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TIME AND THE FUNNIES
(Pit held, 111., P;ke County Republican)
“Time, like an ever-rolling stream
B: ars all its sons away.”
Commenting on the unchanging placidity of the
comic strips, a writer in the Atlantic Monthly’s “Con
tributors Ctub" says: “There is one form of escape-from
Time literature which feels no necessity for reintro
ducing the inexorable advance of age as a climax, and
which goes on and on as happily unaware of Time and
Change as a cat by an abandoned mouse-hole. I refer
to the comic strips in the newspapers.
“If you are not a follower of the comic strips, you
are missing a chance to escape revolutions in the world
you have cherished, from inside pages where if you
are middleaged you turn to see who died yesterday,
into a never-never land where nothing changes, where
nobody grows any older, where Time is not.”
The writer goes on to say that from his acquaintan
ce with Mutt and Jeff, 30 years ago, they have not alter
ed in face or character. The Katzenjammer Kids should
be at least 40 years old but they obviously are not.
Wash and Easy, two soldiers of fortune, knew nothing
of the depression and go on and on, ignoring time and
change.
The characters, Joe and Vi, in “Mr. and Mrs.”, sur
vive despite the fact that their creator has passed from
the world. Sid Smith’s death apparently did not affect
the Gump’s amusing lives.
“The world may have imposed a few changes”, says
the writer, “but only a few. The motor car, for ex
ample, has supplanted the horse and buggy, and aero
planes (of astonishing design) are frequently employed.
“Nothing earthly can really touch them, however.
They are outside our restrictions altogether, in a meta
physical realm where there is no yesterday and no
tomorrow, and panting Time toils after them in vain.”
YOUR LOAF OF BREAD
(Cardington, O., Independent)
The cost of government, according to the best esti
mates, takes more than 20 percent of the national in
come.
In other words, if we work five weeks, the proceeds
of only four weeks’ work is retained by us. The money
paid us for the other week goes to government.
Only a small part of this money is taken from us in
direct taxes. The greater part filters its wray into gov
ernment through “hidden” or indirect taxes. It is a
major item in the cost of living.
Bread provides an excellent example of this. No
commodity is more necessary. Yet each loaf of bread
you buy represents 53 different taxes paid. Some of
these taxes are paid by the farmer, some by the flour
mill some by the bakery. Every one of them has add
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Mrs. Thelma Clark (right), 34-year-old widow of William A. Clark III of the Montana copper *o ..r.e
faced Mrs. Christine Fitzpatrick (left), blonde mother, in a Los Angeles court as defendant in a J'SO. GOO
suit for alienation of the affections of Michael A. Fitzpatrick (.center), former ship’s purser. Mrs. ClsrS
on the witness stand hotly defended an "entirely platonic” friendship with Fitzpatrick, while Mrs. F;t»
Patrick charged the widow "dazzled” her husband with wealth. (Associated Press Photo*)
ed to the cost of that loaf of bread.
During the past three years the American people
have paid $100,000,000 more for bread than they would
have paid had its price stayed constant. Taxation was
not the sole cause of the rise—but it was a potent in
fluence.
What is true of bread, is true of meat, shoes, auto
mobiles, furniture—anything and everything you use.
Think of taxation in this way—as a thing that
hits you directly in the pocketbook whenever you spend
a nickel—and you’ll realize what a reduction in the
cost of government would mean to every person in the
United States.
MAKE DANGER DRAMATIC
(Jamestown, N. Y. Post)
Safety education in the public schools would do
well to roll up its sleeves and go at the matter in real
earnest. Whatever part this wise movement has had
in reducing accidents among children on the streets
and highways, it is not enough. Youngsters still pop
out suddenly from behind standing automobiles. Boys
and girls on bikes still do a snake dance down crowd
ed or badly lighted, streets. Children dart into the high
ways after their toys, and cut across streets whenever
they happen to think of it. And the casualties mount
up with horrible acceleration.
Possibly too much of this safety education has been
n the form of lectures and charts. So far as this is
the chief strategy of any school, we recommend some
thing more drastic—the dramatization of danger. Why
not stage within school gymnasiums or yards the act
ual approximation of conditions on the streets, and the
common run of perilous possibilities. Let the children
themselves set the stage and think up the possibilities.
Go so far as to see that in the course of a school year
every child takes part in this mock drama of heedless
ness on the highroad.
We learn by doing. Children can learn of safety
on the streets by doing the wrong thing under condi
tions that reproduce all the perils of the street in a
miniature. We suggest that laying the dramatic
emphasis on the wrong thing is better than undramat
ic lectures on the right thing to do.
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Also EtPU 'Vines and l iquors. We Arc Closing out
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Boots and Pacs.
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(Next Door lo Fire Station)
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
AND CARD ROOM
Between Pioneer Drug Store And Dream Theatre
Jack Solomon, Pron.
“The News of the Day In Pictures”
Statistics About
Tuberculosis
Today tuberculosis is respo ns i_
ble for the death of one individ
ual every eight minutes. Thirty
years ago deaths occurred at the
rate of one every three and a
half minutes.
Two-thirds of all the deaths
from tuberculosis occur before
the age of 45.
City Council Met
In Rush Session
Monday Evening
The city council met, last ev_
enmg at 7 p.m. instead of 8 in
order to rush thru routine busi
ness of city management, be.
fore baseball practice started.
The reason for that is that
four members of t' e council
w?re turning out for the Com
mereial indoor ball team, in addi
tion to the mayor.
A communication was received
from the combined lodges set
ting forth reasons why it would
be unable to pay the price asked
by the council for the old school
building as a meeting place and
suggesting that the lodges be al
lowed to use the building. The
communication was not acted up
on at last night’s meeting.
A proposed water delivery or_
dinanee, supposed to come up last
night, was postponed because all
of the representative water bus
inesses were not present at a
meeting of the Health committee
a day or so ago, and it was im_
possible to agree in full as to
several provisions. The propos
ed ordinances is to come up at
the next regular meeting.
Thirty years ago tuberculosis
was responsible for 12 out of ev
ery hundred deaths occuring the
United States. Today it is re_
sponsible for five out of every
hundred deaths.
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