Show EDITORIAL In indeed baptize you ou with water into repentance but He lie that cometh after me is mightier than I whose shoes I am not worthy to bear He lie shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire Matthew fire Matthew Old timers can remember that in the days before the combine each year ear at nt harvest time harvest hands from all parts of the coun roun country try headed for the wheat t fields of the midwest They rode in box boxcars boxcars boxcars cars and on top of box cars thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of them When they reach reach- reached reached ed the wheat belt they detrained with a paper suitcase and set et out outto outto to look for a job In some in in- instances instances stances farmers met the train and loaded the workers into their wait waiting waiting waiting ing car and started for home The harvest continued for several weeks and sometimes lasted until near Christmas when the workers begun to trek fIek back home to school and odd jobs in the home town There always s 's seemed to be behelp behelp behelp help enough to keep the crop har liar vested The wages relatively were wem as good as they are arc now and the element of adventure if anything greater gl The following from the Fort 1 Scott Kansas Tribune on the sub- sub subject subject jet of airports is quite timely We reprint it for the suggestions it fW may offer communities which might be tempted to rush into the matter of the construction of an airport only to discover that they has overlooked some important points The article says Some cities which couldn't wait to spend r r large sums building elaborate air air- airports airports ports are arc beginning to wish they had waited for Victual needs to dc- dc develop r for their airport services t They are beginning to suspect air air- airport airport r port needs as ns estimated even by V the best informed advisers a n few years ago have changed and that thata a lot of money ney has been blen badly spent The biggest mistake airport planners seem to have made has been in going too far away from town to find space for large fields f. f These fields may be r I quipped to some of toe largos largest t present-day present planes but they may eventually prove a doubtful tage when it is found that most of the use for municipal airports will be he for small planes whose passengers wont won't want to find themselves from thirty minutes to toan toan an hours hour's car ride from town which is their destination Driving time from airport to city may easily offset all advantage there is isn In n traveling by V air all The prospect is that a good many expensively built airports out in the country are going to revert to original pasture land after smaller more conveniently fields are lire constructed In 1920 the annual wages of agricultural workers on the aver aver- average average age was 1229 For the same per per- perd jod iod the wages of nonagricultural workers was 1654 In 1932 the average wage e of agricultural work work- workers ers was and the average an an- annual nual wage of nonagricultural work ers ens was 1409 In the final analysis the custo custo- customer customer mer the ultimate consumer is the employer of labor not the busi busI- business ness floss managers and the industrial concerns The business manager and the industrial concern is here here- ly 1 the agency which makes for a customer a manufactured article it Jt me the cost of producing the article is is too much either because of too large a profit taken by business managers or the industry or be be- calmo of too large wages paid those employed in the industry the tho customer will not buy If II the customer will wilI not buy there can toe be no employment The secret then of employment is making it Possible for the customer cU omer to buy the things he wants and needs neds at a price p ce he can pay or is willing to pay par We are going to withhold our expression ion on the matter of the thee matter e of of the appointment of Fred Vinson V n as secretary of treas treas- ut ury until we have an opportunity to US see wv what he hc does with the new ne net simplified Income Tax Form w The best news to come out ut of Washington hington in m some days da s 's was the and an k IDu ement Bement that the ration P tints on Q butter were wore cut from 24 to 16 6 At 24 points a pound butter w wa m 11 1 not moving out of the grocers' grocers ice box mil The consumption of horse meat is b growing rapidly in this country A number of packing plants are arc devoted exclusively to the preparation n of horse meat At one time horse meat was used only as dog food fo d and in the preparation of meat meal for stock foods Its use as human food which which began beg n in a small way has spread rapidly r A Topeka Kansas Kan as packing plant four and aDd five car loads loa s of horse meat each day to Boston and New York Shipments arc are also made to Chicago South Bed Berid Indiana Louisville Ken Ken- Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky tucky and Kansas City Mo Some of the horses slaughtered are arc the wild range horse from the west and some are