Show L TOW f released by western newspaper union F ROM FROM THE wilderness TO 40 SMALL TOWN PEACE AFTER MORE THAN hall half a cen tury of wandering in the wilderness of a great metropolitan city iam I 1 am at t home again in a country town fifty efty years among strangers millions of strange faces with only the occasional friendly smile or cheerful greeting from or one ie you knew or with whom you had a speaking acquaintance pushing driving through crowds with whom yo you u had nothing 9 in n common other than that they too were among strangers as I 1 was and were fighting their way through a wilderness and now after 50 years of lo 10 lost st time ime I 1 am at home again in a corm coun try ry town where as I 1 walk down the street I 1 get a cheerful smile and a friendly greeting from each person I 1 meet where the little chil dren ren take me by the hand and with their heir childish fac faces es turned upward tell ell me of their joys and sorrows their playmates and their toys back again to the beauties of tree bordered streets to flowers lawns gardens and fruit trees back again to 0 neighbors I 1 can and do know and am neighborly with neighbors who have a friendly interest in my welfare and who would be concerned it if I 1 were ill or suffered misfortune of any kind neighbors with whom I 1 can visit across the fence or hedge and with them compare notes as to orange or persimmon or walnut trees neighbors who offer kindly comment on the appearance of my lawn and roses who express a bit of friendly envy about my bougainvillea vine and acacia tree a great dome of small golden balls back again to where people drop in 1 not to call as a proper and formal thing to do but to visit because they like you and want to come back to where there are no inequalities no class mackto back to where you are not a subject of prey where those you meet do not as in the wilderness of the city figure on the value you may be to them the doctor meets you on the street and noticing you have a cold he suggests what to do for it WE with no thought of sending a bill for services rendered back again to where the birds sing at your window and flash their brilliant plumage through the shrubbery s where rethe the dogs meet you with wagging tails back to the beauties as nature made them and away from the monstrosities mo of the city wilderness would that I 1 might have another 50 years to enjoy the luxuries of my country town as compensation for the half century spent in the wilder wilderness neis AMERICA TODAY HAS NO GOVERNING CLASS THE YEAR was 1919 A group of business and professional men many of them of national deputa tion were meeting in chicago for the purpose pose of devising ways and means of securing the enacts enactment ent by congress of a compulsory universal military training law to apply to young men between the ages of 19 and 21 I 1 objected to the title of the bill you cannot get support for the proposal under the title of military training law I 1 insisted the steel workers of south chicago the farmers of iowa will not support a project to make soldiers they will support a law to train their sons in citizenship one of those present said why should we change the title because it to the steel workers or the farmers he asked it is i our class that must do the thinking for the nation the title was not changed the bill wes was never enacted into law it I 1 is the voters who do the thinking for the nation who determine what laws we shall have the business and professional people 0 america r realize ea lize that today they may lead along pric practical and unselfish lines but they cannot drive america does not countenance a governing class whether r it be business leaders labor leaders farmers or any others REAL patriotism IN WARTIME patriotism is something more than hurling epithets at the enemy or shouting of ones love of country patriotism ia 13 more of doing than of talking it is an evidenced i willingness to sacrifice for the common good the manufacturer who demands a profit on war war materials at the expense of the nation is not a patriot nor is the workman who lays down his tools because oleither of either r a real or fancied grievance when the nation needs his services 1 during world war 1 I 1 I knew a german born american citizen who headed a large american plant and the government needed the entire production of that plant it was running to capacity on profitable commercial orders when asked it if he would accept the ahe government order the head of this plant said he would do so under one condition Ms his own cost experts expert sand and cost experts named by the government were to independently the cost ot of production the lowest figure figur 1 r e as determined by these experts ni must u s t be the price |