Feather River Bulletin from Quincy, California • Page 6

PAGE SIX piumaa jlJattonal.BuHftin of California THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1924 MEMBBB National Editorial Association California State frrcBS AasocUtion Iamied Evry Thursday and Entered In the PoatoSice at quincy, Plumaa County, California, ai Mall, Hatter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION BATES 1 Year, 13.00. 6 Months, 12.00 3 Months, 11.25. The Copy, .10 Editorial Page of the Plumas National-Bulletin GEORGE E.

SECOUR, Owner and Editor THE NEWSPAPER (THAT DOES TH INGS FOR Co-operation, Progress and Prosperity Blue Collar Jobs. BILL BOOSTER SAYS The Tendency of Every 7 PHILADELPHIA build- 3 ing trade journal finds by a questionnaire that less than one third of a large number of young men would like to'enter a building Man Is to Live up to His Name trade. Ihis disproves the gen VMOM 6T0t 0rf Ewo THAT OOUAR ANUAM E.EM VNOWOMG FAITHFUL EMERM OAM, VUA, BOMtMGi FOB. tVe WOS. FEEOW4G FAVMLN, PANHi THE fcEUT.

feVWma GAS FOR 6 CAR FANVl(3t OUR. srEACWER MECAUT SEX MVXUOVJT tWM OUO FAVtHFUL OOCCARA eral theory that high wages would take into such a field men better fitted for other occupations pay By J. R. HAM1LTQN Former Advertising Manager of Wanamaker't, Philadelphia Dr. Cook's Downfall.

iyiE ARE inclined to feel, here at the beginning of the new year, that those citizens of Plumas County who are prone to listen to the song of the fake stock salesman are going to save some money in 1924. We say this after a study of conditions brought about by U. S. secret service men within the last two months, and with the penitentiary sentence on Dr. Frederick Cook in mind.

Dr. Cook was one of. the world's smoothest fakirs. He circulated his story of discovering the North Pole and had the world throwing bouquets at his feet. Exposure, however, failed to dis ing much less.

If we may call professions and office positions white collar jobs, we may call the trades blue col lar jobs. Although paying as Wherever you find a good name you will find some man trying to live up to it. Character follows reputation far more quickly than reputation follows character. No one ever lost his good name except through folly. the world thinks of a man is the very best moral tonic that is sold under the label of philosophy.

And it is the same with merchandise as it is with men. The nameless thing is dreaded everywhere, while the, thing with a good name is usually good because you expect it to be. Men grow proud of their products. You. will find a manu high as $20 a day, bricklaying, for instance, seems little more attractive than a decade ago.

Those youths who were not interested in such work gave their reasons. Nearly all agreed; no courage him, and he turned up later in Texas to fleece thousands Hello, neighbors! There is only one thing in the world more pleasant than association with a good woman, and that is association with a woman who is not quite so good. It's a long lane that has no advancement seemed probable: of hard-working citizens out of their coin through the promotion facturer saying, "This shoe has got to be good because it bears Cr4A(U) they did not like to associate with such people; the work was unsteady, others said. Rigid union rules were another objection. Many desired to use brains instead of brawn.

Interesting sidelights on a situation which, contractors say, is pressing; they can't get enough of fake oil He drew no line when it came to robbery poor widows and decrepit old men all looked alike to him. And then Uncle Sam spread, a net, and caught Dr. Cook as the biggest fish in a disreputable puddle. No mercy was shown him, and none should have been. He goes to prison for at least four What Is Faith? ALTER MOYSE, fourteen years old, of Massachusetts, turning, and it often turns in at the police station when used for nocturnal parking purposes.

The Hims. On Sunday she has many whims, She goes to 'church to free them, She doesn't go to hear the hymns She goes to church to see them. Mt. Carmcl, Pa. Electricians engaged in installing a meter in a residence here made a mistake and hooked it to a telephone line.

Instead of "hollos" the exchange girls arc' getting "watts." Mike Mann says a darn funny thing to him is how the man who chews tobacco expects to be kissed broke his leg. For nineteen weeks my name." You will find a canner saying, "I cannot use lye any more than I catn tell a lie." You will find a clothing manufacturer saying, "If I am 'all my clothing must also be all wool" And so it goes with every single product that carries a brand or a name. Whenever a man sets a standard, he strives to live up to it and whenever the world sets that standard, he doubles the effort. Which simply means, if you want the best, you must ask for the best. And every time you ask, you make it better.

There is hardly one of you readers who does not -know the name of every good product on the market From clothing to sugar and from hosiery to baking powder some good name is indelibly fixed in your mind, yet, when you ask for an article, most of the time you do not use that name. And every time you fail to do so, you discourage the maker, you lower the standard for ydurself and you allow some inferior thing to gain in strength and capacity. Let this go home in your mind You set the of merchandise. The maker follows your ideals. Adulterations creep in through your laxity.

