If you were the only person in town that traded with
mail order concerns—it would hurt some—but it wouldn’t paralyze the
prosperity of the community.
The greatest injury would be in the influence your out
of-town-trading exerted over others. Other people might follow in your
foot-steps ot foreign trading and that following would prove detrimental to
home business development and betterment of public welfare.
Set a good example. Be a home buyer. Take pride in
your community. Feel that money spent here at home is playing an
important part in building up the town. Know that it buys the goods
you want and goes towards some public good. That it helps increase the
efficiency of schools — puts down better street crossings—erects better
libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays
for better police protection, etc.
Instead of fostering the mail order habit —fight it openly.
Teach the truth of home trading. Preach home patronage. Show mail
order buyers the error of their ways—and go oat of your way to do it.
Local merchants handle the highest grade merchan
dise. They carry advertised brands. They sell at a proper
price—makes of goods that bear the stamp of honest manufacturers.
They deal open-handedly. They don’t cover up questionable quality
with private labels. They offer you the latest and most dependable
lines—in all lines of merchandise. Their stores are conveniently at hand. You
can reach them in a few short seconds—over the phone—or step right into their
places of business—give or leave your order—and have the goods delivered
straight to your home—all in a few minutes time.
They willingly accommodate you. They take particular
pains to give you just what you want right when you want it. You
don’t have to buy in big quantities to save freight or express charges. You can
spend less at a time—and save considerable sums in cash, to say nothing of the
great saving of time and trouble.
Advocate those advantages. Do mail order traders a
good turn by turning them away from away-from-home buying—liven
up local business, and by so doing speed the town along the road of progress.
Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for
local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and
better conditions of tf/'/zer communities. Support the community that supports you.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.
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Women In England
Far Outnumber Men
LONDON, Feb. 11—The statistical
i* view of the registrar general shows
That during 1923 there were 750,131
births; 444,365 deaths and 292,408
marriages.
The statistics show that 20,797
widows and 24,903 widowers remar
ried during the year and the wed
dings in which both contracting
parties took their seend matrimo
nial step numbered 9,246.
The youngest couple married gave
the age of the bridegrom as 16 and
of the bride 15. Among the brides
were twenty-six girls of the age of
15, one of whom was married to a
man 70. Among the bridegrooms
there was one bachelor of 93.
The first twenty years of married
liie are the hardest, according to
the statistics, for the 2,834 liti
gants who started suits for the dis
solution of their marriages included
only 321 cases in which the wedded
5 term was more than twenty years.
At the end of 1923, the estimated
population was 47,747,100. The fe
male sex with 24,832,513 had a ma
jority of 1,917,926.
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SENATE ASKS AID
OLYMPIA, Wn„ Feb. 11.—The
j Washington state senate in joint me
morial number four, asked for an ex
tension of benefits for federal aid to
funds in connection with the Alaska
! Road Commission.
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FINISHED ~',JST OF “JOAN OF ARC”
Antony de Francesco, noted sculptor, with his finished head and should
ers of “Joan of Arc,” which is to be placed on exhibition shortly.
BIG SUM IS PROPOSED
FOR RADIO EXPERIMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.—
A $100,000 expenditure has been ap
proved by the budget bureau for a
commerce department investigation
to determine why a radio receiving
set within ten miles of a broadcast
ing station may fail to receive it
transmission, although in another di
rection receiving sets as much as
two hundred miles away may be ob
taining good results.
Detecting devices will be installed
at different points and from the re
sults it is hoped a better allocation
of wave lengths and territories to
broadcasters may be made.
SAVING IN COST OF
MAIL BAGS PLANNED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.—
The traditional blue striped United
States mail bag is going to give way
to the economy test that is being
applied in all directions these days
by Brig. Gen. Lord, director of the
budget.
When budget bureau officials
could find no good reason why the
government should pay a cent a
yard more for the blue striped can
vas than the plain gray variety,
General Lord decided that the post
office department hereafter will use
the latter, and thus effect an an
nual saying of about $49,000 in the
cost of mail bags.
GIRL DENIED PERMISSION
TO SEE SHOW KILLS SELF
CAMDEN, N. J., Feb. 11.—Denied
permission to go to a moving picture
show, Margery, 15-year-old daughter
of Patrolman Maurice Denicola of the
Camden police force, today shot her
self in th" head with her father’s
pistol. SL :d in a hospital.
ALIEN SAILORS ON U. S.
