V.gabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

Forbes says: "Fair price is a price fair to both buyer and seller; price chiseling isn't the way to reduce manufacturing costs." Righto !

A well known thinking man who does the purchasing for a great corporation deplores the efforts of many purchasing agents to pit salesmen against one another to induce them to sell at the lowest possible price. He says such purchasers should be prosecuted "for contributing to the delinquency of salesme4." ***

"The power of vacuum" is a title I saw in a technical magazine. I passed it up. Probably something about the United States Senate.

William Allen White in his Emporia Gazette, recently published a picture of Hoover with Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt for a background. A lady scathingly wrote and asked him "why he did not also include a picture of tae Lord?" Whereat the sage of Emporia wrote her that if she would furnish a recent photo they would be glad to reproduce it.

Reminds me of the time Will Rogers took Arthur Brisbane to task for discussing Russian affairs without having been over there to investigate. Brisbane replied that one Leonardo painted a famous picture of the Lord's last supper, and so far as could be discovered was neither present nor invited. Will didn't even try to answer that one. He had sense enough to know he'd been outclassed in that debate.

Which reminds me of one debate that Will Rogers won. His wife always criticizes him for saying "ain't." One day he pulled that bust when they had guests, and she "called" him. Whereat he replied, "\ll/ell, we're eatin', ain't $re?" "\f,fhat has that to do with it?" his wife asked. "Well," said Rogers, "there's a whole lot of folks that ain't sayin' ain't that ain't eatin'. 'We're eatin' and sayin' ain't." Which convinced.me that he should confine his debates to his home circle, and let guys like Brisbane alone.

William Randolph Hearst is dead set that we should recognize the Soviet Government. HE would ! I imagine

Blustering Bill wants us to cut France off our calling list, and substitute Russia. France gave him the bum's rush when he went calling over therg if I remember rightly. Wonder wlich of the tenet's of Communism it is that appeals so to Mr. Hearst?

I see by the paper that George Bernard Shaw is coming a-visiting. FIe also, I imagine, will sing the praises of those dear Soviets he loves so well. Oh, welt ! After what we've been going through in this country the past three years even George Bernard and his whisker-strained monkey talk won't faze us much. We're sorta numb.

Thank God, Politics leave the center of the stage again. I asked an old East Texan who he was supporting for President and he said, "Oh, I think Bryan's done all right, and I don't see no use to change." And in California a wild Roosevelt enthusiast declared that "I'm supporting Roosevelt, he made us a good President when he was in before, and I think we should give him another chance." That's politics.

I'm glad the election was so very one-sided. If twothirds of the people of this nation believe that a change will help us-it WILL for that very reason.

And now the welkin rings with the cry "beer near" instead of "near beer." It will be fun to watch the antics that are coming. This nation of extremists-always swinging to extremes-is getting ready to tear its shirt and howl. Yes, it will be fun to watch. ***

Some people certainly get all the breaks. Poor old Hoover, in being elected President four years ago, was placed "on the spot" as certainly as ever a gangster victim could have been. Neither Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln or Franklin, occupying the President's chair the last four years, could have prevented a terrible panic. All four of them put together couldn't have done it. And it was into this whirlwind of fate that Hoover was thrust. ***

And now Roosevelt gets the other kind of break. He is (Continued orr Page 8)