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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT V ALLEY, GA, MAY 28, 1920.
HOW m '1 CAN
ESCAPE COLLAPSE
We Mi/st Aid by Extending
Credits. Says Davison.
GRAVE MENACE TO U. S. A.
European Ruin Would Involve
America—Starvation and
Disease Rampant.
Dos Moines, la.- -Speaking before the
General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Henry P. Davison,
chairman of the Board of Governors
of the League of Bed Cross Societies,
said:
As chairman of the Convention ot
lied Cross Societies •( pi 1 >».’ of rop
resentatives of twenty-seven nations
that met recently in Geneva, I nnt cus
toilian of authoritative reports record
lug appalling conditions among mil¬
lions of people living in eastern Ett
rope
One of ilie most terrible trngfdies in
the history of the human rime is being
enacted within the broad belt of terri¬
tory lying between the Baltic and tlie
Black and Adriatic Seas.
Tills area includes the new Haiti*
States- Poland. Czecho-Slovakia. tlie
Ukraine, Austria. Hungary, Umnnanin
Montenegro, Albania and Serbia.
The reports which come to us make
It clear that In these war-ravaged
lands civilization lias broken down
Disease, bereavement and suffering
are present in pmct malty every house
hold, while food and clothing are in
sufficient to make life tolerable.
Men. women and dtildret ire dying
by thousands, and ovei VllSt otic, fivi
Used areas there are to he found m-i
tlier medicinal appliances nor medical
skill sufficient to cope with the devas¬
tating plagues.
Wholesale starvation is Ihreatenei
in Poland this summer unless she can
procure food supplies in large quatifi
' There np'iroxnnutel;
tics are now
250.000 crises of typhus in Poland and
in the area occupied by Polish troops
Worst Typhus Epidemic in History.
This is alre.ff.dy one of tho worst ty¬
phus epidemics in the world's history
In Galicia whole-towns are crippled
and business suspended. In some dis¬
tricts there is but one doctor to each
150.000 people.
In the Ukraine, we were told, typhus
and influenza have affected most of tin
population
A report from Vienna, dated Febrn
ary Iji said “There are rations fot
three week* Death stalks through .tlie
streets of Vienna and takes* unhinder¬
ed toll.
Budapest, according to our ittfonmi
tlnn s one vast city of misery and
suffering, The number of deaths i:
double that of births. Of the 160,001
child ■a in the S« hools. too. 000 are de
pendent on public charity There arc
150.000 workers idle.
Typhus and smallpox have Invaded
the four countries composing Czecbo
Slovakia, and then* is lack of medi
cities, soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus lias broken out
again and there are but 200 pliys clan
to minister to the needs ot tliai eniin
country
In Montenegro, where food is run
nine short, there are but five ph.vsi
clans for a population of 450,000. ,
America Overflowing With Riches.
Returning to the United States a
few weeks ago with all the-o horrors
ringing in my ears 1 found mvself
opce more in a land whose granaries
iverc overflowing, where health and
plenty abounded and when life and
activity and eager enterprise were in
the full flood
Lusktd myself: “What if f his plagvu
and famine were here in the great ter
rttory between the Atlantic seaboard
and tlie Mississippi valley, which
roughly parallels tlie extent of these
ravaged countries and that 6;>,000.0<ni
of our own people condemned to idle
ness h.v lack of raw material and
whose ftolds Jind 1/een devastated b.v
Invasion and ranine were racked b.v
starvation and pestilence and if we
had lifted up our voices and invoked
the attention of our brothers in hap
pier Europe to our own deep miseries
and our cries had fallen on deaf ears
would we not in our despair exclaim
against their henrtlessness !’’
0r> y Three Ways to Help Europe.
There lire only three ways b.v which
these stricken lands can secure sup
piles from tlie outside world One is
by payment, one In- credit, and I lie
rhird Is by exchange of commodities
If these peoples tried to buy materials
and supplies in America at tin* present
market value of their currencies Aus¬
tria would have to pay forty times the
original cost. Germany thirteen times,
Greece just double < 'y.rc\\t >-Hlnv m k i
fourteen times and Poland fifty limes
Thes* figures are ifticiai and are a
true tide: of the econonfic plight of
these countries.
