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By ALAN BROWNING, Jr.
THIS AND THAT
Simpson, returning to Elkin from the beach last i Sunday
with a five-gallon container of sea,' water which he intended to
evaporate in order to get the salt, stopped along the highway
when he saw a tired, perspiring motorist working to fix a tire.
"Got a flat tire ?" Simpson asked as he rolled to a stop.
"Oh no," replied the weary motorist, "I just jacked up the
car to let the wheel rest."
We reckon when the infantile paralysis epidemic is over the
mayors of Elkin and Jonesville will sort of have to unproclajnate.
Last week's proclamation concerning infantile paralysis will
more than likely keep a lot of grown-ups from church and Sun
day school but we'll bet they'll fig-*"
ure there's ni danger in going to the
movies.
The new service station down next
to Turner's goes to show what ad
equate lighting can do in making a
town more attractive at night.
Brightly lighted streets are one of
a town's best advertisements.
True story?: A man and his wife
in a tiny town some 30-odd years
ago looked with admiration at their
year-old infant.
"Don't you think, dear," said the
father, "that it is time for us to
start planning for his future? What
do you want him to be when he
grows up?"
The mother said that she hoped
he'd go to college so that he'd be a
great surgeon.
"Oh, no," said the father, "I want
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him to be a lawyer—he might be
come a great statesman!"
They bickered and quarreled over
it when a knock at the door inter
rupted them. . . A tramp asked the
wife:
Madam, I'm a desperate character
—l'm hungry.. Please give me
something to eat?"
She told him to comle in. . . While
the woman warmed over some leav
ings for the visitor, he looked in the
crib and the baby smiled at him.
Isn't it a nice baby?" said the
tramp. "It's the first time in a long
time! one smiled at me."
"My wife and I were just talking
about his future," said the father..
"She wants him to grow up and be
a surgeon. I want him to be a law
yer, so maybe he can be a statesman
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one day, and we had a fight over
it."
"Well," replied the tramp, "I don't
like to interfere or take sides, but
look at me. I'm a musician. I
guess there's not much more I can
know about music—and looka—l'm
just a bum. Don't quarrel with each
other about his future. Let destiny
taka care of him, it will anyhow. I
suppose he has a nice name—what
do you call him?"
"His name," proudly said the
father, "is John—John Dillinger."
—Walter Winchell's column.
They're telling on Simpson that
slightly stewed the other night he
hailed one of the Carter Cabs and
told the driver to drive him around
town for a while. 'The driver, used
to a stew's double-talk and idiosyn
cracies, followed orders.
Finally Simpson told the driver to
pull over to the side. Informed that
he owed $7.00, he staggered a little,
clipibed back into the cab and hic
coughed :
"Now drive me back to 25 cents!"
The temperature has gone up
three points in the past hour and
although, now registering only 91,
the heat is oppressive due to the
fact that the relative humidity is
only 44. Arthur Laffoon, chief
trouble shooter, fixer and whatnot
of the entire Tribune crew, is run
ning wildly about with a bucket of
water turning off and on the elec
tric fans and doing this and that in
an effort to get the air moist and
the humidity up.
But Ot's like that. He'd rather
worry about humidity! and static
electricity than anybody we ever
saw. 0 Static electricity is an ailment
that causes the paper on the large
press to stick together, making it
almost impossible to feed. Not so
long ago, in an effort to solve the
problem (which no one in the entire
printing or newspaper industry has
been able to do yet in a satisfactory
manner), he had the press decor
ated like a Christmas tree, with tin
sel. And all the while the static
electicity was making the tinsel
sparkle like imitation diamonds in
the sunlight.
Still, if one ever expects to dis
cover anything, one must experi
ment, one must, and there's no
doubt in anybody's mind here that
Ot believes in experimenting. He's
now over there at the thermometer,
which also registers the relative hu
midity of the air, seeing the result
of his water splashing activities.
And, oh horror, he's succeeded in
lowering the humidity instead of
raising it!
Personally, if he must fiddle
around with something, we'd sug
gest he work on the temperature.
Just over to look at his latest hu
mdtfty apparatus, we find it con
sists of the following: Onie bucket of
water resting on some boards in
front of the suction fan which
draws air—and the smell of cow
hides—from the basement. In this
bucket of water- is a plank and
draped on this plank in the manner
of a wick is a towel, one end of
which is in the water.
In case you want any humidifying
around your house, you might try
out similar apparatus or else call
Ot.
Personally, we'd advise just being
content with tilings as they are.
Besides, maybe it will rain.
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By request of C. H. Parker of
Cincinnati all black was avoided at
his funeral and the mourners wore
bright colors.