Show For not he that that I IFor himself is approved but whom toe the t e eLord Lord Second Corm Corin Corinthians Corin- Corin Corinthians 1018 How England regards the help that is given through the thc th Marshall plan is expressed by a number of oi England newspapers The London Economist said It is fitting that Me peoples of Western Europe E rope should attempt to renew their thell ca Ca- capacity Capacity for wonder so that they can I return to the United States a grad grad- gr d- d in some way commensurate with the aid they are about to re re- re- re The London Daily Herald said saith From a catastrophe we have h ve saved by the action of the govern govern- government gov government ment and the people of or the United States Let us acknowledge e it frankly and with seemly gratitude grab We have been be n saved for the mo mo- moment moment ment mont but it is only a reprieve We cannot cann t indefinitely live on the Am Am- American American taxpayer The Recovery pro pro- program program program gram is a challenge The Manches Manchester ter Guardian refers to the program of as a expression the confidence of the American people and challenged the nations of western Europe to rise to the occasion and carry through This story appeared in one of our exchanges A crosse ed lawyer once had bad occasion to question two wo eyed cross-eyed jury men What is your I name he asked one of them The Theother Theother Theother other thinking he was speaking to him replied John Smith I didn't ask you the lawyer said to which the juryman replied I didn't say anything I am looking for a lawn mower a local man said the other day that pushes as as easily on my lawn as it does docs on the floor of the hard hard- hardware hardware ware store Some experts have condemned the White House in Washington as asa asa asa a fire trap In our opinion it is nothing to get disturbed over For that matter as we ve see it the whole world orld is a fire trap All it needs is for some foolish person to start things The new half dollars dol ars are out One side bears the likeness of Ben Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin jamin Franklin and the other side the liberty bell Since half dollars were first minted in 1794 the eagle cagle I has been the thc major design on on the reverse side of the coin On the Franklin half dollar the eagle has only oaly a minor part The Treasury hopes that the new coin will be a reminder that thrifty manage manage- management management ment mont is as important to individuals today as it was in Franklins Franklin's time There will ill not be any more of the theold theold theold old half dollars minted but those now in circulation will not be with with- drawn We recall that a few months ago after the coinage of the new penny all of the Indian head pennies dis dis- disappeared disappeared disappeared appeared from circulation pre pre- presumably presumably presumably went into the hands of the collectors Today one seldom sees an Indian head penny We would like to have one drop a word to the collectors that the white pen pen- pennies pennies pennies nies coined during the war when copper was scarce are no longer being minted News of this fact should result in their all disappear disappear- disappearIng ing from circulation We never did like the things They dont don't look like money Remember the boys who went about telling us that prices would come down and there would be plenty of goods of all kinds when the 0 P A was abolished a local man said yesterday Well it didn't happen that way and these prop prop- prophets bets who were headed by Senator Robert Taft are singing mighty low on this subject The only con con- control control that is being exercised today is the control imposed by prices so high that much merchandise cannot be bought by people of small means I was in a meat mar mar- market ket the other day and noticed that round steak was ninety cents a pound I asked the butcher what he e had haq that a working man with five children could buy He studied awhile a and said sad Well the only thing I have is port pOlk liver It is true that there is plenty of meat for the fellow who can afford to a dollar a pound for for It it but the pay abundance is caused by the t e fact the thc themen themen that owing to the thc high price of small means cannot buy men meat as he lie could under the thc 0 O P A Under 0 P A the tile supply was ration rationed rationed ed cd at a fair air price so so that everyone his share Under the thc present got plan it is rationed according to the thc purchasers purchaser's ability to pay Because of the inability of or steel to keep up with the tle de demand d de- de demand production mand there is a growing disposition disposition tion to substitute s for steel when when- whenever whenever whenever ever possible Some states are us us- using lag ing in aluminum of which there ther is a plentiful supply for auto license plates This will result in an enor enor- enormous enormous saving since the steel used in auto plates is used but once and and is never neve recovered With some s me thirty million cars on American e highways over tons of steel are re used each year in license plates lates alone Washington Irving caused c used Rip Van Winkle to sleep for twenty and then come back into a years completely changed world In the t e fast moving world of today Rip wouldn't have to sleep twenty years ears to see a amore more changed world than he lie did after his prolonged nap One year today brings more changes chan cs than Rip saw after twenty Catskills years sleep in the A Boston Doston newspaper recommends rhubarb ice cream Boston Doston hereto hereto- heretofore heretofore heretofore fore has enjoyed a pretty good rep reputation for its discrimination in the thc matter of the proper preparation of beans but if it expects to con con- continue continue to enjoy the praise and gratitude gratitude tude of a nation for giving to it this delectable dish it had better b sing pretty low on the matter of ice cream I f The Thc editor of one of our exchanges es offers this grain of wisdom to its readers The Thc little boy who went to the thc store and forgot what it was his mother had sent serit him for grew up to be a Congress I Before you become too critical of peanut butter as a desirable article of food it might be well velI to remember that around pounds of peanuts are arc ground up for peanut butter buttel each year The who glibly tells us not to worry never convinces us We worry anyway any o I II I had a patient a despondent maiden lady who seemed to have lost interest in life and was becom I becoming becoming ing an hypochondriac Finally I hit upon a plan of having her tell me a funny story every time slip came for consultation It went hard hardat at first but by hy and by she became to enjoy it Before she got through she was in the business of collect collect- collecting collecting ing stories and developed a knack of telling them She became happy through h her humor Dr William S. S Sadler A long for the care cafe care free happy days a local business man said yesterday when all a little busi busi- business business ness man had to do was to look after his business He didn't have havea a payroll tax a sales tax a social security or a withholding tax to complicate the thc problem of doing business Nowadays in addition to the problem of conducting the busi business business business ness one has to keep a set of books that takes a good share of the spare time As I recall it every everyone everyone everyone one who was thrifty and willing to work got along in those days and were every bit as happy as people are are today in spite of all the costly frills that have been added to t our scheme of living If the business is large enough to employ a book book- bookkeeper bookkeeper bookkeeper keeper it is less oppressive but the little fellow who does much of or his own work and in addition to his own bookkeeping is buried under undera a mass of records and reports It makes us homesick for the good old days As effort to find a cure for can cancer can I I ce continues the opinion also gains gams acceptance that the only hope to date in the battle against cancer is its early detection The best advice that can be giver given is to seek a doctor at the first indication that there is something wrong in some part of the body I As we understand it the writing of a political platform but it has hasto hasto to mean everything to everybody We note that that the t e scientists have I been successful in In producing a blue tomato It appears to us to have nave been been a wholly wasted effort After having eaten the thc delicious red tomato since the memory of man not to the contrary we are not going to be turned aside by the whim of science Think of blue lue tomato soup blue It Itis ItIS is enough to give one the blues merely to think about it Having tried unsuccessfully on I several occasions to give away a dog we view with secret admira admira- tion lion the genius who can dispose I of a dog for money It represents a high degree of super salesman salesman- ship How is it that after politician tosses his hat in ion the ring he still I continues to talk through it |