Show 1 EDITORIAL Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard helId In the light and md that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops Luke Luke O It should not be necessary but we feel teel impelled to remind our readers that Christmas is just around the corner comer and there won wont won't t be too many shopping days left leftT T O A prediction is being made tot to the he effect that President i Truman will make one more ma ma- major major majar jor jar effort to effect peace with f Stalin If It this fails tails he will in In- increase Increase Increase crease budget of or this country from j billions to around 20 bil bil- bilt lion t O t The Thc office ortice of Secretary of or State Stater t It position r is a most strenuous M. M has worn out several strong men meni i during the tile past several sever l years and andr now it is predicted that the pres present r ent incumbent George Marshall will retire O r I was wrong as could be on the FR election a 3 local man said follow tollow- following ing the announcement of or the re re- returns returns returns turns but when I look at the com com- company company pany I was in I cant can't feel teel too badly about it ft All of or the experts all the pollsters the big papers the party leaders and their eaten eaten- satellites ites ices were wrong wrong only only Truman f was right j f O J The price of cream has r gone down sixty per cent since the war No other item of ot food tood and no man man- manufactured 0 item has taken such a aprice aprice aprice price reduction as has cream It has led the way both as to the amount and in promptness of re re- reduction red duellers d in price all other commo- commo O r Even the most optimistic person has given up the idea that there can be such a thing as a 3 good five cent ent cigar cig r. r O The other fellows fellow's money always looks bigger and his troubles smaller than our own O The Thc secret thought in the mind of Jones is I r dont don't see sec how Smith does it on his income Singularly enough Smith is thinking the same thing about Jones O One of the things the new ad ad- administration administration ministration should understand is that the election is the peoples people's mandate for tor low Jow rent modest cost housing The issue has been evad- evad evaded I ed cd too long There has been too tooS many houses built and not S enough for tor working men and I young oung couples just starting out hat t the housing administration should do is get down to the facts 4 of life lie and learn from the mUg little mUgI I man what the nations nation's needs are arc We can think of a dozen men in inthis inthis inthis this community who could do a a. a better job in the housing matter r than has been done They arc are down downto to earth persons and know the country's needs 00 ti The man who is living on his Social Security retirement fund these days is having a difficult time to keep up with the individual ual ml drawing a 3 welfare check the check the fact is he isn't doing it Looking ahead to 2048 when it Is predicted we will have in this country speed trains It Itis Itis Itis is interesting to contemplate what the result will be when a super super- supersonic supersonic supersonic sonic speed train collides with a jet fet propelled auto on a grade crossing O The hard job about being a par par- parent parent ent a local parent tells teUs us is the making of an effort to make some some- something something thing of ones one's children while some some-I at nt the same time the children have L a bitter rankling that they are lIe being done a great injustice Living as I do well inland a friend writes I 1 cant can't get as much exercised over the longshoreman's strike as I am over ova the fact that corn com pickers are scarce and hard to get O I wonder a local man said yes yes- yesterday yesterday if jf when my wile ife and I 1 arc are invited to a friends home there is isas isas Isas as much time and fuss spent in straightening up the house as there is when friends arc are Invited to our house In the interest of peace and quiet and composed nerves I think the two families should get together and agree to leave both houses as is It should not be any worse for my friend to spend an hour or so in a house that I have to live li in all the time and certainly If U I live in it all the time my friends can put up with an hour In my house Oo- Oo The Thc discerning editor of one of our exchanges noting that as far faras faras faras as his information goes there has been no children born to the Dionne family since the arrival of the concludes that food prices being what they are hesi hesi- hesitancy hesitancy tancy in regard to an encore is un un- O Being a successful employer is isa isa isa a fine art art ln an art that some men never acquire Some employers seem to have the faculty of keep keep- keeping keepIng keeping ing everyone in the place on a wire edge all jumps and jitters In such an atmosphere no one does docs his best Contrasted with this type of employer Is the fellow who goes about his job of or directing his help quietly in an atmosphere of harmony and eager cooperation It Itis Itis Itis is worth twice as much to work for tor the first type of employer as asit asit it Is the latter type rIe oua Whenever I hear a man com com- complaining that the women submit supinely to uncomfortable styles a local woman said yesterday I find myself recalling the days when men wore starched shirts and collars from two and a half halt inches high and up They were the last word in discomfort Oo Within the past fifteen years we have seen 30 cent wheat and wheat three cent cattle and thirty cent cattle caUle and twenty cent corn and dollar corn The same wheat same corn same hogs same cattle attle just a difference in condi Oo Some one has figured It Jt out that there are a million more women eligible to vote in this country than there are men If they all ll get out and voted the women could run this country O here is no such thing in lift life l standing still One is either on his Jn's way up or down The smart man iman knows which way he is go- go ing If H he is going down he does docs i the thing necessary to correct it belore it is too late oO x There There arc few things that give quite so much satisfaction as turn turn- turning turning turning ing off olf an unsatisfactory radio pro gram What a wonderful place the world would be if one could turn turnoff turnoff off as easily all the crude and crass and disgusting and annoying things as he can turn off oU the radio I instinctively distrust a local man said the other day a back There is something about this practice that makes it difficult and it seems impossible for a back backslapper backslapper backslapper to be sincere sincer and of all the things the world needs in a aman aman aman man it is sincerity Many people are arc led astray in their appraisal of individuals be- be bigger and more important acts The best and surest way to ap appraise ap- ap appraise praise an individual is by the little things he be says Jays and docs does A man Is Ison Ison Ison I on guard when he puts over o a big bli thing and is 15 on ins his best behavior he knows he is 15 being watched At such times ise displays a false front It Is in m the doing of or the little common place things that thai he lets down the bars and reveals his true self seU Often the most terrible thing about a fatal Accident is 15 the mem memo memory memory ory in the mind and conscience of 01 the guilty pa paL pasty ty that he could have prevented pre it with a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more care and a little less care care- O View points are strange things Uncle High says for exampLe there are arc the parents who wont won't permit son to play football for fear icar he will get hurt but who look on with composure and approval when he goes out with the girls gins The leading ea state in m the I b. b S. S S is South Dakota |