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Show '"'SMeai frcjwcfher editors From the Seville Chronicle, Seville, Se-ville, Ohio: "Why don't you write an editorial about . . .' a good share of what appears in this column is the result of a remark like that made to the editor by a reader. And that Is only right and proper; to us a newspaper newspa-per is a device whose purpose is to let everyone express views and opinions, whether it is an elected official seeking adequate publicity for a tax-paid project, a private citizen cit-izen whose rights have been abused, or the editor in a tantrum about something. This week this will be an omnibus of things that aren't going to suit the editor. Let's take that Demon Rum first; I don't like our Ohio set-up's face. Specifically, why have and occasionally occa-sionally enforce, laws ' against drunken driving, so long as licenses to sell liquor are at the same time given to roadside taverns by which the last interurban ran 20 years ago? ' Evidently the state liquor licensing licens-ing board expects bartenders in these places to sell drinks only to motorists accompanied by a dry chauffeur. The law is ridiculous. Gambling also aggravate? us. Bingo is illegal, but betting pn the horses isn't We read in ah area daily, which exposes bingo and other oth-er forma of vicious gambling on days when world news Is dull, that bingo is frowned upon because "gangsters and a hoodlum element have taken over those forms of dropping a buck on which they frown, but racing, for which they print a special page of results and odds for horse-lovers. Is carefully controlled. They may be right. Certainly we've never heard of any church group managing to muscle into a paramutual set-up like they have in bingo. Finally there are, of all things, the ads. Some companies must think the public is as stupid as their vice presidents. Anyone who thinks they can convince us that any kind of cigarette is good for us; that a slice of their bread will replace, meat, eggs, butter and milk in our diet; that any sort of laxative will remove our financial finan-cial worries and restore the bloom of youth to our cheeks, or that their soap or detergent will make clothes whiter than ever, dishes sparkle without drying, while hands dipped in it become young and beautiful overnight, has been smoking something some-thing besides tobacco. Why don't you write an editprialT It's fun! |