Show EDITORIAL EDITORIAL- There arc are a number of oC good let lett letter to ter writers in this community who win are arc naturally Ofle when it cometo comes come to writing an all interesting readable letter They could exercise c this tal talcut talent talent tal- tal ent cut in no 1 better hetter WI way than writing to the boys bays in the service Few Fc things arc Ire more acceptable to th the boy hoy awa away front home than the right kind of a letter Anyone none who senda sends send a letter Jelter of that kind kiml to 10 a young roan man in ill the service i is doing a real service ervice to 10 the thc soldier and to 10 the thc coun country I rr One can C'an be tlC ju t as IS a away way from front a four room eolla cottage collage e 01 on ona a back hack street as lie he can ran be from a aten ten room house up tip on the avenue I The Thc otc ove of home has nothing to todo todo todo do with its size sire or location What it is mid nut whoever wherever it is it is home hom e A commit committee lee is a device to slow v up action on a matter clatter As a rule the slowing up tip process is in proportion proportion pro pro- portion to the number on the com cont- mit A committee of ten requires es cs lon longer er to arrive at al a than a committee of three thc and ami i if the committee is lar larger er even a long longer longor or er I time is required to reach a de tic- e- e After a man elan reaches sixty he hl may stay tell his friends t that hat he lie is as young YO as he ever was but hut stiffer joints and slowed up reactions tell him a different story I lie He J e knows in his bis heart that he is merely bluffing A nation is not worthy to 10 be he say sav sayed cd ed if in the hour of its fate fale it will wilt not gather up all its ils jewels of manhood man manhood manhood hood and life and go JO down own into the conflict however howe blood bloody and doubt doubtful doubtful ful on measureless ruin or complete success success James lames James A. A Gar- Gar Garfield Garfield field 1864 1 The Thc fact that the young men have gone to the army and the de tie- defense defense plants has created a problem in the small town barber business Many shops ar arc closing closing- for th the dur so much you ou Cant Can't ant tant hardly afford a hair hale cut now II Ill IU Kansas there are arc fifteen good sized towns that have no barber Business has fallen off to such an ani extent that it was no longer profitable profitable profitable profit profit- able for the local barber to continue continue continue con con- operation We c e may see sec such items in community news letters as lS John Smith was Avas in the county seat Saturday getting a hair cut cUI Ve We believe e that Henry J. J Kaiser should be at the head of the production pro for defense in tiLis country Kaiser has demonstrated that he be cannot only dream and have visions but that he lie can mike them come true At the moment we can think of ono no no one in high places in the war effort with th the ability and capacity for getting things done possessed by this rug rugged ed straight ht thinking west coast ship shipbuilder builder Kaiser is big he thinks hi big bigand and ani performs in a big wa way hi big things The coUl coui Iry ry needs Kaiser of the as a director in some phase war effort instead of as an indus- indus 1 It t would be better if Kaiser were giving iving a thousand industries the benefit of his executive genius The war effort would wO be re receiving even more benefit from his genius elli ls than it is now with his effort centered centered centered cen cen- on but one industry Arran Arrangements have been completed completed completed com com- whereby Jewish children children children chil chil- dren will be transferred from occupied occupied l pied France to the United States Take heed he d that ye e do not your our alms before before men to be seen by them otherwise ye have no reward for your Father rattier which is in heaven St. St St. Matthew 61 The Thc Japs at honk home will turn lurn pink and blue and green with tn envy when they hear bear how well wen the Japanese aliens interned in concentration camps are being treated by the thc Am Ain government We e do not believe with Wendell Vendell Willkie that the United States Stales should take an any open part in Brit Brit- ains disagreement with India We Ve Wedo Wedo Vela do la believe belien however that Great at should not leave anything undone to patch things up lip with India so that the fullest amount of aid possible will wilt be forth coming from front India in this war After what happened at Pearl Harbor it is difficult to believe that any airy American armed force in the Southern Pacific could be taken by surprise yet ct this is what Drew and Pearson iVarson on in their Washington otton Merry Hound o Ho say y h happened in inthe the Solomon on Islands ls when three American mer C cruisers erl were lost According According Ac c cording cordin to this authority the thc ships were surprised like sitting sl tucks b by the Japanese with the commander com cnn mander absent And most of the crew not at al their battle haUle stations oOn oOn- oOnA A local 1 i e objects to lo the expression used so sa glibly bv lv some sonic of the governmental gt agencies t unemployed un un- un employed luau cs The lorn lor I housewife sayi that with the thc homework horn home work and JIll I the Ned Hell Cross and Ind the First Aid r and the Ille Nutrition class clis and 1 the Air jr Haiti Kaid Warden work am and the Ladies Ladies' Aid there is II no such surl thing AS al an all unemployed housewife The scrap drive thrive it iq tint not over nr I It wont won't be he over I as lon long as a. the this war lasts its or as 01 lon long as Oil a bit hit of metal or usable material is iq to be lIe frond found ii in iii the homes and farms of the nation cation As lon long as 1 ships ship and guns am and planes l arc ht being heing nA made scrap will wil willbe he be i c needed ell I There lucre i. i is still till millions o of tons tans of scrap rap in ill this country countr that Ihal should be he on col its ils way to tn the defense e plants lints It I lies lic hidden bidden hid dell in iii poles piles in Fence fenre cure corners in the basement and am andin ill in n the attic Dont Don't delay digging il it out and putting it to 10 work It is needed now aDo Thelt wont won't be IJ much sitting around the house winter if tin Ihl I governments