Show H U I I I-H I I J I 1111 I J II I t The Boys I I i l Column t-H- t t i. i oJo It to 1 i H TT- TT II I J t THIS WELL WE'LL LL IS BEGIN EGIN 1 MURDER with box the plural Is I boxes l of ot ox is oxen not plural v. v But the a called S but two are fowl is a goose one I geese plural of ot moose is never meese You yet the may had find a lone mouse or a whole nest of ot mice nut But the plural of ot house Is houses not bice hive of man is always men Plural r K If the shouldn't t the plural of ot pan be I WhY Why r shod ten pen If 11 I j speak sp k of oi a foot and you snow show me two feet And I glue give y you u a boot t would a pair be De called beet If 11 the singulars singular's this tilts and tho the plural these Y should the plural of ot kiss ever be keese r Z We speak of ot a brother bromer and also of sv brethren L But though we say 7 mother we never say ethren r Then the tho masculine pronouns are he his and him S But BU imagine the feminine she sills I and shim I II I Any questions Mutual Moments O O i OUR GREATEST DANGER MOST GREAT civilizations have fallen tall en not through external aggression but f through trough domestic corruption Seeing our nation in such danger today Senator L L Charles W W. Tobey of ot New Hampshire f s urges in the January Readers Reader's Digest an individual and collective fight against the declining morality In our j I government our colleges and our homes f Law enforcement and public morality depend largely on public demand Tobey j emphasizes Where there is no public demand for reform corruption becomes i imore I more and more deep But public j I demand is only individual demand mul- mul mUI 1 j I many times What is wrong with the country is the sum of all that is wrong with its individual citizens Our Imperative and immediate need Is a moral awakening that will restore to us as individuals the principles upon which this country cO was founded Once I we are alive to the fhe danger there are ways to take action Tobey urges the j formation of ot nonpartisan crime com com- commissions commissions missions to keep constant watch on the crooked elements and the courts Sup Sup- Supplementing Supplementing Supplementing that civic groups every every- everywhere everywhere I where can organize into wide state-wide committees of ot public safety with units to tIght light gangsters gamblers dope ped ped- peddlers peddlers dIers and all the subversive influences which threaten the country Let all the religious groups which profess to follow tollow in His steps become ambassadors for Christ in this cause But however much these groups may maydo do the real challenge is to the I dual Each of us must take it I as his duty and privilege to fight the forces force s undermining America Mothers and an d fathers and teachers should accept the th e I challenge that Is theirs theirs to to see that the children in their charge have an under under- understanding understanding standing of a the temptations to and under under-I evils evil s around them and tho the strength of char char- character character character acter to withstand them o o o I tIle THE LAST STRAW STUA W WA A MEMBER of ot the Senate Senat committee recently warned his constituents that money for local fed fed- federal federal federal eral projects may not be forth coming because be of the serious fiscal problems of or the nation Then significantly antly he heBald said Bald The feeling of concerted action somewhere against these projects hung like a shadow over the group Could I it i be that the proverbial last straw has been added to the backs of the tax tax- taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers payers and the mysterious concerted action which the senator felt over over- overshadowed overshadowed overshadowed shadowed committee deliberations Is nothing more nor less than a quiet re- re ref f hellion bemon against bureaucracy and govern govern- governmental governmental governmental mental waste Certainly the time is long past when we can afford to regard government with indifference At every level level city city county state tate and national national national-it it is continually demanding demandIng more of out substance Free Free- Freedom dom om is in danger of at becoming a shopworn shop shop- shopWorn worn figure of ot speech It can be lost although the polling booths never close It t can be smothered under the weight w or taxation or emasculated by y direct economic controls It can be absorbed by government taking over commercial business enterprises thus I making Basing all aU workers the subjects of a fast jast government tax exempt monopoly Deprived of the right to strike and help- help helpless less betse ess to vote out the system once It has been e I r established S. S U I are farther larther along on this grim roa road 1 t than a most of us like to admit The I I situation has been highlighted during th the i or Hof 1 past year b by the brazen corruptness countless officials the steadily de devalue de- de def dec f c value of money and the Shocking Who KW number of federal I have been found poor noor security k risks foul fearfUl