THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. Q. STEEL
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BUY WISELY, BUT BUY NOW
“Get business going and keep it go
ing!” That summarizes America’s
greatest need at the present time.
The end of the war has brought new
problems, which must be solved just
as were the problems of the war itself
—by a quick and accurate diagnosis
and a prompt and adequate method
of treatment. Fundamentally, all our
troubles since the signing of the ar
mistice have come from just one thing
—a tendency to wait, to go slow, rather
than to accept things as they are and
keep going ahead.
During the war it was patriotic to
devote as little money to non-essen
tials as possible. During the war it
was patriotic to wear out old clothes
and old shoes, to dispense with pianos
and automobiles, to do without luxur
ies, and to make the necessaries of
life give more than normal service.
That was also wise and right dur
ing the war. But now the conditions
have changed vastly, and for the bet
ter, unless we are to consider the war
prosperity better than normal times.
At the present time there is a short
age of almost everything that people
need to eat and to wear. There is a
shortage of homes—one million dwell
ings in this country and about as
many in England. Every normal con
structive enterprise was checked by
the war. Now that peace is here,
jionstructivc enterprise should go
ahead at more than the normal pace,
in order that we may make up for lost
timp
“Get business going and keep it go
ing!”
But it is useless to appeal alone to
business men to get business going.
No business man, however good bis
intentions may be, can make the pub
lic buy his wares against the will of
the public. No business man, how
ever he may desire the resumption of
normal conditions in America, is big
enough to bear the whole burden
alone. The successful meeting of the
present crisis is a co-operative enter
prise, just as winning the war called
for the whole genius of the American
i people toward co-operation. Every
man, woman and child must do his
or her part if prosperity is to come
now.
How, then, are we to get business
under way at once? How are we to
restore America to peace-time condi
tions without the unpleasant experi
ences that some of the allied nations
in Europe are undergoing?
The whole problem comes back, in
the Anal analysis, to the ultimate con
sumer. It is upon the consumer, the
great general public, that we must
depend. Business can progress only
in so far as it has public support. The
interests of labor depend upon the
interests of the business man.
During the war we have deprived
ourselves of many things that we ac
tually needed. Many of us are now in
a position to satisfy the desires that
we could not meet a year ago. We
know that the American public today
probably has a greater purchasing
power than ever before in history.
Labor has been steadily employed dur
ing the war and hundreds of thou
sands of workmen received good pay
and also made much money in over
time and Sunday work. A great deal
of this has been saved and is now
available for the resumption of bust
ness on a normal scale.
Let the workman who has put by s
tidy nest egg during the war Invest
his money In a home, thus relieving
the present congestion of dwellings
and bettering his own condition by
putting himself among the ranks pt
home owners Instead of home rent
ers. Let those who have not the
means or the opportunity to invest in
a home at this time at least supply
themselves with the things they actu
ally need, whether it is a new over
coat or new furniture for the dining
room. Let the more prosperous ol
us who have already homes buy the
piano we would have bought a
year ago but for the war. This is the
time to make up for what we have
lost, and in doing so we shall insure
good times for the future.
However, business men need not ex
pect the general public to enter upon
a mad orgy of spending. The indica
tions are all quite the other way.
Labor is waiting, business is waiting,
the public is waiting. Neither labor
nor business can afford to wait; the
welfare of any community depends
upon the continuous use of its pro
ductive power, and a day’s labor un
used is forever lost.
The only way in which good can
come to the community is through
large production at all times, a pro
duction great enough to give each of
us at least all that he needs. It would
be still better if production could be
great enough to give each one more
than he needs. Stagnation of indus
try means increasing social poverty,
which will culminate in bread lines
and soup kitchens, perhaps, If in noth
ing worse. We do not want bread
lines or soup kitchens, and if we are
as intelligent as we think, we need
not have them.
We must protect industry, from
stagnation—by putting everybody at
work. To put everybody at work, we
must have a demand for the goods
that labor can produce.
Therefore this is the message that
business men should heed at this time
—the demand must be created, and it
can be created in only one way, by
advertising. Delay will mean the
consumption of our reserve without
new production. Immediate action
will mean prosperity.
Advertising in every useful medium
the things that our people really want,
the things that they had to deprive
themselves of during the war, will
bring back prosperity by the shortest
cut. Let every business man make a
larger appropriation for advertising
than usual this year; the results will
justify his effort if his commodity is
one that the public needs. Let us
all, within the limits of our means,
have those things we want and need.
By buying now we shall do our part
to put business under way, and once
under way, business will take care of
itself for a good many years.
This is the psychological time for
large production and for widespread
distribution of the goods produced.