horses horse that hit have become too loo old for work It is the variety that mat maRes makes life interesting a local man said yes yes- yesterday yesterday Back in 1933 I didn't have havethe havethe havethe the money to buy the food I want want- wanted ed I have the money now but not the points Whether or 01 not the rain on the roof sounds pleasant or unpleasant depends on whether it H follows a along along along long dry spell or 01 a long wet spell The Increase in salary voted by Congress to members of the House and to the civil service employees will total a year In our opinion the increases was poorly timed At a a time when the disposition is to hold salaries in inline inline inline line and when private industry is prohibited from making wage in In- creases crea es Congress goes all out and sets an nn example that cannot fail fall to create um In the opinion of a n local poultry raiser the theft of poultry would be sharply f reduced throughout the country if all such cases were tried before juries made up wholly of faim faint women It would save the human race racen a n lot of oi trouble if quick tempered individuals when they lost their theil tempers should become tongue tied lied and afflicted with stuttering If there ever was a time when a aman aman man lIlan should stutter it appears to tous tous tous us that when he loses his temper is the time Throughout the Pacific Americans Ameri Ameri- Americans Americans cans are arc dying in foxholes in plane crashes and in disasters at sea But lint at Detroit CIO work workers workers ers are loafing on the job jot white their leaders debate whether their organization or an shall be used in work oik at auto auto- automobile mobile plants If the boys when they come cone home dont don't do something some sonic something thing about cleaning up the mess and restoring the lost lo t dignity to labor a lot of folks arc nie going to be disappointed The Allies are aIe laced with the problem of permitting Germany to recover reO a n point where she Mic is self sustaining and may even en pros prosper prosper prosper per but not mil to the point where she he can ean recover er militarily It is nice n e problem and and not one that lint can he be disposed ll of oC lightly and for all time lly IY merely issuing an n order and setting selling up a plan It IL will 10 se require quire quiro eternal vigilance eternal persis persis- persistent persistent persistent tent vigilance to do 10 it Wc WI dont don't anticipate she will tale take it but we think it good advice to Japan to surrender r now and save save what she can cal before it is too toolate late lalo lal lien Her only other alternative is i destruction complete complete devastating ng destruction d and the misery and hardship that will follow It The midwest ml west is up on its ear because a poorly prepared and amid un un- untrue untrue true story regarding this great area of the life nied State Stales was sent ent out by the office of OWl as ns an authoritative government agency agen statement to the Russian people The article pictured the midwest mid west as a dreary stretch of ground with without without without out industries with livestock mis rais raising ing confined to the mountainous areas arens An eighth grade school boy or girl gill could have done a better job without half trying Contributing to the mens' mens shirt shortage is the fact that the girls gi have begun to weal wear em Given a pair pail of dads dad's overalls o and one of his shirts daughter is just as glamorous glam glamorous orous as when clothed in conventional conven conven- conventional conventional garb gaib A young joung woman with wilh the nack hack of expressing herself on the lie type type- typewriter writer wrote the folks at nt home her impression of Norman Rockwell's Hockwell's portrait of Gay Gary Cooper in the cowboy outfit he wears wems in his hits new picture She said lie He has on a n violet blue jacket jacl et with cobalt blue lining over a turquoise shirt with an orange scarf around his neck gold pants pacts I ants and belt brown shoes and nd lavender lie He stands tans on ona a misty lavender ground in a pool of yellow lemon light and slung around his hi slim hips is a wisteria- wisteria colored gun in a brown holder with touches of dubonnet In his hands he holds a brown and biege saddle The back hack ground is a to to- tobacco tobacco tobacco bacco gold burn barn and a long low purple hill with gold and cattail cattail- catt brown stuff growing at the foot of it And on his face is that look that starts the propellers whirling inside of you She closed the let letter o weve we've just ter le Ier with wills 0 yes yos S 'S girls got to see him The flies made up UI the first filst kamikaze corps They will power dive into the butter butte or the cream pitches pitcher in fn open view of the swat swat- swatter ter The Thc United States Stales needs a hun bun hundred dred years of peace to pay our bills It will take that long even with the best management cOo This country sent tnt over ovel pounds of used clothing to the needy of Europe and is still the I best bet clothed nation on earth |