Show i j I Your Regulator I JHEN WHEN you went to school you learned that vy water always seeks its own o level levet That's why mothers mother's copper copper wash boiler le leaks ks through the hole in the bottom The water starts its journey back to the sea soon as as- asit it gets a chance Sun evaporates ocean water Moisture drifts inland condenses and falls as s rain You see sec this rain when you stand beside a river It is flowing back back back-back back to the sea seeking its own level levet There you have the universal principle that governs gov gow- erns ems all tt men and all conditions created by their stupidity or intelligence The average farmhands farmhand's pay has dropped to a month without board and a a month with board Uncle Sams Sam's department of agriculture announces this It points out that farm wage rates a during ring 1921 dropped an average of 37 3 i per cent That decline just about matched the drop in wholesale prices of food Observe the universal law at wages work wages and prices seeking a common level levet Herbert Hoover furnishes tables showing prices out of line tine Some prices are twice a as high as in 1913 Others have deflated to th the prewar level or below Gradually you'll see all prices meet at a common common level No one knows what that level will be Prices extremely low now may rise to strike a medium with prices prices' now extremely high Then when equilibrium or balance balance balance bal bal- ance is established a business boom will witt start stat Ability is among the things that seek their own level fo for the law of compensation is a natural force as inexorable as the law of gravity That's why you cant can't keep a good man man down That's why the incompetent is shouldered aside by a better man We have hav to pay for everything every thing in this world And in the long run w wI wa I get no more out of life than we give I Land speculators get busy anticipating develop development de de- de- de nent of Muscle Shoals In a nearby town Sheffield with with population 1 OO OO worth of land changes hands in a few months Vacant land formerly 40 an an acre jumps to 1000 an acre One unimproved corner sells for The landlord is always on hand when people get busy and a or toll becomes becomes becomes be be- comes possible If If It Peary eary had discovered a gold goldmine goldmine goldmine mine at the north pole hed he'd have found a landlord landlord land land- lord ten feet be behind ind him out of breath reath I Will women womer do o anything f fashion decrees I Not ot this time apparently Style creators are I trying to bring the long skirt back Are women taking to it About a as much as qs s as asbestos burns and cork sinks Skirts next summer r. r are going to be beso so short the flappers wont won't be able- able to roll roIl their hose says Ja a m model tt a a. a Chic Chicago go exhibit of women's wearing apparel Sad situation for textile t trades ad s. s Long og skirts can can be shortened r rt skirts cant can't be lengthened i |