Show 6 1 fn Released by western Union THE TILE ATTIC IN ATTIC IN MEMORIES lOmIS TOO ARE ARI STORED EVERY well ordered home should have an attic as a place for the storage of memories In the attIc the memories will he be dormant ant l 1 there comes a moving day When that time comes Its long forgotten treasures will wIn be revealed and the problem of d of those tress treas treasures 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 tamil famil fam es of their own ov in far away places What memories of their days of the babyhood babyhood the days when the ilie home echoed the happy prattle of little ch those children children those dren-those those s m pIe bits of long discarded furniture bring back There can be no more babIes to use them but it is hard to let them goIn goIn go goIn In a litter of the attic are found the school and college dance pro programs programs programs grams of the d Written on them are the ilie names IJames of boys many of whom we have long forgotten but those names recall memories of hopes for tor the daughter s future of evenings v hen one or another called caled and Ma and I retired from the parlor or living room and watched the ilie clock for tor the appropriate hour for tor the young man s de departure departure departure Ransacking the attic gIves one an opportunity to Live over again agam those cherished days of ol the ilie thelong thelong long ago You dig out of the clutter the urn uniform I form you wore as a soldier before the turn of the ilie century and with It the sword that was your badge of office They remind you of the long 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 re recall recall recall call incidents of that happy day when you took her from the home homem homem m In the ilie little Iowa town to a new home in m the city You recall those who were present at the wedding ceremony Most of them you have not heard of for years and you won wonder wonder wonder 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 ilie thou thousands thousands thousands sands of incidents the contents of the attic will bring back to you Each item as you d g it out of the accumulation presents a problem Can you discard It Can you throw throwaway throwaway away the ilie old lamp beside whIch v you spent so 50 many pi pl evenings Should you not keep the old and badly worn quilt your mother p eced and quilted so many I many years ago There are the pIctures of friends of the long ago some of which are now hard to re recall recall recall call but when you do they live again agam Should you not keep each cach and everyone 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 to together together gether In the end you keep much of it to be stored away in another attic that becomes another store storehouse storehouse storehouse house of memories and presents other oilier problems should you ever move again agam S e e eONE ONE WAY Y OF GETTING THE FACTS TO PEOPLE SECRETARY is asking congress for tor another bea heavy vy tax increase one that will produce an additional seven or eight bIllion dollars each year He also asks for legIslation that will collect all fed ted eral taxes at the source taxes be deducted from the pay en envelopes envelopes envelopes 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 hat government provides It would gIve them facts our system of hId hIdden hidden hidden den taxes has long denied the ilie greater port on of the American people It would make for tor a more intelligent citizenship and more m tell gent voters Let us hope the ilie politicians may accept at least that part of the secretary s recommendatIOn recommendation recommendation dation e e e FEDERAL MAIL I WASHINGTON tells us we must economize m in our use of paper but the federal government has ordered one billion four hundred million en envelopes envelopes envelopes for 1942 That represents 11 envelopes for every individual m inthe the nation including the babIes Those envelopes will be d as franked mill mul At the ilie normal postage rate of three cents it would mean a postal revenue of 42 m lion dollars Theres There is one reason for tor a apostal apostal apostal postal deficit e e e HAIR H n UR CURLERS THE LADIES cannot buy made in America hair curlers the ilie kind they wear to bed The reason is the factories making them cannot get necessary material as it is needed for the war ons we are pro due duc ng for tor England But cheer up lad es the stores v will well III sell you exact exactly exactly exactly ly the same th ng with a trifle dif dlf different ferent name made m and Imported from E England Egland gland English ha r curler factories are st 11 ng The price incidentally is just lust half halt of the made in m America kinds kind's kind I |