Show I Desert Dust DustI l I 1 I By Johnston I r I According to history it was vas in 1806 I when congress made the the first appropriation appropriation of 30 for a national Toad road I That amount of df money at present i ithe if f I Ithe the engineers did not put in too much h I time surveying it and the contractor r I was lucky enough not to default would build something less than a mil mile if road But in those times a grant gran granof t of federal money for a project whit h I v was as mainly local raised a stink that t stunk like ke nothing had ever stunk be- be before before I fore By 1838 this national rOad had been extended and up to that date h had hadI cost the government This Th s was such a fabulous sum in those days I that the subject became a political issue Like a lot of other ideas that I get et into politics th they get batted and a kicked around until they are for for- for There was so much opposition n to the federal idea that It was aban- aban abandoned abandoned of course It took nearly a century for the nation to wake up to t the view that it v Ras as constitutional for forthe forthe the federal government to grant money mone y for use in the states But those fe few w years have made a great change Only a few days ago congress con ess granted a billion bUllon dollars for road building in i ione one year There is only one thing now to worry vorry about Will Vill the states s take the money Doctor Brinkley the Kansas Kansa c gland n specialist has finally got ticket a place lace on o othe the Republican primary ticket Probably Probably ably most any Kansan would agree that they need rejuvenation TejU Bu But th t those people hate e been with h during these droughts and depressions until they have had abut ab t aU all this monkey doodle business they can ca n stand If the doctor Is lucky enough h hr to win in the prImary he had better bette r talk something this fall faU besides mon mon- monkey monkey key Wonder if the doctor is versed d In whales He will find It will take something about that size to get him anyWhere this fallOne fall fallOne One professor tells us that there i is s enough energy in one peanut to keep a hIgh grade brain going far tw two 0 hours Then we wonder why the circus elephants and monkeys act so human human- humanlike humanlike like Some doctors claim that low neck dresses ward oft off pneumonia And An d when stop and think about It you there don on t seem to be as many lum ba basso o cases as there used to be Please sir said the office boy to t the editor I think there is someone wants you on om the telephone Now w you listen here said the editor what wha t Is the use of sayin saying I think Am I wanted or not Well sir said the boy bop someone rang up and said is this you you damned old idiot fI |