Control Boys At It Again

Hello Folks — The old sage says that God needed only six days to create the world but he had the advantage of working alone.

A Woman is the only being who can skin a wolf and get a mink.

The battle of the sexes will never be won by either side; there is too much fraternizing.

A gossip is one who talk about others. A bore is one who talks to you about himself. A brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

The man who wakes up to find himself famous has not been asleep.

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The new administration is going full steam ahead to prove to the world that it too can solve the farm problem, and do it through the control method.

The advocates of the control method threw every conceivable roadblock in the way of the Eisenhower administration to keep

My idea for sucha program is that it would be just for the summer. The age is about right, but these youths should for the most part be in school the rest of the time. If a permanent force is needed for such work it should be on a career basis.

If we encourage young men to go into such jobs for the early years of their lives we are severely penlizing them for the time when they will no longer be eligible for the program.

With the advent of automation and highly skilled occupations there is more need than ever for education and the time is here now when the man without a skill or an education is hard put to find a good job. Therefore if we let them stay in these camps the year

Considers Bus Question

HELLO FOLKS! — Our government has launched a program of planned deficits. This will probably create some inflation. The inflation has a definite impact on items purchased.

To the wage earner one per cent inflation will see his costs go up $10 per $1,000. For the farmer, who has to spend at least $20,000 in order to have a $5,000 income, this means his cost of the inflation is $40 per $1,000 of income.

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ONE OF THE big issues before the State Legislature concerns transportation for parochial schools. This is generating a lot more steam than the news media indicates.

Roman Catholics are generally the ones pushing for transportation to non-public schools. Their argument is that they are educating children while still supporting public education; thereby maintaining an overburdening amount of the total cost.

There is truth to their statement. It should be easy to see their point of view. When they see busses go by and cannot ride them, but have to pay the transportation out of their own pockets they are bound to feel that something is not quite right.

Main Argument

Those who favor parochial schools say they do so because they feel that their children do not get enough religious instruction in public schools.

The core of the matter, then, hinges on the answer to this question. Do parochial schools give the children better religious training than they can otherwise obtain?

We may readily agree that children who go to parochial schools get a deeper indoctrination than do the others. This seems natural when students are exposed to it each day in school. However, history positively indicates that citizens education in non-parochial schools, and consequently get their religious education through Sunday School, Bible school and preaching services, get a better Christian education and are better qualified for leadership.

It stands to reason that a child who is reared among children of various beliefs is more apt to be tolerant than one who is reared in a close doctrinal atmosphere. He is also apt to learn more of the true concepts than one reared without the contrasting beliefs.

Others Pay Bill

Non-Catholic Christians maintain a very effective and quite complete system of religious training. They pay their own costs and do their own transporting. While it is not as burdening as those who send their children to parochial schools, is done without thought of state renumeration.

I understand that Catholics are beginning to have Sunday School supplemented with home instruction. This might eventually eliminate the need for parochial education. Judging from the success of other denominations, this would be a step in the right direction.

With this view in mind, allowing bus transportation to parochial schools, and thereby encouraging this form of education, would be a step in the wrong direction.

Compelling Reasons

HELLO FOLKS — A man in Ohio rammed his auto into a tree, rather than hit a skunk. Pretty strong reason for his action, I'd say.

The cost of living is even higher when you are constantly living it up.

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PRESIDENT KENNEDY in his message to Congress proposed the establishment of a Youth Conservation Corps.

I am wholeheartedly in favor of such a plan if it is set up and run properly. We could create a lot of jobs in the community that would go a long way toward beautifying our country. The past few summers there have been many youths who could not find but little work to help them save up for future education. With the Federal Government contributing an equal share of the cost of such a program with the State and County we could put them to work and benefit them and ourselves.

I am against doling out money to people without them working or earning it. It is destructive to their character.

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Think smiles, and smiles will be;
Think doubt, and hope will flee;
Think love, and love will grow;
Think hate, and hate you'll know;
Think good, and good is here;
Think vice, its jaws appear;
Think joy, and joy ne'er ends;
Think gloom, and dusk descends;
Think faith, and strength's at hand;
Think ill—it stalks the land;
Think peace, sublime and sweet;
And you that peace will meet;
Think fear with a brooding mind,
And failure's close behind;
Think this; "I'm going to win."
Think not on what has been,
Think "Victory." Think "I can."
For so God builds man.

Commies Want 100% of Parity

Hello, Folks! We have two little boys at our house. Dana 1 and Randy 2, who are about as different as brothers can be. My wife said Dana is like me, always into something, while Randy is a lone-wolf type of boy. They quite often get into fights and the only time Dana wins is if he can use his teeth as a weapon. Never-the-less he always comes back for more. One night we all went to the Drive-in theater. Randy probably had fresh in his mind the battle of the day. When the hero grabbed the heroine and planted a torrid kiss, Randy exclaimed, "He's a biting".

