Show released by western newspaper union mum DRAFT LAW BRINGS ABOUT HEALTHY associations THERE IS A JOB the new army is doing that may not be realized ity iby an all it is breaking down the class i consciousness that was growing all I 1 too rapidly when the poor man mans s son and the rich mans son sleep under the same canvas or occupy adjoining bunks r when they wear the same kind ol of clothing do the same routine jobs abs day after day they find they are very much alike they are both young men with the same aspirations much the same likes and dis akes both of them human they find the top sergeant knows no distinction between rich and poor when it comes to naming a tk kitchen itchen police detail th that at the rich mans son can go to the guard house ifor any infraction of army rules quite as quickly as the poor mans son that in army regulations there is no rich or no poor all are soldiers out of it all will come many thousands of lasting friendships between the rich and poor when it is over and the poor boy goes to a factory job and the rich boy to the office desk the friendship formed in the army camp will continue and will result in a better understanding in that factory I 1 icelin ein the army is making for better american citizenship that is fully as valuable as the making of soldiers when the emergency is over the draft law should be continued with the age limit reduced to 22 years so all american boys rich and poor may continue to get acquainted quain ted the nation will be stronger because of such acquaintance HOME TOWN PATRONAGE OR ELSE I 1 AS A SMALL BOY I 1 knew the then prosperous little town of vernon iowa I 1 knew its four general stores well stocked with the merchandise of that time these stores constituted the foundation on which vernon was built their existence was responsible for the comfortable homes of the town f for or its two churches and for its for that time excellent school the drummers those stores brought to the to town n made possible that hotel the bank was dependent on the stores for its business vernon was a market place then came the invasion of the mail order catalogue with a concerted blitzkrieg on business of the town the sales of the merchants declined with that decline came a reduction in the quantity and variety of merchandise offered by local merchants in time the stores closed with them went the bank hotel homes churches arid and the school today vernon does not exist even to the extent of a post office what was once a market place a social and cultural center a place of comfortable for table homes is now a corn field the value of those acres and other farm acres surrounding the place that once was vernon is not as great as it was 60 years ago there have been all too many vernons throughout america too many market places that have died because of the tendency to centralize merchandising whenever people of a community permit their market place to die from lack of home patronage they pc sacrifice ac their social and cultural center their churches and schools and turn what has been a place of homes into a field that continued to a logical conclusion would make peasants of the american farmers it would deprive them of all that makes farm we life pleasant 0 0 a NO FEAR FOR U S IN TRADE BARRIERS WHEN ANYONE attempts to teu tell you we as a nation must do things to protect our world markets it is well to remember a few simple facts america represents just about 60 50 per cent of all the purchasing power of the entire world we are as great a market place as all other nations combined we do or can produce 91 9 pes pel cent of all the commodities commo cities needed to maintain the american standard of living we could build a trade wall around the country and suffer no serious inconvenience our one greatest ite item rn ol oi export is raw cotton we import in the lorm form of manufactured products practically aUy as much cotton as we export in bales it is other nations not america that would seriously suffer from any trade barr barriers ierg they might attempt against us 0 0 A BIT complicated ARE EGG PRICES ETC ENGLAND ASKS that thai at reduce our cur egg consumption so we can sell sel more to her on the cufr cuff england does not buy eggs in canada where it would be a cash transaction the th price of eggs in canada is about abou 10 cents a dozen less than the price pric to the american consumer we pay pa for eggs for england and raise raise our ou own price on those we eat but thi the american poultry rais raiser er profits it I 1 is a complicated world a complex bewildered world |