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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of th American Press '. love their brown, black or red masters, if w may employ a euphemism. eu-phemism. They would go to Spain for th purpose of expressing an opinion and a point of view which they ar not permitted to express at home. New York Times. Horn Ownership Horn ownership may mean many things to the individual and his community. It is not often w seek to list th benefits and assets as-sets which ar included in that which is accepted as th accustomed. accus-tomed. In an assay contest a school girl In Omaha put a great deal of fact and sentiment into a few words when she wrote: "I would like my daddy to own our home because then w would live In th sam place a long time always, mayb and I wouldn't hav to move away and lav my friends. I would always go to th sam school where my friends go and whir I know th teachers and th principal. "W would fix up our house and yard th way w want it build cupboarda in th kitchen and screen th porch to suit mother. And we would plant flowers and bushes and b sure that we would get to see them grow and bloom. "And If my daddy bought our horn sometime w would hav it all paid for and then w would hav more money to spend on things we want like vacation trips or a bicycle. And I would feel so important to be able te say, This is our home!" Indeed, th community which numbers a larg proportion of families living in their own homes is fortunate. Th decided increase In hna-Buying and horn building build-ing which is noted in metropolitan Oakland is on which adds to character and happiness, Oak-land Oak-land Tribune. Ft to Speak It Is a striking thought that if Hitler's or Mussolini's or Stalin' Sta-lin' volunteers in' Spain wr genuine volunteer w should probably find moat of them fighting fight-ing on th opposite aid .from where they ar now. If people wer free to emigrate from Germany or Italy or Soviet Russia, th first te go would b tho who find it Impossible to A Flu Warning Last week word came in th news that Chicago was beset with an epidemic of colds and Influenza; Influ-enza; now it Is reported New York is suffering from a similar attack that hospitals ar jammed and virtually every home in the metropolitan met-ropolitan area s affected to more or less degree. While doctors scoff at threat of another serious flu epidemic like that of the winter of 1918-1919, and point to the fortunate mildness mild-ness of the current infection, it is timely to take general warning and steps. All persons ar urged to avoid exposing themselves to infection. That is good advice, of course, but an important adjunct is to impress those who ar infected. Voluntary isloation usually brings prompt personal reward, too. Those who go right to bed, keep warm, drink citrus fruit Juices, and get prompt medical advice, almost invariably scap pneumonia, sinus infection and other complications which are th real menac in cold and flu. Portland Oregonian. Cow Sens. Horse Sense One by on th old adages and the ancient sayings are being upset The latest example comes from th convention of the American Amer-ican Association for th Advancement Advance-ment of Science. Miss Pearl Gardner, Gard-ner, who has spent th past five year Investigating th ratio of intelligence in th larger domestic animals, delivering herself of a ahattering dictum recently when ahe toid th convention that the old belief in "horse sense" is all wrong and that it should have been "cow sens" instead. All this is most distressing. We shall hav to chang another of our cherished notions and now go about telling our friends that ' they really ought to have more "cow sense' than .to do some of th things they da. Chic News. |