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M? The nest side is just as pod in every way: in some ways. it y My better. ‘ '0 and u lot of wholeme gym-i tile: side. The "other side of Jorâ€" Ihn” is when they only too often Ind. Who can «count for the mk- laudedntobutauetraintoml Victims by the score, the hundreds, yes, the thousands. have rushed to destruction just trying to make that my be ,the good Lord only knows. Somedrivm whentheyoeeatnin drawing near. take a sudden notion thattheywishtocmsstotheother tide. Oh the pity and the misery of yielding to such a notion as that! Of course they are thinking about something, but what that somthing Many people take a round-shunt Way of playing safe. Jusc for inâ€" stance take those auto drivers, who in approaching railroad cmssings.‘ take no thought of the possible ap- proach of a train of cars. They trust to luck. Yes, they chance the loss of their own lives and maybe the lives of innocent and helpless paw One rainy day 1 man was arrested for stealing an umbrella. He said. “I was only taking shelter, most any- bofly will lift an umbrella when it rains.” His sentance was “thirty dnya shelter in the lockup.” j ”The Merchant who asks the most people to buy; sells to the most people.” The sane rule applies with 3 mar- chant who has a stock of goods on hand all the time. He has but little chance to talk his pmduct in the or- dinary nm of the days business. But he has a large audience when he does‘ his talking thru the display columns of The Reporter. uh the moat people to buy: tell: to the rum! people.” There it in in a nut. shell. The more people you wit to buy, the more people you will tell to. Your chums of asking people to buy if you wait‘ for them to come. within the runge 0! your \oico is limited. Your (honor 0! Asking thom to buy if you HM! nowwnprr spam in Ink thorn in am limited. That in the rcnaon and the1 only reason for ndvertixing. . For instance with classified mlwr- tising \ou have I pvrfoctly good dining room sot which you can no loam-I- llM‘. You mix your neighbor! if he can use onv. "0 says no. Thnn’ n few friends nu! approached Incl; none of them mo in the market. Then’ you nztumlly turn to I larger nudi-l once. You aIlwrtisc in the cloud“ fled mlumn of Th:- Roportvr. Out: of the thousands who read the paper every week, them in sum to be one, who is just waiting for the chance; ‘ to buy a dining room set. That“: talking to a lot of people. i Just let the following xt-ntvnce sink in. Study It. Analyzc- what it menus. and you will have the whole secret of advertising. “The Merchant who filtered at the Downers Grove Post Olive as second class mail matter. Advertising rates made known upon Ipplicntion. Subscription rates $2.00 per year. Single copies 5c. boners Grove Reporter Med every Friday morning from the din of file DOWners Grove Publish- " Company, 37 North Main street, ers Grove. lilinois. ASKING PEOPLE TO BUY TAKING SHELTER C. B. STAATS. EDITOR MICKIE SAYS mam PHONE 90-1! For 0- Wm “GRANGE STIAM DYE Two mm: why you should have your Cleaning, Dyeing and Press- ing done by us. There are other reasons 1nd we'll tell you about them from week to week. I To form a just estimate of the ‘ trend of human pmgms‘om: must gather the oustanding facts, not from a decade, but from a decade of (le- cailes or longer. Let the author of L the “Ode" turn back. my to the yearl 1800 and Compare conditions thenl‘ and now. Let me give him some suggestions for such a comparison. In proportion to population then until now, how many hospitals were them! I then? How many homes for aged: ,1 men and women? How many charity-i .‘organlzations in the cities to cam for i: the. poor? How many orphans homes 'and how many asylum: to care {or the insane? What was the per capita ,toxation to cam for these Institu- ‘tionn? How many mixslonarieu were lthe churches of that «lay xendlng to! Africa, lnclla. China. Japan and the} :Inlamh of the Sea? And how muchl.‘ jmoney were, the churches of that «lay. i’rontributinu for their uupport? He1 .lmowa. or if he does not. he can as- lrertain that the answer to them.- ques- tions in "None. absolutely none." Ami if there hail been 3 (amino in China in those clays. as there doubt: Ie.~~‘ was, how much food would Am-, mica have contributed to wave the‘ ("him-40 from ntan'ntion‘.‘ He know.