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Show Some Very Timely Editorial Thought PLEADS FOR DEMOCRACY We are at present fighting for democracy m many narts of the world, but here at home we refuse to share it wl h the sales clerk. That's not the ideal that created this country Much of our democracy is sunshine democracy. There are women who will talk to the plumber when he is fixing a faucet, but would feel it beneath their dignity to recognize him on the street. There are hundreds of women s clubi in the country in which the wife of a local policeman would not hope to play an important part. They wou d find it very unpleasant, and that one meeting would be all that she would want. Democracy sometimes fares badly even in churches. Many factory towns have churches for the mill owners to worship in, and others where mill hands worship There is no democracy where Catholicism rules. The great Master had more of a democratic spirit than that He was not ashamed to partake of the hospitality of the down trodden and outcasts. Did He lower Himself by doin-so? What think you? uum0 c. V.Hansen. .V" -- |