The concerted action of a people is 18 i for the future of at the country sorely needed ITS IT'S Wort World i A A safe bet that nothing since of or thi the War lye M II with the single exception ly Korean conflict con has so thorough- thorough thoroughly r rocked this Ahls country as the graft re- re rethe re the conf And Andi according to reports on the contents of ot Congressional mail mall from fo foly shOCked back home nothing has so Democratic and revolted the people party chairman McKinney reCently win WUI said Bald that he is sure sur the scandals not be n rm on the t an issue of or the 1952 cam- cam camPaign grounds that the President and oth o oher Situation Corner Democrats are handling the neatly in 7 and ana will clean everything up K short rt order This or of moat 8 in Jn the view Q d k with observers ta is whistling in fa the been Koino a vengeance Tho The graft grat has has- hasP People P eoPle gOing in on S too long and to too many manya a dhe or key fL v J Jobs bs are aro or of that indirectly involved evolved On top 1 it Bator was a Junior Republican Williams cracked of Delaware who teen to it open t that the tax tex frau frauds s and has hasS gOing S End And it the Investigations kept acme Democrats is an interesting fact that work ork on b who have done valiant In n of high ethical standards fauver such gOvernment as Senators Senatore Ke- Ke Kefauver and Douglas are grata at the persona non The Ibe White House reaction ot of the American press to Continued on Page Four Pour The Boys Column i I Continued from Page Pa p One I tho the scandals has been one of anger anger- Just as was the case with the scandals anger I of ot the tho Harding Administration As a a. general rule the editorial attitude has been turn the rascals out This has been buttressed by most of ot the colum colum- columnists columnists who are taking a similar line cOlum 1 And Andon Andon Andon on the factual tactual side coverage e of ot the news I Iby by both press and radio has been ex ex- ex I IThe The big thing of course has been I Ithe the tho gratt graft in the Internal Revenue Bu Bu- Bui Bureau Bureau i reau This has completely overshadowed I Ithe the deep freeze and mink coat episodes and for an excellent reason As Robert Ruark put It We cannot understand a n I billion here a billion there because so i I few of us deal in billions that they Just represent a long line Une of zeros We cannot I understand the deviations of ot the state department J I i ru hr o oJ r l l L- L Lr L rr rt r ws wa j I I cannot understand what has transpired with prices and ceilings and economics in general because it is a solid cinch I i the people who wh perpetrate them do not understand them either I I But there Is one thing we know from Natchez to Mobile and Memphis I I to St. St Joe Taxes we know I know em because I owe em You know em You know em because they em I right out of your tired old take-home take and you never get through the one year without fretting about the next Everyone kicks at the tax collector asa as asa asa a matter of course but everyone has believed that Internal Revenue was I honest as they come rome Now that the Bu Bureau Bu- Bu Bureau I reau has taken on the smell of an I Bu-I an an- ancient ancient ancient fish the general public has h s turn turn- turned turned turned I ed whopping mad And on the level of I general principle it seems certain that I many millions of average Americans feel like Holmes Alexander who wrote No tramp of ot a n foreign Invader has so I shaken the temple of our freedom like the stealthy treat of thieves who are i still at large within the government And unless we wake up to these dan dan- dangers dangers dangers gers the Communist dream of decaying I democracy can become our own night night- mare m re I I O O O OTHE II I THE TilE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE FOR FOB 1952 I propose donning the old I thinking cap From one end of ot Main Street to the other you will find nobody too cheerful or who has even a remote notion of what Is next So with such sucha a start start everybody everybody admitting that there Is something in the haystack except Just hay hay we we can proceed We been listening In great fashion fashion- we been figuring the gent doing the I talking knew what he h was talking about We Va know we are in some sort of ot a dilemma but how we got there we are not too sure We scratch our dome like when the man picks up the shell and the pea is not there A gold coin if 1 you are caught with one you are locked up Good and solid soUd money is Illegal In a a. schoolhouse in Los Ins Angeles eighteen in each between 16 and 18 years old did not know there are 12 months in a n. year year 19 19 spelled writing with 2 2 t's ts ts t's 16 didn't know the why of ot the Fourth of July A highly paid Agriculture Extension Ser Sr Service service vice tells us us that an apple for eating should be chosen for appearance texture texture tex tex- texture ture flavor Oh Ohl I my can be our downfall How about it for tor 1952 speak 1952 speak up folks folks- Resolutions are now the mode Yours with the low down JO SERRA |