Show TO THE POLLS POLIS the privilege leae to vote is a great creat privilege leee the revolutionary war was fought to give eive the people of a new land freedom a government overn ment iv by the people of the people and for the people and it is far from every man mail and woman in the world that is offered this privilege leze yet we who have it abuse it we fail to appear at the poles doles on election day to cast a vote for the party whom we favor as beins beine the best qualified and the most capable and vet tet if anything lees goes wrong wrone in the management of a town city state or nation we are first to call down shame on the officials who guide it we are first to criticize the man we helped put in office by not voting for one we feel sure is of greater value to al community the privilege leee of selecting the finest officials possible of se securing curina the hiel highest lest type government available lies in in your hands let every man and woman zo eo to the polls in the library tuesday november ath and cast his ballot for a safe and sane city government in a 4 11 club contest held re recently centhy in western kansas four boys turned the tables by walking walkine off with the baking prizes the zo government verent has been trying for some time to zet set into the licht and power business merle thorpe editor of the nations business the official publication f the united states chamber of commerce points out that under private ownership electra ac rates are one half as high as they were 20 years azo ago while the tax rates are six times higher in the opinion of thorpe it would be beatter to let the light and power companies run the government thorpe might have mentioned also that the one biz bis business of which the government has a monopoly the postoffice post office at a time when every other business was vas lowering its rates increased the postage rates 50 per der ceat 11 the biggest shock to a lot of those who are so strong for the soak the rich program will come when they find out after the program gets under way that they are included among the rich in the olden days davs when people lived in tribes and family groups the old people and those of no earning ability were cared for by those of the tribe better able they were fis furnished lied food and shelter and clothing clothine the tribes have been broken up ain these modem times but the practice still continues by which those able to earn support those who cannot support themselves or do not desire top the only change e in the system is that the mones mone instead of being thrown in the tribal treasury rv hv by the earners is taken from them by the tax route we believe that if the administration had spent the relief money on a nation wide system of roads that it could have been handled with no additional adminis araton cost and after the depression lifts it would have a completed utility to point to a magnificent achievement instead of a lot of odds and ends that every community has to show for its portion of 0 the federal aid every state county and township has an all organization that could have handled all the road money the federal treasury could have at no additional administrative cost |