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Show FOURTH OF JULY THIS YEAR IN PRICE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. The "Glorious Fourth" of July in Price this year will be something tliffercnt than in years past. There will bo more thinking this year and less shooting. Citizens who formerly "burned up" money in firecrackers and fireworks will be halted by the thought that the only powder to be exploded this year will be done by Uncle Snm nnd his allies. The Fourth this year will be a day of consecration conse-cration a day of realization that the liberty ' won on the Fourth in 1776 is being extended by the nation that won it to nations that know it I not. Antl, also, that the tuition is in duty bound to safeguard its priceless heritage against autocratic auto-cratic aggression. , The spirit of u "safe tint! sane" Fourth has made notable progress in Price in recent years. Put this year it will not only bo safo and snnc, but also solemn. Many of our citizens of military mili-tary age and physically fit will in the course of n year bo equipped with the paraphemnlia of fighting men. Heforc another Fourth rolls round they will be in the thick of it. Some of them may never return. Popguns are out of place this year. Ilcnl guns take their place, instead of looking skyward sky-ward at tho popping roman candle this Glorious Fourth, let's bow our heads in prayer. Let's make the Fourth in Price more glorious by an inward contemplation of the business on hand. |