Show a a released by western newspaper union THE ATTIC IN WHICH BIE MEMORIES 31 ORIES TOO ARE STORED EVERY well ordered home should have an attic as a place for the storage of memories in the attic the memories will lie dormant until there comes a moving day when that time comes its long forgotten treasures will be revealed and the problem of disposing of those treasures will be a serious one there will be found the crib and high chair the babies used years ago those babies are now grown to men and women they have homes and families of their own in faraway far away places what memories of their days of babyhood the days when the home echoed the happy prattle of little children thos tho simple bits of long discarded furniture bring back there can be no more babies to use them but it is hard to let them go in a litter of the attic are found the school and college grams of the daughter written on them are the names of boys many of whom we have long forgotten but those names recall memories of hopes for the daughters future of evenings when one or another called and ma and I 1 retired from the parlor or living room and watched the clock for the appropriate P hour for the young mans departure ransacking the attic gives one an opportunity to live over again those cherished days of the long ago you dig out of the clutter the uniform you wore as a soldier before the turn of the century and with it the sword that was your badge of office they remind you of the long forgotten c comrades of those soldier days then you find mas wedding dress and hat and marvel at the style and size of the dress you recall lacall incidents of that happy day when you took her from the home in the little iowa town to a new home in the city you recall those who were present at the wedding ceremony most of them you have not heard of for years and you wonder at what changes life may have brought to them what success or failure may have been their lot these are but typical of the thousands of incidents the contents of the attic will bring back to you each item as you dig it out of the accumulation presents a problem can you discard it can you throw away the old lamp beside which you spent so many pleasant evenings should you not keep the old and badly worn quilt your mother pieced and quilted so many many years ago there are the pictures of friends of the long ago some of which are now hard to recall but when you do they live again should you not keep each and every one of them as well as the thousands of letters you spend hours and days rereading yes the attic is a storehouse of memories A storehouse that offers more problems when you move than does all the rest of the house together in the end you keep much of it to be stored away in another attic that becomes another storehouse of memories and presents other problems should you ever move again ONE WAY WAT OF GETTING THE FACTS TO PEOPLE SECRETARY is asking congress for another heavy tax increase one that will produce an additional seven or eight billion dollars each y year ea r he also asks fot bof legislation th that at will collect au all federal taxes at the source that the taxes be deducted from the pay envelopes of employees and from the dividend checks to stockholders such action by congress would give the mass of the people a better understanding of what they pay for ft what government provides it would give them facts our system of hidden taxes has long denied the greater portion of the american people it would make for a more intelligent citizenship and more in intelligent tell igent voters let us hope the politicians may accept at least that part of the secre recommendation a FEDE FEDERAL RAL MAIL washington tells us we must list economize in our use of paper but the federal government has ordered one billion four hundred million envelopes for 1942 that represents represent 11 envelopes for every individual ill the nation including the babies those envelopes will be distributes distributed as franked mail at the normal norm postage rate of three cents it would mean a postal revenue of 42 nl midio illiOn dollars there is one reason for a postal deficit |