The Cedarville Herald, Volume 44, Numbers 1-26

Uncle — A GREAT HELP your own inquired the « Y SUPPOSE you do " * waabing,. ma'amr W>edy atrapger, ■ • k d0,/ ltll0UKh 1 d09’t see that , ft*** of your business.” ra , piled Mrs. Curfew, with some warmth, “I suppose you'll he telling methat you're collecting statistics • fo r a goverpineht bu reau, or maybe ___________ *or the state t | hoard of health, ?t seems that t h e authorities, are greatly inter- .ested ip family' m a t t e r s t h a t don't c o B c e r a them nowadays, .and every day or eomee along asking impertlh^nT^ue^ nons as to how many children I have, and iny maiden name before I was married, and whether there’s Insanity In the family, ■ , Im sick and tired of'answering ' such questions. my old friends ; iT£ntJ p Into-my family history, .-■ I ll give them all the information they i .want, . although I may. consider their * conundrums In bad taste, but when a perfect stranger comes along and asks me if I do.my own washing, I,feel that the line must be drawn somewhere. Every jack in office asks questions. ‘It used to be that the assessor would come to the door politely, and inquire how many dogs we kept, nnd take our estimate of :the value of our prop­ e rty without looking, a s . though lie knew we bught to be prosecuted for ■PerJury. But now. .he must know the color of your grandfather’s side whis- ' kefs, and If you tell him that you keep no d®gs he goes out. and looks under the; house, and in the-barn, and when-, he .gomes back he warns" you that the penalties for giving false Information nre’severe. " ‘ ‘*Mr. Curfew? says that the next time the. assessor comes, he Is going to throw him oyer the back fence and kick him down the alley for a dis­ tance Of seyen blocks, and r hope he’ll keep his word." -‘1 didn’t mean to offend yon," said the stranger. "I’m introducing a wash­ ing powder that saves half the" labor, and .dispenses with soap altogether. With this marvelous powder a wofnap enn do. the week's washing”and have her clothes hung on the line, inside of two hours.*', “Well, mister, you take a package of ypur marvelous powder down to the creek, and give yourself a good scrubbing, for yon look as though you had.,been fishing out of somebody’s dustbin. Your whiskers are full of sawdust, and your face Is covered with grime. If you were introducing bituminous coal, there might be come excuse; fd r, your appearance,'' but ft man. who Is selling washing powder ought t o be like the driven snow, or ‘ nobody iwlll have confidence In him. “And I wouldn’t have anything t.o do with your washing powder if you offered to bring me a wagonload for twenty cents. I make my o,wn soap of lye and grease,' and although it isn’t indorsed by the crowned heads of Europe, o r by prelates or vice pres­ idents, "It's the best w ap ever made, and I know the ingredients are. whole*- some!, even if they don’t -comprise barks and buds and healing herbs, “When I use my own soap, I know the things I Wash'won’t he any the worse for It, but the washllg powders sold by agents are made of dynamite and luntfr caustic, and a garment once washed with them will never be; fit. 'to use again. ' “Last spring I was feeling too poor*^ ly to make the usual batch of soap, so I bought a package.-of washing powder from an agent who had his pockets full -of testimonials showing ' that he-was a map of high moral char acter; I t happened that week that all of Mr. Curfew’s white shirts were in the wash. Mr. Curfew Is very par* titular about his shirts. They must >be as white as arctic snow, or the waj lie-raves around the house Is a dis­ grace, ‘ Well, I wWh you could have •seen those shirts after they were washed. -They had an old -gold color, and have been getting yellower ever Since, and Mr. Curfew never sits down hut he speaks about It and makes • things uncomfortable, , "So you*hfld better toddle along and sell your washing powder to some woman who doesn’t know how to make good Soap." IDLEMONEYALSO MUST 60 TO WORK Government Believes Better Times Will Come With. Money In Circulation* SAVINGS SYSTEM PRAISED Nsw York Paper Favor* Continuance of Savings Campaign—Orlv* Now on to Have Saving* Hidden Away Inveatsd In V^ar Saving* Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates, Which May IS* Bought at Any Post- offica. The Now York Evening Post, In Its financial columns, expresses the be­ lief that the Treasury Savings move­ ment is a medium tor mobilizing the country's idle dollars and putting them- tq work.. Under the caption "Putting Idle Money to Work," in a repent issue of the Evening Post, Its financial {commentator, "The In vastor,” said the following: •’ "Idle’money in a period of cred­ it stringency is just as great an teconomic waste as idle labor in a period when there is Work for.all hands-to perform- The treasury department, is trying to convince workers that it is to the advan­ tage of industry and,- therefore, of labor in,general, especially now that there is so much employ­ ment, to have every idle dollar put to work- lit the form 6f invest­ ment. The -pew Thrift campaign * has much good material to work on. It should nptj be difficult, for Instance, to show-workers how a business revival is dependent on the credit situation and how an easier money position will be real­ ized sooner if the supply of money is increased by the invest­ ment of all idle capital. What goes into the savings banks is ‘doing its bit,’ but the treasury is going after the millions of dollars -f which ‘are hidden away in sugar - howls, stockings, mattresses—lost to use.’ Every investor and tax­ payer, •fio matter how large or small, is interested in the success of this la te s t' drive to gather small amounts of capital into the treasury in return for Savings Certificates or for ‘the smaller . units—Thrift Stamps and Savings !Stamps.” • Will Aid Bond Market. Under the heading “Will Aid the ‘Bond Market,” this financial writer. -In discussing what Treasury ^Savings Securities are doing for the bond sit- nation, said: j r 1 ■ ‘‘Every dollar invested in these securities reduces the need- for treasury, borrowings from the banka, on tax or loan certificates, or is deducted from.-the tax bill. ' Inasmuch as the general loan rate is regulated to a great extent by the . government’s requirements * and the price it must pay to have - those requirements filled, and, ; again, inasmuch as the recovery In investment security prices'*is j regulated by the general price of money, the relation between the employment of idle money and ■the bond market is readily appre­ ciated. The- Importance ‘of the government’s Thrift campaign may be realized when it is re­ called that small investments in Treasury Savings Securities be­ tween July 1, 1917, and Jan. 31 , 1920, totaled 11,179,511,000. This amount is just about half as large as tfie floating debt represented . by Treasury Certificates.” economy -of Speech. - fh* country as a whole bus lost the “hang” of speaking English Som* people proudly state that America is , no longer a British colony, that she j Is creating a language of her own, I *nd, to prove their tin* prudence, they ; make a practice of Ini "rporatipK Intqi our speedi sounds without definite: edges, "sounds trailing clouds of taut- tared murmurs, sounds of such ele­ mental simplicity that they resembl* gritnts. taken over from the speech of j parsons who have come to us from alt 1 the non-English speaking countries o f . th* world. And, In their love of equal* i Ity and fraternity, these people re- i fuse,to exceed the speech of those whose simple needs are satisfied with frugal vocabulary? In this way they have succeeded In cutting down their < own vocahniistie rations to the famine } point. Luvish, generous, wasteful In J other matters, the country Jins learned | to 'economize In sentence and syllnble j rill It has reached a genuinely demo­ cratic simplicity of. speech.—Henry Dwight Sedgwick, in Yale Review You Owe It to Yourself Pumpkin Is American. The native country of the pumpkin Is disputed, but there Is good reason to believe that It Is- Indigenous to America. The common field pumpkin was much, used for food in New Eng­ land! before the Introduction of Im­ proved varieties or of the more edible squashes, being made Into pies, or baked, the seeds and stringy matter having been removed. For winter use If was cut into strips and dried sun or In a warm room. At pres It is mainly used to feed- farm animal which eat It with avidity, though the seeds, being diuretic In their action, need first to he removed.-This variety j Is of a rich, orange yellow color, simp-.( ed round with flattened ends, aver- aging, about fourteen Inches long by twelve inches wide. The flesh Is yoK‘ low, generally coarse grained, and of­ ten stringy, yet still esteemed by many above the improved varieties for mak­ ing-the favorite pumpkin pie; No man can afford luxury until, hif fufture and the future of his fam­ ily is amply provided for. It is bet­ ter to live without luxuries than to face old age with an empty pocket book. ft A small percentage of your earn- infcs, if set aside in this Association Week by week, will make you inde- ' pendent of-the charity of relatives and friends. One dollar Will open a Savings Ac­ count, paying 5 1-2 per cent interest, Compounded . semi-annually. The Cedarville Building & Loan Association Liberty Bell—A symbol of Indepen $1 or more opened a t this association. dence, with every savings account of .Man Who Commands Success, A man who Is not enaniored of his Job, who lacks “that resolute, deter­ mined purpose which knows no defeat, recognizes no failure," is never a suc­ cess. The man who Is victory organ­ ized will get up more determined than ever after be "lit-knocked, down. The harder the fall the greater the re­ bound. You can’t keep such a man down, you cafi’t discourage film any more than you could have discouraged a Napoleon, foT his personality, his character, will remain although his home; his property, and every material thing he possessed be swept away.