Show Released by Western Newspaper Union THE mE ATTIC ATTIC IN IN WHICH MEMORIES TOO ARE STORED EVERY well-ordered well home should have an attic as a place for the storage of memories In the attic the memories will lie dormant until there comes a moving day When that time tune comes its long forgotten treasures will be revealed and the problem of disposing of those treas ures will be a serious one There will be found Cound the crib and high chair the babies used years ago Those babies are now grown I to men and women They have homes and families of their own in far away places What memories of their days of babyhood the babyhood the days I when the home echoed the happy prattle of little children those children those simple simpIe simple sim sim- simI I pIe bits of long-discarded long furniture bring back There can be no more babies to use them but it is hard to let them go In a litter of the attic are found the school and college dance programs programs pro pro- gr grams ms of the daughter Written on them are the names of boys many of whom we have long forgotten but bul those names recall memories of hopes for the daughters daughter's future of evenings when one or another called and Ma and I retired from the parlor or living room and watched the clock for the appropriate appropriate appropriate hour for the young mans man's de de- de- de Ransacking the attic gives one an opportunity to live over again those cherished days of thelong the thelong thelong long ago You dig out of the clutter the uniform uniform uniform uni uni- form you wore as a soldier before the turn of the century and with il it the sword that was your badge of ot office They remind you of the long- long forgotten comrades of 01 those soldier days Then you find Mas wedding dress and hat and marvel at the style and size of the dress You recall recall recall re re- re- re call incidents of that happy day when you took her from the home in the little Iowa town to a new home in the city You recall those who were present at the wedding ceremony Most of them you have not heard of fa for years and you wonder wonder wonder won won- der at what changes life may have brought to them what wha t success or failure may have been their lot lott These are but typical of the thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of incidents the contents of the attic will bring back to you Each item as you dig it out of the accumulation presents a problem Can you discard it Can you throw throwaway throwaway throwaway away the old lamp beside which you spent so many pleasant evenings Should you not keep the old and badly worn quilt your mother pieced and quilted so many many years ago There are the pictures tures of friends of the long ago some ome of which are now hard to recall recall recall re re- re- re call but when you do they live again Should you not keep each and every everyone 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 docs all the rest of the house to to- to gether In the end you keep much of it to be stored away In another attic that becomes another storehouse storehouse storehouse store store- house of memories and presents other problems should you ever m move ve again ONE WAY OF GETTING TilE THE FACTS TO PEOPLE SECRETARY Is asking congress for another heavy henvy tax increase one that will produce an additional seven or eight billion dollars each each- year He also asks for legislation that will collect all federal federal fed fed- eral taxes at the source that the taxes be deducted from the pay eni envelopes envelopes en en- i 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 government provides It would give them facts our system of hidden hidden hid hidden den taxes has long denied the grea greater ter portion of the American people It would make for a more Intelligent citizenship and more intelligent intelligent intelligent in in- voters Let us hope the politicians may least that part of the secretary's recommendation da dation tion FEDERAL MAIL WASHINGTON tells us we must economize in our use of paper but the federal government has ordered one billion four hundred million envelopes envelopes envelopes en en- for 1942 That represents 11 envelopes for every individual inthe in inthe inthe the nation including the babies Those envelopes will be distributed as lS franked mail At the normal postage rate of three cents it would mean a l postal revenue of 42 million dollars There is one reason for a apostal apostal apostal postal deficit HAIR CURLERS THE LADIES cannot buy made made- America ui-America hair curlers the kind they wear to bed The reason is the factories making them cannot get necessary material as it Is needed for lor the war munitions we are arc producing producing producing pro pro- for Cor England But cheer up ladies the stores will sell you exact exactly ly the same thing with ith a trifle different different different dif dif- ferent name made in and imported from England English hair curler factories are lre still operating The price incidentally is just half hal of the made made America America kind f 1 6 |