It dear. therefore, that they can
not us gold for the things they
mus! have, nor have they either prod
nets m SOI grit ies j o offer it* return foi
credit, If otiiv t * I t*y could obtain raw
materia I ■vine! i i **s<' idle millions of
theii could convert into manufactured
!><■* ! Cts be-, woiibl have -unit/-*iting to
ten* 1 tin' world in return tor its raw
material, food and medicine Rut
rhev have neithe money nor credb
how are they to !.**!-■■ *Ms firs! grea
s'ej inwards reder.it- ; on
One-half tlie wort* may not ea'
u liilc the oilier half starves Hnu
long do you !>' ''<• re lie plague of ty
phiis lbat is takbfg ,*t hideous deatl
toll in E ’b.oni i and Boland and flu
Ukraine and eming atom: Hie fringe;
of Gentian; arid * ■ •Itii-Slovttkin wil
confine itself to ti Hi retmffe lands?
Only last Saturday our health com
INDISTINCT PRINT
mlssinner of New York, Dr, Oopeltunf
salted for the other side just to mens
ure the danger and take preeuution
against such an invasion.
This Is one menaee at our threshold.
The other, more threatening, more ter¬
rible, is the menace of the worlds ill
will- We can afford to die. hut to be
despised forever as a greedy and phni
isaical nation is n fate that we must
not Incur.
The French government lias many
serious problems to solve, but the
French peasant is working and the
French artisan, while still smll.v In
need of raw material!), has nut lost IPs
habit of industry and thrift. The most
encouraging fact about France today
i- that her people are alive to the St*
riousness of France's problem, and
l^they are going forward bravely to
solve that problem
I Italy, despite tier great shortage of
raw material. Is looking forward and
| not backward. Italy can he relied
upon to do her part!
England is meeting the problems of
reconstruction just as those who knew
her jiast should have expected her to
ni«'t*t them.
Plan to Aid Central Europe.
It is to for me perhaps to give In
detail u formula for solylion of iho
world s Ills, hut as 1 have been asked
many times, "What would you do?” 1
am glad to give my own answer.
Accordingly. I would ask :
1 That Congress immediately pass
a hill appropriating a sum not to ex¬
ceed $5(>n Odd.Odd for the use of Cen
fra! and Eastern Europe,
2, That Congress call upon the Pres¬
ident to appoint a nonpolitieal cont
mi on of three Americans, distill
guished for their character and exec
utivo ability and commanding the re
speet of tlie American people. Such
a commission should include men of
the type of General Pershing, Mr.
Hoover or ex-Secretary Lane. I would
invest that commission with complete
powtT.
I would have the commission in
strut-led to proceed at once, accompa¬
nied by proper personnel, to survey
conditions in Central and Eastern Ku
and !Iu*n not for the restoration
of those countries tinder such condi
lions and niton stn-li terms as the com
mission itself may decide to he pnini
cable and effective Among the con
(litions should be provided that there
should he no local Interference with
tlie free ffind itntraminded exercise by
the commission of Its own prerogative
of allocating materials. Governmental
politics should he eliminated; unrea
sonable and prejudicial barriers
tween tlie various countries should lie
removed, and such substantial guaran¬
tees ns may be available should tie ex¬
acted in order that die conditions im¬
posed should be fulfilled.
4. As to financial terms, I should
make them liberal. 1 would charge no
Interest for the first three years; for
the next three years, 6 tier cent, with
provision tliui such Interest might lie
funded if the economic conditions of
the country were not approaching nor
| nitil. or if its exchange conditions were
| adverse as to make payment un¬
duly burdensome. 1 should make the
maturity of Hie obligation 15 years
from its date, and I should have no
doubt as to its final payment.
5. Immediately the plan was adopt¬
ed I would have our government in¬
vite other governments in a position
to assist, to participate in tlie under¬
taking.
