Show ANICE writer tells editors to work for parcels post killing the pussy cat WHAT THE REAL FACTS ARE why country newspaper men should wage war on an twin evil with mall order homes houses Or organize ginlie against its it passage A writer of national importance haa has actually had bad the self polee poise to advise the country newspaper roan man to work ork for the undesirable parcels post bill it if your newspaper were ere a cat and bad nine lles and the adviser had handed you an old fashioned blunder buss with the admonition go a out and chool shoot tho the cit tho run gun sc scatters atterol lio could not more effectively have advised you to injure yourself but it necessary to grow cans caus tic on this score for the country newspaper man ot of all business men knows known what grand things the parcels post and the mall malt order house in dou ble harness will do for him and as be rides around in that new 3 automobile made from easy business given him by the catalog houses ho he already feels his waistband tl tighten ahten ing and his chest welling swelling like a 2 pouter pIg cone isott NOTI if the parcels post bill and the mall order houses ever walk down the 00 business aisle together ahila the or gan peals the wedding march from Loben lohengrin gric the country editor can go away avay back in the cool umbrageous wood and eit sit down with his borrow sorrow he ile can go over again tn in his fancy the days when he landed with a shirttail shirt tall full of type and a head bead full of en ell th ill isla lie can recall the days ut of struggle when he lived on dried af at plea pies and water when he worked alt all day and halt the night trying to make the pay end of his financial belt meet tho tile buckle end of fda hunger lie can live once more the days of promise and denial of struggle and endeavor during which ithe the weakling newspaper child grew lusty and healthy he ile can conjure the etory story of bis his email beginning and his humble success hard earned success deserving success and then he can begin to think lawn bill hill again dating the lofty heights from the day the mall malt order houses began ruining the homo home merchants the mall order houses that ad by catalog and fill the orders w with ith dispatch and substitution tin un sight eight and unseen he lie can look in on the wedding ceremony of the parcels post and the mall order houses and as be gazes on into futurity he be can move his blistered feet out of the drip of his scalding alding ec tears for his heart will be of stone if be he weep in remorse at being a pinhead for letting the people of his community go to bed un mindful of their danger the night ot of the what makes the country editor prosperous Is it the money that goes to seesaw Pidd Fiddle lebeck beek in chi engo for prunes and felt boots boats and dyed rooster feathers tor for millinery de barches bau ches or Is it the money that Is paid over the counter right at home the money that permits the merchant to live and advertise in the newspaper mans publication in the home newspaper that ie Is and always will be if not choked to death the greatest factor tn in the up building ot of a community why I 1 lived in a suburb where there a it newspaper we t notify each other of a whist party or a town meeting without spending a lot at 0 money for stamps and station ery the people always were in a wrangle over something they might have agreed weed upon had bao then theist been a newspaper tn earlein the civic life of the iras as innocuous ast a lead dead rat and the business of the town wouldn t have kept a real live chicago dude in cigarettes the town didn t amount to a at whoop and the truth and the leaon newspaper daperl I 1 moved away life it too short to live tn in communities that sense enough to have newspapers but when the parcels post and the mall order houses walk alk bund hand in band hand making deliveries easy and as latif factory as the mall order bouses houses are re honest the local merchant will begin to feel that business pinch he att knows ws so well since the disease of mallor deritis got abroad in the land lie has felt it cornice on for month months ho has bad had night sweats and night worries or lie ile haa ban stood around behind bis his counters until be has gotten the wood en leg and feels that pip Is none too good for him himl and now the big thing in diseases strikes him it hits him in the vital concentric of bis his cash register which Is to always located in iho the region of the heart and a very dangerous dan gerou to trifle with ath and lands him hira in the arms of the shedric la in no time at all among the liabilities Is a big bill owed the newspaper man less a tuv items of merchandise purchased by the editor a wife for the kid kids but the editor ian t shocked he lie Is a it wise and tried man he ile arx met disappointment to so many times that its it javelin doesn t percolate tie lie Is just like the man who takes one kind of at physic too long longhe be loses the ft ef feet and so the editor brace braces him self and goes merrily back to ills bum buin mini lob job prees preas to teed hand handbill bills into late if to cavernous craw crew and think of home bome and family lies tie and how jamie needs shoe shoes and mary roust must be sent away to school and wife ian t any tco too strong and should have a girl girt andrut maybe youre married yourself and it 11 you are you will ill understand if it you arc are a bachelor it tan t my fault and you haven t any right to understand any thing one by ono one the shadows fall across the pith p ith of the editor the merchants mer chanti hang bang on and then hang bang on some more they do their best but their best beat tan I 