V.gabond Editoriafs

Bv Jack Dionne

"Once a rnan does you an injustice," a wise man marked to me the other day, "he never forgives you."

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It's a fact. And the same thing applies to doing cash favers for friends. You loan a friend some money, and you lose his friendship. You catch him crossing.the street to keep from meeting you. Better have lost his friendship in the bcginning by refusing to loan him. The result would be the rame-only t.td 1""*" your money

All over the country at this season the Community Chest drives are going on. "Irrega1f,lsss,"-3s a friend of mine used to always say---.of the great good that comes from well directed and intelligently handled charities, Community Chest efforts buitd up a consciousness within a city that is useful in thousands of otheg ways. Community Chest work has a way of drawing citizens closer together in the bontls of fellowship as nothing else that I know of can accomplish. Every city should have a Community Chest for.that reason if for no other.

Irving Cobb spoke at the recent beginning of the Community Chest drive in Los Angeles. He told the story of Dr. Thomas Riley, a dissolute doctor of the old days, who nevertheless throughout his life furnished his medical help and advice free to the poor and needy in his home town. His fortunes drifted ever downward, and finally for want of rent mUriby he had to move his office upstairs over the local livery stable, where they let him stay free. *rt*

So he put a sign at the bottom of the stairs of the livery stable that read-"Doctor Thomas Riley: His office is now upstairs." He continued to lend his help to the unfortunate vhenever he could, and finally, when he died, they buried hirn, and his sorrowing townspeople simply moved the sign from the livery stable stairs to the grave where he lay, so that it continued to read: "Doctor Thomas RileyHis office is now upstairs." And Mr. Cobb expressed the belief that the Good Master keeps an office upstairs for those who help His needy children. **,f

There's no doubt about it, folks-happiness is sticky stuff, and you just can't help distribute it to others without having a lot of it stick to your own fingers. **,i

I'm a coffee-hound. The other day a friend of mine visiting in my home smacked his lips over the cup of coffee we serve late every afternoon, and ashed for our recipe. So I just quoted him the famous cofree-making recipe given me many years ago by my dear departed friend, the late Hiram Smith, of San Francisco. Hiram, himself a wonderful coffee fan, used to say-",rse just a little water and a Hell of a lot of coffee, and you can't go wrong." That recipe will make good cofree in any country.

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When you lean back in your motor car to enjoy a ride, you are eminently entitled to cry aloud to the world"World, I'm SOME tax;payer." For the average American motor vehicle owner pafs more than one-fourth of the actual value of the car every year in special taxes. Every four years he pays for a new car-in special taxes-but doesn't get it. The heaviest of the special taxes the motor car owner pays is the gasoline tax, which is almost always more than 100 per cent of the wholesale price of the gasoline, and frequently more than 100 per cent of the retail Price'

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I know a retail lumber concern with a number of small town yards that has been experimenting with a house-tohouse canvass, for remodeling and repairing, by an intelligent young uroman. They coached her on the National Housing Act and its remodeling and repairing features, and started her out. From a standpoint of interest displayed, the effort could hardly have been improved upon. She found people everywhere ready and interested to learn about the NHA, and what it meant to them. From a standpoirrt of business secured the results are not yet determinable. The trouble is the fundamental one that a man who can qualify for a loan under NHA can get one anyway; and the man who cannot get one on his own credit, cannot get one by reason of the new law.

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But this lumber concern discovered a number of worthwhile things by this canvass, not the least of which is that people welcorne a woman to talk building to them. This is a truth they will take advantage of on other occasions. A smart woman canvassing from house to house selling building ideas would be a paying investment when times are more nearly better. Try it.

Lumber folks are f.rrrrr*.

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