Show At the present time there r is I one paid army officer for each seven enlisted men and one officer in the navy for each ten mIll men We confess to being puzzled about the appointment ol ot this fel fl fellow low Lilienthal as IS head of the Atomic commission One of our favorite columnists praises him and says that he is in every way worthy of the job joh and should re re- receive receive the appointment Another of our favorite columnists insists that he should not be appointed be hI because cause ClUse of his friendliness with the lie Communists Still another brands him as ns a n New Dealer What we Wl need is a Moses to lead us of the wilderness Drives against Communists and Communist sympathizers Ire are get get- getting ting under way in this country A Anew Anew new Communist anti group within the C. C I 1 0 is proceeding to weed out all those in official position within the organization with Com COlli Communistic leanings The Association of Catholic Trade also has n J similar program under way A similar screening is in progress on n- n w 53 of which are believed ed to have strong Communistic leanings The drives by all these agencies Ire are not hysterical efforts but are arc carefully considered moves that arc going to bo be carefully and efficiently carried out The agitation against in ill official positions in this country countr is at It least ast bearing fruit f An exchange e tells of a man in that locality who died at the ago of 95 in spite of the fact that all III his life he drank whisky of all kinds good and bad Another edi editor tor I commenting on the incident notes that the man mall who drinks all kinds of whiskey ages pretty fast and reaches the age of 95 in a rom com comparatively few years One of the few advantages in be ing poor 1001 is that ono one is never dis disappointed appointed by fair weather friends It comes as n t surprise that this country countr which has II always assumed that it had an 1111 ible supply of all mineral resources ces has reached a point where it is isnow isnow now definitely predicted when the present known supply will be ox 1 hausted Unless new sources are discovered the known supply of iron ore will last from 25 to 30 m mears years ears copper cOI per 15 years lead 13 li years ears and zinc 22 years ars England has signified a desire to withdraw from flom India The an an- announcement announcement heralds the end cn of an era for England Once the worlds world's greatest colonizing power whose colonies and whose empire were far flung the mother country countr sees the hand writing on the wall The spirit of independence and home rule role is weakening England's Englan s 's hold holdon on many of her dependencies and she has started on the way w lY to give them up The Thc story is told that when Eu Eu- Eugene Eugene gene Field was a cub reporter he worked for an editor who was a strickler for facts Field was not very methodical and frequently permitted his imagination to wan der away from the simple facts His editor called him to task tak sever sevel several al times and finally told him lIim that unless ss he could stick to facts he would have hare to let him go 0 Field l promised ed to do better this Field the Ille editor shouted one day as he was going goit through of Fields Field's copy COP You state here that Three thousand nine hun dred and ninety nine eyes ees were turned on the speaker Simple enough Field replied there was one one eyed man in the audience Also I heard the voice of the tho Lord saying who shall I send and who will go for us Then said I. I Here am I Here am 1 I send me Isaiah 08 8 As A some see it the British Em Fm Empire pire as M. M has been constituted for forman many man years past is beginning to break up Wc We have hopes if till the Lilienthal len thai matter mailer continues to agitate con con- congress congress gress for foJ several months longer we may learn how to spell the gen gentleman's name Most anyone can be b a 1 leader if he isn't particular in which direction tion he leads the people There are arc always those who seem to bo be wait waiting ing to be led the wrong way Man Alan could he saved a lot of trouble in this world if nature hud had designed him in such uch a II man manner ner that when he got gol mad iliad he would become 40 bO tongue lied he couldn't talk and say the things he will be he sorry for afterwards It seems to tood work od just the opposite When a II man or woman gets mad tho first thing to Joosen up lip is the tongue Reason Heason and judgment step stepaside aside and let lCt the tongue have its ili own way We W one time asked a I small boy hoy whose fact face was wa liberally sprinkled with freckles whore he had got gotten ten all III the freckles Ills His replay was The cow hwo In my lilY I face It seemed as Ii gODS goos an answer as any Ill I'll never forget the expression of an old real estate man a II local reader of this paper said yester day He lie was selling me llIe a I house I I thought I wanted a bigger hilmer house in another part of town hut but he coun counselled selled me to buy huy a smaller house that thai 1 I hall had the money to pay for forIll forIll Ill tell 1111 you ho hI said we cant can't all live In Washington Boulevard and amI besides son 1 sausage and pan pall pancakes cakes taste tast mighty good in a little house bouse that is nil all paid for We W never saw a stingy selfish lit Ilc man or 01 woman who really looked happy happ Without ex exception they the have n II mean stingy selfish ll unhappy look OI lames W W. Drown Brown retiring president dent dell t of Editor and Publisher in ill a II recent speech made mad the charge that tho III American public while spending freely for luxuries is miserly in supporting the churches While national income has increased ed cd says contributions to churches and other at benevolences have decreased n II the 13 years from 1933 to Brown points out the national income of Ameri can rans increased no billion dollars During the same period Rifts gifts to the churches and related benevol benevol- benevolences decreased than more a bil lion The billion withheld represented represented a decrease e oC o 1 per cent During this the I rn nor capita represented a decrease e of f I I to 19 percent n the average per pel capita contribution for fo church members has slumped from f 2031 to 1350 1390 Increased taxes and living livin expenses are not responsible sible sibil for the decrease IleCIa own Drown says He lIe states that after aftel all taxes and living expenses were paid in 1944 1 67 Vj billion were left to be bl spent as the people chose Out of this GT billion n I scant billion hillion went to churches mill and character building agencies Nearly twice this amount Drown Brown says was spent on tobacco three times as IS much lII for fOI movies and recreation seven times as much for alcoholic beverages and nearly ten times as much for jewelry lurs mill and other othel luxuries When grain is put Jut through a still it comes out alcohol the thc thing re n responsible for fot most of the traffic accidents When the same grain is put through h a cow it comes out milk and cream and butter foods that build sturdy bodies alert i minds s and happy people What the world lorld needs is more coWS and less stills I I When we le look 1001 at the national debt of oC over two hundred billion dollars and ami remember that it will liIl take every spare dollar that can be bel wrung from the people in the next I one hundred years we H get one of I the ugly pictures of war that we can all understand If we- we want to highlight the picture a little more I we can call draw on our imagination for a picture of all till tho good things we might have bought lor the peo peo- people pIt of this country with the thC money mOlle burned up in war 31 For example there is fine highways fine hospit hospitals als libraries parks larks research ch foun colleges schools churches and homes The list is endless In addition to this there would be he benone henone none of the misery and the heart heartache ache and the destruction and the desolation c that till the war caused These things cause ause one to feel that the prevention of war and the maintenance of peace is worthy of oI our ou I very best efforts has lias happened to all the big things that the new Congress proposed ed to do If the new Con Can Congress gress expects to base e its claim for consideration at the hands of the voters In on its record of ac ac- accomplishment and fulfillment of promises it il is going to have to change its tactics and show at least some 1 record ol III accomplish accomplish- ment |