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Show H ' . 4 LTOERTY BOND SOLICITORS Lammf i $' ' H r The Liberty Bond solicitors run up B--' : '. afin3t-p.ny kinds of human nature. Jvfl - Most orthem report that they receive a Hj ' i. ' cordial reception and meet with hearty lB'l1 &fc' " displays" of patriotism. People seem to KHi "'F'" b6 thankful to thing they can co-operate I'F - in so easy a manner and with such per-Hj!s per-Hj!s , sonal advantage to themselves. Bf t ?'' ' Some people -however, are disposed to H v " groan over their own troubles and can H ; not be made to feel any community obli- t k gallon. If they could get five per cent K;' f interest somewhere else, they fret and K .,' V fume over the three quarters of one per HV cent sacrifice they make in buying the V. " Liberty Bond. K; -- It is a problem in human nature to K ' ?. know how to deal with such people. It K'- is not usually effective to denounce them. H The solicitor in his heart may feel some K contempt for the slacker spirit that they K V show, But few people can be driven into H : ; anything they don't want to do. The B. only way is to use reason and to put the K; v thing, in the clearest light possible. K; ' It will not be useful to get angry and K ;' ? call such people slackers, even when they K rV have no valid excuse. But they should be K V-;: , ' made tosee clearly just what they are B f .' doing. It should be put to them frankly i ' t',;ilitweircan not expect to retain the n "'" bieitirigt of our governmentunless we H :- . are wil&ng to make some sacrifice for it H ;';A'"- "Akjhe idea should he emphasized, that f m "when a" man goes into the tranches to 1 V.kT ' defend us, the very least we can do is to H. W buy him4 hi sweapohs, ammunition, and H "-; : ' food, to support and help him in his H '"; Vr Heroic" work for our benefit. H ;f The'slackers may very well be made to Vf ? . feel that they can not expect to reUin the H- A" " - favor of .the community, unless they are H ;: " - - willing to take their share of the com-t com-t ?v munity,8 burdens. Many people will Bl r- give up for this reasonwho would never LK ' ,.li.Jft' txcepi; for the fear of public dis- fPSlWH- COSTOP BUILDING KL - ' A man Vho'handlea' construction work f lt for ajlarge industrial plant got to talk- KL rk ing ths other day on the high cost of im-K im-K -;:. ' proving house. He took; tne view ;that H if b carpeaterwork, plumlfpmintinr and, K v.: papering, etc, need not cost as much as H; $ they de, if the contractors for these jobs H ,t would work more systematically; K ;v ' .. His idea was that the 'average contrac-; B " tor on'these small jobs does not intend to B' ', tolerate loafing. But he has no system B -:i for ascertaining if "his men are turning B : out the amount of work they should. B 'y Under present labor conditions, he has to B . employ too much unsJdlled help. Some B: k- of nis men, as in all, callings, are indo- B , ; lent The small contractor niay not have B ;;f"' capital enough so that he can order ma-; B ;r terials in advance. The result is that the B '"'; men will work along a little, and then get Bf ' " out of something tJiey need. They are B : called off, and put to work on some other B ',: jobs.: B . From these causes it is claimed that B )', $ the average small job of repairs 'or house LUB 1 E ' 'improvement drags along more than it' B Iff should.,., The man quoted said that every H contractor should have a regular schedule" Blir of time for all his men. The time a job BLf """ houkl take should be carefully estimated H,.' c- by a competent foreman, and the work- Hb;. men should be expected to finish at that BB ' '' , -" .time or give a good excuse. He said that H: ; - yi h made just such schedules for all his B ';' , "gang.;As a consequence he could bid - v below other, contractors three quarters Br W JVaiiffitimS He paid good wages, em-H em-H C y4d union help, never bid any .trouble BSSSSSBi''' it Vi.i t ja. " BSSSSfi ; ;v.. ?t BBBBBBp . . iniO iigllnjgiglijpjsjisiapw with theujpiop. people,. so hecould not be , charg'M with overdriving his meji. How far his remarks apply, to conditions in Logan, one would! not dare to say. But there is a feeling among our household-era household-era that many jobs of improvement take too long and cost too much "" ""SCHOOLING FOR ALIENS " The disproportion existing .between our educational facilities' for children and those for aliens, tends more 'and more to impress thoughtful people. '"' The principle of compulsory school ed- ucation for children is ' prtsfticalry -universal in this country. The United) States spent last year in its common, schools for the education of it children, the. .vast-sum .vast-sum of $565,077,146. In addition, the colleges and technical schools received $107,630,226, Out of these great sums but an insig-. nificant fraction was spent for the education edu-cation of aliens over school age. Most 61 that education is conducted in night schools. There are probably no statistics showing just what was' spent for that purpose. But judging by the very limited lim-ited extent to which such schools are conducted, not more than a very few millions mil-lions could have been expended for in- . struction of aliens. And a large part of these schools and classes are provided by voluntary effort, not by taxation. Yet there is in our country a vast mass of aliens who need education just as much as our children.. We give it to ah the children, because we believe that if they grow up ignorant, they can not perform per-form intelligently the duties of citizens in a democracy. . Yet. great masses of aliens are permitted to take part in the duties of the community, without the slightest attempt to overcome their ignorance ig-norance or give them any training for citizenship. vi If the native born needs to know how jto read his ballot before voting, ,why not the alien who came in here after he had passed school age? Why does hot the theory of compulsory education equally require compulsory education ed-ucation to some extent for the non-English speaking alien, whether he has passed beyond the present school age or not? WATER POWER AND WAR "We must prepare for a long war and we can increase and assure production of war materials by using water instead of coal," declared Secretary Lane of the Interior to a congressional committee hearing testimony on the new government govern-ment water power measure, "fins' is why the bill is necessary." A sad confession to, make at this late Kfaffiett nnSEtWsWDass ' age of such a measure apleo5ng with f "Congress to "do) something. Session 'after session bills were s reintroduced dealing with conservation,, water power, coal, oil, ' etc. And session after session nothing was done. ; - That which may come from this session ses-sion in release of public lands for development devel-opment is result of the world war. The .demand is too urgent,, for. .congress to further delay. v' -i r' The German empire .would have been defeated loiig ago through starvation'.! it hid not been thatits potential energies had been developed ana co-ordinated be- fore the war. Without the water, power. ' developments of that nation and her & pendencies close at hand the soil would have given out before now and her ammunition am-munition would have failed. , The war has forced the issue and measures fair to both the government and the investor must be passed to insure the development of this great natural resource. re-source. Plans of the American Library Association Associ-ation include the establishment of book and library service-in Army and Navy hospitals in America and France, Divisional athletic directors who have received commissions will accompany their contingents to France, according to the War Department Commission on Training Gamp Activities. Boxing instructors in-structors will not be sent with the troops as at present the need for these men is considered greater oh this sidsT ' |