Whenever you ask for any old thing, teen years, and there is no wailing or protest from the millions of his fellowmen. This one case has done more to discourage fake oil stock promoters than anything the govern recruits. Perhaps 1930 will find us paying $35 a day to men who build our airplane hangars. The blue collar job continues as noble, as useful, as honorable and as limiting as of old; no more so. It will undoubtedly draw more ministers, doctors, teachers, and lawyers, attracted by its better pay.

But they won't stay; money isn't the only, even the biggest, thing in life. College and technical training don't add he was treated by a Christian Science teacher. The leg didn't heal, the law stepped in and his father was arrested and convicted. Both boy and father were Christian Scientists, but the judge looked at the boy's leg and decided. The Christian Science Church is appealing, and the Supreme Court will have to decide for a nation whether faith alone ment has ever done.

It will mean money in the pockets of thousands, because they will keep it there now that fake stock salesmen are afraid to reach out their hands to grab it. Of course, fakirs of various other stripes just as often as if he were fit to be kissed. Buster Brown: Chicago has the biggest Hicks. Met one who didn't know which end of a cow milk conies from. jH It's quite strange, says the Prof, that poets haven't rhymed "sheik" a halo to working in dirt.

Brains demand a better outlet than a saw or trowel after academic cultivation. Even unschooled refinement rebels at grime. Most trade workers would prefer to will come on to fleece the un can be trusted in a thing of this kind. The science of this church is based on universally recognized principles; that the mind can control the body, and will power and faith can bring about certain conditions. It is not universally agreed as to how far will power you get it While you are reading the advertising news in this paper today, make up your mind to ask only for what you know to be good to learn what is best and demand it and to have no parley wary.

But it is good to know that the most common of all has been fairly well wiped out for a long time to come. And it may serve, too, to keep the others from plying their nefarious operations as openly as they have been accustomed to doing. get out; they long, naturally, for an easier lot; they find the extra money eight months in the year less desirable than rewards elsewhere. This disdain of vouth can or snould go. rnysicians insist the mind can effect a cure with the nameless' things of trade.

for such work is not all puerile fastidiousness or aversion to toil -0J13E- Money to Burn. If they aspire to something with A Sensible Monument. ZZT KENTUCKY Congress OMEONE must have mon a bigger future, a more extended with "freak." at at The husbands who give their pay envelopes to their wives have a good excuse when some one wants to borrow a fiver. iS What has become of the o. f.

woman who was afraid her children would he kidnapped by gypsies'? asks one Quincy man. She's an apartment renter and wishes thev had been. jt A New Alibi. Since that Hammond, man was robbed of $3,000 while praying in church it will be harder than ever to induce the men-folk to go to church. Incidentally, his name was Cash.

at at at Title for a surgical operation: "Getting Gertie's Goiter." 0 Ot at, Our friend, the undertaker, ad- vertises as follows: "Say it with flowers." That's mighty fine, but the drawback to it is that the average man can't afford more than ey to burn. Just look at horizon, a higher social stand the ads in the fancy magazines ing, more opportunity for helping self and others, they should not of safety razors, gold pencils, man proposes to introduce a bill in Congress calling for the erection in Washington City of a monument to the Mothers of While none of us here in Plumas County know this con cigarette cases and the like at be lightly condemned. or cause illness. Ministers claim faith in the Supernal and in one's own loyalty and righteousness will bring about spiritual perfection. Faith in both cases must be consistent and strong.

We are interested to learn what the cold, logical, legal mind will say of the efficacy of faith to cure a broken leg. The Bible tells of faith doing greater miracles than this, and we are there assured we can duplicate those events. Will the Supreme Court of Massachusetts say modern -SDE3- Where "Hicks" Reside. OU HAVE only to read the daily papers to discover that the "easy marks" in this country are no longer those who live on farms and in towns the size of those in Plumas County. New York and Chicago have more "easy marks" to the square foot than all our small towns put together.

Detectives are still Hector Grante, French lawyer, willed that his body be preserved gressman personally, all of us would like to pat him on the in alcohol. It will do mankind back for his good judgment about as' much good as some living bodies we see which endeavor to preserve as much alcohol as pos We've spent millions of dollars for monuments to men who have won honors in war: and other sible. esiG3 looking for Leo Koretz, who was winend and dined by hundreds of Chicago citizens, and who later skipped with several million a lot or loik were peeved at the Bok Peace Award. That $100,000 is enough to raise a row over. The judges are called man is not capable of sufficient faith for that, and is legally culpable for even attempting it? Will it deride Christian Science or limit its scope to organic ailments? Will it offer the father from $5 to $7 each, and you'll agree with us that, no matter how much money a man has, it's silly to pay such enormous prices for articles whose real value is comparatively small.

Anyone in Plumas County who knows anything about the world's history and there are a lot who do know that foolishness of this same type brought the downfall of Rome and caused the French When there are millions of human beings in the world 'who are suffering for the barest necessities of life it is wicked to waste money on silly luxuries. It is no wonder that ignorant and vicious people, who see these exhibitions of crazy spending of money that was nev dollars of their hard-earned cash and worse. They 11 think three times before again taking He sold them stock in Panama oil wells, away down where the such an office. more time to cure his boy? Faith One matron says a- pessimist is will enter into the trial. It will be clarified, defined, limited.

