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Show Scene of Violence in Coal Strike ' 4V - V'tfVI ' ' ' ' T 4 iff, I (Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE ATTIC-IN WHICH MEMORIES, TOO, ARE STORED EVERY well-ordered home should have an attic as a place for the ; storage of memories. In the attic i the memories will lie dormant until there comes a moving day. When that time comes, its long-forgotten treasures will be revealed and the ' problem of disposing of those treas ures will be a serious one. There will be found the crib and high chair the babies used years ago. Those babies are now grown to men and women. They have homes and families of their own in far-away places. What memories of their days of babyhood the days when the home echoed the happy prattle of little children those simple sim-ple bits of long-discarded furniture bring back. There can be no more babies to use them, but it is hard to let them go. In a litter of the attic are found the school and college dance programs pro-grams of the daughter. Written on them are the names of boys, many of whom we have long forgotten, but those names recall memories of hopes for the daughter's future, of evenings when one or another "called" and "Ma" and I retired from the parlor or living room and Pickets at the Red Lion mine, one of the "rebellious" spots in western west-ern Pennsylvania's captive coal strike are routed by state motor police after the pickets had earlier stoned cars and blocked a publio highway for two hours. Above photo shows a picket arguing vainly with a trooper. This particular Incident was closed without personal Injury. watched the clock for the appropriate appro-priate hour for the young man's departure. de-parture. Ransacking the attic gives one an opportunity to live over again those cherished days of the long ago. You dig out of the clutter the uniform uni-form you wore as a soldier before j the turn of the century and with it l the sword that was your badge of office. They remind you of the long-I long-I forgotten comrades of those soldier days. Then you find "Ma's" wedding dress and hat and marvel at the style and size of the dress. You recall re-call incidents of that happy day when you took her from the home in the little Iowa town to a new home in the city. You recall those who were present at the wedding ceremony. Most of them you have not heard of for years and you wonder won-der at what changes life may have brought to them, what success or failure may have been their lot. These are but typical of the thousands thou-sands of incidents the contents of the attic will bring back to you. Each item, as you dig it out of the accumulation. Dresents a nrnhlem. Can you discard it? Can you throw away the old lamp beside which you spent so fUffiijf pleasant evenings? Should you not keep the old and badly worn quilt your mother "pieced" and quilted so many, many years ago? There are the I pictures of friends of the long ago, j some of which are now hard to recall, re-call, but when you do, they live j again. Should you not keep each and every one of them, as well as the thousands of letters you spend hours and days rereading? Yes, the attic is a storehouse of memories. A storehouse that offers more problems when you move than does all the rest of the house together. to-gether. In the end you keep much of it to be stored away in another attic that becomes another storehouse store-house of memories and presents other problems should you ever move again. ONE WAT OF GETTING THE FACTS TO PEOPLE SECRETARY MORGENTHAU is asking congress for another heavy tax increase, one that will produce an additional seven or eight billion dollars each year. He also asks for legislation that will collect all federal fed-eral taxes at the source, that the taxes be deducted from the pay envelopes en-velopes of employees and from the dividend checks to stockholders. Such action by congress would give the mass of the people a better understanding of what they pay for what government provides. It would give them facts our system of "hidden" "hid-den" taxes has long denied the greater portion of the American people. It would make for a more intelligent citizenship and more intelligent in-telligent voters. Let us hope the politicians may accent at least that part of the secretary's recommendation. recommen-dation. FEDERAL MA1X WASHINGTON tells us we must economize in our use of paper, but the federal government has ordered one billion, four hundred million envelopes en-velopes for 1942. That represents 11 envelopes for every individual in the nation, including the babies. Those envelopes will be distributed as franked mail. At the normal postage rate of three cents, it would mean a postal revenue of 42 million dollars. There is one reason for a postal deficit. HAIR CURLERS THE LADIES cannot buy made-m-America hair curlers, the kind hey wear to bed. The reason is the factories making them cannot get necessary material as it is needed for the war munitions we are producing pro-ducing for England. But cheer up ad.es. the stores will sell you exact-y exact-y the same thing, with a tt'fle different dif-ferent name, made in and imported from England. English hair curler lactones are still operating. The Price, incidentally, is just half of the made-in- America kind. |