0. To set forth completely my opin¬
ion. 1 should add that in tlie final fn
structions the American people,
through their government, should say
to tlie comttjission :
“We want you to go and do this job
in such a manner as, after study, you
think it should lie done. This is no
ordinary undertaking. The American
people trust you to see that it is dope
right."
T would also say to tlie commission:
“Use so much of' this money as Is
needed.” Persona 1 #'-, T am confident
that with tlie assistance and co-opera¬
tion which would come from other
parts of the world the sum of $500.
OOP.000 from the United State* would
he more than enough to Starr these
countries- on their way to self support
and the restoration of normal eondi
tions.
The whole plan, of course, involves
many practical considerations, the
most serious of which is that of ob¬
taining the money, whether b.v issuing
tulditlonal Liberty bonds, an Increase
j In the floating debt or h.v taxation,
But I think we could properly say to
the treasury department;
“We know how serious your finan¬
cial problems are: we know the diffi¬
culties which are immediately con¬
fronting you : we know tlie importance
of deflation, and we know that the gov¬
ern nitwit must economize and that in¬
dividuals must economize. Imt we also
know that the American government
i advanced S1 1 *.*r mi.mi ni.upii to its allies
j to attain victory and peace. Certain¬
ly if is worth making the additional
advance in order to realize the peace
for which we have already struggled,
for nothing Is more certain than flint
until normal conditions tire restored in
j Europe there can be no*peace."
j Above ail tilings, I would say that
I ! whatever action is taken should fie
taken immediately. The crisis is so
acute that the situation does not ad¬
mit of delay, except with the possibili¬
ty of consequences one hardly dares
contemplate.
The situation that I have spread out
here is far beyond the scope of indi¬
I vidual charity. Only b.v tlie action of
i governments, our own and the others
i whose resources enable them to co-op
erate, can aid lie given in sufficient
volume I ant also confident that our
action would he followed b.v I lie gov¬
ernments of Great Britain, of Holland.
of tlie Scandinavian countries, of
Spain and Japan, and that France and
Belgium and Italy, mitwlthstfinding »li
of tlicir losses, would help to the best
of their ability.
DADDY3 EVENING M-E®
P3 FAIRY
4R MARY GRAHAM BONNER
BIRD’S-EYE VIEW.
11 I heard a good joke today, said
the Blue .lay.
"What was that?” asked the Indigo
Bird.
“Oh. I must tell it to you. I must
toil it to you,” shouted the Blue Jay iu
his shrill voice.
"Well, go ahead and tell it to me •
don’t keep repeating that you're go¬
ing to. Tell me."
“1 don't have to go ahead and tell
It to you," said the Blue Jay. 1 can
toll it sitting branch. *•
to you on a
"1 didn’t mean to go ahead with
your wings or for me to go ahead with
my w riigs,” said the Indigo Bird, 1
meant to go ahead with the funny
Joke.”
"I will do so, for T certainly must
tell it to you,” sniff the Blue Jay.
“Waste no more time but tell me,”
said tlie Indigo Bird.
"1 heard the other day, - said the
Blue Jay, “of such a funny tiling."
“I thought it was today that you
heard the joke,” Interrupted the Indigo
Bird.
So it was. said the Blue Jay, "but
I think that is u good way of talking."
"What way?" asked the Indigo Bird.
“The way 1 was doing it, of course,”
shrieked the Blue Jay. You see when
I first spoke to you I said that l had
heard a good joke today. That was to
make you interested in what 1 had to
say. In other words, it was to show
you that my joke was up to date.’’
nr nil'll why didn't you continue to
say that it wits a Joke you had heard
today?" asked the Indigo Bird.
“Because,” said ' the Blue Jay. • * I
wanted to appear very natural in tell
ins my joke—you know, Just wave a
wing and say:
“‘Friends, the other day I cam*
across this.’ That is tlie way folks
speak. I believe, who speak naturally
and who make others like them. No
airs and graces; that’s what I mean.”
"Well,” said the Indigo Bird, “when
did you really hear the joke, really ami
truly.
“Yesterday,” said the Blue Jay.
