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Show ii THE CITIZEN Filling the Nation's Sweet Tooth BYRDS FAREWELL TO HIS MOTHER CROSSES CONTINENT (Continued from Page 6,) all operations are handled under sanitary and pleasant- surroundings. In many ways the McDonald factory - is unique. Mr. McDonald has invested thousands of dollars in making his roof garden at the factory a pleasure rendezvous, a restful outdoor para-dis- e for employees and one of the scenic spots of the city. In this garden, flowers and foliage delight The outlook the eye everywhere. tower is most interesting, being made from volcanic rocks from the Hot Pots, one of the freak formations about fifty miles from Salt Lake. In the aviary are South American birds in their gay coats of many colors. This beautiful show place lias been the inspiration for the famous "Roof Garden Chocolates." A department for the blind in the paper box factory is probably an innovation in manufacturing activity. Here blind employees engage in piecework and make a good living for themselves and their families. Another feature of the employees welfare work conducted by this institution is the fact that the McDonald Company carries insurance for each of its employees absolutely without cost to them and in connection with this, is a beneficial department or bank with assets of $750,-00securing the deposits of employees. This bank is operated by the regular force. All in all "a wilderness of sweets" and an institution of which the Industry may be justifiably proud. 0, Tighten your belts and keep your coats on, men. The rummage sale season is upon us. Kansas City Star. An Iowa professor is trying to train an oyster. If he can get it to sing and dance, his teaching days will be over. Pittsburgh Post- - The last thing that Commander Richard E. Byrd did before leaving Los Angeles on his scientific expedition to the South Pole regions was to make Long Distance telephone calls to his mother, Mrs. R. E. Byrd, at Winchester, Va., and his brother, Governor Harry Byrd, at Richmond, Va. A special telephone line had been placed on board the whaler C. A. Larsen in the Los Angeles harbor so as to enable the aviator-explorto his family just to say good-by- e before the vessel weighed anchor for its two years expedition to the ant-artregions. er ic GENEVA TELEPHONE CALL TELLS OF GIFT TO LEAGUE Remember the good old days when the people in the rural districts had so much money they could afford to buy a gold brick once in a while ? Jlushville, Ind., Republican. A "stay Alive Club has been or- ganized in New York City. Members no doubt pledge themselves to have their gin analyzed and never visit Chicago. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nothing seems to be quite so much needed in this country as the spread of intelligence among the "intelliBoston Transcript. gentsia." tional merchant marine is necessary to the prosperity and welfare of the nation. They have been told how our navy would be seriously handicapped without such a marine in case of war and most of them remember how this handicap operated during the World War. They have a proper and patriotic pride, also, in the feeling that the Stars and Stripes can now be seen on the seas, flying above sturdy merchant ships and they feel that this is as it should be and that it ought to be continued. Perhaps comparatively few of us, however, realize the real importance of the merchant marine to our foreign trade and to our producers and shippers in time of peace, especially in the present day when international commercial rivalries are so keen in every part of the world. As clearly as if telephoning locally, a conversation took place for the first time between the League of NaIn an address delivered recently tions at Geneva, and New York, when Raymond B. Fosdick, former by E. J. Adams at Jacksonville, under-secretato the League, inFlorida, and read into the Congreformed the Leagues information sec- ssional Record by Senator Fletcher of the same state, Mr. Adams is tion of a $2,000,000 gift for the establishment of a library on the quoted as saying: Ships of all nations give first and preferred delivLeague premises. The $2,000,000 gift of John D. ery service to the people of their Rockefeller, Jr., will be fully em- own country, and it is considered ployed for the library fund only, as the duty, established by custom of Mr. Fosdick was informed that no long standing, for the management draft on the gift would be neces- and personnel in the operation of sary for purchasing a site for the .ships to serve, support and secure the trade of the people in all ports new building. ry A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature for the absolute repeal of that states compulsory insurance law. The representative who introduced the bill, according to the Boston Standard, "is not an insurance man, and in the past has not been noted for his support of insurance measures." The Standard likewise states that the purpose of the bill "undoubtedly meets the general approval of the insurance public and the average mo- torist." About the only certainty as to where Milo Venus lost her arms is that it wasnt in a disarmament par- lev. Wall Street Journal. Nearly every citizen of the United States realizes that an adequate na- So much chaos has been caused during the past two years by compulsory insurance that it seems there is no middle ground of arbitration. Either the law must be repealed or the state go into the insurance business, with consequent expense, waste and under-cov- er politics. Yet many of those familiar with the siuation believe that it is necessary to provide some means of assuring the indemnity to the injured. To meet this condition, the proposed bill carries a provision by which a severe penalty would be meted to the motorist who could not pay when a judgment was found The wise motorist against him. would insure himself and any who could not afford to carry insurance would be careful in their own for the producers of the country under whose laws the ships operate. This condition emphasizes the need for American ships in the American foreign trade. In commenting on our increased foreign trade Mr. Adams declares that it is due in a large measure to two things; first, to the work done by the Department of Commerce unHoover in seekder President-eleing out and helping our producers to win the good will and confidence of foreign buyers and consumers, and second in the improved transportation overseas "by the establishment of a dependable schedulized definite, delivery service under the leadership of the United States Shipping Board." ct "Most any business man," Mr. Adams continues, "would consider it good business to improve his delivery system if he could show increases in the volume of his trade at a cost of one half per cent of his increased sales and less than six per cent of the increase in his net profits. Without a delivery service equal to that of every other nation competing for business in the same foreign markets, we could not hold the market for American products, much less expand it, and all of the work done by the Department of Commerce would avail nothing." Having established the fact that a delivery system of American ships tf1 is important to hold and develop our foreign markets, Mr. Adams points out that the process can be hastened if the people will aid by shipping and traveling on American ships, whether privately owned or government owned. Unless," he continues, the producers and shippers of the United States patronize and use their own ships their own delivery system when the service and rates are equal to those afforded by other ships, it will be impossible to buildjfty up an adequate American merchant marine. All that Congress and all that the Shipping Board can do to build up an American merchant marine is not enough without the patronage and loyal support of the American people." Here are some suggestions wortli thinking about. After all a merchant marine in time of peace is the system of delivery which takes the produce of our farmer and our manufacturer to foreign markets. This American delivery system should be patronized. What merchant would be foolish enough to trust the delivery of his goods to the trucks of a rival concern, especially one which had nothing in common with him and was working for an entirely different community? The answer to this question is obvious. Why then should the American farmer and the American manufacturer trust their produce to the ships of rival nations ? Things might go along pretty well for a while although the produce of the home country would always have preference but when a time of emergency came and the ships of other nations were needed elsewhere, if we did not possess a delivery system of our own, our American produced goods would be left rotting on the wharves. When your customers cannot come to your establishment, you have to deliver, and the better the delivery system the more your business will expand and prosper. i |