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that peck-machine, and Fit be glad to pay thankful homage to its birthday, July 14. Hr^ © o o On this fine day in 1929 the weather ^ was hot, the Russians were threatening the Chinese, the weevils were menacing the Mississippi Valley, editors of papers were writing about the 18th amendment, and radio programs were awful. President Hoover was fishing over in Madison County, and the leading American Bird was the bald eagle. People with money had plenty of it, and the rest of us were about as usual. Don't let anybody tell that the world is not progressing.
An editorial writer in a Richmond paper the other day undertook to catch the 17-year locusts up on what had happened since they went to sleep back in 1936. After telling the little cicadas the past seventeen years of American history, the writer ended his recitation with “It shouldn’t happen to a locust!”
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A charming couple visited the print shop the other day. The Mr. stated that he was a city editor on a daily paper in Greenville, S. C., and he and the Mrs. were doing some special writing together on prison reform and they had been to Washington, D. C., to collect data for the story.
In their visit by the country print shop, they expressed a desire thait seems to be universal with all men and women working in a city newspaper : they want to own a small country paper.
Now, the thought has been pondered in my mind for some time: do farmers have big western ranchers come to visit them expressing a desire (to own what to them would be a “small farm”?
I don’t understand these city fellows. They have soft, easy, big-paying jobs, yet they want to sweat it out in a country print shop I’ve always threatened to give <the shop to the next one who came by and said he wanted it. This hot weather season would be a very good time to make the gift. <But you can bet your bottom nickel on one item: I’m not leaving any print shop to go into a hay field. That looks like too hot work for me. Maybe I can get on some relief roll somewhere and not have to work any more.) >
The surest way to preserve peace will be to fight all future wars on the pay-as-you-enter plan.
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