Show f A EDITORIAL It sounds to read the news a though a great many persons were losing their thir lives li in airplane crash crashes es eSt but the figures will ill show that thai more m re persons lost their lives dur duro during during ing the Christmas holiday In the United States alone in accidents accident caused by drinking and drunken drunker drivers than were killed in the whole world all of last year A local man wonders if the quail and other game can read signs si ns 11 He lie suspects that they can for the rea reLl reason reason son that they appear most plentiful on the farms posted with signs sign which read No Hunting The editor of the Love Love lorn column in one of our exchanges exchange answers a male correspondents correspondent question as to how he can tell when he ha is really rally in love with t woman by saving that the best test is whether or not he loves the woman as much as he docs does himsel We have always felt that if w we belonged to the moneyed class known as landlords that we would not feel right in refusing admission admission admission sion to one of our rental properties to a man and his wife because they the chanced to have children We Ve have often wondered d how long these landlords could stay in business il II i all of the families should with one on accord cease ceLise having children The would soon find their apartments apartment empty with holes in the roofs and an anthe d the plaster falling off the walls dm The determination resulting from fro m the vacancies would mount up fas faster faster ter tel than that caused by children childre n living in the house hou e. e If II we were a landlord and one one of our tenants objected to a family with children moving In next door we would serve notice on the child haters tc te t r vacate the premises in the shortest t time permitted under the law There is something vitally and fundamentally wrong with the lh c adult who hates hales children We do not know Senator Bilbo Bilbe o or anything about the merits of the th e charge that he aided certain firms firm firmin s es in securing war contracts Our feel feeling feeling ing in the matter is that if he did and it is decided derided that it is a crime o and that he should be punished for forit fo foit r it It the same measure masure of punish punish- ment should be meted out to all a of those in high public places who engaged in the same activities dur duro during during ing our late war We can see no reason for making a goat of Bilbo merely because some one has a personal dislike for him aim it is the business that stays at home that helps this town to It helps the town and everyone in It by creating more employment for the tho people who live here tl U helps sup sup- support support port the churches and the tho schools and contributes to the betterment in many man ways of this community The dollars spent In the big town help the big town They help make the big store bigger they help tho the churches and the tho schools of or tho the big town but they the dont don't contribute In any way toward the prosperity and the well being of the home town Be a home builder and homo home boost boost- booster er trade at home and help our own 11 home institutions Every person whether or not he attends church should contribute generously to some church If l he heis heis heis is not a member of any church but believes that the churches are arc a 11 good influence and are arc good for forthe forthe forthe the community he lie can divide his contribution among all or several of the churches All the money re re- received received received by br churches is spent doing good quickening the conscience of o people and the community uphold fog ing ig the right ideals and in making the town to a better letter place in which to live and rear a 11 family A man may think he is too busy bus to attend church or personally may not be interested in attending but there is no good reason any fair fall man liv living living ing in a community and enjoying ing the benefits of the church influence influence ence can give for not making a con con- contribution contribution contribution to the work of the church It is the least he can do to hold holdup holdup holdup up his end of his obligation to society so so- ciet We are arc in accord with ith President Truman's idea on income tax re re- reduction reduction Instead of making a blan blan- blanket blanket ket reduction of ten per cent on all incomes President Truman would raise the exemption on in in- income income come taxes to This would relieve most of the small taxpayers ers and wage earners and would affect a good many man thousand tax tax- taxpayers payers pa ers The saving effected inci inci- incidentally incidentally dentally would go to add to the income of the larger taxpayer since most of or those in the small income group roup would spend their tax say sav sayings ings in the purchase of manufactured ed cd goods The millions of dollars lopped off their tax bills instead of going through federal channels would go through the channels of industry creating larger sales more employment ment and better business busi ness K The Thc editor of one of our ex exchanges exchanges changes chang's notes not s that alimony is a tern by which when two people make a mistake one on of them con con- continues to Pay cay ay for Cor it |