Show EDITORIAL Schools will soon be out for the summer vacation The smart boy and the smart girl will endeavor to find employment for the sum sum- summer summer summer mer if possible begin to learn a useful trade Later years will show them thew of such a course lourse There is nothing to be gained in spending the summer vacation in idleness The giner snap is one of the old oldest cst est cookies in the grocers cookie bins Ginger snaps were in evi evi- evidence evidence dence five years ago They were the same size at pres present eat ent day giner snaps and tasted the same A whole host of more modern mod mod- modern modern ern and more glamorous cookies have come into inlo being in the last fifty years but the ginger snap i remains the patriarch of them all Most towns are arc thinking about an nn airport and no doubt in time most towns will have some sort of an nn airport or landing field A word of caution has lias been offered that small towns do not rush in in- into into into to the building of airports and laying out large sums of money for fields and hangers until the matter of air traffic becomes a little more settled In this way it itis itis itis is believed many costly mistakes can be spared Most towns towns were laid out before the automobile days and sooner or later become faced with the problem of widening streets to provide more parking space After all the arguments are arc set set- settled settled settled and the smoke clouds clear away prices of merchandise made by those industries in which wage increases have been beon granted arc are going to go up Mr Ultimate Con Con- Consumer Consumer sumer who has had no say in the matter will as usual pay the bill the greatest racing ng events held in inthe inthe inthe the United States The first Ken Kentucky Kentucky tucky Derby race was run in May 17 1875 These races have been run each year since then Time The race is run by three year olds carrying not to exceed lbs Ibs Its popular popular- popularity ity is such that it attracts visitors from all parts of the country and anda a crowd of is not unusual For the first ten years the purse was This was then reduced ed d to plus the tho fees of the starters Under the new plan the purse runs as high as The Kentucky Derby gets its name England the Earl of Derby COO It appears to us tins that the hous hous- housing housing housing ing matter is being made unnecessarily unnecessarily difficult by those in author author- authority ity The first thing tIling it appears to tous tous tous us that should be done is to get some material coming into the small local lumber yards of the country If this is done the local builders will see sec to it that houses 4 forth coming There Theren n la no too need l as we see se it to talk tal Ie of pre pre- prefabricated prefabricated re- re fabricated houses and to otherwise complicate a simple situation The thing to do is to concentrate te on the production of lumber and and building materials Practically every lumberyard in every small smalltown smalltown smalltown town in the country is stripped ped clean of material Not one of them has enough lumber to build a dog kennel Get the lumber com corn coming coming corning ing and the housing situation will solve itself cOo cOoAn An exchange reports that a n re re- recent recent re- re recent cent survey shows that 52 per cent of the people belong to some church as IS against 22 per cent in 1890 1690 1 90 This cant can't have any connection connection tion with the fact that they are arc usually referred to as ns the tho Gay Nineties I am in a quandary a local housewife said yesterday my but but- butcher butcher butcher cher received three hams ham his first in three weeks I would like very much to have purchased a whole one but I though the man has only thre and und there are arc a n lot lotof lotof lotof of ham hungry people with whom he has to divide them so I com corn compromised promised by taking a small piece of one of them then I then asked for lor some aged cheese I had one aged cheese this morning my butcher said but hut John Smith came camo in and took the whole cheese Am I right or was Smith right Should I have taken ti n whole ham or all three of the home hame the same as Smith did didin didin didin in the case of the cheese or 01 was wasI I right in leaving some for some someone someone someone one else There are so many Smiths that sometimes I wonder if being a Jones pays pars cOo cOo- cOoAn An exchange prints a letter from an anxious father in which the worried parent asks the question ques ques- question question I tion How can I convince my daughter that the young man she wants to marry is wholly worth worth- less The editor replied Let her marry him I have found a way a II local man said yesterday to beat the th shirt shortage I r buy sports shirts There seems to be l e plenty of them They are comfortable and dur- dur able and easy to launder No ties required with them I figure I save on the shirts and the ties tics and am more comfortable than I would be in a dress shirt which I cannot get cOo When you plant trees shade trees and fruit trees in selecting shade trees varieties should he be chosen that do best in this parti parti- particular particular particular cular area No matter how beautiful beautiful ful a tree is it is not advisable to plant it if it is not suited to the soi and climatic condition of the community If it isn't it will not do well Most Most every property own own- owner owner owner er can think of one or more loca locations loea-I loea Lions for a good trees The bill was making fair progress progress ress and even its open enemies be be- began began began gan to feel that the best they could do was to affect a compromise ise until small business and small industry woke up to what was being put over on them and mar mar- their forces for the fight Even with this help only a few degrees of program was vas being made due to the fact that small business and small industry is an unorganized group and is not in ina a position to bring group pressure upon congress Last week the picture changed Time The farm group entered the scene and demanded that if wages were going joing to be Increased beyond economic levels by govern government meat ment fiat they should be Included in n the computation of farm parity prices The rhe farm bloc had a good goodcase goodcase goodcase case because the clever amend amendments ments tacked onto the bill hill which might night easily have been overlooked would have resulted in farm work work- workers workers workers ers being covered by the thc law If the law passes and if it is isable Isable isable able to accomplish the purpose of its designers much farm labor will be paid by government fiat a wage of 30 a week of forty hour and cents lents for each hour of overtime Since most farm days clays arc ure of ten hours duration a farmer will be forced under the law to pay his hired help for a week of sixty hours The farm bloc temporarily broke broko up tiP the wage hour play playhouse playhouse house when they asked that in hr the computation of parity prices for or farm products the labor costs be figured in for the farm labor em em- employed employed and for the numbers of the farm arm family amily employed enough those who had worked their shirts off for forthe forthe the Hie wage bill and those who had acquiesced in increases in all other categories of labor were dumbfounded that agriculture should enter the strike picture and try and get a n share of income increases which have been handed out so freely to others since since the war I. I The farm group appears to have found itself in the wild scramble for or more moie and more moru that is going on in this tins country today mid and may stand stant firm in its demand for a ashare ashare share hare of the pay increases that arc are being eing so generally passed around In the past the fanner farrier has assum- assum I ed cd d each cacti new additional load and he 10 and the members of his ins family have lave worked harder and longer hours that others might work less less' shorter horter hours It looks now as LIS though hough things might be bo evened up I IThe The story loly is ot a. a patron patTOn u ulie ot of the lie schools of a certain city who deemed it his hi patriotic duty fluty to visit the schools and check up on om what kind of an instruction job the lie teachers were doing On this particular occasion lie he visited a high ligh school class The rhe teacher knowing the time purpose of his visit asked if it he cared to test the stu stu- students student's students student's students student's dents dent's knowledge Ile lie said suid that he lie did and stepping ste to the blackboard wrote the Roman Homan numerals Then peering over his spectacles at a n good looking girl in the front row asked Young lady Id I'd like to have you OU tell me what that means means Love and kisses the girl promptly replied |