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Show THE CITIZEN 32 ed .99.8 per cent of the immigrant la- every pair of shoes that sells retail borers to be infected. Much of In- for ' $10 there is a machinery cost of dias population of 300,000,000 is under only five cents. The machinery cost the burden of a heavy hookworm in- of making shoes is the only item that fection and is the source from which has not Increased in sixteen years; if the disease Is carried to many parts anything, it is less than it was sixteen years ago. of the world. We must not lose sight of the fact The report then masses startling percentages to show how prevalent that the items which make goods are more or less temporthe disease is in the various provinces of India. The reader cannot escape the ary. Take the example of shoes again. conclusion, right or wrong, that the Profiteering aside, here are the items chief evil in India is the deficient phy- that chiefly enter into the high cost sical condition of its people. For ages labor, a world shortage in hides, it has been the breeding spot of leather and finished shoes; unprecedented buying of high-grad- e footwear; plagues. Your confirmed moralist will not world competition for materials; instop with this resume of facts. He adequate shipping facilities; increased will be constrained to climb out on cost of distribution and the depreciatthe housetops to preach the cleaning ed dollar. up of the world. Bolshevists want to Some day some of these items will tear down the old order of affairs and be less costly. The supply of hides perhaps the doctrine would be bene- will equal and perhaps surpass world ficial if confined in its application to demand; there will be more raw mathe plague spots of physical infection. terials of all kinds to meet competiThe whole trouble with the world is tion; shipping facilities will be better not, and ' never has been comprehendand the dollar will buy more than it ed within the ken of the economic and does today, ut the day is still afar off. political pndit. The United States made a nation out of Cuba, not merely high-price- d V Son Your Training i rightly is more important than leaving him a fortune. Properly trained, he will plunge into the game of life and master the principal power. HeTl feel the thrill of winning. HeTl develop the grip and grit and git to face his opponents and to play the game scientifically. Knowledge without practical guidance is often a handicap. Give your son that vital touch with practical and financial problems. He must learn the value of a dollar and know the working channels of that dollar. He must know values and the relation of values. t You want your boy to win, and to be lifted above the and necessity of sacrifice and the temptations, that swamp many men.. Don't wait. His life is being shaped. 1 get-rich-qui- ck have-an-easy-ti- me . If you do not already have an account with this bank, bring your son here, and open your accounts together both checking and savings. Make suggestions by your own example and by a direct touch with business and financial operations, so that your son will think in terms , of Opportunity and Success. by giving the people political freedom, but by liberating them from the in- ENTERTAINING CREDITORS' fection of yellow fever. We have been told times almost without number that the people who live in tropical countries are necessarily backward in development because of the heat It has become an accepted doctrine that because of the torridity and the consequent torpor it produces in mind and body tropical races never can take their place in the forefront of civilization. When we read such reports as that furnished by the International Health Board we begin to doubt whether this old story contains all, or even much, of the truth. Perhaps the subject a races of the southern world, long held in fetters by hookworm and other a plague germs, will throw off the bondage of disease some day and take the very first positions in the van of The hearings of the joint committee of Congress investigating postal salaries developed one financial philosopher, a negro named Malone employed in the Louisville post office, who testified that his job was described variously by the white folks in the office as potah, or laboran, and sometimes common laborah, when dey aint feelin jes so good. How High Costs May Be Reduced have preached the doctrine machinery of the latest and best types would do much ultimately to solve the problem of prices and wages. Those who see no solution point despairingly to the fact that an increase in wages always results in an increase in prices and they declare that the vicious circle " that National Bank of the Republic MAIN AND SECOND SOUTH E. A. CULBERTSON, Pres. . DAVID SMITH, Vice Pres. ' . , Jagg, W. F. EARLS, Cashier ENOS HOGE, Asst Cashier Mr. Malone, after telling the com- mittee why he thought post office laborers should have an increase of pay, was questioned by Representative Madden, and this illuminating colloquy, as reported in the Post Office Bulletin resulted: In case Congress should agree to pay you what you as., and the cost of living should decrease, would you be willing to accept a corresponding reduction? "Mr. Malone Well, sah, Ah figgars dat Ah wont have nothin to say about dat. You gemmen fix dat to suit anyhow. "Mr. Madden What do you do for "Mr. Madden yu-sel- f, progress. ITT E Ss&o i labor-savin- g never, can' be broken. We have been reading an article in which the statement is made that in recreation? Mah principal recreation is entertaiinn mah credituhs. "Mr. Madden How do you manage them? "Mr. Malone Well, sah, Ah bin acting on de principle of payin dem fust dat hollahs de loudest. Brother Malones system of enter.. taining creditors would have a tendency, if applied to the settlement of international debts, of producing u concert of nations .of unprecedented character and volume. N. 'Y. Sun. "Mr. Malone i "Sir, I am a interrupted you? self-mad- e Punch. man. "Who |