Show i- i ll i N TUR DOESN'T Rl HUMAN NATURE URE DOESN'T J CHANGE t 0 lire Ve e hear bear a good many people J remarking that the younger r. r generation has no manners boys and girls of today are rapidly sliding down to perdition and that things were so much better when these t complaining individuals themselves themselves themselves them them- 0 selves os were young f If i We Ve e seem to remember having hayIng hayw hay hay- w ing tog heard old folks talk in ina a 11 f Similar m ilar 1 s strain t. t raIn v when h en we were vere young young- We Ve are strongly inclined ed cd to believe that the bad manners man- man v J ners neZ's and worse morals of youth have always been a subject of complaint by their parents and grandparents from King Solomen's Solomon's Solomons Solomons Solomon's Solo Solo- mons mon's time and perhaps farther er back than that Our belief is strengthened recently recently recently re re- re- re by a letter wi written itten in 1795 by an English woman who o. o l sa said among other othe things Our manners become more licentious our men are different different different differ differ- ent our women bold and as as- I suming The pertness of is allowed to give her opinion on all subjects She owes into silence her superiors and under understanding understanding standing for Jor who vho can wish to hold an argument with a flippant flippant flippant flip flip- pant tongue But a more serious serious ser ser- ious lous consideration is the hideous hideous hide hide- ous our undress of the present day to be perfectly fashionable is isto to half naked naked- In the same letter elderly women were vere criticised for resorting resorting resorting re re- sorting to cosmetics in the effort effort ef ef- fort tort to make themselves look younger We Ve have heard people around here talk about how disgusting it is for a woman old enough to be a grandmother to try to look like a flapper Regardless of whether it is disgusting disgusting disgusting dis dis- dis- dis gusting or not our point is that it is iB nothing new v. A hundred and tl thirty seven years ago people were saying the same things One thing is certain That is that each generation has to learn its own w why way y about and find its own 0 way of living in other words codes of manners and behavior gene generally ally are aregood aregood good good for for Jor the generation that subscribes to them And when we ve consider that half of the people of the United States are under twenty six years old it seems to us the young folks have about as much right to decide such things for themselves themselves them them- f selves as the older ones have to prescribe for them LESS SPENDING NOT MORE REVENUE While the newspapers of all nIl parties and no parties and men and women omen in all stations of life up and do down n the land are demanding that the Congress reduce the expenses of government government government govern govern- ment by at l least 1st a billion dollars a year why do those in charge of this government spend all their time trying to find ind new revenue We Ve might not need to find many new ways ays to do this if we were to tout jut gut our costs to meet the revenue revenue revenue re re- re- re venue we have The people are distinctly opposed opposed opposed op op- opi op- posed to being milked further nd md they are just as distinctly in favor of reducing e expenses so that the milking process need not be extended Figures show v that the cost of government in the United States States meaning meaning the costs of all kinds of government government- amounted to 17 per cent of our entire national income last year and statisticians say that this year the cost may be as much as 23 per cent In other words the average man will be working nearly one-fourth one of all his time in 1932 to support the government V with th its tens of thousands of idlers and was was- and its unnecessary agencies agencies agencies agen agen- cies of one kind and another Of course the federal budget must be balanced but that can be easily done if we reduce the i budget to the legitimate needs i of the country Our governments governments govern govern- ments need to spend less rather rath rath- er than to collect more It is stated with some show shoo sho v of authority that the fe federal eral government alone has been 1 spending a minute in inthe inthe the last year in excess of it its itu I income and some states and i many cities have been doing I Ithe the same thing proportionate proportionate- tei te- i ly If the national government I will lack two and a half billion dollars this year of being able to pay its debts the fault is largely in the unnecessary spending not altogether in a alack alack alack lack of revenue Citizens have a duty to to perform perform perform per per- form in this crisis They can demand lemand of every candidate for every office that spends the publics public's money which means all of them that he take a firm stand tand in favor of reducing the expenses of the government under threat that the voters will ill defeat him next nett November Its It's time to quit trying to lift f ourselves by our bootstraps tone time to quit employing ants for business and to g give givet Vt V t a remedy That remedy is lower costs of government not some gome new form of taxes not the she trying-out trying of some pet net theory like that of the Farm Board which has cost the people a half billion dollars while the farmers farmer's condition was gradually becoming worse worse- The American railroads have reduced educed their operating expense expense expense ex ex- ex- ex pense 40 per cent since 1929 Had the governments of this country done the same sam then thing g we would ouId not now have to b bs be worrying about new tax laws and balancing budgets without sufficient funds |