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Show ! I II GETTING WASTE FRUIT ; JO ?TO THE CONSUMER Ijl O110 ot the common sights at this j j! tlmo of year In rural sections, Is the "f Hi 1 I largo amount of fruits and vegetables 1 JH I that go to wasto nearly overy year. J J I In npplo producing neighborhoods, In t 1 j I particular, It Is common to see the j J ' Jj ground strowo' with fruit that has fill 12 yeTy considerable value. Similar In ' tfh 9 other products, if there Is a largo 1 ' I crop or if the quality is it little off, j HI j t proves 'unprofitable to market tho t 3 filj j wholo supply. Ijj It seems pitiful to sco a barrel of I fjjjj. ( upplcs beginning to rot under a treo j ! I I In tho country, while only a hundred j 311 1 j miles away thero are poor people who ! 1gj j con nfTord no fruit to brighten, up j iRlf ( their meager tablo. ffi It H " Somotlmea tuo trouble is the lack t IS II fl of fari" 'lcll' JIoro often It Is slni- i fi i H ply a breakdown of our overclaborate 1jj methods of distribution. Yot middle- 1 J J i men's charges aro not ordinarily a J J 1 1 heavy percentage. And not many re- j lit, I tall provision dealers are getting '"j j i rcl1 faBt I j ill Tho splittlug up ot retail trndo Into J jril too many small units Increases the j Hi. coat ot distribution. If there aro 20 llU provision stores in a town of 10,000 ! I jj! people, many of them must bo small Uj jj nffnlrs, in which overhead charges , 1' jj and cleric hire are relatively largo. . 1 If II Having but a narrow income, tho 1. 1 smaller merchants often lack tho ! 1 F courage to spend euough In ndyertls- J t a lug so that tho public can know what I1 I they havo to sell. Supplying 20 I Ij small stores Involves an enormous f amount of work, for the wholesalers I j, to solicit tind till all these little or-' or-' I I? dcrs. ' J! Tho barrel of second grade npplos ; j jl1 that Is worth nothing, ns It lies unit un-it j dor tho tree In the country, Is prob-j prob-j fi v! nbly worth from 0110 to two dollars 8 r In tho city. Wliether through the H jj, parcel post, open air markets, mippo jj J H depots, or other methods, America?, j jut cnterpriso must find some moro (11-' (11-' n rect access from producer to con-1 con-1 Tl sumer. I I j j ! ij GEOGRAPHY AND If THE WAR , About tho only way most pcopla R lenm geography Is by travelling, or, m. through being Interested In a wnr. i ' ii ' Ah tho majority of peoplo truvol lit- IijJF tie, nnd wars nro exceptional, most jf peoplo know llttlo about geography. Tho coniiiicnts one hears on tho war ', !J In ICiuojic show surprising Ignornnco, ' m considering that overy 0110 has stud- led tho subject In school. m It is rather remarkable that Iho J old fashioned schools did gtvo ' bo II much nttentlou to geography. Tho Ijn "Three Hs" were distinctly practical, 'ft Peoplo studied "neadln," "IUtln," and ul "Rithmetlc," becauso otherwlso thoy Mi could not ong'age In business or earn fj a living. fB But It Is perfectly possible to earn 4m a good living and bo useful, popular, fm or successful, jnd yot to know prac ( f tl'cally noUjfng i?out geography. Hero lm for onco, Uiq.liUlo Red Schoolhouso M looked af l In broad light. It hwi tougbt geography, not hs a raonoy 'jl, earning study, but meroly for Us 1 w -valuo In wider Intelligence. tt vu Geography Is easy enough to learn, tf'W hut hard to remembor. It Is a string jB of unrelated facts, bound together by 1'.W no t'es nf loijlo, and drops out of JB Bight In tho mind Uko a pebblo la tho.ocran. Was thero ono pordon In a hundred who provlous to tha leceut lighting, could havo located tho Vosges mountains? Or was thero 0110 In a hundred, who could havo plaic'd correctly tho city of I.ouvaln, now destined for n llery Immortality? Geography Is ti broadening study, nnd It ought' to be taught so that peoplo will remember moro about It. Mero lists of names ot rivers, mountains, moun-tains, cities, aro as cluslvo lis tho .morning dew. If Its. main facts can somehow ba connected with n human Interest feature, they may stick longer long-er In tho rutnd. If young people can be helped ttf associate a city or a river or a mountain with certain dramatic dra-matic events of history, It would bo helpful to memory. 