Show what what I d. d thinks about a ou Curing CorIng Stuttering C CHIN HIN LEE ARIZ Away Away up here in the Indian country comes a newspaper saying some expert at correcting correcting correcting cor cor- human utterance has turned up with a cure for stuttering But why By his own admission nearly all ail can sing and most of them can swear fluently thus providing superior z emotional outlets In two directions One of ot the smartest criminal lawyers I Ik Ik k know n now o w deliberately ri yew cultivated a natural impediment In his a speech In tn courtroom courtroom courtroom court court- room debates It gave him more time timeto S Sto to think up either Irvin S. S Cobb the right questions or to figure out the right answers And one o of the most charming voices I over heard belonged to a aLo Lo Louisiana girl whose soft southern accents were fascinatingly Inter inter- d at intervals by a sudden stammer stammer like like unexpected ripples in a gently flowing brook How lIow to Relax BEFORE I started out here feeling feeling feel- feel I ing somewhat Jumpy after wrestling a radio program for six months Jimmy the tho artist artist art art- 1st who's one of the most devoted friends these high mesas ever had advised me to try stretching out on the desert sands as ns a measure for tor health and complete relaxation and anda a general toning up Just lie down perfectly flat he said Then he took another look at my figure Anyway lie down he said So today I tried it Another friend John Kirk the famous Indian trader trad trad- er helped me pick out a suitable spot on the Navajo reservation that was forty miles mUes from the nearest habitation tion But the site I chose was already pre-empted pre by a scorpion with a fretful stinger and an irritable disposition disposition disposition dis dis- dis- dis position that seemed to resent being being being be be- ing crowded So I got right up again In fact tact I got up so swiftly that Kirk said it was impossible to follow the movement with th the human human hu hu- hu- hu man Imm eye It was like magic he said Speed Crazed Drivers WHY HY the hurry Sonny Boy I see you almost daily Youre You're Youre You're roa roaring ing through populous streets or skidding on hairpin turns or whirling whirlIng whirling whirl- whirl Ing at Jt sixty perilous miles an hour around the kinked and snaky y twists of mountain roads like some demoniac demoniac demoniac de de- moniac bug racing along the spine of a coiled rattler If rr I am one to say you probably have primed yourself for this sense- sense lass speeding on on that most dangerous danger danger- ous of all mixed tipples tipples the the fearsome fear fear- some rome combination of alcohol and gasoline e. e Or perhaps like the blind mul of off i the folklore tale you just naturally dont don't care are a dern dera One thing is plain Despite the high percentage percentage percentage per per- of mortality your breed Is Ison ison ison on the increase So again echoing the question which the coroner must frequently ask at the thc inquest why the hurry Sonny Boy It cant can't be that anybody wants you OU back at the tile place where youve you've b been en enor or that anybody else will be glad to see ee you at nt the place where youre you're you c going Really now Sonny Boy what is all the hurry about Civilizations Civilization's Predicament F. F FEEL EL it my duty to call attention attention attention atten atten- I tion to the following warning recently recently recently re re- re- re published The earth is degenerating In these latter days bribery and corr corruption pt ori abound the children no logger obey their parents it itIs itis is evident that the end of the world However it should be added that this prediction is not as might be assumed from its familiar ring utterance the the the- utterance of some inspired ob ab observer ob- ob server server of the present moment It Itis Itis is is a translation from an an Assyrian tablet dated 2800 B. B C. C So if it the the fulfillment of the doleful has been for 4 prophecy cy delayed years rears rears' it seems reasonable to assume assume that it t may be some months yet b before for civilization flies flics all to pieces Waning States' States Rights S I watch commonwealth after arter A AS commonwealth below the Mason Mason Mason Ma Ma- son and Dixon line lane tumbling over one an another ther to embrace centralized authority in exchange for tor federal funds for local projects Im I'm reminded reminded reminded re re- re- re minded of n a a trip which a friend of mine out here j just st made Hes He's a descendant of the Lees and md andle he le decided to pay a pious pilgrimage pilgrim pilgrim- age to the last remaining stronghold stronghold stronghold strong strong- hold of the late Southern Coated So he went to the only two states that voted last fall for states' states rights making his headquarters inthe inthe in the he ghost city of He reports that in both Maine and Vermont the secession sentiment sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment Is getting stronger all the tine and that theres there's a growing tendency to io o name boys for Jeff Davis rather than Ethan Allen or Neal B Dow IRVIN S. 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