Bingham Bulletin | 1941-02-21 | Page 4 | Rip Van Winkle in Reverse

customed to the appearance and performance of today's models would be a bunch of junk. Nobody No-body of today could tolerate the ancient radios and phonographs-In phonographs-In the agricultural regions, a Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in 1941 and awoke in 1929 would be aghast at the loss of lightweight combines and tractors trac-tors for the smaller farms. He would see farm equipment stripped strip-ped of its rubber tires- Stores everywhere would be bare of today's beautiful new fabrics. Manufacturers in dozens of lines would be handicapped by lack of modern plastics and plywoods. ply-woods. Engineers' talents would be blighted without today's alloys. RIP VAN WINKLE IN REVERSE Suppose that some of these people who are neglecting 1941 in futile yearning for the "Good Old Days" could get their wish and wake up back in 1929. Their first feeling would be that the country had been blasted by a bombing raid. Hundreds of miles of today's sleek highways would be reduced to their original orig-inal rocks or rutted mud. Every 1929 automobile to anybody ac-