1' ! 4 ELECTING A NEW POPE' The election of n now popo woul.l have taken far moro attention had, not the black headlines in tho news'-papers news'-papers been taken by the war. Tho Italians predominate In the conclave. Henco ns an expression of world, thought, It Is not so cosmopolitan ns It would bo were all the powers equally equal-ly represented. But tho Italian element ele-ment Is not so strong as formerly. The election ot Popo Pjus roi-r'i-sonted tho tendency of tho times toward to-ward Democratic feeling. Previous popes have largely been men from the upper orders ot Italian society. They may have been democratic in their feeling, but at least they were moro or less aristocratic In blood and environment, Tho election of Pope Plus, coming from an obscure fam lly, was in striking contrast. Tho cholco of Benedict XV, Is held to represent in n measure tho reversion rever-sion to the older typo ot diplomatic popes. Tho lntenso Tacial and national na-tional antagonisms now excited, cull for this mastery In strategy. Tho Italian temperament Is keen, ncuto, penetrating, seeing with uncanny swiftness Into human motives. Without armies or navies to back them, tho popes have usually follej tho most consummate politicians of Europe. As a spectacle, tho election ot a pope has no counterpart. Tho gee eral purpose is to dignify tho ceremonial, cere-monial, and to sliut oft tho electing cardinals from outsldo Influence. In old times, the Impatient populace would tolerate no delay. Tho cardinals cardi-nals u'ero starved out, as Juries nro forced to nn issue In this country. If tho election was delaed eight days these mighty church men wcro ro duccd to bread nnd water. For many years these rigors have been ro'nxed, but In most respects tho event still has the austero nnd lofty dignity ot medloval monastic llfo. I i v WHAT BECAME OF THE INCOME TAX Tho government guessed very cor rcctly as to tho yield of tho so called "normal Incomo tax." But In tho higher scales of payment tho results proved disappointing. About $12,000,-000 $12,000,-000 was expected on Incomes ranging from $20,000 to $50,000. But the government actually got less than $3,-000,000 $3,-000,000 from this class. Have our millionaires dodged the tnx? It would hardly seem a safo game, considering the indlfforcnco that Internal rovenuo collectors show to local sentiment. Thero seems to bo ono very wldo loop holo. And that Is In tho general gen-eral understanding, ns the law Is Interpreted, In-terpreted, that losses In Investments can bo deducted from Incomo. There was, during tho last calendar year, a lnrgo shrinkage In tho stbek market. mar-ket. A groat many millionaires sold stocks at a loss. Theso shrinkages v.ero probably deducted from Incomo, so that nothing taxablo was loft. Al so, If in making returns, peoplo havo been permitted to valuo their present pres-ent holdings nt tho market uuothtlono prevailing last December, thousands of persons pt great wealth would be ablo to Bay that they had no taxablo incomo. This Is of course a perfectly fair way of making theso returns, provided provid-ed that when tho market rises, tho advance In values Is 'treated In Just tho samo way. It Is aulto posslblo that the tax payor will not then bd Iso roady to Dase his return on mantel prices. Tho treatment ot such shrinkages, and accretions of value Is very dlfll-cult. dlfll-cult. It would seem at first sight that such changes In value should be calculated only whon an actual sale of a stock has been made. Yet that would bear hard on people who have permanently invested in certain securities, se-curities, and whose capital has shrunk for good, as the result of t.o fall in values. i 'h ! The reason why many towns do not go ahead fast U very much tho samo as those why the majority ot peoplo nchlovo no great success. Most peo pie grab the pennies of today nnd disregard tho dollars of tomorrow. In tho same way communities fall to take tho larger view and do not build for the futuro. Tho majority of yiimpmen would rather quit school and go-to work for a dollar a day, and continue all their lives on small pay, rather tnan go to. college and technical schools and fit themselves to earn large salaries at, somo tlmo In the futuro Tho disposition of tho public in making purchases is much tho same. People will buy id distant cltiesand rival places nearby, merely becaus'e, they think Borne article is a few cents cheaper. By bo doing, they help build up some place In which they havo no stake and no Interest.