To Cut Supply, Create Demand

HELLO FOLKS! — It took us a long time to learn it but we finally got through our heads — the fact that it is impossible to get more than the law of Supply and Demand will allow. The only way to get more than we now have is to create more demand. There are many ways to do that; some of them are — advertising, stimulating trade, creating markets abroad and at home, helping others to help themselves. We are now in the process of learning that wealth must be produced. Create a desire and a way will be found to get. Then production will take place and wealth is created. That is one of the things that made America what it is today. It is the thing that will make it greater tomorrow. I am not referring to money alone, nor just mundane desires. The rule applies to every good thing in life. Also to the things not so good, but let's not mentions them.

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The annoyed girl said to her date, "Lets go someplace where we can each be alone."

Father was scowling over the report card. Said the little boy "Naturally I seem stupid to my teacher, she is a college graduate."

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Two boys on a picnic with the parents got to playing with heavy road-grading machinery. Set a match to the gas tanks and got hurt. They won a big law-suit.

Two fellows got caught stealing gas. Fine-25 dollars. Gas stealing must be profitable.

Two boys went through 8 or 10 stop signs trying to outsmart the law officers. They got 10 dollar fines.

One of the boys that got caught in grand larceny is still running around and getting into as much mischief as usual. Got caught speeding since then, — thirty days license suspension. He is still driving. They haven't done anything to his father for permitting it.

These are just a few of the things going on around here, and we sit by doing nothing about it. Keep this up long enough and perhaps history will reverse itself and someday they will raid this country and send us off to darkest Africa as slaves.

This is suppose to be a civilized country where the law abiding are free to do as they wish and the law-breakers are punished enough so that they will want to obey. Guess we got our signals mixed.

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It looks as though the bulk of the forcasters are proving right: it as really a dry spring and if my own predictions are right we will have a very wet July and August. At least if winds preceding 100 days are correct.

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Candle Dipping

A candle's but a simple thing:
It starts with just a bit of string.
Yet dipped and dipped with patient hand,
It gathers wax upon the strand
Until, complete and snowy white,
It gives at last a lovely light.

Life seems so like that bit of string!
Each deed we do a simple thing:
Yet day by day, if on lifes strand
We work with patient heart and hand,
It gathers joy, makes dark day bright,
And gives at last a lovely light.

Jared Proves A Big Tease

HELLO FOLKS! — Linnea celebrated her sixth birthday today. A comical incident occurred that made us all laugh. The children had special suits made for Halloween a couple of years ago such as ghosts, leopards, devils, bunnies, etc.

It seems that only the leopard and bunny suits still exist. Linnea claims that leopard suit and Merilee uses the bunny suit for pajamas.

Last night they each had on their favorite costumes. Big brother Jared, who is never slow to tease, bit the tail of the leopard.

Before Linnea would go to bed her mother had to wrap the tail with bandage because it hurt. The bandage was still on this morning when she came to breakfast. It was sort of an honor badge, I guess.

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A MAN'S REAL MEASURE 
By W. C. BRAUN

The place to take the real measure of a man is not in the darkest place or in the church singing hymns, or at his desk, nor in he cornfield, but by his own fireside. There he lays aside his mask and you may learn he is an imp or an angel, cur of king, hero or humbug, I care not what the world says of him: whether it crowns him boss or pelts him with bad eggs.

I care not a copper what is reputation on religion may be; if his children dread his homecoming and his better half swallows her heart everything she has to ask him for a $5 bill, he is a fraud of the first water, even though he prays night and morning until he shakes the eternal hills.

But if his children rush to the front door to meet him and love's sunshine, illuminates the face of his wife everytime she hears his footfall, you can take it for granted that he is O.K. for his home is a Heaven — and the humbug never gets that .... white throne. He may be a rank atheist and red flag anarchist, roller and a mugwump; he may deal 'em from the bottom of the deck and drink beer until he can't tell a silver dollar from a circular saw, and still be an infinitely better man the the cowardly little humbug who is all sauvity in society but makes his home a hell; who vents upon the hopeless heads of his wife and children an ill nature he would inflict on his fellow men, but dares not.

I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would rather call anger to the eyes of a kind than fear to the face of a child.

Farm Leaders Fight Farmers

HELLO FOLKS! — The way the corn referendum vote went it seems that the pseudo farm leaders who were fighting Benson discovered they were fighting the farmers instead.

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THE CORN referendum vote was not a complete victory for those who believe in the American way of life. There is still that 65 per cent ruling that is going to keep farmers producing corn at an extremely heavy rate, a rate that may make it a ceiling instead of a floor. However it is gratifying to know that there are so many farmers who realize that the Government is not a profitable market for farm produce and that it can not guarantee as much as can be had on a competitive market.

This move in corn is a big step in the right direction, and if our congressmen are smart they will give farmers a chance to vote on other commodities the same way. It is one sure way of getting the farmers to choose their own program instead of the congress getting their own necks wrenched by making a false move.

Farm productivity is moving up at the rate of 6 per cent per year, and there is no indication that it is going to slow up. That means that the consumer is going to get his food cheaper each year. This is good for us all. Food is today the best buy it has ever been but not the best buy it will be in the future. Therefore a change in farm programs is bound to have to take place and the sooner the farmers get the change the better off we will all be. The consumer has as much stake in this as the farmer as his total cost of living is tied to it. If we get a sound fiscal policy going nationally and all segments of the economy use good sense in their demands we can have an ever upward increase in our standard of living. However with our society becoming more and more integrated all the time if some one "goofs" and does too much "rocking" the whole system can crash.

There are so many angles to our economy that it is an almost impossible job to know how each fits in and what effects what. One of the big problems that is going to be an issue is the role to be played by Church and State.

I believe that right now the State is usurping some of the role of the Church should have for best results, and we also know that the Church can usurp some of the State's duties. History has shown that.

To me it is all very interesting, that is why I write this column. We each need to teach the other and learn all we can. None of us know all we should but the sooner, and the better, we do know the better a future we are going to have.

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I GOT so wound up on the going subject I almost forgot to tell a joke; so here goes;

He— "Honey, I loves you' bathing suit."

She— "Sho nuff?"

He— "It sho does."