—• New Success* ISYOURBUSINESSASUCCESS? Fine stationery is a big aid toBusiness. Printing fine stationery is our specialty. iiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiumiiiiiimiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiuiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiimmii)iuiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiii_. World’s Supply of Nitrates, The world’s visible supply of nl* trates Is estimated at 2,102,000 tons. 0 .... .?’• • . The Typs, , “I heard Mabel said when she mnr- ried that she had selected the very flower of her admirers. To what par­ ticular bloom did she liken him?’* “At first she thought he Was the tjlnk of perfection, but when the baby to claim her attention, he was ju st * mere poppy*’* « Neptune's Laundry. “I Would like to see the wash of the “The best time to do .that ought to t * when you are crossing the line.” Store Critle Of Education, The- teacher had sent numerous notes in Vain endeavor to get Johnny bathed and cleaned/up. There was BO reply and no visible improvement in the boy's1appearance, until at last tfie mother, driven to desperation, «ent the tefleher/a long letter saying, among other things: “What is-it to the tsachsrs whether the children in th fir schools have a bath once a day, « r ones a week, or once a month, or wnci a yfar? They are washing the gap «H out of thfr children, nnd that 4# how so much tuberculosis gets #terts&** N0N-TAXABLE SECURITIES Government Savings Securities Prov­ ing Attractive to Hundreds of Buyers. Columbus, O.—-(Special.)—With tax listing day just ahead, attention Is called to the non-taxable features of government savings securities by the Ohio War Savings Committee. The committee points to.its | i War Bar­ ings Stamp and Treasury Saving* Certificates of $25, $109 and $1,009. denomination. All are tax exempt, pay a good rate of interest, are regis­ tered against loss by fire or theft and can be readily redeemed. They may be bought a t any poitoffice. The war savings officials* declare that more government savings secur­ ities,are being sold now than at any time since the war. The people now are returning to safe and sane invest­ ments. Of the $136,009,000 invested in government savings sdhuritlea' in Ohio, ndt one single penny has ever been lost. These securities Can not decline In value. TAX LISTING DAY COMING' Postmasters Preparing to Sell Many Non-Taxable Government ’ Securities. Columbus, O. — .(Special.) — Ohio postmasters have been sent an extra supply of Treasury Savings Certifi­ cates of $2u and $100 denominations. As these securities are tax exempt It is anticipated that they will be in great demand prior to tax listing day, April 10. The Treasury Savings Cer­ tificates are simply grown-up War Savings Stamps. They pay a good rate of interest, are absolutely guar-.? anteed not to decline in value and ara registered against loss by fire er theft. Interesting Did Bible. One of the original owners of the Treacle Bible, living In the eighteenth century, had made notations on the fiy leaf concerning “John, who was boro on Friday the 10th of February, 1760, a t a quarter after eight a t highl, Was baptized a t Crossgnte church on 'March 10 folio firing, by the Reverend Mr. Wheeler, who died of smallpox; Ifeth Aprils, 1760, nnd jvas buried the next day at Cfossgate church, aged eight weeks and five days." Other deaths, marriages and births were dat- *4 * i tie tattk «* 17014 . 742 . *TpHE average woman gets every bit as much enjoy- ment out of selecting new Clothes as she does in wearing them. You. will just hive to note the new style features to finger the lovely new fabrics and to examine the qualities of the workmanship the sea­ son's smartest apparel presentations offer. That’s why you will be anxious to inspect the stunning Suits and Goats -1 in our Spring collections while Easter is still quite a few days away and there is abundant time to make thoughtful selections. COATS YOU WILL WANT TO WEAR THE FIRTS BALMY DAY OF* SPRING The discriminating woman’s'search for that’which is' new, smartest and most becoming in Coats will come to a happy termination here for presented in the most wanted colorings are rll of the most approved Spring* modes.1 The fabrics and linings are of superior quality and the workmanship is of an excellence only found in the better Olaas of Coats. Spring prices $ 1 0 .0 0 to $ 7 5 .0 0 • SO MANY SUITS OWE THEIR YOUTHFUL­ NESS TO CIRCULAR SKIRTS When a Shit 'is tailored so that sleeves and shoulders fit snugly and the fabric is of irreproachable quality one can be reasonably certain tha t i t will re­ tain its smartness and individuality for a long, long time. And such a Suit need not be severe, §ide panels covered with rows of Hercules braid, em­ broidered tabs, bell cuffs and shawl colars prove tha t it can be just as distinctive and original as the moat fastidious taste could desire. Choice is offered of velour checks, tricotines, twill cords and covert cloths. r * ' ' * . - Priced as low as $ 2 5 .0 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 XENIA, OHIO 4