The Coolidge examiner., 1945-07-13
By KATHERINE HUPFEl

All of us on Main Street, in COM
mon with the Wall Street pluto
crat and the Okie cotton picker,
have days when everything goes
dead wrong and the more
we fume and fuss the worse 1t
makes matters Granny had
her own way of handling days like
that. When things started going
wrong she'd get out the churn and
start to work "It eases my feel
ms to be poundin' somethin'." "
she'd say. 81 just make believe
all those troubles are in this churn,
an when l open it up it's going to
give us good sweet butter for sup
per-" We don't have the
kind of churns Granny used to use,
but we can follow her philosophy
by putting our small troubles in a
mental churn and by the time we
give them a good going over they
ought to yield us laugh for hav-
ing taken them so seriously in the
first place-and a laugh in these
trying days is worth as much as
Granny's good sweet butter.
During a recent dinner party
in a home not far from Main
Street the conversation turned
to the attitude of the Russians
toward the Germans and the
difficulty of restoring peace
under such conditions
There's as much chance of
it, said one; "as there was
between a couple of kids ! saw
fighting this week
One was beating the heck out of
the other and when | told him
he shouldn't hit a kid that was
down, he yelled; go 'awn-
what do you think | got him
down for"
Main Street will have many prob
lens to face during the post war
period of adjustment There
are some who had rather not talk
about them-but we won't improve
matters by sticking our heads in
the sand like an ostrich When
the Mexicans and Indians and Ne
groes who have fought for us in
thic hour orn 0nifl
to treat them? 1t would be
considered ridiculous, pointed out
one of the worlds great thinkers
recently, to segregate all the red
heads, all the blonds, or all those
who have black hair. The pigment
of the hair makes no difference to
society and yet, the pig
ment of the skin Immediately
marks a man as one accepted, or
rejected Many of us have
been born in environments that
nurtured race prejudice from child
hood, and this is hard to overcome.
1t cannot be done quickly, but as
those among the now under-privi-
legged groups, because of the color
of their skins, prove their right
to our respect, they should be ac-
corded 1t There are indi-
gent, uneducated whites whose way
Of life is beneath the level of a
skin color and yet, they belong to
the privileged class Place
beside one of these an educated
man whose skin is red, yellow, or
black, struggling upward In the
scale of life-to which would you
accord respect? This is a
problem that should not be pushed
preemptorially aside to the humil-
iation of any man, or group-but
settled on the character qualities
of each individual, as he earns his
place in the sun.
Animals, as we'll as people,
have distinct personalities,
maintains one of Main Streets
old timers "Take that
theme tom cat Of our'n that lies
a-sIeepin' in the shade all day,
while the female goes out
a-huntin' gophers for the kit
tens" he said. "Durned, when
she drags one in, if amt seen
that old tom stretch himself
an walk over lordIy-like to eat
It! -. an If that ain't plain
laziness, | don't know the signs