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A brigadier-general penned these words, and the Walrus is green ■with envy. . “In discussions of the capitalistic system, those who stress sharing the wealth forget the importance of creating the wealth. You can’t share if you have not created. It seems to me, too, that in the preservation of the enterprise system there has recently grown up the philosophy of ‘survival of the sickest’ instead of ‘survival of the fittest.’ In the many investigations which take place in our country, it is almost always true that asuccessful en-> terprlse is the subject of suspicion and investigation. I wish they would start investigating the failures instead of the successes. This might result in some very interesting economic information.”
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With spring in the air and the "young man’s fancy” turning in its proper direction, a young fellow of the neighborhood has ani nounced that he’s not letting the girls get ahead of him. He heard a young lady speaking of her “hope chest.” She explained that the female of the species placed household linens and other housekeeping items in a “hope chest,” the insinuation being that she! hopes to be married.
The fellow has now taken up the custom for the male of the; species, saying he calls his “hope chest” a “god-knows-when barrel.”
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Everything today is speed and high tension. We live in a mad rush—high speed—big scale—• mass production—rush and confusion. We’re bound to pay for it sooner or later. Why, just the other day the minister complained: “We’ve become so keyed up and nervous that it is almost impossible to put people to sleep with a sermon. I haven't seen anyone sleeping in church in years—ami I tell you that’s a bad situation.”
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With Spring in the air, it’s time to dust off the old gem which so aptly fits every fellow’s case of Spring fever: I iwisht I was a little rock
A-settin' on a hill, A-doin’ nothin’ all day long
But jest a-settin’ still.
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