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Show WW WNbwm THE CALL FOR MORE EGGS (Washington.-C R. Wickard, sec-retary sec-retary of agriculture, has announced a nation-wide drive to produce more eggs as part of the aid to England and defense plan. He sets the goal at 30.000,000 extra dozen eggs tor h. n is months. News Item.) Come on, hen! Say when! Don't be a cluckl Don't pass the - buck! . Heyl Lay! Today! - Aornaa the COlin- The call for more tryjoeithe e"s- call-The call-The barnyards hear it, one and all; The message sweeps from east to west: "No longer, hen, your second best!" A buzzer buzzes and It's done . . . A paper's signed In Washington . . . Stenographers rush here and there There's action in the very air; Officials leap to telephones The orders ring In solemn tones The message flows from silver pens: A Proclamation to The Hens. In headlines big the news is played: "ALL POULTRY CALLED FOR ALL-OUT AID." The wires 'cross the nation sing. An ultimatum's on the wing By horseback and by auto, too, By radio and by canoe, By every telegraphic loop To every hennery and coop, "Come, hen, your country calls to you One egg is not enough! Give twol" The message . whistles through the trees To startle birds and busy bees; It leaps across from farm to farm And spreads a "Hen" Revere alarm, "Awake! Get up! The goin's tough! Get up there, hen, and do your stuff!" The chicken houses rock and sway To this one order, "Lay, hen, lay!" The roosts vibrate to one word "Scram!" As they're abandoned on the lam; The nests they seem to snap and creak As orders reach an all-time peak! The hens outside pow scamper, in. Their faces drawn a little thin; "We've laid one egg" say three or four; The others answer "War is war!" Mayhap one sulks; she hears a "Boo!" And yell of "You appeaser you!" Then looms some organizing hen (From Layers' Union Number 10); "Arise!" her cry is loud and clear, "Demand the right to bargain here! Production speed is very nice, But are we hens or are we mice?" Then Washington by hens is stormed And hencoop picket lines are formed; Hark! Overhead the transports dive, The mediation boards arrive! But lest this tale be far too long The hens are saved; they ain't done wrong; They sign to do the best they can But scrap the big production plan. Then to their nests they quickly scram And give three cheers for Uncle Sam, Three lusty cheers (and shake a leg) Three cheers, ah yes, but Just one egg! ADOLF'S PREROGATIVE The Nazis emphasize that their terrible raids on London are in reprisal re-prisal to teach London a lesson for bombing Berlin. Hitler, you understand, under-stand, alone has the right to bomb big cities. 1 SPRING LURE Now I hie me from war talk To my garden in Norwalk; Where the purple of crocus enchants; en-chants; I'm obsessed with a longing For my choicest belonging Them mud-covered dungaree pants! MY WIFE'S CHAPEAU' I'd like to laugh at her new hat Instead, I tell her I adore it. Because I just remembered that I am the sucker paying for it! Lee A. Cavalier. A waiter in a Long Island cafe has been arrested as a Gestapo agent. He must be the one who always al-ways growled when asked for English Eng-lish mutton chops. t. L M0T0R,ST'S DREAM I U buy an army tank some day And caterpillar up Broadway . . . And then I'll snicker and TH scoff And dare some cab to cut me off! Lee A. Cavalier. CAN YOU REMEMBER Away back when a man who had 2 11 tV! years to coUe8e could figure his income tax? We expect any day now that Hitr ter win move Mt Olympus to Berlin and claim he Is really Homer |