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women and children is a broad minded humanitarian that would like to do something for the other fellow and is trying to bring a condition about that will make this life worth the living.■ Conditions over, whidh lie has no control make him grasg for the cent to meet his obligations when the obligations are in reality all the other way The farmer is not responsible for the high cost of the necessaries of life and does not get even his fair share thereof. Neither he nor the man at the other end, in other words the consumer who uses the commod ties the fanner produces, realizes the trouble and is pronalo place the blame on the wrong man. Potatoes at $t. a bushel or flour at $12. a barrel is to the man who cant buy them in the large cities like a red flag to a b ilh—maddening and he lays it all on the farmer. Likewise machinery which wotJld make life easier and which the farmer cant buy even at high prices for-his products is not the fault of the man who makes the machine. The faults that produce these conditions will some day be understood and then the • farmer will occupy the position he deserves and. that will be the lime when the farmeri will be recognized for just what he is: he real-producer of the worlc's wealth and the biggest man therein. Anyhow' the PRESS is going to do its share to that end.WHOLE PAY-ROLL NARROWLY ESCAPES HOLD-UPirPATCHIN SAYS ITS SANTO SAYS TISNTBut for the timely interferance oi City Attorney Patchin last Monday night the wholeancnthly pay roll would have gone over at least until the next meeting and the checks due city era-bloyes would have been looked for in vain. The muddle 'came about ovei the dispute in the matter of paying the bill in the Corcoran audit dispute, Santo and L’ongnecker seemed , be-termined to paythe $150. to Corcoran notwithstanding the recommendation to the contrary by the man paid tc steer the Commission along legal- lines The other Commissioners thought differently and so voted on an amendment to lay the two bills over. Tin motion as amended was then put by the Mayor and ended as the amendment bad in a three to two vote to pay the bills without- the Corcoran entries.It was then discovered that it required a vote of four Commissioners to pay-money and Santo and Long-neeker hastened to get out from under to escape the ire of the employees who would be shy the coin for at least a week when they needed the money on time. Ileace they re-considered, framed a motion to lay the Corcoran claim for a week and passed the balance. The tragic part of the affair lay in the fact that Lardie had bolted from his old love and tied up with-the minority party. - “ .If you were one of those fellows who (tout take interest in the way the affairs of the city are run iiU.this bailiwick you wont know anything about this matter but if you are one of those, who really want to know the truth .first hand you tripped the distance to the city sanctum last Mon daylight and there heard the City Attorney lay down the law. You also heard the Commissioner of Finance disagree with the JAwycr and thereby learned a lesson to the effect that the harmoniously harmonius assomh ages of previous administrations is a thing of the past and that oceasn inlly when you go down to see the city fathers in action you sometimes get a ru ..for' your money.The robins'which we thought were the omens of spring and the geese : which got sidetracked were just the | rear guard of the retreating snmiuer ! and winter has just put in its annual appearance. So says the bay which lias consented to have its whispering [voice silenced by the hoary Jack - Frost land this is-backed by the arrival of the i biggest army of ducks that for years 1 has taken possession of the river neaa the Union street bridge. Train service has been delayed and .the only relief the coid blooded .-human animal can gel is suspended in the. window of Art; Winnie wherein hangs the big fish and the figure setting forth the number of daysiintjT the festive speckled beauty will legally nibble at the baited hook.»vn*vwp:'1d:hitheebiicattaa1icclP'te01tihimtlPlt;tlisi6aiatatfoelsi:thw.ITm
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Traverse City Press
Traverse City, Michigan, US
Fri, Feb 09, 1917
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