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he’d have done far better to hare observed a half-hour’s silence 1
It was my privilege once to hear • learned man comment on, a report on a politician’s speeches being reviewed by an earnest student. “Pusilanemous piffle of a pointless pen-pusher,” was the comment of the learned gentleman.
The entire nation would have welcomed the “piffle of a pointless pen-pusher” Saturday evening. I blushed, knowing that the world was hearing the Chief Executive of these United States make such a disgusting spectacle of himself! He said something about “having heads examined” and he’s right. I Should have mind examined for listening to the slobbering.
It couldn’t be noticed that Staseen did much better when it came to giving facts and information.
Grade Allen could have used that radio time and brought relaxation to some of us taxpayers at the end of a hard day.
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The season is rolling around when men have an excuse to play with electric trains again. Of course, the story is told of the man who bought an electric train for his six-weeks-old daughter, but this seems* slightly extreme. It is generally conceded however, that father enjoys the electric train more than the youngster in the family.
There’s a fellow in an adjoining town who has a hobby of fancy electric trains. He has quite an outlay of fancy track and scalemodel trains. .^s * prank one day, * he placed a large photo of a cornheld against the iwall of his basement, placed his toy train on the toy track before the photo and then took a picture of it. His greatest pleasure came when he took the picture down to the station and had all the railroad engineers trying to guess where on the line the photo was made, “i know I’ve seen that held somewhere,” said one engineer, “But I just can’t place it.”
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It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall and hear a discussion of something overheard Tuesday:
“Today is the time of laborsaving devices,” went the electionday monologue. “Everything of the modern time is to save time. My wife has automatic washers, dish-washers, ironers, and 'most every other known gadget. I note that in my work every idea is to save "time. For what? I work harder and longer than I used to. I rush madly from place to place when my grandfather seemed to manage to feed his family without super-speed. I’m all confused; I have reached the conclusion that Iwaste time saving time. . . . What has caused qll the extra .work when devices are supposed to save time? Has super-efficiency consumed my extra time that I was supposed to get from all these time-saving devices? Be-dogged if I know!”
Mister, I don’t know, either.
Im sorta like you; I’m running
around m such a hurry—using time-saving devices—that I don’t
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