Show ON LIVING 1 IN 14 4 A SMALL TOWN I 1 THERE are so 0 many reasons chy people who 11 e in small haie ii ne a better time of it than I 1 those bose 1110 live in the big biff cities that there room to put them all donn doin here but one of the things that make our city cousins I 1 mail mad Is that vie e small town arid ami count country aik folk oik haie hae so BO much more to say abo about t tile the government of our state and of the I 1 nation than they do A writer in a recent rece t issue of the american Itier mercury cury points out that on one e voter in echols county georgia has as much to say about the states affairs on election day as 33 35 voters in atlanta atlanta hiis bas 11 percent of georgias population and pa paa 21 percent of 0 the ad val orem taxes but has only 14 percent of tile the members member of the lower house of the tate state legislature that disclosure leads the new york times to remark that one voter loter in putnam county less than thirty miles north of the big city has as much to say at albany as five voters in new york itself there are similar situations in every state which has large cities chicago Is golwas complaining that downstate down state members run the illinois legislature while tile the constitution of the state of new york contains a provision which prevents new york city from ever having a majority in either house of 0 the lie legislature tills this condition Is a funival of 0 the original of political authority cording according re to locality and not according to population and on the N whole hole we see sec no reason to change chael ge it population has bus been drifting away fiora the farms in tile the past few lears but a whole lot ot of the drift never neer got any far farther therl than the nearby country towns and villages illback and now there Is beginning a swing bark back from the lie b big g e cities es to 0 the ie land an again I 1 farmers haie giai e their troubles and so doi do small to town business men but they are trifling compared with willi the troubles of city people lit in times of industrial distress and unemployment for one thing the city dweller lias has to have haic cash in its his pocket or starve we lye know many g good citizens who dont handle as much cash in a j ear car as thousands of city fours folks spend tor for a months house rent but xe we noticed any of them starving staining and the few who villa littie have had hard luck and have had ad to have help iron from their neighbors had to sacrifice crince sa their self respect in accepting a lift over the temporary I 1 rough going As far as we can find out the small towns of 0 the whole united states have haie got along better through these past two tuo years of depression than tile the big cities have done and it if there Is anything an tiling really worth borth haling in city life that we got right here at home we dont know what it is on tile lie whole hole perhaps its just ris as well ell that the titles dont run everything so long as people have haie to cat and we vc country folks have to raise their ioria food bior tor them |