DEAR AHt. PUBLISHER,
r» PARSON JONES
Dear Mr. Publisher:
The other day I decided to do a little painting around the
house. No sooner had I got started when my 17 year old boy
came around and started telling me how it ougkta be done.
He said I was going about it all wrong and that I was using
out-dated methods. Well sir, I listened to his big mouth for
about 30 minutes and decided I'd try to shut it. I said, "Son,
since you're such an all-fired expert at this, you take the
brush and paint it yourself. " He grabbed the brush and flew
into the job with the zeal of a football player, I went out
in the yard and took a little rest under the shade tree—see -
ing as how he had took over.
I reckon I slept for about an hour when I was woke up by
a tickling on my nose. My boy had laid the paint brush next
to my head with a note,*"Dad, just remembered, I had to
meet somebody -here's your brush. " •
That night I had a dream. All the old folks got tired of
all the young folks belly-aching about how much better they
could run the country. They just ups an 3 turns over every
thing to the young folks. That included die White House, the
Congress, the colleges, the churches, and everything. The
young president served for six months. One morning he dis
appeared and ain't been heard from since. Close sources sail
he was hiding out in the hills of Kentucky. The Congress all
resigned in protest of the hard work, the college presidents
all decided they'd rather go to school than run one, and the
young preachers decided it was more fun knocking the chinch
than it was building the church. Pretty soon everything had
simmered down and the streets were clear for a change.
When I woke up, I just laid there and wondered. I won
dered and I wondered. And, Pm still wondering.
Mr. Publisher, I gotta sign off for now and get ready to
go on my vacation. I'm going to the hills of Kentucky and
see how many people are really hiding up there. Bye now.
Parson Jones.
4-H’ers Demonstrate!
To the youths of this area
we say: "Stand up and demon
strate. " Out of context this
would have a bad ponnota tion,
and we hope the connot a tion
you associate with the word ''de
monstrate" is powerful enough
to have drawn you into this
paragraph.
f. Yes, youths, you are en -
couraged to demonstrate.
Demonstrate how to oper
*ate automobiles and tractors
safely;
Demonstrate how to bake
a loaf of bread or can a jar of
peaches;
Demonstrate how to make
a dress and model it;
Demon trate how to catch,
identify and display insects;
Demonstrate how to take
a picture;
Demonstrate how to give
a speech;
Demonstrate how to judjp
crops and show livestock;
Demonstrate how to ride
and show horses, to train dogs.
Yes, the list could go on
and on because there are many
ways that 4-H'ers "learn -by
doing. " Part of the learning pro
cess is to demonstrate to others
correct methods andprooedines.
The children of today are
not the only beneficiaries of
4-H principals. The world of
tomorrow gets the prize of to
day's 4-H demonstrations, and
the Lord isn't the only one who
knows that young minds and
hands need to be kept busy in
constructive ways.
More than three million
pre-teens and teenagers have
taken part in 4-H demonstra -
tions. They make headlines,
but not as big as the headlines
destructive demonstrators get.
Throughout this nation, the
Cooperative Extension Service
directs 95,000 clubs supervised,
by 500,000 volunteer adult and
junior leaders.
4-H is one of those organi
zations (there are others, too )
that satisfies the burning desires
of youth and kindles these slams
ant© torches of freedom, and it
touches a warm spot in hearts
and renews Americans' faith in
the future when 4-H youth
"stand up and demonstrate. "
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Silence May Well Have Been Golden
At a time when the demo
graphers are warning that we
must snuff the fuse on the pop
ulation bomb if we hope to
maintain enough space and
air for normal life,Sen. Gaorge
S.McGovern comes up with an
anti-poverty plan which would
serve as a veritable blowtorch.
He proposes to give
regardless of the family's in -
Who takes care
of the kids
when your wife’s
in the hospital?
We do.
Nationwide’s “Cash Compensator" Plan gives
first aid for your ailing budget: cash!
See your man from Nationwide for details.
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. Burnsville Tel. 682—2170
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come level, an allowance of
SSO to $65 a month for each
child. The cost would amount
to roughly 10 billion dollars
the first year.
Even if the potential cost
were not fantastic, such a
plan would be sheer folly at
this time and place.
Down through history, the
baby beaus has been used as a
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device to restore the popula -
tions of countries whose man
power has been drained by war,
or to create new manpower for
frontier areas and regions lag -
ging economically.
The baby bonus mayha\e
made sense for those purposes.
This country, however, has no
such problems or needs. It is
congested with people,has too
many mouths to feed, and too
many unemployed. MtCowrnp
pro posal is calculated to male
these difficulties more acute.
Recently, Robert Finch,se
cretary of health, education G
welfare, chided the liberals
for their silence when asked to
offer alternatives to the admi
nistration's welfare reform
plans. McGovern is the first
Democrat to break the silence
and offer a major altemativ e.
If this is the best the liberals
can do, their silence made
good sense Detroit News.
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