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Show WHICH WEEK DO YOU FAVOR? Last week it was National Leave Us Alone Week and next week it is Honey For Breakfast Week. April 15 to 22 is National Donut Week and a week or so later we have National Baby Week. The first week in May is Frozen Food Week followed by National Bow-Tie Week and the next week is National Cotton Week and etc., etc., etc. It's nice to have all these special weeks especially when they are designated for a worthy cause. But what is a worthy cause to some means very little to others and hence we have a large group of business men and other citizens who are in sympathy, and rightfully so, with the seemingly most sensible week of all that of National Leave Us Alone Week. There are some mistaken ideas held by a number of citizens who are of the opinion that businessmen and the establishments which they operate should be responsible for the observance of all the special weeks and make some sort of a contribution to say nothing of donations which they are called upon to make during dur-ing special drives and campaigns. When such drives ' as the Red Cross, Scouts, Polio, Cancer, Rheumatic Fever and others are launched, it is the businessmen and the business houses who are given a'very systematic system-atic canvass, while many other businesses operataing off Main street are forgotten. It is our town's merchants who support the var-v var-v ious projects, who contribute prizes to organizations sponsoring worthwhile undertakings and it's seldom one hears complaints. If every home throughout through-out the city was called upon to make a forthright donation do-nation to as many "worthy causes" as your hometown home-town merchant, the National Leave Us Alone Week would become one of the most popular weeks on the calendar and if the merchants had their way would last not one but several weeks. State' engineering, testing, construction, and maintenance facilities are available to local units as far as possible. However, the task confronting the State Road Commission on state roads is of such magnitude mag-nitude that present facilities are overtaxed on state roads alone. - |