CHOCOLATE KID —Sandy Davidson, 3 years old, found
a chocolate bowl all his own when children from the Dalton
\V School made a trip through the Scbrafft factory in New York.yj,
GOOD TOOLS
Men used to harvest wheat
with a thing called a cradle. A
cradle is a museum piece now,
most able-bodied farmers never
saw one. It is a scythe (blade like
Father Time carries) with a
wooden frame attached to catch
the straws as they fall, so the
workman can lay them straight
for bundling. Even I can remem
ber seeing farmers cradle patch
es too small for maneuvering a
reaper.
Swinging a cradle is hard
work. There is almost none of it
done these days. But farmers
didn’t quit using the device for
that reason. They still find plen
ty of hard work to do. The cradle
was cast aside because it was in
efficient, extravagant. It used to
take the profit out of a wheat
crop to pay enough men $1 a
day to harvest it. But Mr. Mc
Cormick’s reaper changed all
that.
MECHANIZED FARMING
| Some people complained for a
while about farm machinery put
ting men out of work but that’s
not wTiat happened. No machine
; can do a man’s work. Machines
serve men, help them earn more
by helping them do a bigger
' day’s work. Today one farmer
with good tools produces as I
much as 30 farmers did 100 years I
ago. In those days two-thirds of'
America’s labor worked on t
farms; now only 13 per cent, and ,
these can overproduce.
Machinery, American inven- j
tiveness, helps working people. ’
There is no hocus-pocus about it.,
No straight-thinking persons'
needs any high-brow economist
to help him read these three sign
posts: (1) In the long run, people
get paid for what they produce.
(2) With good tools, which call
for investment, they can produce
more. <3) Investments in ma
chinery raise! the workers’ wages. I
MEN vs. MACHINES
It’s a fact that employers who
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| work men on purely mechanical
! jobs are always faced with a
j three-cornered problem — men.
money and machinery. They can
! hire a man's body for wages or
| buy machines that will do the
same work without getting tired,
if interest and depreciation for
. the machine is less per year than
the man’s wages, the employer
* is likely to buy the machine.
Being replaced by a machine
may sting some satisfied labor
er’s pride but he is soon benefit
i ted by learning to manage cold
steel rather than compete with
it. This is the very first lesson.
,|,thg A-B-C of American prosperity
'built on intelligent work; volume
! production, low in cost and good.
! Nowhere else on earth can the
: man who swings a sledge enjoy
’ his own automobile , and tibatfo,
tub. I .
WHAT VOLUME DOES
Wages for men are figured b$
the hour; depreciation on mat'
chines by the year. The resjftt is
interesting: If two men ' work
eight hours’ apiece and keep one
machine running 16 hours jx day,
the owner thus doubles his out
put but does not double his cost
So the owner’s margin per, unit
of sale is wider and he cab low
er his price without cutting the
j quality. Result: Wages up, prices
; down.
Workmen’s wages go up with
i production but that same volume
| is what lowers the cost of eVery
j thing the workman needs to make
j his home as comfortable (his
(life as abundant* as that of his
employer or anybody else. But
I volume production requires in
! vestment in good tools and train
j ing for men to use them. When ,
investments are unsafe in Amer
ica we may well start rehearsing
with grandpa’s cradle.
DOOLITTLE CLAN
IS AN ASSOCIATION
SAN ANTONIO* Tex.—(AP)
—The Doolittles are more than
a family—they are an associa
tion.
This statement is made on the
authority of Aviation Cadet El
ton Doolittle of Trenton, N. J.,
a third cousin of Major General
James H. Doolittle. Cadet Doolit
tle is taking preflight training
here.
There are approximately 11,
000 Doolittles in the United
States and Canada, he reports,
and they are organized in an as
sociation which holds biennial
meetings and elects officers.
General Doolittle didn’t get to
many of the meetings, Cadet Doo
little explained, because “he was
always flying to Europe or some
thing.”
“The original members of the
American Doolittles,” he said,
“came on a boat that arrived next
after the Mayflower.”
CHICKENS EAT MUSKRATS
EVEN IP PEOPLE WONT
BATON ROUGE, La. —.(API—
Chickens, unlike most people,
like to dine on the lowly musk
rat.
A farm woman* found her
chickens were not getting enough
animal protein in their feed,
ground up 500 dried muskrat and
mixed it in with the rest of her
flock’s rations.
There are 36 letters in the Rus
sian alphabet.
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SILENT 13 YEARS.
REGAINS VOICE
TUCSON, Ariz. — <AP>— John
Molnar has recovered the use of
his voice after a 13-year lapse.
An automobile accident left
the right side of his body para
lyzed and he was able to speak
in a rasping whisper only with
great difficulty. Four years ago,
doctors told him his vocal cords
were permanently paralyzed.
! Recently, while attempting to
telephone for a taxicab he said
he strained to make his whisper
audible to the operator, when
suddenly a great burst of sound
came from his throat. He doesn’t
know exactly how it happened,
but he can talk clearly now.
LUCKY HARVEST
. ALTOONA, Pa.—<AP>—George
Swartz had luck with his Victory
Garden. He harvested a potato
: weighing nearly three pounds—
and Shaned like a horseshoe.
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In 1684 four men were taken
alive- out of a mine in England
after 24 days with food.
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CONFRONTS DELEGATES j
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —(AP)
—A Missouri Constitutional Con
vention was in progress and Dele- 1
gate Frank Williams piled a
stack of books three feet high on
his desk.
“That’s a subtle reminder of
what too much talking will do,”
said Williams.
The books, he explained, con
tained the record of the conver
sations that took place among the
delegates at a constitutional con
venion held in 1922. It cost the
state about $40,000 to print htem.
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