IIP Then teli your story and I’ll com
meneo it for you. ‘Y esterday—’ ”
“Yesterday,” repeated tlie Blue Jay
“I was in a tree and some people wen
underneath it looking at pictures
They were very much latere--.ted in tin
pictures. So I looked down, too.
• Phey were pictures of cities ntu
fields and lots of other things bu
mostly of cities.
“Well, they were big pictures witt
lots lo lie seen in them and plenty o
houses arid crooked streets and chttrcl
steeples to he found in them,
"But the great joke was that one o
the people said to the others:
■' ‘These are all bird’s-eye views o'
the cities.’
“Wasn’t that absurd. Of conrs
they didn’t say which bird had takei
those pictures. But they imagine*
and actually believed that birds bar
become photographers. Never have I
heard of anything so absurd.”
“Oh, no," said the Indigo Bird. "1
know the answer to that joke."
“You do!” exclaimed the Blue Jay
“Then tell me the answer.”
"When people speak of a bird’s-ey*
view of anything they mean the sort
of a view a bird would have, Th»,'.
don't mean when they show those pic
tures that the bird has tak-,% the pic
tures himself.
"Oh. no, they don’t mean that at all.'
"Do they only think a bird has on*
eye?” asked the Blue Jay.
“No. that is just a saying,” explatrm*
the Indigo Bird. “People who hav<
been on fop of higii buildings, or in a*r
planes or on great heights have taker
these pictures which seem to look
down over a great, great distance.
>1 So they call them bird’s-eye views
because birds see so inucii front tip
high, and they get such a large mini
her of things in their pictures—or in
what they see.”
“Oh. ho,” said tlm Blue Jay. Well
I’m glad I met you so you could tell
the answer to tlie riddle.”
Profane Expression.
Do not think you tire profane when
con say that you "don’t care a dam."
ili* truth Is that a dam was the small
;sl Hindn coin at a time when the
English were invading India and the
expression that one "didn’t give a dam”
ontirraily sprang up to mean that a
miner was of next to no Im**" tunc*.
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The Salvation Army Lassies in
many cities saved hundreds from
death during the influenza* epidemic
__went into the homes and cared for
the children, cleaned house, brought
food and fuel wherever needed.
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Mrs. Mittie Wynne has returned
from a visit of several days in At- 1
lanta.
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Mrs. Caughey Culpepper and lit
tie son left Thursday for a visit to -
relatives in Atlanta. i
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Miss Stella Glass returned Monday!
night from a visit of several weeks to -
relatives in Philadelphia.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jake Haslam and
Mrs. W. P. Beall of Marshaljville
were recent visitors here.
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Judge A. C. Riley left Thursday
;ii a professional trip to Huntsville,
Ala. He expects to return Monday.
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Little Emma Ava Stokes, accom
ptinied by her father, is on a visit
to relatives in Atlanta and Lithonia.
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Rev. J ,W. Stokes attended the
commencement of his alma mater,
Davidson College, of which he is also
v trustee.
*
Mr. Russell Houser of Georgia
Tech is at home until next week,
■vhen he returns to De present at
commencement.
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Miss Louise Williford returned to
ter home in Americus Thursday af
er a ten days’ visit to her sister,
Mrs. Ralph Newton.
Mrs. F. S. Williams and little
laughter. Sara Frances, returned
Wednesday from a three weeks’ visit
o Mrs. Williams’ parents in Ala.
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Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Peddicord
nd two sons, of Macon, are spend
ng a few days with Mr. Peddicord’s
iother, Mrs. Mattie J. Peddicord.
T » f
Mrs. Lee Floyd left Monday for
Columbia, Mo., having received a
tessage that her mother had broken
er leg and was in hospital. No oth
■r particulars were heard.
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At the commencement exercises
riday evening Miss Cleo Dent will
ive the salutatory address and Miss
teulah Davidson will be valedicto
ian. Their friends rejoice that they
vere so honored but feel that' both
•omplinients were richly deserved
tnd justly conferred.