1 much v fabon hen in the jaws ol 01 the mall mail order 1 post monster and they get chaw nUd la in time As the vacant store rooms appeal appear on n the ho main street as the mechanics a begin to wander alms ain essly about and kick because nobody is building houses as the tax collector wonders why by be he collect as the school teacher notes that tho attendance in 1 falline off because families are inov ing out ot of town and the stork Is afraid to into the place with an on coming crop as everybody begins to take on an a lAn ereal aspect and the fay gay traveling ling man to get ot off the 2 40 accommodation train the editor la fit figuring and he la Is figuring hard and he be can keep on figuring hard he lie la Is done for ho ito Is IT the editor can stick until nothing remains but a suburban burban zu ticket and a shooting stick slightly battered at the business end or he can go into the tile city and get I 1 did the lat oter orand and I 1 want art to siy to you that tho the man with one arm and the him hives dlinn t t go any faster than I 1 did to keep out of at the discard getting famous in the city is 18 nil all right and 3 newspaper man who has gone gon e d down 0 n wit with h t the h e mail mall order houses at his heels ought to make good it an abbody body does because a be he can live so long on strap ends and gasoline fumes but its it a a long shot and rind the bull bulls a eye ign lint t worth orth a clean little r in ili the country with a home and a family being reared in to the atmosphere of a good thriving town I 1 m not going to preach t R tier mon man on it but you can take it from me that I 1 im m in the immediate neigh boyhood of truth when I 1 tell ou this anil anti I 1 know lye I 1 had the ne new pa pet and the country and I 1 ve had ume tome titillations of fame and the city but if it the people of at this country are nr colne to be goats enough to let th parcels post bill pass lm 1 m making an allegretti Allegret tt bet with that editors abe rural editors are gains to get got mot awfully butted 1 they tell you how bow it will help busl bust and cite what a wonderful thins the parcels post has ban beet for foreign countries we know that all w lave have to do to prove it is in to go down to castle square garden in new york city and sea am the poor devils come it IC from the home of the parcels post see them staggering in with earthly poo possession aslor h on their backs and an the essence at 0 cloddish ness in their eyes look at thell blank faces fares and their bent bodler see that staggering under hel coarse luggage and clung to by a halt dozen children childre nl just look at them theno and then go back home and boost boos for the parcels post bill the bill that makes life in their countries so beau ticul and so easy and so charming they run away avay from it and come t america while there ili li still a drop a 0 hope in their hearts I 1 and the villages of at the old coun trice tries possibly youve never beet there and you don t know that the vit lages are a joke for the most part farmers do not live on their farms as do the american tillers of the toll moll they in neighborhood conn ties and this community w will ill nav hav I 1 f halfway house with a bar in it and I 1 government tobaL tobacconist conist vi who alo 11 stamps tamps the supplies are purchased eed say from paris by parcels ant an that community wilt ill be the same I 1 hundred year years from now except tha there may be smaller farms arms and mort farmers there Is I 1 nothing in thai that tom community to make a hoy boy ambit loul or to give him hie his inspiration lit M will ill be rained raised like the clod be he Is an the national life will never know al 0 him unless he be commits ome some crime ot at great interest how would you like to run a nowa nw n w paper pape r in a community like and yet this very movement it tending to give the united state states tb ame same conditions in time naturally the he american people will be lower slower in becoming clods but just as surely ei of the he sun shine shines posterity will become so 0 o if it the villages ut of this tills land are ar al at owed lowed to retrograde for the good folks aik oik mostly ome from the country the able br wrelthy elthy hearty do something people I 1 trade 6 1 use ambi 1 healthy country boy who ho hai an inspiration to get there for a half halt dozen city bred fellow fellows who know eu su much they never concentrate on any thing or get anywhere who be Is nin run finx the big business in the new york lork city today country bayal I 1 can take you out on a pretty fair road near iny my homland home homo and I 1 can tak take you rou in my own automobile if the duried thing j fet jet et a it coughing ailt and how show you two farm chouves a al most directly across the street from each omir here two to country boys were sere they were about the lame same age hey they went to oc act ool together they enjoyed the privilege privileges of the average country boy at 0 america who arc aro they today t they went to the city and when the tuff stuff that was as in tb to came out the world knew them as john gate cates and elbrt elb rt gary that a all jut jupt two country boy boys ho made good on the milk and inspiration and tho the odran ages of the country suppose they iad bad been ralpd raised in one of those parcel cels pott post countries uell maybe lust just about now we light might go down to castle square gar an in and se see them ome come in with ft blank void on art their face faces and nd a car on an their L ticks mr ur newspaper man dont you let them fool tool you strike out from the boulder shoulder and do a nice clean job of I 1 off it will help belp BYRON WILLIAMS |