Show I U I I III i iiii i i i ii i ii i iiii u i EDITORIAL Here Is A Neat Clean Town Here is a n neat clean good Jook jn town How Hov often have you heard this expression when on a trip you I th fI n bright clean eJean rood e j kin ii town There are man many assets a n town might have havo but not quite so Iy 1 an insight into the character of the towns and the people than the fact that it it is neat nent and clean end well kept kept The houses may or ma may not be ben beall beall n all new or of the latest design n in architecture but if they arc are well paint painted d if the lawns are well tak taken n care of the streets and alleys arc clean the vacant lots are arc clear from weeds we at once set it down as a stood good town in which to live Such a n town invites business and attracts trade Property in such t J 11 is usually US worth more The secret of such a town is what is known as ns town pride or civic chic pride No town can get set along without it and no town ha too roo much of it If II the depres depression ion is going oin to teach anything hing it is going to teach the value of a cash reserve P People o le who when times are goodare good arc are liv- liv living living liv living ing up their income as they go o and have hwe nothing ahead are arc rn in peril all of the tim time Common sense teaches that high prices and good times can an not last Jast always and the man who lives up his income as he goes is like the motorist who starts on ona ona ona a long journey across the desert without any gasoline in the tank He is sure to come corne to grief He lie is is certain to come to a point where he be will be stalled and can not go any further It is often a question of management A great many who two years ago insisted that they could not live on their incomes have been living the past year on considerably less Alfalfa Bill BiU Murray governor of Oklahoma p puts ls it briefly this way Civilization begins and ends with the plow According to Governor Murray in the beginning rn-an rn tilled the soil As the tillers of the soil prospered all else pros pros- prospered When agriculture breaks down all else breaks down There never was a college or a school that could produce brains The best teachers in the won worl can student only instruct the brains the stu- stu stu dent already has j jIt It rt is too roo late to complain of high taxes after the money has MS been nt spent p nt It is also true that if an obligation has been created or should be p paid id The best plan is not to create the obligation Taxes arc are going to down when the determination to cut out the new ne thene workers jobs for deserving party work ers gets as ns strong as the desire that taxes should be reduced reduced It is pretty difficult to keep pigs in n town in the summer without the neighbors neighbor getting wind of it Jt It I is said that fifty men made L madeLOS Los s Angeles one of the greatest cities in the west in a period of few years rears The feat was accomplished by tackling one problem at a time and working at it atit with co whole-hearted whole co operation until it was sas put across If Los An An- An geles eles had divided h l energies on or i several projects or had merely merel talked about them little would i have been accomplished It as the united the effort wholehearted I the effort wholehearted Imade tion put the plan across opera co and am I made its realization possible Thi This S 1 town wn or any other town mak can make maki A 2 A U i of itself anything within reasor if the men of the town wU will ge get behind a program of community development and pro progress ress and see it through Towns like individual fortunes arId and careers are built by workers not n not t wishers bestman There is a saying that the best man always wins We deserve our- our ouris that this is the case under our form of government It is not true winsor The Tho best salesman often wins or the man with the most money or the organization behind him but often the man who is defeated is 28 is thinker a n better bettor thinker a clearer think- think thinkA er and n a man with witha n a better of the grasp situation than the man who defeats him This is one of the faces perils perUs that a democracy al A Kansas man writes the editor of f his local paper that each morn morn- lag ing morning for fort forty years he and h his nother buckwheat have l aten lareo buck uck wheat pancakes The editor important important part of the feat fent the edi- edi edi 1 tor r notes that it is submitted on unimpeachable testimony that they haven't itched once Washington ashington The fact fact r- r that George Washing Washing- V ashing- ashing 1 ton n never tolda told a lie appears more remarkable when one remembers that he had bad no tax tac free securities in which to invest his surplus and banks had not at that time begun the practice of receiving time deposits l What this country needs is a n r I t magician n who vho ca can caa not only show the tho people Mople how to take a rabbit I from a II silk hat hat but who can cnn also be made madei show us ho how a profit can I 1 i on oa forty cent wheat eight cent cent corn eggs and twenty five I j Ij We not that stock in m many ny of the leading corporations can now noW I be bought on the mark market t for less Ithan than tho the book value of the corp corpor- corpor corporation corpor 01 assets This we believe is isI what I is known as indus indus- industry indus indus- industry industry try to the level of agriculture I Diplomacy reaches its highest point in the person pelson who is able to convey to a neighbor without I severing diplomatic and neighbor neighbor- neighborly ly Ily relations the news that said neighbors neighbor's chickens are arc destroying the garden I There is this to say about the pedestrian As a rule the his hig vision Is is and the less Jess active he is ison ison In on his feet the more apt he is to jay walk and walk on the wrong s-rong side of the road OnG writer One writer observes that no man lives long enough to violate all aU the laws Jaws This may be true but our observation is that a good many speed records ar broken in inthe in inthe inthe the effort An observing editor points out that the first thing a baby learns is where here its mouth is located and the second thing it learns is where the ice cream cones a afe are e on sale According to Henry Ward Beech Beecher Beecher er it is not what we take up in this world but what we give up that makes us rich The average man enjoys the urn urn- umpire um umpire pire at a baseball game He lie likes to see a man who can make a de- de decision de decision e- e and give an order and make it stick When it doesn't make any dif difference dif dif- if- if f ference the weather departments u hits its forecast for rain p retty closely The average man who attends the t he movies mo can not understand why w hy the husbands of the actresses should hould s desire to be divorced ced from them hem t Light travels at the rate of 0 00 miles a second The pop popular lar demand of the times is i s bigger schools better roads and lower l ower taxes Stopping advertising to save m oney is is like stopping ones one's watch to t o save time ime |