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Show NINETEEN FORTY-SIX COMES LN The general viewpoint of the farmers on the returns re-turns from 1945 give a satisfactory reply "It was a pretty good year" is the average voice. Prices were held up, seed and hay, and those who fed in the fall and winter before, feel that it is fairl. good to try that income again this year. Turkeys have ' been good income producers, and no complaint has come to us on that score. Nineteen Forty-Five had its bugs, pests, and other oth-er aggravations, but not in great excess, the tillers of the soil say. Just about a normal year. The latter lat-ter part of it, fall and winter, has been mild, with a drop only once to six below, and particulaarly free from snow. Locally some small rains. Just at this present moment, "A January thaw," with an exceedingly ex-ceedingly mild period with it; no winds, just nice mild weather, seemingly out of place. Nineteen Forty-Five was filled with events thai will make it go down in history as a momentous year. April 12, President Roosevelt passed away. May 8, V-E Day. August 14, V- J Day. Nazis of high rank face trial, an undreamed e-ventuality, e-ventuality, new to the German miltaristic mind. Trials in progress of ranking Japanese. It is always permissable to refer to the new year as a youngster, new to the world, with much to get next to before he can function. But in fact, memory . goes on cabinets are the same, the rulers are the same, so the youngster is not at the helm only a figure of speech, a platitude. Strikes bad; the railroads jammed; the returning veterans angered as they are held up, while much unnecessary travel keeps them off the rails and still , away from home. Military training compulsory on all youth and it doesn't fit well to some. Merger of Army and Navy Na-vy stirs up an old row, and they'll neither of them, have anything to do with it. The gas chariot taking the place of an unwelcome unwel-come beachhead to produce casualties, and doing a pretty good job at it. Reconversion going along as fast as it can be handled, but even so, many of us are impatien and grumble. That doo-dad why can I get itl Some guy needs his neck wrung. As if manufacturers manufact-urers weren't eager to be first in the field with a product pro-duct to sell. Of course they are want your business, bus-iness, and are hurrying to make things to get youi coin but it all takes time. General Motors a test tube for the strength o: the decoction a-brewing for the past few years Is it cooked about right? Does it taste good? How do you like it? Next! France left wing; England right smack along' side, fully abreast in the tugs; and ourselves going to the sinister side more and more. |