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Show Home Brew i The Weekly Ravings . ; of Y Editor ; ; '-! Times are going to be much better from now on. As Parayakarkas says: "I can feel it in my bonus." O ' The president balks at the soldier's tonus, but he thinks nothing of spending an equivalent amount of money annually to support about three and one-half million unnaturalized unnatural-ized aliens in this country. O Al Smith sounded the keynote for all conservative democrats in his Liberty League address. It now ap-ipears ap-ipears that the forthcoming political campaign will not tie waged between he republicans and democrats, but between the believers in constitutional constitution-al American government and the fol- . lowers of socialism, regardless of po- f litical affiliation. O Says the Midvale Sentinel: "Alt In all. it is beginning to look like a republican walk-away in this county and state being normally republican republi-can by a large majority. It will not be necessary to win back many of the old guard, who went New Deal, to put the big elephant back into those luxuriously appointed public quarters. lie will now have many more swivel chairs on which to rest arrears, and mahogany tops to drape bis extremities; this administration ' kas provided ample facilities for toiesta ecstaeics." O Utah automobile drivers tare a reputation that extends far beyond the boundries of this state. We have a friend in Idaho who says that when motorists up there see a Utah car approaching they always run into a lane or side street until the vehicle goes past As we have stated before in this column, our opinion is that Utah ', Las the worst, and Bingham has the best, drivers in the country. O A wealthy New Yorker provided lit his will that a sum of startling proportions was to be speut on his tomb, the balance of the estate to be divided among beneficiaries named. Those who were to .participate in the distribution of "What .Ata lefi went to court on the ground that ; to build so costly a memorial would convict the testator of bad taste. Perhaps it does amount to bad taste to crave a grave-marker that is too flaRhy, but what is to be said about. :. the taste of those who raised the objection when it was evident that the smaller the tombstone the larger the split? O As wc were coming to work one morning this week, we passed two r Salt Lake WPA workers on their . way to their labors (?) on the local ; newer job. One of them said to the i other: "What's your hurry, we aint igoin' to no fire!" The other replied: K "I guess you're right, wo got, lotsa time." On the way down the Btrcet, the ipair accosted their fellow workers with admonitions "not to hurry", and to "take your time." As they rounded a corner, we heard one say: "This is sure a punk job ; they don't! . jwy a man what he's worth." Comment upon the above is almost unnecessary, so we'll leave you to draw your own conclusions. To us, it seemed that the spirit displayed by these men toward a magnanimous government that is keeping them : Ifrom starving to death bcause they; can't hold a job in private industry, I lis one of the utmost contempt and . Scurrility O It all depends on the angle of view. In 19.72 Jim Farley found reason to rpraise the Literary Digest poll. -''. Ijockport, N. Y., Sun and Journal. O J MARK TWAIN EPIGRAMS That kind of so-called housekeeping housekeep-ing where they have six Biblea and no' corkscrew, "v There are people who can do all J fine and heroic things but one liccp from telling their happiness to s the unhappy. ' A man should not be without mor-; mor-; nx it is better to have bad morals I than none at all. v When in doubt tell the truth. ' If yon tell the truth you don't liave to remember anything, i The recurrent dream mine is ap-!; ap-!; pearing before a lecture audience in my shirt-tail, a most disagreeable ' dream. , The radical invents the views. ,f When he has worn them out the conservative con-servative adopts them. There has been only one Christian j, They caught him and crusified him i early. f Spending one's capital is feeding a dog on his own tail. There nre no rn-ndes of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. i Truth is mighty and will prevail. ' There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. The time to begin writing an article arti-cle is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time yon begin to clearly and logically perceive per-ceive what it is that you renlly want to snv. From "Mark Twain's Notebook." Note-book." edited by Albert Bigelow Tainn. (Harpers & Brothers). |