- In nine cases out of ten the outside purchase Is not any cheaper. The purchase Is made by mall and cannot bo examined, or It Is made hurriedly, without good ndvico from a friendly salesman. You can't get something "for nothing. If a person pays a low price, ho is probably getting second quality goods, which he could havo bought for the same price 'at home. If tho people ot this town should stand loyally by our own home enterprises, enter-prises, and make it a principle to buy at home whenever posslblo, there would be a now growth ol prosperity here. Tho larger sums of, money In circulation hero would mean more storos, more people employed, em-ployed, more money paid in taxes, better public improvements. Any one owning any property or business here would see that property or business advance In value. There would bo more chances here for j oung peoplo and more would be paid In salaries and wages. Why not take the larger view and give more thought to the wisdom of buying at homo and building up our own town? t .J4 .j. ! PUSH BUTTONS I walked Into tho offlco of a busy man tho other day. His desk was clear with tho exception ot one little contrivance nt tho corner a little block of wood with a half dozen pearl eyes on top a little family of push buttons. Ac wo talked, this subject was s?-geated s?-geated and that BUbJect. Aud every once In a while tho trained lingers would almost mechanically touch this button, nnd that button, nnd7mmedt-ately, nnd7mmedt-ately, without loss of time, this clerk or stenographer, or executive would appear, get his instructions, and then as unceremoniously disappear, while thd'xreat director of that vast business busi-ness machinery sat at his desk calm and dominant. And ever since, I havo tried to ovolvo the many llttlo lessons ot the push buttons. I havo thought of tho marvelous machinery of my body and ot my mind, nnd I say: "Not another organ-Izntloii; organ-Izntloii; no matter how stupendous, can compare with this organization of my own." But, I havo realized how incomplete tho handling of this moro marvelous human organization U when compared to the great organization or-ganization dominated by that big man whose fingers pressed the push buttons. but-tons. I have been working at figuring out a llttlo push button system ot my own. And I suggest it to you. Hero is tho little button to get to bed early and rest and relax your great llttlo machlno. And horo is tho push button to rise promptly and to lose no tlmo in tho preparation ot the1 machlno ma-chlno for tho day's work. Then thero, Is tho push button to do this thing, nnd tho push button to do that other thing. But tho Important thing Is to get those llttlo buttons properly labeled nnd to learn to mechanically fool your lingers to them at tho proper prop-er tlmo and to got an Immediate response. re-sponse. But, don't havo bo many pust but tons, that you will bo confused In the uso of nny of thorn. Oeorgo Mathow Adams. J ! -I- FALL Tho houBcwIfo scans her fruit filled cans, Tho farmer's corn Is yollorj Poor Johnny Jinks now Badly thinks, 'TIs timo to buy bis upollor. Tho ribbon clerk rusumes his work, Far, far from ocean breozes; Hay fever folk still weep and choke And give some farowoll wheezes. Her silhouette puts in a fret Tho maid who follows fashion, While many a lass makes old gawnn pass . By draping a broad sash on. Playgoers flock to plays that shock, Ideals of proper living; In smaller towns tho Smiths and Browns Already plan Thanksgiving. draco McKlnstry, In Judge. .j. 4. .j. A dentist's ways aro very rough,; lie keeps you wondering still To find your mouth is big enough To hold a rolling mill I |
