Show EDITORIAL ED Henceforth there is laid up for forme forme me a fl crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me mo at that day and not to me mc only but unto all them also that love his llis appearing Second Timothy 48 00 Recent disclosures reveal that less Jess than two per cent of the population lation of New York City attend any kind of church services on any Sunday Lest those removed from the large largo centers become smug in the idea that their com community community shows a better percentage figures are shown by a school su suo superintendent superintendent in a Mississippi val ley Icy town to the effect that less than twenty per cent of the stu stunts dents of f his county scat high chool school had bad ever been inside of oC a achurch hurch church for a religious service Carrying the investigation still fur further ther this city superintendent made mado madeA A survey of a rural school of teen pupils five miles from the county seat Not one of the eighteen teen pupils had ever been inside of f any church for a religious servo ice If this represents anything like a cross section of America to to- today day it does docs not speak very well for forthe forthe the future of this nation and the church How long can a nation in which the adults permit such a sit sit- situation to exist lay Jay claim to being a Christian nation A similar sur sur- survey vey of this county and its schools might prove an interesting sting local I project t eGo The Thc best message of assurance to send to the soldiers fighting in inthe inthe Inthe the Pacific would be the announce announcement announcement ment that the Seventh War Loan of was sub over oversubscribed oversubscribed oversubscribed scribed in record time by at least 50 per cent It is easy to tell the boys that we are backing them up but when we say it with an over over- oversubscribed oversubscribed subscribed war loan we are talk talk- talking ing ingin In a language that they under- under 4 1 cOo The Thc Allies have demonstrated to the world that they are arc re the su- su supermen supermen pennen not alono alone because they J were able to defeat the Nazi beasts but because throughout the war in spite of the many violations of international law by the Nazi the armies of the Allies have fought I like true soldiers They have not stooped with the Germans to sav say agery 00 More people four times over were killed in accidents in this country last year than have lost their lives in every major disaster since the Johnstown flood 00 There is some concern on the part of some people that the Americans Am Am- Americans were not permitted to en en- ente ter tet te Berlin that this was reserved reserved ed for the Russian army We do donot donot donot not know what the facts are arc and andare andare are arc not concerned It was entirely satisfactory to us that the Russians who have kept records on the Ger Get German German Getman man atrocities against the Rus Ru Russians should move rno first into Ber lin hi eGo Some things seem stem to go by ex ex- The man who Is willing to work very often works too hard and overdoes it and the man Juan who is too lazy to work always alwa's o it eGo 00 American soldiers soldier released from German prison camps camp are arc being flown home at the rate of or to a day Fifty dollars a day earned is rot not too high but a dollar a day unearned is too much pay pa Henry Ford ord The war ar situation can be briefly described as two down and one to togo togo go eo eGo The sudden death of or President Roosevelt thrust upon Vice President President dent Harry Truman the responsibility responsibility responsibility of the head of the govern govern- government government ment meat in the tile nations nation's most critical hour Because of the relationship of the vice president to the president president dent Harry Truman came into office JUice without an opportunity to get in anything like close touch ith the background and the im im- implications implications im- im of the problems de do- demanding demanding manding mending immediate solution That President Truman has been able to carry on as well as he has is due to the versatility of the man and not to the system under which he was advanced to the position of the nations nation's leader In the election of cC a vice president little thought is given to the fact that he ho may mayone mayone one day be president and the du duo du- du duties ties of his office dp do not him the close touch with the nations nation's problems both foreign and domes domes- domestic tic tie that is enjoyed even by the secretary of state Since the vice president under our system of government is the successor to the president in the event of the presidents president's removal from office by death or otherwise some provision should be made whereby he would be the associate and the under under- understudy understudy study of the president and not be compelled to assume the duties of the office of president under so great a handicap A disease peculiar to elm trees is sweeping s the country Begin Begin- Beginning Beginning ning in the cast east it has gradually moved westward until It has crossed the Mississippi river As its approach the leaves of the elm tree turn brown and the tree finally dies To date no remedy losing most of their fine old elm has ha been bren found Many cities arc are trees that have been the pride ot or property owners and which have contributed to the beauty of their streets |