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Show iffhl.Phillipr f WHAT A DIFFERENCE! If you are among those American adults who hesitantly applaud the flag at the movies and remain strangely unemotional when view of the fleet or of our fighting men are shown, you should attend a children chil-dren movie matinee. We did so the other day, and the way the kiddies kid-dies stamped, clapped and shrieked at every view of Old Glory, an American warship or an American fighter appeared on the screen was good for the soul. What's wrong with the grownups? grown-ups? G into any movie and observe ob-serve their feeble response to the same pictures. It's Incredible. Incredi-ble. And a little depressing. EXPLAINED! An inquiry into fatal auto acci-dents acci-dents In a small American town shows that 87 per cent of the school children have figured in at least one auto crash and that 28 per cent drive without licenses. Now we know why all those rural motorcycle cops hide in the side streets and behind shrubbery. shrub-bery. They're afraid to come out in the open. CURFEW JINGLES A congressman who has introduced intro-duced a bill to require a ten o'clock curfew for all female employees of the government In Washington In the interest of efficiency puts his idea in verse: Early to bed and early to rise Will help your complexion and brighten your eyes. It strikes us that this doesn't quite get the point over. How about these? Promptly at ten leave your skylarking sky-larking chums; Next merning when typing you won't be all thumbs. Cut out late suppers and scorn syncopation And you won't fall a3leep while taking dictation. Get lots of rest; keep your head very clear And your written "Dear Sir" may not come out "Dir Sear." AMERICAN DIALOGUES What time is it? War time, daylight saving, Eastern East-ern standard, Chicago or will you take whatever I can give you? Then there Is the fellow who when asked for the time replied, "Right or wrong?" Buy Defense Bonds-Private Bonds-Private Purkey got a letter from a friend asking if the draft board would pass men with bad teeth. "With bad teeth!" he exclaimed in reply. "They'll take you now if you have gums left." England is rationing soap. From now on when two or more people are in one tub they must use the same cake. Famous last words: "if ill you have two lumps or three, Mr. Henderson?'' Heifer Hooksey has been reading so much about rationing cards, stamps, etc., that as soon as daylight day-light saving came in he went to a bureau and asked for a stamp entitling en-titling him to the right time. Elmer Twitchell says he is losing his morale listening to some of the morale builders. It is this department's feeling that behind the Normandie disaster is a great part of the story of America's major faults: a complete loss of efficiency ef-ficiency as it was once interpreted, an "Oh yeah" attitude of the work-er work-er toward the boss, a decline in thoroughness and an almost total eclipse of pride in a job well done. Ideal combination for the hunch-player hunch-player of daily doubles, as observed the other day at Hialeah: Dreamy Eyes and Sizzling Pan. Buy Defense Bonds-No Bonds-No more cans can be used for packing dog food. Now Ima Dodo will begin teaching Fido to eat regular reg-ular table food. We have a swell idea' for a Dog Show cartoon: Hitler and Tojo standing stand-ing in front of a kennel of wolfhounds wolf-hounds and chirping, "Almost human, hu-man, aren't they?" Elmer Twitchell says he is going to stop drinking the minute min-ute beer begins coming through In cardboard containers. Under Daylight Saving we seem to be rationing nightlife! ' "WANTED Large feather pillow in A-l condition; must be reasonable. reason-able. Sullivan 27-4-11." Lansing Spectator. Listen, maybe you had better give up the whole idea of fancy skating. L. K. Morehead says that a girl on duty as a plane spotter in Mor-ristown, Mor-ristown, N. J., excitedly reported to the Interceptor command that two planes and submarine were flying high over her post. She had never seen a dirigible before. |