| Show AT IT AGAIN na news dis dispatches recently earned carried tho the information form aaion alin tant t officials of the american bank ta krsa association had agreed to start a campaign P in aln alis il s country in favor of canceling wholly holly or in part the debts tho the allies owe to UIL lilje 4 ais 4 I 1 K having failed in every other such under taking tho the advocates of no now beek e e k to influence the general public through te medium of the the bankers of the united states S ih have you ever bieard of a banker or of A lany any other business man deliberately cancel aig ig a just debt an individual owed to him I 1 necessarily ocessa rily extension of credit perhaps but cancellation never i A of course tho the eleven billions of allied debts the officials of the american bankers Banker sf association would jiahe have us cancel did not come conie i from the private fortunes fo of the said officials it ft V came from the ihl pockets of tho the people the people who pay taxes and many an im ame american rican i government bonds until it hurt in in order that hat the eleven billions might be loaned to the allied governments r it makes a difference who pays the freight who the officials of the association may be able to influence the bankers of the united geates but we doubt it f the great grent majority of american bankers generously supplied with brains tho the interests crests of the people of the united states are 0 of f diore vital concern to them thun are aro tho the do sires kirea of certain foreign governments who are crazy to slide out of paying their just debts this latest scheme bears tho the earmarks of being just another piece of foreign propaganda that will fall flat as all such have done A true friend is ia a valuable possession to any man but in order to gain tho the friendship of other people a man must first bo be his own best beat friend truthfulness sincerity energy and a it correct mode of living should bo be high spots in his lifo life nothing short of these should bo be oven even considered when a man attains these virtues lio lie is hie his own best beat friend and will not lack for the friendship of others some one in this town is tacitly accepted s our foremost booster ho he has lias that reputation ho he has earned it in the past and still continues to boost he lias has a it habit of doing things of accomplishing shing results of working for the community abi lle others are content to reap the benefit of what ho he docs does whoever ho he may be there are others who are jealous of him who are ready to belittle him bim possibly to jab him in ih the back because the work that he docs does is in such contrast t to the nothing that they do ile lias has his faults of course but when the r rest est of us are without faults it will be time for us to criticise criticism critic ise his who is our foremost boo booster sterl who is the most charitable woman in town town I 1 t but perhaps you are the one anyway she has ins a tender heart that is full of compassion that aches for others in trouble or distress if she hears a story about some other woman she is not too hasty in swallowing the details and reaching out for more she gives the other woman the benefit of the doubt and she hopes that it is not true or at least that it is exaggerated she believes in bringing up her children to bo be true and honorable sweet i beet and gentle quite in contrast to the jazzy training that is transforming so many boys and girls into hardened cynics with an extensive knowledge of worldly ways aho he is always doing something good and looking around for something else to do ashes here among us ashes one of us but who is shel I 1 and unfortunately we have the greatest 1 chronic kicker whoever and wherever he may be nothing pleases please him except that which he hea docs does or proposes himself and there much that lie does he prefers kicking to doing if fifty of our foremost citizens represent ing all shades of political and religious beliefs were to unanimously agree that a certain thing should bo be done the kicker would find fault with it it would be wrong because others considered it right the kicker considers a question upon its merits in fact he lie do much of any considering at all 14 he ile just winds up his kicker starts it to moving and never allows it to stop he will till go out of this world as he came in kicking and but few will kick over his de do ure have a little of the consideration that he does not possess and dont name him |
