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Show STAGGER HOURS RESTORED WALT PETERS JILL HET UP RECALLS G30D OLD DAYS By JOHNNY BURKE. IT'S easy to see right away that "Walt Peters is about ready spontaneously to combust with excitement when he favors fa-vors me with his attention last night. I'm uarticular to observe that Walt is plumb full of ideas and running over, and he looks to me like a man that's been eating eat-ing axle grease on a hot day If you know what I mean leaky and oozy like. 1 "I Jes' gets an earful," says this cork screw philosopher, explosive; "I jes' gets an earful," he repeats, "about th' good ol' days comln' back. Say. 1 ain't been so net uj since a year ago las' August." "Whaddaye mean, good old days coming back?" "Well, it's like this." allows Walt. "It's ies' like this. I'm amblin' up th' street an' a bird two birds in front o' me, fez, "Dldja hear the most recent about these ytT stagger hours?' he sez. 'No,' sez th' j other bird. 'I don't hear no sech news. ; How do ya make them sounds stagger hours?' "Thev's come back,' sez th' first bird. ' 4fT"UT I don't stop f'r no more. I'm hep X) an' overflowin with wisdom as to wnat them birds is talkin" about. "Stagger "Stag-ger hours," I hollers, an' I guess I hollers pretty loud, because a guy all dolled up in blue harness, he stops and looka at me - interested. An' I run right straight up .here to notify you that If them stagger hours is come back, they's no more melancholia mel-ancholia 'round where I live. "It's like this." elucidates Walt. "It's ies' like this: They prob'ly ain't no better bet-ter posted man on stagger hours 'n what I am. Why. Ussen, I prob'ly been through rrnro staler hours 'n what any other tiff in th' world is. But I hear they fix 'em dlff'r'nt now. They fix 'em In rh forenoon r th' afternoon r eump'n now. but in th good ol' days evr'body makes his own stagger hours. "Th" best stagger hours nach'ly is between be-tween " an' R a. m.. but they's some guys as can't observe them hours on account 1 o" havln' to go home r some place, an' i f'r them as has to do that, good, useful stagger hours can be fr'm, say, 11 p. ni. to 1 a. m., 'r sump'n. 4 iYT I-IRN thev begins t' close th' doors IT earlier an' earlier, nach'ly a guy's Kotta change his stagger hours, even ef don't wanta. They's on'y a few states lef as don't Interfere with a guy's stag-"er stag-"er hours, but I'm mournful about mos them places as has felt th' blighttn' influence of excessive dryness. Why, say, listen Johnny, even ol' Butte's got so's a -city's gotta change his stagger hours. Whaddaye know about that? Butte. An' i it's on'y a few places in Wyomln' 'r Ne vada where a guy's staguer hours ain't run through a planin" mill evr'y month 'r no. "Lissen, Johnny, you know your own-sfif own-sfif that In them ol' days in Butte, an' even right he in this yer town you know your ownself that ef a guy observed ob-served th' proper an' correct stagger hours an had th' help o' th' stagger system sys-tem o" street Ughtln evr next light on opposite corners, ya know ef he has .hem two things, they ain't nothln' more f be hoped f'r nothln' 'fall. , I ii A N' now they's makin' stagger hours ; J f'r Influenza. That ain't what l ne'-ds stagger hours influenza don't. It's th' people as needs stagger hours me i an" vou an' Bill McCarty an all them. I betcha ef you give th' people a chance , t' fix their own stagger hours an' enough time to carry 'em out, an' don't pester m none, thev won't be no influenza, f Whv should they? People'd be too busy 1 :o monkey with a fool thing like Inf'u- ei'.a. , , " tlowsomever, I'm plenty glad to see some klnda reforms In this town. Even ef thev won't give us all th' stacger I i, nuts we want an' when we want "em, ! v's gi vin" us some, an' believe me, ', Jo.inny. staler hours o' any kind Is un common precious in these degenerate times." |