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how she must do it. A j udge has ruled now that she must pay the Social Security tax. Mrs. Cain says that he ruled, not on a basis of right or wrong, but on what she feels was an erroneous judgment of the scope of a previous Supreme Court ruling.
One can’t help but admire Mrs. Cain. She is holding out as a believer in liberty.
Most of us, cowardly inert, say "what’s the use; you can’t buck the powers-that-be” and go on and pay every new tax soaked on us.
This Social Security does irk. No matter how good old-age insurance is, you don’t like to have it forced on you. Then, too, that word “security” is inclined to put an ironic twist to one’s grin; oh-yeah, it’s as "secure” as Congress decides it is; what guarantee have you that your money isn’t being poured down a rathole? I’d feel better if they would deposit my cash in some bank or with some insurance company—we know they can’t pull any crooked deals;, they have to be bonded and law requires that they stick by an agreement.
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should be some way to get these astronomers to predict showers of meteors for some other time than: “best visible from midnight to 3:30.” How can a fellow stay up that late to see them? Besides, if you lie out in the yard on a blanket—and there’s no use being uncomfortable—how can you manage to stay awake waiting for the shooting stars?
It seems the planet Mercury is in perihelion—'that is, it’s as near the sun as it ever gets, or about 28,550,000 miles, instead of 43,350,000 miles, as it is in aphelion. Mercury’s mean distance from us is 93,000,000 miles and its diameter is 3,100 miles. Those astronomers are mighty smart and they can give out a lot of fancy information, but I still don’t see how we working people can stay up all - night to see meteors. I’m going to postpone my star-gazing until the smart-boys can time shootng stars before midnight.
By he way, don’t let that tale about Mercury worry you too much. If you have never seen the planet Mercury, you are not by yourself; I’ll bet my grandfather never saw it, either, and he lived to a ripe old age.
o o o Dog-days were over last week. Some folks predicted that the drought " would not be relieved until after dogdays. Somebody else told me that the rain came because the Baptists at Amissville had a big afl-day-dinnerwith-meeting-on-the-grounds. They were celebrating the church’s 65th —*■ birthday. Nothing brings on rain, so I’m told, like a church meeting with everybody in Sunday clothes and getting ready to eat out-doors.
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