Beat Drum—Spent Night in Prison
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nv hitting a big bass drum just
*•* one resounding whack for
which sin* spent a night in Jail,
*t resolute black eyed girt changed
the police classification of Salva
Udo Army drimitiM/tg from "petty
tteVance” to “music.
That was twenty-two years
igo, and tlie black eyes have
--town more gentle In years of
•erviee for tin* poor since those
buttling dais. Inti they s*i|| twin¬
kle when tlie story is told.
ft was Mrs. Adam Gifford, wife
of he colonel now camiimudtug
the New England forces of the
Salvation Army, who wielded llie
drumstick and struck defiance at *
Hie Pennsylvania blue coaled
policeman of the town where she
and tier husband were then stationed
irate citizens hud complained bitter
ly of the Salvation Army and itsstreei
corner meetings and musical services
but particularly of the bass drums
the band. Night after ntgtii the drums
tmd been confiscated by '.lie police, hut
to no effect. Filially a police order
went out to “arrest anyone attempting
to beat a drum."
Following tills Colonel Gifford in an
effort to rest the constitutionality of
the order advertised that upon a eet
tain evening a monster meeting would
he held and that upon that occasion
Mrs. Gifford would heat the drum
As anticipated, a record breaking
crowd was turned out. The police re
serves were ‘•ailed upon to quell rhe
riots which might ensue, At a given
signal Mrs. Gifford gave the drum a re
sounding thump and th« meeting
Mr. Tom Fetter has arrived and
will have charge of the Fruit Grow
qrs’ Express during peach season.
Mr. Fetter has been here during the
fruit season for many years,
<* *
Mr. Holt Skellie and family have
moved back to Fort Valley from Per
ry and Mr. Skellie is now manager
of the Fort Valley bureau of the
Georgia Fruit Exchange, with of¬
fices in the Evans Building.
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Mr. John Clark, who has been with
the Fort Valley Lumber Company
for some time, has accepted a posi¬
tion as cashier with the Cuddahy
Packing Company in Macon, and will
begin his duties there on June first.
Little Miss Nell Wilson celebrated
her fifth birthday Wednesday after¬
noon at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. B. Wilson, on Church
street. A large number of her little
friends enjoyed games and cake and
cream.
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Friends of Capt. Jim White re¬
gret that he is ill at home. He was
carried to Williams’ Sanatorium
Monday when it was thought that an
operation might be beneficial, but it
ts now thought that it will not be
necessary and he is at home, but un¬
able to be out.
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Standard Weights and Measures.
The idea of adopting scientific tneas
lrcmenls as a basis of a system of
veights and measures was suggested
is early as the seventeenth century,
laHicubtrly by the French nsfrono
ner. Jean I’p-ard who lived from 1620
o 1682. The system was worked out
uni taken up by the national assembly
tf France in 1760. it was adopted
tnd Its use made compulsory in 1801.
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MRS. COLONEL ADAM GIFFORD,
Salvationist.
under way Immediately
tie Salvation Army lassie was placed
under arrest and escorted by a crowd
of amused but sympathetic onlookers
to the patrol wagon ami thence to th<
local jail, where she spent the night.
The ease was taken before the su
pretne court of the state, where even
tually the contention of the "Army'
was sustained.
Following the decision the entire
I corps, led by Colonel Gifford, marched
to lite city hall to demand the drums
that tiad been confiscated by the po
: lice. Twenty-eight of tlie offending
prisoners” were released in the cus
tody of the corps. From (hat date
die present none of tlie meetings of
i the Salvation Army has been disturbed
by fhe police. Furthermore, tlie prece*
dent established lias been maintained
nearly every state in the Union.
BEAUTY IS
REFLECTED
HEALTH
Good-Looking” Means the Oppo¬
site of Sick-Looking
IT’S A MATTER OF RED $LOOD
CELLS
Pepto-Mangan Makaa Rich, Red
Blood—Builda Up Paopla
Who Lack Vitality
If your body is sound and your
blood is rich and red, your acts and
thoughts will be quick and strong.
