Show i EDITORIAL I I For he that f his fles flesh lesh I F shall shan of the flesh lesh r IP p corruption but he that to to the tho Spirit Spin reap life l e everlasting Galatians 68 Ask any man who Is responsible for the Inflation and he will wil willIt It cr promptly tell you OU it is the other fellow A local man expressed as bein beIng extremely thankful that the pres pres- present present present ent inflation did not nol exist when h he was a boy at home with his six brothers and sisters On dad dads dad's earnings he said meal tun time lime I time would have been a pretty grim affair with round steak a at ninety cents a pound and every everything everything everything thing else in proportion I am afraid I would have reached man man- manhood's manhood's hoods hood's estate in any condition c t to combat its ts problems Were were present in a grocery store the other day when tw two crates of bananas were opened Ono One On contained the little scarred S Mexican bananas banan s and the other s. s contained cont in the big and an almost un un- unblemished IJ blemished South American ban ban- anas Without exception the customers custo mers chose the big unblemished South American bananas passing up up the smaller small r scarred Mexican bananas It merely goes to show ShowS S that that- that in selling an article appear appear- appearance i ianco mice ance counts for a great deal ical As Asa a matter of of the Mexican ba ba- banana bamma nana mma with all its scarce and under undersize undersize undersize size Is far superior to the finer appearing South American ban banana ban ban- ana The Th flavor of the Mexican ba ba- banana banana ba- ba banan nana nan is miles ahead of its South American rival An exchange e tells of a young man S man in that locality who married to escape the draft and then dis dis- discovered discovered dis- dis discovered covered he couldn't pass the phy phy- Inflation has been defined as a period when necessities cost as much as luxuries I V JV We are told that one day the lion and the lamb have been seen lying down together has h s been on those occasions when the lamb was inside the lion The demand is being made by bythe bythe bythe the impractical that Congress Congress' in in- increase increase increase crease the minimum wage to a dollar an hour The demand is both silly and impracticable La bor should know better than to contend for it If If Congress should be so impractical as to pass such sucha a law every member will live to S t his foolish act If II unskilled to a dollar doll r an anbe be justified j st an 1 I l 1 line with their actual earning ability arc going to be dismissed S from the pay roll S 1 t S The person who contributes to the spreading of Communism is S contributing to the overthrow of this government There can be no other conclusion for the reason that the Communistic idea of government gov gov- government is- is diametrically i cally opposed ov-I ov S to our form of government and anyone who is deceived in this is not wise vise We received a letter this week from a minister chiding us that we did not print a lengthy article submitted by him on what he terms is a great moral issue He lie threatens us if we do not print his piece that he will no DO longer take the paper We presume that the minister is willing to accord every member of his congregation the same privilege he asks of us that thatis thatis is if he preaches something they do not like or doesn't preach what they tell him to they may quit at at- attending attending attending tending his church We of course do not agree e with this A minister should preach or not preach what he be chooses and md nd a newspaper editor be accorded Lc rd d the same A.- A. Jt gave all ill the single women to think about S. wI wh thirty year old mother of up on on the ilie Oly h An exchange notes is lp-is lp so scarce about that that town that even the lazy luy people pe are having havi g to todo todo todo do their own work I 1 If II as you approach a railroad crossing you hear a train whistle it is a good time to believe all ail you hear In every community there lives an individual who seems to have discovered the secret of getting along without ever doing any any- thing This one from Grit Spouting from a soap box an mat mai- social malcontent took in quite a abit abIt abit bit of territory when he shouted Down with everything that aint amt already down I An exchange exchange tells of an usual accident in ill winch which a cat jumped upon a table broke and upset a coal oil lamp setting the house anu aim tue cat on lire The cat cai streaked through several rooms spreading the tire lire all over the house The reporter concludes the item with the statement that the I house and the cat were a total tola I loss o A local farmer larmer Ive I've heard beard thi the farmers blamed for the high prices I dont don't think the think the blame should be placed on the farmer When we have something to sell we dont don't have a meeting and vote on on the price eW take what the market offers us When we wo buy something we dont don't have a meet meet- meeting meeting ing in and decide by vote what we will pay pay we we pay the price asked asked There may be some group t to blame for the high prices of food but it isn't the farmer fanner It must be an off year in poll poll- tics in Maine we not that at the thi recent election only 84 per cent o othe of the vote went Republican publican n A letter from a friend in Kansas states I notice that out o t in Colorado Color Color- Colorado Colorado ado a lot of peaches were dumped dumpe because there was no market for them I saw some of the same sanie peaches at my grocers priced a at 17 cents a pound I weighted two of them and they weighed J a pound making them eight and half hal cents each cacho Very few people can afford arford to pay seventeen cents a pound for peaches consequently do not buy any If some way could be found to get peaches p aches in in- into into into to the hands of the consumers at ata ata ata a fair price there would not be so many of f them to dump It is too bad that the deals that were made at Yalta and Teheran and other places were not made public immediately imm after they were made They are being ex exposed exposed posed now and no one thinks they were ere very well handled It looks as though while we furnished the money to fight the war we were left eft holding h the sack Our leaders it appears were poor horse trad trad- ers lIOn The experts claim that there is a recession coming Just when they do not n t know At the present time the he Marshall plan is furnishing an anart artificial art stimulus to business It Its Itis Itis is s being urged that Congress put the brakes on inflation by re re- credit This will result in restricted loans by banks and a aurb curb urb on installment i nt buying This method meth d will not produce an imme imme- immediate immediate diate effect but but butwill will in time result I In n a slowing down of buying It is isa isa a powerful remedy that must be applied cautiously to escape disastrous trous rous results to Ito the patient Mar Mar- Mariner Marriner Marriner riner iner Eckles of the Federal Re- Re Reserve Reserve serve erve board says that unless some sort ort o 0 are applied now a later ater burst is sure Tile The big problem in the coming election lection to both major parties is Row How ow many votes will allace get The he platform th ah v. v out out- t reserve or abandon peace P r equal l. l rights is is' is going ito Lo iet of of from fl in the U thid g. g Tb e cc c t of the Col vote voted wid Wd d the votes of f many many who wh are re not Communists Comm This This' same attern the Communists hav have fco Jo foil hiked l in other countries Th re rethey r they hey have been bc n successful in iii get- get getting getting ting ing a hold Their leaders align themselves with the dissatisfied element lement get located in key ions and then work back of the th scenes The strategy is everywhere and its seems to be A in this country If II there therL theres s 5 s another big depression such a arty might conceivably come power Jower ower An exchange tells t of a county n a midwestern state in which third me-third of all of the county's goes for welfare The condition is indefensible at a time when there is an abundance 01 ol work vork to be had of all kinds This ame same condition prevails in many parts arts of the country It causes us uso to o have a greater respect for our forefathers who never heard of county welfare and who somehow managed to provide their own wel- wel welfare welfare fare are instead of depending upon the he labor and savings of others for or it t J vy If I had one wish granted me mey meby meby by y a friendly geni a local man said aid the other day who vho ho has a fin- fin finick finicky icky ick stomach and who vho has to watch vatch carefully what he eats cats it would be that I could have back again the stomach of my boyhood that ever rebelled at anything I ate green apples cucumbers ham ham- hamburgers hamburgers burgers and dill pickles I cOo Just because a friend happens to ask you how you OU are doesn't mean that bat he wants you to give him all the details |