government's order to In maintain f M 5 U is k carried out Sixty five dc degrees rc will natural naturally encourage more activity I lOO Tr Irv Try going g to church next Stu l- l day Iny if you yon have haw not hat been in ill the whit habit 0 of attending rC regularly The church j. j is the tilt community's s most im on It II is is thin the one olle with wilh which the town taut not mint get gel along without No Nn one would rare care to In li live for ning in ill a it tv in ill which there was Wl no church Inc For Mir this reason everyone should support Ii by his hii attendance aUt the church t I tt l f is more Ilon than a I patriotic duty to o buy Var War Howls ls It is Stuart smart bus bus- iness ness In buying War ar Howls Brands one flat IlOt ot only puts his lus money in a safe safi place at It a good rate rale of interest but butt at t the same sallie time lime he buys an In insuring insurance ance ing policy for himself alter after the tilt thear war ar i is is over 11 He tic doesn't have to 10 die the theis tn is o get et either cither Without doubt at al atrat that rat time tints some extra money y i. i is going go go- gong oin o- o in ing ng to In prove mighty acceptable The flue lie unan who has it sa ll saved up lip is is going Qing Qin to In find th tic the going much easier casier In n addition to this r e every bond one hays mys helps IZe war effort just that noun inch h. h A local woman says she hasn't lost ost her girlish g figure fig she has mere merey merely ly y added to it Following the line of least resistance resistance tance is what makes men inch a awl and rivers riv riv- rivers ers rs crooked A rV neighboring editor tells of a Ulc o in hits his community nit who ho to 0 save tires stay stayed Ill I'll home haute one cenin evening even even- ing in ng recently and discovered that they icy haul hall five children instead of three The Thc 1 g government O f is talking of re- re during the thc production of newsprint and id other paper to 10 release the men and id the for defense industries in- in Of course we dont clont expect nt inch cht attention to 10 be he paid to it il butte but hut bute wc te e would like to make a n suggestion estion that lat the government bureaus cut cult down own on the Ihl amount of material that lat is being sent out much lIch of is of little value Business conditions will perhaps work to 10 rc- rc red d duce lice nce the amount al of paper used by hy civilians ci to a greater g d degree ree than the ic governments government's proposed lion ion 00 Old men are arc not lIot often considered consider consider- ed cd d much help in war The exception tion ion will be bl Old 11 Ulan Man an Winter when 11 he ie arrives in I Russia lie Ill will prove an i able ally against tillers Hitler's armies As rationing nin Hell gels g e s further under tinder wa way ay th the amount and aud the number of terns on one can call btu hll buy will become ll less and id k Ic Old Ohl timers wont won't von t be dis this much about it it They will recall nall when the thc grocers grocer's shelves shein's and id the dr dry goods Roods merchants merchant's shelves shel- shel Yes ves es did not lIot off offer r nearly nearh the variety var- var ety iet one olle finds tOI t today even with ra- ra rationing at al its ils hei height ht In recent years c cars we have h accumulated a lot lotof of eating habits which may or may 1111 mayot not ot b bo be as s good as those our grandfathers grand grand- fathers knew kne Our grandfathers got gol their vitamins front from rolled oats nals aunt and corn rn meal mush They were much m cheaper than th the fanc fancy P packaged td breakfast foote that we have ha conic come to 10 look nuon as a necessary part ot of otur our 11 ur breakfast k fas I menu hood Food Ya value sonic some of the prepared foods cost lOst more than the best cuts cats of f meat fish or other choice foods The Thc word has gone one pule out that tin the women omen of the nation will be called upon pon to 10 register The purpose it is stated is not to draft women for work ork but hut to discover their skills and id to direct them to the employment employment employ- employ ment lent the ate ace best fitted to 10 do At t Atthe the ic present lIt time there thre arc about four our and a half million women in iu inthis inus this us country employed in war work 1 If f the women of this country enter war ar work in ill proportion as t the h. h woolen omen of En England have hive entered war ar work the number will increase to o twenty million nOo A neighboring editor tells of or a 3 citi citizen n of that community homade who ho made application twenty years cars ago ajO for or work in the government printing print print- in ing tg office Last week the family Print Print-I received ci cd a letter from front the go fluent ment printing office asking him hint to report for wO To make it still stillmore lore more funny time the letter was sent air airmail airmail mail special delivery Time The demand deman for workers is calling call call- in ing ng out of the ol oldsters ster vho ho thought ht their working days liars were over oyer The old boys are going to br hr given a t chance to show how they arc Me as good goad men glen as ao th the were as III they Ilav have always y yc c contended ma nia he some sonic unpleasant features fC about rationing hut hilt however however how- how ever Ct unpleasant they are arc the sit sit- situation sit cation is il better he than in I World waione war wai one our no attempt lt was made at al at rationing awl and those with the thc monc money rushed in ill and hon bought ami and causer causal the prices to skyrocket Under that system sy the lite fellow with the money got ot tile the loot food while the fellow with It less money lunacy Karl hail to take lake thin the leavings l Rationing is io merely a 1 means of di dividing iii- iii viding equally among everyone c the nun available 1 supply The Thc little fel fellow low how especially should he be for the tile ra rationing t system y II He lie e should support sup purl port it il awl and aid it by hy not 1 hoarding boarding It is il designed for his protection A titan man who ha has time boon to 10 kick about everything that doesn't suit him hilll hasn't haslIt much to do If he did dill he would be he so o busy doin doing it that he wouldn't have time lime to kick kick- al about tout thi thin things ings s that dont don't amount to 10 anything |