless stock certificates. | These fakers know the value of gov- | ern securities. They are anxious to | get them, for they figure that they will soon be selling at par and above. “They know that following the Civil War the war issues of government se- curities soon were above par, and that | there is no well-informed person today | who does not believe that the Liberty Bonds will sell well above par, long before their maturity. “But their victims do not know these facts, and so they trade the best se- curities in the world for some wild-cat that promises a high rate of interest. What their chances are of getting stung is illustrated by the fact that in Georgia out of 300 applications from a certain type of company to sell stock in that state, only two have been able to meet the requirements under the blue-sky law and were given permits, “The other 298 are probably operat- ing somewhere where the going is bet- ter. If the Ameri:an people would give to the matter of spending and in- vestment money 10 per cent of the thought they devote to making it, the high cost of living would be greatly de- creased. Reckless spending and fool- ish inyestment are elements in the present situation which can only be remedied by the rank and file of our people. “Ag long as easy money is in evi- dence, the profiteer and the shark will prosper.” [| Bty Ww. 8.5] “DON’T BE A GOOF” A Chicago doctor, on his way to/| visit a patient the other day, wa? splashed with mud by a passing truck. He wiped the mire away with his handkerchief, which was thus removed from active service, and entered a fur- nishings store to buy a new one, He had plenty of handsome and service: | sble handkerchiefs at home. What he wanted was a clean handkerchief | for immediate use at a cost of not mdre than 50 cents. * “{ want a clean handkerchief,” he said to the clerk, “Here are some very nice handker- | chiefs of a good quality,” said the | clerk, openiag a box. “Better give mea half dozen,” decided the doctor, not asking the | price, The handkerchiefs were wrapped up and then he asked: “How much?” “Highteen dollars,” said the clerk, “I was game,” said the doctor, tell ing of the experience afterward. “1 paid it.” He was not game. He was a goof. He did not have the nerve to make that clerk unwrap the handkerchiefs and give him one for 50 cents, which was what he really wanted. He was afraid the clerk would think him cheap. When you let someone tell you what you shall buy and how much you shall pay for it you are giving the strongest kind of aid to the profiteers. So long as people buy regardless of price and re- gardless of actual needs the profiteers will prosper. The wise man will now put every cent he can spare in War Savings Stamps and every dollar he can spare in Treasury Savings Certificates. When they mature in 1924 he will find that not only has his money earned 4.27 per cent, but his dollar has increased | in value—possibly as much as 100 per vent. Tips on How to Cut H.C. L. | Carry own lunch, Shave yourself. Polish own shoes, Smoke a pipe. Clean own hat. Do own shampooing. Buy W. 8. 8. (Se ee “A dollar down and a dollar a week” Spells failure. A dollar a week in W. 8. S. spells success. sux w. s.s—] There are 1,250,000 dependent wage earners in the United States because they could not or would not save during thelr working days. The support of o— | | Everywhere Now Discriminating selection has placed the seal cf unmistakable endorsement upon the Maytag Electric Washer. Everywhere in electrically equipped city homes it enjoys the same position of favor as is occupied by the Maytag Multi-Motor Washer in village and farm homes where the electric current is absent. These two washers are identical in construction and operation, excepting that the power for the Electric is furnished by an electric motor, while in the Multi-Motor it is generated by an easily operated gasoline engine. In the rural home equipped with any standard electric lighting system, the Maytag Electric Washer, attached to any electric light socket, operates just the same as in the electrically equipped city home. The general endorsement of these Maytag types of machines is evidenced by the fact that over one-fourth of all self-contained power .washers sold in America are made by The Maytag Co. Let us demonstrate the superior- ity of a Maytag Electric or Multi- Motor Washer by a free trial in your own home laundry, | | | | Princess Flour IS THE BES T IF YOU NEED ALFALFA HAY LINSEED OIL MEAL EASTERN CORN MILL FEED STEAM ROLLED BARLEY STEAM ROLLED OATS COTTON SEED CAKE OR ANY OTHER KIND OF FEED, CALL our Warehouse Don’t forget the Livestock Show, Nov. 9-14. Lewiston will make Chicago jealous Vollmer-Clearwater Company D. D. WEINS, Agent . PALO DION EDAD EIEN BORODIN IID HOENE HARDWARE S| SS] ]]S SS (0) SPECIALISTS IN HUMAN ILLS Some More or Less Sage Reflections on the Subject of Diseases and Their Treatment. Dentists now cure rheumatism, dys pepsia, kidney troubles, sore eyes and corns by pulling, filling or otherwise maltreating the teeth. Stomach spe- cialists relieve toothache by treating the digestion. Headaches have noth- ing to do with the head, except to make it hurt; the seat of their opera- tions ts in the stomach or liver, The whole body seems to be merely a sys tem of interlocking directorates, the Philadelphia Ledger comments, Why, then, one is inclined to ask, do we have specialists? If the functions of the body, instead of being a system of such complete entanglements and inter-relations from head to foot, were really divided up into watertight com- partments, then specialistic treatment would indeed be indicated. In that case each specialist would have his own compartment to look after, with a sign upon the membrane which marks the entrance to his domain, “Trespassers will be prosecuted.” But what are you going to do with a body in