Show EDITORIALS The Tue Lord is my rock and my fortress and ud my deliverer Samuel Samuel With tile the relief program farm fa m aid nid and old pensions it t is begin begin- beginning beginning ning to appear that goal IS ISto isto s sto to get everyone everone cv lined up to a point where they th y will receive aid from the government The only point not yet et worked out is after every every- everyone everyone everyone one gets on the list who is is going I to provide the funds to keep things going No satisfactory explanation has bas been found for the reason that many men who otherwise write legibly always alwa's sign their names in ina ina ina a manner that no one can decipher them themI If I there is anything thing that irritates tes me a woman wom n reader of this paper said sad in n the office it is to have a man man who sat around arou d the house al l morning doing nothing T begin egin about ab ut eleven o'clock to at attempt at- at attempt attempt tempt to hurry h rry me m to get dinner ready read l The grocers grocer's best friends are are the t e families with half a a dozen teen age boys and rl in them Almost without exception the press of the country has expressed its disapproval of the act of us tice Ferdinand Pecora in declaring a Si in the James Hines racket case The judgment was ren rendered rendered rendered dered on the sheerest technicality technicality- The question queston that was was asked by Prosecutor Dewey and because of which which- the decision was rendered was Dont you you remember any an tes tes- testimony testimony tes- tes about Hines and the poul- poul poultry try racket there by him The question was never answered but it was charged that it was pre pre- prejudicial prejudicial prejudicial judicial to the interest of Hines There is no record that a mistrial was ever ev r granted gran on ona a similar tech technical error committed as late in the trial as was Prosecutor Deweys Dewey's error There are arc however howe many in instances instances instances stances on record in which similar errors were passed over o by trial judges with a caution to the at- at attorney torney torne aad an instruction to the jury jury to t rd the question and the a new trial may be thc prosecutions prosecution's c attack has as been would be rather aT could be se- se aJ s conceded con e ed there would be bei in the first trial Even the thc legal profession has been awakened to the danger of such a a. precedent and laws are arc being pro pro- proposed proposed proposed posed by representatives of the theN New N ew York bar barto to make impossible such uc a repetition pf of of justice and defeat of the peoples people's rights and ind lizard are arc able to see sec in two different directions at atthe atthe atthe the same time The program of preparation for forwar forWar forwar war being engaged in by every na na- nation nation na- na nation tion that so drains them diem of vital resources and brings them to the verge erge of bankruptcy might be lik uk- likened likened ened to the practice of the man who loads himself down with par par- partial partial partial payments on the house and the car and a half dozen other things until he has nothing left lefton lefton on on which w ich to live I c or improve his situation I I The attitude of the Czechs when faced with dismemberment and an an- annihilation annihilation annihilation by Germany shows that when it comes to protecting our liberties or rights the size of the odds against us are counted as naught Ve We do not measure then in yards and inches or dollars and cents we measure in terms of life liCe and living persons apply for life insurance each year and are are turn turn- turned turned turned ed down as undesirable risks risks' else pay our Prime Minister Chamberlain it I appears expects every Czech to do dohis dobis dohis his bis duty The Germans living along the German borders of Slova Czecho-Slova- CzechoSlovakia kia have always been more than fairly treated by the Czechs They have Rave been allowed their own schools colleges and institutions in the border of Italy have been On the other hand Germans living mistreated in i every way They have been forced to tak take Italians names The cemeteries of their war dead have been desecrated desecrated- They The have been forced to learn the Italian language and numbers o of them have been sent to island prisons sons eons as a punishment for teaching the German language to their chil chit children children dren in kindergartens In spite o of all of this no word has come from itom Hitler that he proposes to annex that portion of Italy inhabited by these people to Germany Gennan The dif dif- dif dif- difference ference in the size of Italy's army L. L and Ind the army of the little state o of I Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia serves senes to temper I his i wrath and takes take the bluster ou out Si J of the worlds world's greatest blusterer 11 0 You may ma think you ou hav ha i troubles trouble deciding what nights d J 1 shall sall use the family car r but think of the size of that thal problem pro leip in a afew Jew few years in iu tIlt lh Dionn ib J 0 j f. f i S preparation for war War Var and the the sub sub- substance substance will continue col to consume stance of nations until some na na- nation nation na- na nation tion or alliance of nations with the right motives motes mot es become strong enough to dictate to others the ex ex- extent extent tent to which they can prepare for war Until some trustworthy pow pow- power er cr accepts this responsibility and has the courage to enforce it by byarms byarms arms or trade boycotts the arma arma- armament armament ment race with its and demoralizing effects will continue to drain the life liCe blood of the world The big problem is to discover a nation that the rest of he world would be willing to trust with such sucha a responsibility Some one has figured out a total the labor costs of of as meals prepared by a farm wife over overa a period of thirty years at 15 cents a meal This does not allow any any- anything anything anything thing extra for overtime for late meals nor anything for ridiculous and excessive penalties by labor boards boar s. s Why is it a neighboring editor asks that a woman who believes everything a man tells her before marriage is so skeptical of him afterward |