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Show Released by Western Newspaeer Xa. When I was but a small boy un arriving at the question age horn-was horn-was a house neai the railroad depot of a small town in southern loi? Each time I could escape the watch ful eye of Mother and run away mj destination was the depot. With the timidity of a child of that perod would get as near as possible Iq. I the table to which the telegraph in. Etrument was fastened I was curU i ous to know what made it "click" Before I had solved that mystery came the telephone, first shown at the Centennial exposition in 1876 It was hailed as a world marvel then while today it is a common, place providing instant communica. tion from house to house or from coast to coast. To me its operation is still a mystery. It was well past the turn t the century, and I was well into ihe 30s when another communication mail vel appeared. It was a wireless telephone, tele-phone, the forerunner of radio. With a telephone instrument, of that time attached only to a wire hoop, i talked from within the walls of the-Chicago the-Chicago Press Club building b pe0. pie on board a ship ten miles out in Lake Michigan. That was only some 40 years ago and today radio i8 providing information, entertainment, entertain-ment, instruction In some 90 percent per-cent of the homes of the cities towns and farms. Now comes television. Soon It will be a commonplace to sit in our homes and see pictures of event as they happen.- We will watch the gestures of a speaker as we listen to his address delivered many miles away. Such are a few of the means of communication invented or developed devel-oped by American genius. Their ad-vantages ad-vantages are available to all, rick or poor, in city or on the farm, because be-cause of America's ability to produce pro-duce and develop.- An ability bom of the American system of competitive compet-itive free enterprise The incentive to the producer is a profit Wuld government ownership and operation of our productive facilities, would the planned economy of state socialism, have done as much to make life easier or more enjoyable, or at an equally low cost? We know It could not have been done In the' United States there are 130 million people. Of that number the census bureau tells as more than 88 million are qualified to vole. That 88 million are responsible for whatever what-ever government we may have. Of the 88 million 5 million are members mem-bers of the CIO. Less than one-seventeenth of the voting population propose to direct the governmental policies of the nation. The strange part of it is that those responsible for partisan political action seem fearful of antagonizing that minority. minori-ty. That, it would seem, is what our government "of the people, for . the people, by the people" has become. be-come. RUSSIA'S PLACE IN FAMILY OF NATIONS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S expressed ex-pressed wish is that, with the coming com-ing of peace, Russia will again join the family of nations. He will realize real-ize that wish. Russia, thanks Stalin's realism, will be the largest1 and the mightiest of the family of nations. It will have territory. peoP1 and natural resources that will make of it the big boy of the family. . Under the guiding hand of Stalin the resources will be rapidly developed. For possibly a generation Russia will be busy at home. Stalin has no real understudy being prepared for his job of dictatorship. What will happen following his passing is big, unanswerable question, but it is possible that Russia may be the Germany for the next generation to fight. She will be more powerhtf than Germany has been. England is fearful of such a Russia. GREAT VALUE IN SMALL PACKAGES IN NEWSPAPER bach shop , parlance the short, philosophical item of two to a dozen lines, 1$ a "blurb." They are appreciated by the printer because of cir , convenience in filling the small spaces in a newspaper form. Tne printer's so-called "blurbs" hate been more effective in mowing mow-ing world civilization than f long - winded presentations o" great minds. Ten of what Wt printer would consider "bluros represent the basis of the u of the civilized world ami provjje onr conception of morals -ten commandments. Great v can come in small packages- J THE TOWN BOYS. THOSE OF to 16 years of age, too young for armed services, can do tne ' v in the war effort during ft summer and fall. Without food soldiers and sailors cannot on. Without help the farmer" produce all the food that is n for the armed services ana people at home in our own an Allied countries. The boys can vide a portion of that needed production help. It offers tnc portunity to do their pai- . body will welcome their neu- |