Show mort brdar 1 D YOO 0 X would it be news to you that monticello has an ordinance making it mandatory that pro properio property owners keep sidewalks curbing and gutters 0 utters clean W we e have been advised that the state road will erect a sign at the approaches to monticello giving givin the population as over 1100 which figure was established by the re e taken by the school signs have b been een very misleading TRYING TIES THE CAP FOR SIZE we were amused at a remark of a city employee in Mont monticello icella to the effect ef f act that the editor needed liver purging arg could it bs be that hell he has taken offence offense to an editorial halloween pranksters prank transplanted a post with a road sign into the middle of town i it have been a shock to t the he townspeople if their energies had been directed toward setting the power line posts that have been littering the streets for weeks what a world of monotony we would live in if everyone thought the same and all agreed on every issue we even enjoy the criticisms leveled against the record because they help to keep us in line only week we relieved reci eved two letters from the same town one lauding flauding the paper its stands and policies and the other how and why the he paper should be changed to be successful it is a strange t thing hin though that our critic was not proud proud enough of his own philosophy to sign his name to it once in awhile we are thoroughly deflated recently we published an appeal f for 0 r help to what we thought was a most deserving cause we fully expected that when our readers lea learned arned of the plight of the little deaf indian girls they would respond out of the kindness that wells up in people when they see or hear of someone not endowed with all the matut natural al gifts that we take for granted we were therefore quite continued on page 5 WITH THE EDITOR continued t inked from page 1 surprised that not one person responded it goes to show how little we know what reaction to expect from pe people orple Curio curiosity is a very natural thing with the small boy he wants fo flo take the small toy apart to see what makes it run with wh us we are in tensley interested i in observing if possible why people act as they do we have discovered that some are arc motivated by love others by greed money others b by y lust for power and still others by sensual passions then of course there are the various combinations of these motives that impel people to act either wisely or unwisely in this little game we have discovered that invariably the noble act lias has a noble thought behind it and the base act always follows the thought of low character we are therefore more or less prepared for the bad actions of some people and by the same token taken we anticipate the deeds of kindness and unselfishness of others to make this game most interesting turn the spotlight on yourself observing the acts and analyzing anal izing the motivating forces behind them it is often very interesting |