It is a woman wno starts asking ner husband the day after the wedding, a serious and legitimate thing, and Do you still love me?" no intelligent scoffer will ridicule TH' OLE GROUCH its power. But not even the Court can destroy the faith of many mat iaitn can remove mountains, even today. er honestly earned, should become desperate and resort to acts -QmSsst- -CWERE. GOES TW GUN VJWO BORROWED FR.0KA CAE TVJO NEAR AGO Ali'Awr PAVO Bev.NEt HES STEPPW' OUT WS klENWCMlA tu a hMwurr ueJu-fcE STOPPWi' WW fst wnw a whisper. 0t 0 0 Let's Go! He kissed her in the garden, When the moon was shining bright But she was a marble statue, and He was drunk that night.

tt (,1 Vi We want to know if this hosiery with the corkscrew clock-work thereon is called "Spiral Star-ways?" jt Jimmy says dance and the girls go with you, don't and you go alone! at That New Yorker who found $2000 and gave it to the milkman probably reasoned that he'd get it sooner or later anyway. Herbert (finding a piece of rubber in his hash) "There's no doubt about it, the auto is displacing the horse everywhere." tjt A crusty old bnchclor in Quincy says there are one hundred good reasons for divorce. One is marriage; the other ninety-nine don't count. jt Gosh Blame It! I Said philosophic Abner Hurd, "My life is full of trouble; I got my wages raised a third, And prices raised to double." Ever Notice This. The trouble with a mild winter is that it seems to take just about The-new gloves -have fancy em coo-coo birds roost high and where a fellow hasn't much chance of getting his feet sticky from his own crude oil.

Koretz didn't work the small towns he knew that "the bigger they are the harder they fall," so he found his richest pickings in Chicago. He's1 gone now, and detectives say he got away with close to $10,000,000. Isn't it about time that we hand the "hick" medal to the big city on the banks of Lake Michigan? 3BE0 Wendy Winch thinks the Four Horsement of the Apocalypse were Buffalo Bill, Phil Sheridan, Paul Hcverc and Barney Google. ns3QEeO Few people are able to save anything in towns where it takes money every time you turn around or don't. broidery on the backs.

If you have a cold, advises Doc Pete, carry a handkerchiei. millions for shafts to heroes on land and sea; we've honored our dead with monuments that will stand forever, and yet we have never spent one penny toward honoring the one who gave to the United States every man who has done anything great we have neglected the mothers of the men to whom we build monuments. Many thousands of dollars spent for monuments in this country have beep foolishly spent. No question of that. But where is the man who can raise his hand and say we would make a mistake to take a few hundred thousand, or even a few millions that we as a government spend foolishly, and erect the greatest, grandest and finest monument of all to Mothers those who have really made this nation great? OSCE30 New York state plumbers will have a convention in March.

We're preparing an editorial on "concentration of wealth." 1 SJQtS0 The dinosaur's egg, 10,000,000 years old, recently found, may be suld for $3,000. Ten times that amount was asked originally. Now if it were a hen's egg fcsjrje Another unconfirmed, and later denied, report that Trotzky has quit If he isn't resigning, he's dying, or assassinated, or in exile. For getting publicity, he takes the palm. We regret to keep our readers in such dire suspense.

of violence. It is all right to have money, but no man, even if it is his own, has a right to spend it in a manner that will lead his country toward destruction. 01DI5 Professor Liilink, Austrian scientist, declares electrocution does not kill man, but merely suspends animation, and the victim later revives in the grave. As if we didn't have enough horrible things to think about. A Chicago woman shot her hus band because he tracked mud in upon her clean Kitchen lioor.

vie says add to the slogan "watch your step," this one: "Wipe your feet and save a life." Presidential possibilities have 3QES0 started their race. They're off. Some are off more than others, comments the judge. -3QE30- -eE3Glt0- "Comin' Thru the Rye." Henry Ford indulges in sentiment again and buys the old red schoolhouse wherein he got his "book learning." Many another man of means and prominence has cherished and blessed the memory of such days. On one point they everyone agree; early school days are the most formative period of Henry Ford gets rich making automobiles and Rockefeller gets rich making them go.

If it wasn't for one the other would go broke. When a wild and pop-eyed driver Shoots his auto down the street, as mucn woou is a com winter docs and on lop of the fuel bills you are also liable to be flirting with doctor bills. He can make the public hustle, -aEo- And go hopping on both feet; He can make the bravest tremble, jt ijS "Sit dow'n when you are in fin Andy Gump says: "I've gained lots of experience minding my own one lire. Yet we pay teachers of such schools barely enough to He can make the boldest quail, ancial trouble," says an expert. But they say the female driver, keep them alive.

We need some business. Anyone who is a success at that will get along all right." and see where you stand." Is more deadly than the male. logic with our sentiment..