which nephritis is directly caused by an ulcerated tooth which the dentist hasn't discovered, and the legs swell up and become useless because there is an unlocated intestinal kink? It would really seem that before a man is fitted to operate as a specialist on any part of the body he must have specialized a while over every other part of \t—so that the East side doc- tor’s sign, “Specialist in All Diseases,” need not be regarded as so absurd after all. The first qualification of a good specialist is te be an all-around physician. But at present the dentist has the advantage over all other specialists, Give him a chance to pull out every tooth in your head and you will be de- livered forever from Bright's disease, rheumatism, pleurisy, liver complaint, neuritis, pyelitis, and virtually every other kind of disease. But what will the dentist do when he has drawo everybody's testh? Result of Capt. Smith’s Expicration of Shores of “North Virginia” in the Vear 1614. : 7 li - - Capt. John Smith, famous for his romantic tareer, particularly the Po- cahontas episode, is generally asso- elated with Virginia, but he: was aiso the first to discover the beauties of the southwestern half of the Maine coast and the first-to draw a map of it, an exchange recalls, In 1614 he ex- plored the shores of what was then known as North Virginia, but which he called New England, a name that has stuck, as have many others given by him. In “A Description of New England,” printed in London tn 1616, Smith wrote “I have seen at least forty sev- erall habitations on the Sea Coast and found about 25 excellent good har- bors. * * * and more than 200 jsloa: From Penobscot to Sagadahock. this Coast !s all Mountainous and Isles of huge Rocks, but overgrown with al! sorts of good woodes for buildin houses, boats, barks or shippes: w!! an Incredible abundance of most sort~ of fish, much fowle and sundry sorts of good fruites for man’s use * * * ‘The Salvages compare their store in the Sea to the haires of their heads; and surely there are an incredible abundance upon this Coast. * * * The most Northern part I was at was the Bay of Penobscot, which is East and West, North and South, more than ten leagues,” The northeastern half of the Maine coast was put on the map by Cham- plain, Ten years before Smith’s vo: age he had visited Nova Scotia, «is covered and named the St. John river and cruised as far south as the move! of the Penobscot, which he, too, en- tered, NERVES THAT TIRE EASILY Sense of Smell One That Is Quickly Fatigued—Heat Nerves Practi- cally Never at Rest. The most easily tired nerves tn the body are the nerves of smell. As you pass a rose in the garden the quan- tity of perfume that gets into) your nostril must be many millions of bil- lion of times smaller than the tiniest grain of sand, But rub the strongest perfume on your upper lip, and in a few seconds you fail to notice it, the nerve of smell is so quickly fatigued. The heat nerves and cold nerves, which are quite distinct from the nerves of ordinary sensation, also give over working very quickly. A bath that seems quite hot when you get into it very soon ceases to cause any par- ticular feeling of heat. Nerves of hearing and sight can go through an enormous amount of work. For sixteen hours a day they work hard, and are still willing to do more. The nerves of the heart are the most untiring of all, From the first dawn of Mfe until the last gasp they work without stopping for one instant. Various Modes of Greeting. Savages rarely osculate. The salu- tations of the Mongols, Malays, Poly- nesians, the Kskimos and Laplanders consist chiefly of smelling each other and rubbing noses; while in Tibet, in- stead of greeting by an adhesive touch, the mode of salutation consists of ex- tending the tongue, but this Is done simply because the custom of the country does not permit of any phys- Ical contact. North American Indians do not kiss excepting in the presence of death, when they profusely fondle and kiss the feet of their beloved de- parted ones, The native Australian and Fiji islanders salute with a hug ike a bear. The Celtic race is not especially demonstrative and rarely kiss in public unless {t Is in greeting after a long absence, then men very rarely kiss each other and the women are not over lavish with thelr mani- festations of devotion, Margaret Fuller’s Friends, Went to see Hawthorne; it was very pleasant, the poplars whisper so sud- denly their pleasant tale; and every- where the view Is so peaceful. The house within I like, all their things are so expressive of themselves and mix so gracefully with the old furni- ture. H. walked home with me; we stopped some time to look at the moon, . . . He expressed, as he always does, many fine perceptions, I like to hear the lightest thing he says. Waldo and I have good meetings, though we stop at all our old places. But my expectations are moderate now; it is his.beautiful presence that I prize far more than our intercourse. He has been reading me his new poems, and the other day he asked me how I Ilked the “little subjective twin- kle all through.”—Margaret Fuller's Journal, London’s Holy Well. London's holy well may, after all, still be in existence. John Diprose, printer and historian of St. Clement's Danes, investigated the many rival claims put forward as to its site, in- cluding Lyons Inn, the old Dog tavern in Holywell street, and part of the site of the law courts, and found no evi- dence to support any of them. He suggested that the holy well might be identical with the well cov- ered by the stone-bullt house in St. Clement's churchyard looking like a burial vault above ground. This, an inscription tells us, was erected in 1889 “to prevent people using a pump that the inhabitants had put up in 1807 over a remarkable wati which is 121 feet deep, with 160 feat of water la it” © ee pan