SHIPS ARE ENTITLED
TO CITIZENSHIP EXAMS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11.—Aliens
who have served three years on an
American vessel and received an hon
orable discharge are entitled to citi
zenship examination upon immediate
filing of petition, Federal Judge John
S. Partridge held in a decision here
recently in the case ol Edward Linka
later. The decision is regarded as
important by the federal authorities
and judiciary in that it is the first
time the court has definitely ruled
relative to an alien seaman’s status.
UNITED STATES ENDANGERED
BY OVER-POPULATION THINKS
A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
CHICAGO, 111., Feb. H.—Persons
living will see a population of 250,
000,000 in the United States if the
present rate ol' increase keeps up,
according to Professor A. B. Wolfe,
of Ohio State university, speaking
here recently before the American
Statistical association. Bur. it will
not keep up, in the professor’s op
inion. He is fairly certain the wom
en themselves, the potential moth
ers of the future, will take measures
to prevent it.
“Unless increase is quickly and
greatly retarded, reaching the sat
uration point is a matter of only a
few generations at most, not thou
sands of years as popularly suppos
ed,” Professor Wolfe said. “In the
absence of an improbable revolu
tionary improvement in agriculture,
we shall be pointedly confronted
with the choice of reducing either
our birth rate or our standard of
living. A very essential part of the
population problem is to get the
people to see that they are con
fronted with a condition, not a the
ory.
“Even if it could be demonstrated
that this country could support 500,
000,000 people by eliminating waste
and giving up meat, the standard of
j living could continue to fall and the
problem of numbers continually get
worse. The only happy people would
be the sword-rattling generals. Many
of our unthinking American wor
ship of size and growth, without in
quiry into the human values involv
ed.”
j Professor Wolfe scores the opti
mists who believe that progress can
work miracles. “They rely on mi
gration and invention. They see
vast empty spaces. The state of
Texas especially appeals to their
imagination. Most of them have
never been there.
“What are the facts?”
“Only inferior lands, limited in
extent, remain for settlement.
Progress itself involves a paradox.
It is in conceivable that technical
advance can maintain the pace it
set in what Wallace called ‘the
wonderful century,’ and which
Keynes thinks may prove to have
been ‘a magnificent episode.’ In the
main, future improvements are to be
looked for in the fourth decimal
place. There is a limit to the degree
to which cheapened manufactures
can offset increasing costs in ex
tracting raw materials from nature’s
resources which are being exhausted
with whirlwind rapidity.”
Taking up the opposition to birth
control Professor Wolfe declared:
“It is a fault of population theory
that it is man-made. Such attitudes
never count the vital costs of a high
birth rate—the costs to the women
of the race. The very essence of
economy is to balance real costs
against real income. A valid popu
lation theory must take account of
the way in which half the race,
hitherto practically ignored, will cal
culate the costs—as against the sat
isfactions—of large families.”
DEVELOPS IMPROVED
STRAIN OF RYE PLANT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11—
A new strain of rye, resistant to three
of the worst grain crop diseases, has
been developed by Dr. E. B. Mains
of the Puddue agricultural experi
ment station, who told the American
Phytopathological society of his
work.
Some difficulty was experienced in
obtaining a resistant strain that
would breed true; but, after four
years’ work, the new variety not
only is constant in its breeding, but
resists leaf rust, stem rust and pow
dery mildew, said Dr. Mains.
ONE DEAD AND TWO ARE
EXHAUSTED ON LOST BOAT
Word wan received on'the last boat
from Ketchikan that the gas boat
Hilda,, which has been lost the past
several weeks, ran ashore in Pillar
Bay on January 17, with one man dead
and the other two members of the
crew in an exhausted condition.
The coast guard cutter Cygan left
after receiving the news, for the
scene of the tragedy to render what
assistance was possible and to return
to Ketchikan with the body of “Cop
per Mountain Shorty” Thornton, who
died of exposure. Albert Johnson and
Charles Richardson, tlie other mem
bers of the crew, are reported to be
in a serious condition.
The Hilda left Ketchikan for the
west coast during the second week of
December and up to date no word wan
received of the vessel’s whereabouts.
Princeton university has received
$100,000 for the endowment of eight
j equal scholarships, four for Michi*
I gan and four for Maryland students.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
OGL^and third Wednesdays of each
/Ar \month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Clias. Lechner, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION, SEWARD
POST NO. FIVE
Meets the second and Fourth
SKSS&JS& Tuesdays of each month,
at the Fire Hall. 'Visiting
members are always wel
come. J. S. Bogart, Commander; L.
W. Olson, Adjutant.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
_ :ome; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
, P- m. Visiting mem
tl/ bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
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