- tho anmer: "none." Or if them hmlI been a Johnatown flood. or n Galves- ton storm, or a San Francisco earth, minke. how much monoy would the people of America have contributed? to relieve the distmis in their own. laml? A pittance. if any. Now all T R A C 'l‘ 0 R PLOWING DISCING BASEMENT EXCAVATING SHERIFF Primary â€" April 11, 1922 TWO DAY SERVICE PRE-WAR PRICES If I weve to assert, in a company of intelligent people, that the Miss- issippi river runs north, I would be reganled as a fit subject for the pay- copathlc hospital. But I would have stated an exact fact. for the Father of Waters does run due north for a short distance above Cairo, Ill. So the mighty onward sweep of intelli- gence and virtue and religion may ,sometimes for a brief period, seem to flow backwnnl; but he is a poor stu- dent of the history of humankind who will assert from this apparent fact that the race is headed for a catnclysm. SOIJCI’I‘S YOUR VOTE FOR Your correspondent’s “Ode to Poss- imism" is so misleading that I am im- pelled to ask some of your space to expose its fallacies . Editor, Reporter: Candidate For Sherifl Lawrence Hattendorf cum? DEPUTY smamrr Takes Exception (0 Letter in Last Weeks Reporter Written by Frank J. Milnes “ODE T0 PESSIM- ISM” DRAWS FIRE 0F W. BRUBAKER Let’s give the engine the right of way. It will claim it anyway and we cannot take shelter in the claim that We “didn‘t know the danger," because any child of five knows better than that. tion to advertise the merits of the near side. The fellow who has the habit of speeding across to the other side and then stopping to watch the train go by, might better slow up, stop and watch it from the near side. This applies to pedestrians as well as auto drivers and those who drive} horses. W. S. Hamblin Phone 213-R-2 Downers Grove, Aug. 8, ’21 Avenue DOWNERS GROVE IENREE DOWNERS GROVEJLUNOIS Downers Grove Garage, Inc. rl Next let him note the progress of suffering. Will He be satisfied it His - great reforms. In 1800, where was mission proves a failure? 2 there an effective voice raised against' It were a pitiable spectacle if at ghu'man slavery in this “land of the high noon of these glorious August ‘ free and home of the brave?" And days, a man who had been supposed ' later on. who cared whether Brigham‘by his neighbors to be sane, were to Young had one wife or one hundred? go out into the sunlight and solemnly Today, human slavery and polygamy call men to witness that the sun has are to be found only in the dark cor-[gone from the heavens; that the ners ot' the earth. And war â€" the blackness of night has fallen upon the last relic of barbarism -â€"- will soon earth and that no mom will ever (1-? be placed under the ban of civilization gain drive away the night. So is the! by the League of Nations, Presidentmessimist who solemnly asseverates: Hal-dings Peace Parley or some other that mankind is hastening onward to; organization of nations growing out its doom, and that doom eternal nighté of both. The legalized liquor traffic” Listen to the voice of an optimist: what a monstrous curse it was! Who who lived twenty-SIX centuries a110,} but a “fanatic" like myself. would the Prophet Isiah: “Come ye, arid lot‘i have dared ten years ago to predict us go up to the mountain of the Lord} that within the next decade, the Gov- Ito the house of the God of Jacob; and: ernmcnt of the United States would he will teach us his ways and we will When You Get Your If he wishes evidence of “retrogresj sion” along the line of intelligence, let him ascertain how many public school:- thcrc were in those days, what was“ their condition and the scope of ithcix teaching. And what was the per capita of taxation fol their main-: tenancc? Also \\ hat “as the propor-, tion of illiteracy? If his pessimism' does not get a jolt, it is bomb-proof against fact and reason and argu- ment. i I Then to secure further evidence of I“rei,rogression." I suggest that he compare the conditions of prisons and their methods of discipline. We have, in our day, actually reached the con~ clusion that men a criminal is a hu-g man being ,that he may be amenable to kindly treatment, and that it isl possible to give back to society not] a hardened ciiminal but a useful citlzen. l these facts am important a: showing the marvelous progmss of the truth, in the minds of men, that the human race is all one gmat family and that all men are brothers. How much pro- gress had that truth made in 1800? If this is “mtrogression,” let us have more of it. l l Phone 8 We give you the most value for each dollar you invest. Men’s $5.50 and up Boy’s $4.00 and up J. W. NASH WEYENBERG “Shoes