Show Iii 9 EDITORIAL God is our refuge and strength a very nr present help in trouble trouble- I Psalm r Time marches on and here it is almost time to make out another j I iacome ic ome tax return I Thanksgiving ing day a for or turkeys l t should come on January 2 If a tur turkey turkey key y lives live over Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years cars his chance chances to live another year arc are quite favorable a A disaster that would cost s human lives lins would be heralded around the world ns as one of th the thet greatest disasters of o the century t I i yet Kt the loss Toss of o life over O the two week end holidays of o Christma Christmas I and New Years totaled ROO and i it attracted but passing attention There arc are few ew things things that give gi giva a man more genuine satisfaction than the contemplation of oC Ih the fact that he has overcome o a rca real realand realand and harmful temptation We e hear every day da the tine demand that tha t this and that t ha t institution th the schools the correctional and relief relic should be he taken takei out of politics While the taking tatting 1 out is is going on why not make a clean sweep of o it and take out o 0 of the politics the graft also f t I How Ilow does docs the man Juan justify his conscience who as wrong I and and immoral unmoral the expenditure ol of o i money mone by b the administration for or relief relie and farm aid yet et accepts the money mone The easiest time to overcome a II habit is is when wIlen it first starts It re re- requires reo requires quires a strong individual to over over- overcome overcome come corne a habit that has lias continued for or years Jears Worry orry is like Jik-c that too The ine easiest time to stop a worry is is when I it first strikes The long long- longer er it continues the more difficult it itis is is to overcome o Colonel F. F C C. Harrington recent ly chosen by President Roosevelt a as head of or the theY W. W P P. P A A. is a regu w Jar lar army officer He lie is efficient and hard lIard boiled a stickler for or reg reg- regularity regularity and has no sympathy for agitators Being an army officer lie he will have ha little interest in poll poll- tics t cs There are arc few a few things things that con con- contribute contribute tribute more to a mans man's enjoyment than a comfortable pair of or old oM shoes l Restrictive legislation leg leg- legislation is fast re removing re- re removing removing moving all the pleasure that there is in conducting a business It re requires reo re- requires quires more nervous energy to ob oh- observe serve and discover restrictions than it does to create business I How smart how intelligent how r human how sensible are arc we weVe We Ve Veas as JiS a race pride ourselves ts that we weare weare are arc all of o these A couple of in in- instances instances stances might illustrate what we weare weare weare are trying to say sa After the fact act became established that between 75 is and 90 per cent of or blindness was caused by gonorrhea infection at the time of birth and ami after i it had Jad become definitely known that thata a dilute solution of or nitrate of sil silver sit sit- vet ver n a new born baby's haby's eyes ees would prevent such infection anc and blindness it required determined and sustained effort through four our sessions of legislature in one o othe of the states of the union covering Cring a a period of eight years ears before a law 1 requiring such treatment could be i passed In the first session ii in int t which this law la was presented a abill abill abill bill regarding steps necessary for forthe forr or r the prevention pre of hog cholera was passed without a dissenting vote In the same state a movement to rid the state of tubercular infected milk cows was vigorously fought ought notwithstanding the th fact that it is isa isa l a well known fact that the inside walls of the udder of a II milk cow infected with tuberculosis are arc a amass amass amass mass of suppurating sores which drain their corruption into the milk pail and have the power to infect healthy persons who use the milk with tuberculosis to sa say nothing of the fact of or taking such corruption into the system as food Are we after all as intelligent or oras oras r ras as humane as we like the world to think we are |