Show 6 y yIP IP P LITTLE RED GANDHI HOOD Once upon a time tune there was a little boy named Mohandas Gandhi He reminded people of Little Red Riding Hood in a way One day he packed a lunch and set off to visit grandma who lived in a a cottage I away out in the woods It was a queer lunch consist ng of raw vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables and nuts garnished with queer notions But Mohandas liked it so he thought grandma would When he neared the cotta cottage e ea a great reat fire raged all aU around it and It ft was plain to see sec that I there was tho the very devil to pay but Gandhi didn't bother about that As he was about to knock on t the e door he suddenly noticed that there wasn't any door It had been torn awa away But that didn't cramp his style either Grandma must be in hi trouble I he mused but he brushed that suspicion suspicion sus sus- away at once and climbed across the charred beams into the bedroom Then he saw the bed upside down with a figure in hi it that was plainly not grandma to anybody but Mo Mo- handas He wore thick glasses you I know The figure in bed was clearly a wolf that had put on grandmas grandma's nightcap and nightgown rr r it snarled You dont don't sound like grandma said Gandhi but I understand Your voice is changing that's all You dont don't look lIke like grandma grand grandma grand grand- ma said Gandhi Dont quibble said the wolf And say what bi big ears you have The better to hear you with said the wolf And what big eyes you have said Gandhi The better belter to see you ou with said the wolf What a big nose you have exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed Mohandas You should talk said the wolf What big teeth you have said Mohandas The better to eat you with roared the wolf starting to get out of bed Hold on cried Gandhi Im not ready to be eaten yet yet- Why not demanded the wolf I haven't got my freedom What of 01 it snapped the wolf Oh replied Gandhi I must have my freedom first I could never consider being eaten until I Ibave have bave it I dont don't mind argued the wolf I w will ll cat eat you with or without it Hush I will be much better eating eating eating eat eat- ing with it insisted Mohandas Bunk I growled the wolf looking looking look- look ing skeptical At this moment fresh flames names swept the cottage the timbers began began began be be- gan falling in Gandhi and the wolf were running around the ruins at top speed Wait a bit insisted Mohandas Lets get this thing straight Am AmI I chasing you or are you chasing me This is pretty late in life for a aman aman aman man like you to start getting things straight said the wolf who badnow had bad now ripped off grandmas grandma's and was wearing a Japanese uni unI- uni- uni form quite wrong here said Mohandas 1 Listen said the wolf now nowa a little disgusted I 1 aint your grandma And I aint going to eat you Mohandas looked the wolf I straight in the eyes yes Oh yes you yon are my grandma grand rand rand- ma he declared and what's more you ARE going goin to cat me Open wide The wolf opened his hiJ jaws wide and Mohandas crawled in in Freedom is freedom he lie announced announced announced an an- as aJ he disappeared down the slant slant eyed wolfs wolf's gullet ONLY ANKLE DEEP Im I'm Im I'm up to my neck in coupons coupons- In taxes Im I'm up to my chin The feeling Im I'm getting in deeper Assails me agin and agin Im I'm up to my eyebrows in worries worries worries wor wor- ries ries- ries In dont lists Im I'm up to my ears An undertow seems to have caught me But that isn't so it appears Im I'm up to my shoulders in edicts edicts- My arms from the swimming are arc sore Yet Washington says Dont be silly silly silly- You aint ankle deep in this war SOCIAL SOCIl NOTE With the sugar please be sparing When you see the hostess staring Merrill Chilcote The Pullman company announces that it will not take toke any reservations reserva reserva- for for whole sections in sleeping cars In advance thus cramping the style of the folks who take both an upper and lower in order to be alone llone Before this war is over we may be asking for an nn upper with no more than three other passengers I in it |