for Service” are mzule from real leather. They wear better, feel better and look better than just ordinm'y shoes. Our boys shoes last longer, look better and are more comfortable than just ordinary shoes. S TUDEBAK ER the cheapest shoe you can. A cheap shoe is always the most ex- pensive in the end. you will be kept busy for a long time, re‘ turning the delightful rides given you in the past by friends and neighbors, and the beauty of it is, you will be able .to return them with INTEREST, for there are but few cars as comfortable to ride in, as the STUDEBAKER! Don’t Buy “THE COMFORT CAR ” ;‘ It were a pitiable spectacle if at ‘ high noon of these glorious August’ tlm s, a man who had been supposed: by his neighbors to be sane, \\ ere to go out into the sunlight and solemnly l call men to witness that the sun has [gone from the heavens; that the' blackness of night has fallen upon the? earth and that no mom will ever (1-1 gain drhe aw'a) the night. So is the! .pesslmist “ho solemnly Msmerates: that mankind is hastening onward to its doom, and that doom eternal nighté Downers Grove, Ill. Oh, no; hes’ wrong; this old world of ours is growing better as the years ’30 by, in spite of the plaint of the Ipessimist. When was human life mom secure than now? When was ’old age more respected; womanhood more honored; childhood more tender: ly. nurtured; wlations between man and man more kindly? To assert that the world is growing worse is to ghe the lie to God’s Book and to illeclaie that Christianity is a failure. :In one of the prophecies foxtelling the infinite sufferings of the Divine Fou‘hder of Christianity, I read: “He shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied." He came to redeem mankind from its sin and its suffering. Will He be satisfied it His mission proves a failure? If you need more evidence. investi- gate conditions of the laboring class one hundred years ago and compare them with conditions now. The facts developed will drive the last shadow of pessimism from the brain of any man who honestly wants to know the truth. ‘ make the liquor~seller an outlaw, like the counterfeiter, the horse-thief and the rapist! Do you find any evidence of “z'etrogression” in these facts, Mr. Pessimist ‘.'. 2! S. Main St. HE. McAlllster Co. A pessimist closes an eye, wrinkles his face, draws up the corner of his 1mouth, and says, “It can't be done." ‘.~\n optomist has a face full of sun- shine. He beams on you and says, “It can be done" â€"- and then lets George do it. But a “pep-to-mist'fl takes off his hat, rolls up his sleeves“ goes to it, and does it.-The Rotarian. â€"â€"Contributed : [walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat. their swords into plow- sharos'and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword; against nation. neither shall they learn war any more.” Respectfully, William A. Brubnker HARDWARE 36 S. Main Street Telephone No.29 MERTZ (.8 MOCHEL CAN ATTEND TO ORDERS PROMPTLY NOW! Important business and election of THIS SHOULD SETTLE THE ARGUMENT WHILE PRICES ARE THE LOWEST AND ALL KINDS ARE OBTAINABLE New, fresh draperies add a wonderful touch of freshness to the home. Even a little bit of newness here and there will mean much, but now that reasonable prices have come back, you’ll want to have new hangings ready for every room. You have the choice of a fine variety of fabrics, pat- terns and colorings -- and interesting prim like these â€" Summer draperies must soon be taken down. Many women are already planning new window hangings for Fall and Winter, and the new weaves and patterns in Cola onial draperies and curtain goods are com- ing in right along. ALL BOWLERS NOTICE For just the sort of hangings you have in mind COLONIAL DRAPERIES AND CURTAIN GOODS Order Your Coal Cretonnes 25c to $1.00 Tapestries 95c to $1.50 SilkDrapes$L25to$L75 Madrasses 50c to 75¢ Filet Nets 35c to $1.00 Marquisettes 25c to 59¢ WE HAVE ALL SIZES OF Franklin Co. Illinois Coal Pocahontas Hard Coal Advertisemults I hereby ask for your vote' and support as Republican Candidate for the office of County Treasurer at the Ami] Primaries. All bowlers urged to be present. If you did not get an invitation come anyhow as you are as welcome as the flowers in May and our list of local bowlers is incomplete. officers at the ice cream social and smoker at Dicke's Hall, Monday, Aug. 15 at 8:30 p. m. Maple East Grove Ave. R. F. D. No. 1 POULTRY FEED Friday, August 12, 1921 A. J. WOLF At A Saving N. E. MATTER. 7-224