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Show , CLIFF MEMMOTT. Ed.lor "SPENDERS" UNDER FIRE .... An opinion poll revealed recently that more than twice as many voters are now concerned about government spending and high taxes as were concerned last January Sen. Carlson of Kansas elaborated on this fact when I he said that "never before have the American people made 'I their protests about taxation and spending so well heard." ' This public realization of government waste and , ex- ' travagance is all to the good. Only an aroused public opinion can protect the nation against reckless spending. However, if the bureaucrats are forced to realize that the public really demands economy, they may agree, with Sen. Carlson, that "now is the time to act in accord with this loud voice of the people." i 1 v E v - 1 ABC5 ADDLE ADULTS . . . , n "The alphabet is not merely something to memorize and recite," says Selmer H. Berg, superintendent of schools, Oakland, California, in the November 1951 NEA Journal, "but a tool to be used for finding words in the dictionary, for filing documents, for indexing, and for 'similar activities. activ-ities. A test recently given in the Oakland schools, therefore, there-fore, included not only the writing of the letters of the alphabet al-phabet in proper order, bit also tasks which required understanding un-derstanding and use of the letters of the alphabet. "One such task was: 'Arrange the following words - r in alphabetical order: strength, stagger, stage, string, strain, . - itrong.' "The test was given to children of the sixth, ninth and twelfth grades with quite satisfactory results. Over a third of the sixth graders had perfect papers. At the ninth and twelfth grades 85 per cent had perfect papers. "Was the test too easy? The payoff came when members mem-bers of a local service club were sporting enough to try the same test. Only 26 per cent of these adults turned in perfect papers!" . . v E v . It now costs more than $200,00,0,000 a year to operate the Internal Revenue Bureau, says the New York Journal Journ-al of Commerce. .That's r?ore than the total Federal tax j wfiected when the agency was set up in 1862., ' ' -. x . -. j I ".Yowadays the jury is often locked up longer than ' I fie defendant." Sig Fox. . ' I He: "Why do you weep and sniffle at a picture, show over the imaginary woes of people you have never met?" She: "Same reason why you scream and yell when man you don't know slides into second base.'" ! . : . "Labor, capital, and brains should all unite for the I common good.", George W. Strake, Texas industrialist. 30 Two-Day Show . , |