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Show j j Li Executive Session i " tv--i-si : :; vft 'V.v 'V.-' jl !: ..y:' V-v-Vfif ' ''I'V',' Mill ' at its worst, with the wonderfully beautiful French villages at their very best. "In picturesque beauty, of course, there is nothing to compare. The French village has everything and the Kansas village nothing. It is flat, dreary, ugly and prosaic. But the Kansas village of a few hundred hun-dred inhabitants covers as much space as a considerable French city. Its ugly houses have telephones and radios, and an automobile. Some of them have running water and modern plumbing, and the rest have space enough to make the lack of them relatively safe and inoffensive. Everybody has a daily newspaper, and everybody can read it. "The French village has a wonderful old stone church, in which its people have worshipped for 500 years, while the Kansas village has six starving and ugly wooden ones, commemorating mostly sectarian sec-tarian rivalries. But the Kansas village has a fine union high school, where its people and those of the country about can learn more than any but the most favored graduate in France. "The Kansas villagers live more comfortably, in better health, and more prosperously; they and their children have better prospects, and they know more. They would be better off if they had beauty, too, but nature gives them some of .that, part of the year. And the balance on the whole, is overwhelmingly their way." THE "BEAUTY" OF AMERICA ' The comparison drawn by the Salt Lake, Utah, Telegram in the following editorial, shows the fundamental difference between th( United States as contrasted with any other country in the world. Am erica is the home of freedom, initiative and independence. Europear countries represent a maximum of government ownership and con trol of industry, repression of individual initiative and special advant ages for the favored few instead of for the masses. , Read what the Telegram says: It makes one love every square foot of rocky land, desert waste and fertile fields in Our Country where the richest and the the poorest have equal opportunities; where class distinction means nothing and where the government exists fo: the people and not the people for the government. "A transcontinental trip, no matter how often you take it, is i never old panorama of the greatness and unity of America. Just nov the middle western part of it is scarcely a panorama of its beauty Even a Kansas village has beauty in the spring and summer, or wher covered with fleecy winter snow, but in the mid-season, of mud anc haze and drizzle, it would take a poetic, soul to see any beauty in it Which is perhaps all the better. The be; jt way to appreciate anything is to see it at its worst. So, let us compiare the worst Kansas village |