Show EDITORIAL The Lord also will be be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in m times of trouble Psalms Psalms 99 Wc We have hare no idea when the war will be he over We Ve arc are sure of one thing thin however and that is it will willbe willbe willbe be over before congress finds a way to pay for it that will suit everyone Most folks have quit asking the butcher butch r if the steak is tender Its steak and that all that counts now Time enough to talk about tender steak after the war is over Next to sitting behind a big per per- person person person son at the picture show the worst thing is to sit behind b hind a fellow who follows his favorite characters character's every movement on the screen by bobbing back and We Ve can usually adjust ourselves in such a away away away way that we get an unobstructed view of the picture between heads and hats but if iI the man in front of ofus ofus us cannot sit still it tires us out our oui movements with his After having havin used cream and sugar in my coffee for or fifty years years a local man said yesterday I have been trying for the past five years to bring myself to like coffee coHee black without I dont don't like it jt sugar any better than I did five years ago and andI I still crave e cra the th cream and sugar It shows the power of a trained appetite After having accustomed an al appetite for cream and sugar for fifty years ears is just cannot be weaned away Ioway from it Now and then one runs across a person who gets Jets so much pleasure criticizing the government that when the administration does some something something I thing of which he approves he is downright unhappy nOn oOn I can sympathize with with the women who will have to slice their bread a local man remarked yesterday I broke my rotary pencil sharpener and am having to use my pocket pocketknife pocketknife pocketknife knife to my pencils A few years ago I considered myself an an i expert when it came to a pencil with a pocket knife but butle I Ive I've lost the knack When I shar shar- sharpen sharpen sharpen pen a pencil now it looks as though it had been sharpened with witha a butcher knife or a hatchet v Rationing is designated design ted to pro- pro provide proVide provide vide fair distribution Through the the rationing program we e all share alike One group group doesn't get gel all it wants ants of any scarce scar e item leaving the rest none This is a good thing to 10 think about when one is inclined inclined inclined ed to criticize rationing A neighboring editor tells of a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man of that community who J had been dating a young school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher for about a L year During that time among other things he hel provided the money for her vaca vacation vaca 1 tion lion trip When he asked her tier 1 to marry him hini she turned him down lie He retaliated by presenting her with a bill for the vacation va trip I After one look at the bill she agreed to marry him and did As you ou may suspect suspect- it didn't last I While I rather hesitate to con con- connect connect fleet God with it in any way a lo local lo- lo local local cal man said yesterday it appears to me that Hitler's decision to at- at attack attack tack lack Russia was an act of God Supposing instead Hitler lid had gone on Cn to England after he defeated r France I ranee We Ve know now that accord accord- ing ins to Vinston Winston Churchill that at that time England had but tanks and little equipment Hitler could have taken England and we would be facing facin an entirely differ differ- different different ent picture today A successful man has been de de- defined de- de defined fined by some one as a man who earns cams more than his wife can spend I and a successful woman is one who vho finds such a man We Ve predict that when the meat rationing program goes in and con con- consumption consumption is set at two pounds r reek week eek spare ribs will vill become a drug dru on the market No one will viLl want to include a pound and a half of bone in his two pounds weekly meat allowance Wc We note that some of the meat markets are selling the trimmings off of spareribs We Ve thought that the die modern method of trimming spareribs trimmed them so close that there was little left on them but hut it seems they are arc to be trim trim- med still closer The fellow who has sat down to a mess of spareribs on n the farm and then the same dish from the city meat shop will understand and what we mean There is considerable agitation iu in ilL Congress for a National lottery as a means of helping to pay for forthe forth the th war var The hc President recently signed a abill abiU abill bill biU raising the pay of federal w ark ork- rk- rk l CS Those earning or less get net a 10 per pcr cent increase se Those earning 2901 2 01 or less get a 10 per percent percent percent cent increase Those receiving ree iving up to would get increase except that those receiving between and would get The increase will cost a total of |