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The Butcher was weighing up a roast when his customer observed, saying "You're giving me a lot of bone there, aren't you? "Oh, no," answered the butcher "You're paying for it".

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I have had the opinion that the idea of high price supports were slipped from under the "Iron Curtain" however I never had any proof of it. Now I have the Communists own word for it. Before me I have a pamphlet put out by the Communist Party, with their ideas on "The American way to jobs, Peace and Democracy" (as they call it).

The ideas expressed in it are captivating and sound alright, UNLESS you know the catches in them. Among the many views expressed (which by the way are all ideas that would destroy the nation) is a government guarantee of 100 per cent price parity and crop insurance. I am not going to tag anyone a Communist just because he recommends policies identical to the Communist beliefs, (after all they may have some good ideas) but we know that they are setting up nights thinking up good was to destroy all that is good and progressive, and I think we ought to weigh very carefully any program that is as contrary to the American way of life as 100 per cent of parity guaranties.

We all have neighbors, friends, and possibly relatives who believe in the idea of high price supports, they are for the most part sincere in there convictions and certainly have a right to their views. To criticize them and possibly involve personalities and cause hard feelings is the worst thing we can do.

What we should do, however, is to be so well informed in American economics and principles that we can talk it over with them and show them the right way, then if they are open minded we are gained, if we just believe in a flexible program but don't know why then, if I may quote Roger Flemming "Brother you are a part of the problem."

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At the annual meeting of the "Minn. Spring Barrow Show" July 20th, we had a delicious dinner served by Wilson & Co. After the meeting we were invited to play golf or it you want to put it in the vernacular "cow pasture pool." I don't think any farmers stayed for the game. I guess they figure it is tiresome enough chasing cows out of the pasture, let alone a tiny ball.

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Some men thirst after fame and some after money. But I know something all men thirst after. What? Salted peanuts.

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President Eisenhower has signed into law the "Trade Development Act of 1954" This is principally Farm Bureau's baby. It is a big step in the right direction and one that every Farm Bureau member can be proud of. This is just one of the ways that Farm Bureau serves you and makes your $10 dues pay big dividends. There are few places outside your church where $10 will be better spent. We need foreign markets and we need friends. The Trade development Act promotes both. Joining Farm Bureau is one way to help keep America strong and free.

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That P.M. at Virginia City we visited the stores. At the barber shop the barber was sharpening his straight-edge and singing merrily while the patron leaned back in the chair with his cigar between his fingers and harmonized with the barber, thru the lather. All the old perfumes and shaving mugs were lined up neatly.

Upstairs a woman was looking out the window, clad in a negligee. The hardware store was well stocked with all sorts of mining equipment and looks common for that day. The shelves in the Dry-goods store were lined with long-flannels and piece goods that made you almost forget that you were living in the 20th Century. The Stage coaches were on the street and we all had a "ride" in them. The livery stable where the Vigilantes met to plot there strategy to catch the outlaws was also fascinating. Club foot George Harris was one of the Outlaws gang that invariably follow the boom towns and live as parasites off the populace.

It seems that the outlaws got so powerful they were terrorizing the town of Virginia City, consequently a Vigilante group was organized and plans were formed to capture the desperadoes. The outlaws had informers as did the Vigilantes, so it was a life and death struggle. Finally the ringleaders were caught and hanged to death. They were buried on boot hill along with all other vagrants. Wooden markers were placed over their graves with the engravings burned into the wood.

A few years ago when the town was restored the grave of Club foot George was dug up to ascertain the fact that the markers were correct. As a result George's Club foot was carved off and preserved in a huge glass jar of alcohol. It is now at the museum.

The most interesting of the stores was the drug store. It is full of old time articles to stimulate the imagination. We had an old fashioned drink of mint julip. In the basement of the drug store was many more interesting things. In one corner of the basement was a closed door. On the door was a sign saying that in the closet was a skeleton of a man. Of course we had a look. It seems that one of the outlaws was a Negro, he was captured separately and hanged. The druggist was also somewhat of a doctor, he needed an anatomy to study on so he received permission to use this convict.

The story goes into the gruesome detail of how he boiled the meet off the bones and rebuilt the skeleton. At the lower end of the town we found a log cabin that also has weathered the years. Vera and I decided that when if ever we retire we are going to stake a claim to it. Thus ended a long and enjoyable day at Virginia City. When we got back to the Valley it was still 90 degrees.

Oh yea! Meet an honorary member of the Virginia City Vigilantes Organization, and I do mean yours truly. I have a cirtificate to prove it.

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Captains for the 1955 membership campaign have been selected. They are Fred Miller for Freeborn, Carlston, Hartland and Manchester townships. Webster Lair for Mansfield, Alden, Nunda and Pickerel Lake townships. Marlin Brandvig for Freeman, Albert Lea, Bath and Bandroft townships. John Nordby for Geneva, Riceland, Newry and Moscow townships. William Lyle for London, Shellrock, Oakland and Hayward townships.