Show T A released by newspaper union CITY OR COUNTRY A KANSAS CITY friend told me recently that he had bought a small farm within an hours drive of the city my friend is and ha has been a city worker he is the father ol of a family of children chil dien of from 5 to 16 years of age ile he has been fearful of the financial future of america the man from whom the farm was PiAr purchased chased had become enamored of what he considered the opportunities port unities the conveniences the attractions of the city and wished the privilege of enjoying these for himself and his family what my kansas city friend ha has s purchased is an assurance of health shelter warmth and food for his family and for himself chickens a cow pigs a garden a wood lot from rom which to cut fuel provide these things lings ti if nothing more and he was wise to secure a place where he can keep his feet on the ground and has an insurance against hunger at the end of five years the man who sold may have realized his expectation pec tation of enjoyment of opportunity convenience and attraction of the alt city but the chances are to 1 against him the vast majority in any large city evidence more of failure than of success WHERE GLAMOUR AND ROMANCE WAS KING MAJOR JERRY REED was a cow cowboy boy on the king ranch in texas before he became a major when he entered the world war jerry quit bronco busting and cow punch ing to enter the aviation service in which he rose to the rank of major As a sideline he taught prize fighting to the ally inclined young bloods of the army with the close of the war he entered the concrete contracting field but jerry has dreamed of the glamour and romance romance of that great baronial bai onial estate of more than a million acres the king ranch to jerry the ruler of that domain was greater than any king or potentate after years of contention the state of texas has built a public highway straight through thel the enter center of those million and more acres to jerry the ruler of that domain is now but an ordinary individual and the romance and glamour of the lone star state is gone SLIM ON DIET SLIM WILLIAMS an old alaskan sourdough prefers cream puffs to blubber as a steady diet A few years ago slim plim drove a dog team from fairbanks alaska to washington D C A later exploit was an attempt to ride a motorcycle from fairbanks to new york to prove the practicability of a big highway h from alaska to the american line slim and his motorcycle did not get to new york but he did get through the alaska and british columbia mountains to the american ican line and so claims to have proved his contention about a highway slim regrets lie he has passed soldiering age because cream puffs are now a part of army rations WORTH KNOWING TEACHING ORIENTAL politics to american college youth is the vocation of dr william M mcgovern a member of the faculty of northwestern university there are more people who know dr mcgovern as bill than as doctor those who know him as bill know his avocation that of seeking the out of the way places of the world and seeing and experiencing the unusual bill is a member of a head hunting tribe of ecuador he e h has a s visited lhasa in tibet he isan is an In intimate friend of the shah of persia yes he has been places and done things buton buto n the campus he is dr william M mcgovern professor of oriental politics I 1 doubt if the students nd other professors at northwestern actually know bill but bill is worth knowing OPT OF EACH earned dollars government federal state county municipal takes just about 30 cents ints for taxes in 1900 it was only beven seven cents we are paying too much for government or paying payin g for too much govern government menil we wd and we only can stop that dollar eating tax monster the ballot box provides the weapon with which to slay it ARMY ajtay IN PLANTS WE MIGHT put the next million mallon men for the army to work in plants making the equipment they will need it should be as valuable in our preparedness efforts as to have them drilling with broomsticks and pieces of stove pipe for guns AMERICAN WEALTH TIM THE TOTAL WEALTH of america including ric luding everything that has a value is estimated at billion dollars to divide wat th at equally among all the people of the nation would give each of us about 2885 with such an amount no one could accomplish anything we could not buy and operate a farm we could not build a factory or a railroad wealth becomes productive and of value to each and all of us only when i n it Is consolidated that is just what we americans have done with our mites |