Let your blood get weak, and your
food won’t nourish you nor your
sleep refresh you. (
Too much hard work, an illness,
or a mental strain can thin down
your blood, and Pepto-Mangan is
needed to bring it back to healthy,
normal condition.
Knowing this, doctors for years
have recommended Gude’s Pepto
Mangan because of its blood-build¬
ing and tonic properties.
Pepto-Mangan is such a simple .and
harmless tonic, yet such a prompt
builder of red blood, that its reputa¬
tion has spread all over the country
To-day every druggist sells it #nd
thousands of men and women usft it
as a restorative whenever they or
their children seem to feel below par.
Pepto-Mangan agrees with the
most delicate stomach, and is ob¬
tainable in either liquid or tablet
form.
Be sure the name “Glide’s” is on
the package when you buy Pepto
Mangan. Ask the druggist for
.. Gude’s. M If “Gude’s’’ is not on the
package, it is not Pepto-Mangan.
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CENTRAL OF GA. RWY. CO.
THE RIGHT WAY
Arriva. and Departure of Trains at
FORT VALLEY
Subject to change without notice.
ARRIVAL
Train Central
No. From Time
4 Chicago, Birmingham 12:01
and Columbus ........ a. in.
12 Montgomery and Albany ... 12:10
a. m.
3 Savannah and Macon....3:35 a. m. *
11 Atl: r.ta and Macon........3?43 a. re.
56 Perry (Daily except Sunday)
8:15 a.m.
8 Albany ........................8:20 a. m.
5 Atlanta and Macon....12:40 p. in.
1 Savannah and Macon....1:27 p. ,m.
2 Birmingham and Columbus
3:45 p. m.
6 Montgomery and Albany
3:55 p.m.
7 Macon 6:05 p. rn.
58 Perry (Daily except Sunday)
8:05 p. m.
54 Perry . (Sunday only) -.3:30 p.ia.
DEPARTURE
Train Central "
No. For Tim
4 Macon and Savannah .12:01 a.sn.
12 Macon and Atlanta .... 12:10 a. m.
3 Columbus, Birmingham Chicagc........3:35
and a, m.
11 Albany and Montgomery
3:43 a. in.
55 Perry (Daily except Sunday)
6:40 a. m.
8 Macon 8:20 a. in.
5 Albany and Montgomery
12:40 p. m.
1 Columbus r.nd Birmingham
1:27 pi m.
2 Macon ................. 3:45 p. tn.
6 Mkcon and Atlanta ..3;55 p* tti,
7 Albany ................. 6:05 p. m.
57 Perry (Daily except Sunday)
6:05 p. m.
58 Perry (Sunday Only) 2:00 p. m.
For further information ca 11 ait
ticket office or ^hone 27
Sammons, Agent.
THE SOU. RWY. SYSTEM
“The Southern Serves The South. fl
Arrival and departur'.- of trains at
FORT VALLEY
Subject to change without notice.
ARRIVAL
Train Central
No. From Time
43 Atlanta 9:20 p. iu.
DEPARTURE
Train Central
No. For Time
42 Atlanta 6:46 u. m.
For further information call at
tick: ! office or phone 27. Agent.
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Car Tracks Wear Tires.
The severest wear on solid tires Is
caused b.v driving on the car tratdiS,
according to an official of a rubber
company, quoted by the Scientific
American He says that when on. the
tracks most of the load Is concentrated'
on a limited portion of the trend se •
that It Is overloaded and quickly worn
away, besides, a sharp pointed frog
may actually cut a piece off the tire
lust as a knife would
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Punctuality Valuable Aseet.
Many of young men have failed «t
promotion or lost good positions he*
cause of the luck of punctuality*
There is no more desirable busings*
qualification ilmn this and no other
so indispensable to a man of affairs,*
or. to any one who would save itis own
time and that of others, If s man
has no regard for the time of
men," said Horace Greeley, "why
should he have for their money? IVUat
Is fhe difference between taking.*
man's hour and taking his $5? Iher*
j fife the business many men day to whom worth each hour time* of
is many
15."— Chicago Daily News.