Show GOOD l MEDICINE Portland Mayor-elect Mayor Carson of Oregon has prescribed soma some good medicine for public comum consumption tion I lIe said We must quit asking the government go to be a wet nurse to everything I We must realize that the peo peo- peo-I peo people people pIe support the government not notI I that the government supports the people We cannot get out of debt hy by going farther into debt We must cut the cost of govern go government government ment for in that way lies the only avenue of relief at present I am not an alarmist but we must admit that non none none of us knows whether or not we have hit the bottom in this deflation of credits that is now going on We must maintain the stability of the economic order must pre pre- preserve presen pre preserve sen serve e our our institutions if we do donot donot donot not it will mean that we are arc break breaking breaking breaking ing the last timber that holds the roof of the protection over our heads I I The protection of life property I and health are the fundamental duties of our government All else is superfluous We must hold to these fundamentals and turn our back upon these other intriguing things if it we arc are to hold what we and build solidly for tor the have fu- fu future fu future ture tUIe |