Unlike the usual time of crisis, there
does not now exist any surplus of
goods; there is a shortage of almost
everything. It is a mental attitude
that lies back of the indecision threat
ening our future. Every physical fact
urges speeding up of business at once,
and to create the mental state that
will accomplish the result we seek
a widespread advertising campaign
must be urged upon merchants gener
ally. Let the public learn the neces
sity for adopting as its course of con
duct, “Buy wisely, but buy now.”
TIME FOR HOUSECLEANING
It is house cleaning time for every
city, town, and village in the United
States. This year, more than any
other, it is imperative that every
center of population be put hi a sani
tary condition. This means the safe
guarding of the public health and the
assurance that the returning soldiers
who have escaped the perils of shell
fire and disease abroad shall not be in
danger of pestilence when they return
home. After an open winter in many
parts of the country the need of ex
treme measures to assure the removal
of refuse in streets and alleys has
been realized by many municipal gov
ernments, but to guard against epi
demic it is imperative that the whole
nation should apprehend that it is a
patriotic duty to take every possible
piecaution to prevent a great ""mor
tality during the summer months.
Paint Up and Clean Up weeks are
being observed in various parts of the
country, acording to reports that have
come to the United States department
of labor through its information and
education service. Wherever a spe
cial time has been appointed for city
house cleanings the fullest co-opera
tion has been obtained and the effort
at intensive work has given an im
petus to subsequent efforts.
The Paint Up and Clean Up move
ment has been recognized as a legiti
mate part of the Own-Your-Own-Home
campaign of the United States depart
ment of labor, which is now so suc
cessful in many states. The man or
woman who has a pride in the appear
ance of rented property is likely soon
to acquire a home of his own and the
spread of the ambition to make a
town or city beautiful by keeping its
dwellings in the best possible condi
tion is an assurance of progress and
prosperity.
Out West, where the Bplrit of co
operation once necessary to existence
has long survived, whole communities
have been co-operating in Clean Up
and Paint Up drives. Churches,
schools, and civic associations have
joined in organized work. Merchants
have advertised the movement and
have provided suggestive window dis
plays. Boy Scouts have done splendid
service. Refuse has been removed,
grass has been sowed, and lawns have
been eared for by volunteer workers.
Owners of eyesores of all sorts have
been notified not to maintain what
have become public nuisances.
Lastly, gardening has claimed atten
tion. One of the significant features
of the Own Your Own Home cam
paign and the Paint Up and Clean Up
movemnt is the increased national in
terest in gardening, not the hit-or
miss gardening but scientific land
scape gardening that takes account of
grouping and vistas, that places trees
in right places, and aranges flowers so
that they will bo most effective. Co
operative work in communities has
awakened citizens to the possibilities
of collective planning of improve
ments that belonging first to the in
dividual yet became also the posses
sion of a town or city. The United
States is now nursing the new ambi
tion to live up to its status as a great
world power by having in its broad
land dotted with cities beautifully set
in lovely gardens and parks and dec
orated with statues and fountains that
are specimens of the best art.
With the completion of a short
spur track from the end of steel at
Mile 365.5 South of Nenana to the
coal mine operated by Robert E.
Burns, fuel shipments are now made
over the government railroad from
the Burns mine to Nenaa. The first j
cars—three in number—of lignite coal
from the Burns property wero re
ceived at Nenanan by the Alaskan
Engineering Commission. The fuel
was tested in the power plant and on
locomotives, and a detailed report of
the results of the tests is expected
Lo be made public in the near future.
The Empress orchestra at the Eagle
Dance tomorrow evening in Eagle
hall at 9:30.
Just received a late shipment of
genuine eider down quilts. Also a new
shipment of Fithian-Barker shoes.
Just the kind for timbermen and
mushers. Come in, look them over
md get the prices. Rawson, General
Outfitter. 16-2t
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| j WOMEN’S FANCY LISLE HOSE IN ALL SHADES ! |
11 WOMEN’S SILK-FACED LISLE IN BLACK AND WHITE 11
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Bogart & Robinson
DEALERS IN UP-TO-THE-MINUTE
Wall Paper
AND DECORATIONS
We also Do Pointing, Decorating and Paper-Hanging. Estimates
cheerfully furnished for the best of work by experienced workmen.
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NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton
and Provisions
Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Orders from
Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points. Halibut and other
Fresh Fish of all kinds will be kept In stock when available.
SMITH & GLASSBRENNER, Props.
ALASKAN GRILL
FRANK A. DOUGLAS, Proprietor
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ONE VI8IT TO THE ALASKA GRILL WILL MAKE YOU A
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Delivered to the trade or families in
large or small quantities
FRED HAEF, Distributor