Show I THE THE THE- Eye Ants View By By MAC Weve We've been through a very strange situation this week One I that makes you sort of ot stop and I wonder In the Morgan community of i 1300 pe people there isn't any anyplace anyplace place a man can get board and I room In fact up to date there Isn't even a room I young I Iman We have a nice clean young man working for us and It looks as If It hes he's going to have to dig a cave In the hill and eat stolen mutton Hes He's been staying at our house this week while weve we've burned burned burned burn burn- ed the wires trying to find an empty bedroom somewhere to to no avail I But after more than three I II I years absence our only I is coming home with his little I and the three I II I tens we haven't seen There There just iI j i I Isn't lInt room for an ar extra man J i JI around the house I The hotel In ill Morgan lorgan is full Our I he man doesn't have a car or he could drive back and forth from I somewhere which which seems too bad I had an offer of 11 a room in Park I City but City but Everett doesn't have a helicopter You'd think somebody somebOdy needed dough badly enough to let letout l t I out that that back baek room roam wouldn't youa youal you J Sort Sort- of reminds me of a afew few l i of tI the times Umes Ive I've been homeless j I There was the time I ran out of of rent money money in K Kansas City i City l the park and got fe up p Ins in L La a a general round up of ot of unsavory unsavory characters They almost let me me inego go because that sweet b baby baby- bY face is too good to be true Hes He's liesl l gigot got a record somewhere I The sheep-camp sheep house bunk-house near Wyo so 0 I j I crackly with bedbugs bugs I wouldn't even go to bed slept In the sagebrush The Tho best beat nights night's sleep Jeep I ever had hadIn In a haystack near Fort Morgan Colo while I was waa on a high school hobo trip The Tho time I was caught going I down a hotel fire escape with I my little suitcase I talked fast fait to get out of that one I Even after My Lady Fair joined up up there was the Depression I Most Most landlords were pretty generous generous gen gen- erous in those days thank Hev Hev- I vins Of course he lie can eat at the but cafes cafes but a steady cafe diet gets tiresome as the best cafe owner will admit And even the cafes can cn fail you I One Ono Thanksgiving Day In a town of In Iowa the cafe and hotel and hamburger joint people failed to get together for staying open arrangements There Ther wasn't a single place In that small city a stranger could buy a bite to eat De Desperate visitors appealed to the police who called the mayor who got on the phone and arranged ar ar- arranged ranged for dozens of people to eat at private private- homes fh That t wasn't easy either on Thanksgiving Day Dut nut that's one time we never nefer bad had any turkey left over overt I Oh well something will turn up liP Well We'll keep on trying And well we'll advertise In the paper Meanwhile he h. can sleep on the I I J press bed and eat Ink Incidentally do you ou suppose we shouldn't mention in the ad the fact that hes he's a newspaperman Suppose the fact that hes he's a prInte print e e e. automatically excludes him from good company company Suppose If it hb hr works for 01 Mac he just jUt cant can't be any good Once In a while we tee see a bum or two leaving the used car lot down the street early In the morning They've found shelter In an old car And there but for fog the grace grce of God and yo o 0 II Do you suppose we can pick out an an extra nice used car for our new printer It f isn't a matter of ot hospitality We live in the most hospitable community in the world It Its It's just that that there Isn't a room to rent I Look around you in your our community com com 1 I and Ill I'll bet you'll find I the same situation exists Its It's a healthy but situation situation but just now its it's a little uncomfortable Whatever What What- Whatever I ever ner happened to the old boarding boardinghouse house house Mac |