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Show 'Yj2iaifrom other editors Everyone Likes Babies MAYBE that's why so many' of them are born. Every nine seconds, on an average, a baby Is born in the United States. In the lobby of the Department ot Commerce building in Washington D.C. Is a huge map of the United States. Every nine seconds a blue light blinks on the map, .showing that a baby has been born somewhere some-where In the country. At 21 second intervals a purple light flashes. Indicating In-dicating a death. South Pasadena (Calif.) Review. Big Boy Dennis comes In with a good one this week. He says that about her age, she Is the spirit ot the modern age. We are living in the age of jet-propelled Oran-ma's. Back in the days when to be a Grandmother was a little alarming to most Gals and you were expected ex-pected to sit around with a lace cap, before the fireplace, watching the offspring's baby, or just waiting for life to pass. All Granny had left was the memories of her more acUve days. And, who pray telL wants to live on memories? We all want to live for today, tomorrow, and not the days gone by. Douglas County Gasette, Waterloo, Neb. It took but three short weeks for the first cotton bloom of the season Bill Lindsey and Lige Henry were fishing on Doug Baker's fish pond. After sitting for a long time on the bank, they got up, and just then a big snake dived into the pond, then stuck his head out of the water, gasping for breath. It seems that Bill had been sitting on the snake for thirty minutes. "Dirty Digs" in The Tallahassee (Ala.) Tribune. We'd all like to be skillful at athletes, ath-letes, but unfortunately, we aren't all endowed with the necessary attributes, at-tributes, so, we must get our athletic ath-letic satisfaction vicariously. When our "Town" team wins, we share a portion of their glory but (and this is unfortunate from the standpoint stand-point of the participating athlete), we can deny any connection when the team loses, thus avoiding any of the responsibility of defeat. Eu-fanda Eu-fanda (Ala.) Tribune. ' Hot Rod Grandma Gals become Mom's at a right early age, but this is the heyday of Grandma. She no longer worries to be reported after the first squares were brought in to The Gazette. The squares came from just northeast of Darnell . . . the bloom came in from the upper end of the parish, Concord community. Now will come the green bolls and the open bolls; then it will be harvest time again. "Rambling" in The West Carroll Gasette, Oak Grove, La. As this is written, it's been three weeks since a rain in this area. Nights have been muggy, and sleep fitful. Despite all this, I'm sitting here thinking noble thoughts . . . Like that local radio stations should look into hiring more physically handicapped handi-capped persons . . . like deaf mutes for disk jockeys, for Instance. Then, later on, when everyone realized how great was the improvement, maybe the present yakity-yak fellows fel-lows they're using on the early morning programs could be converted con-verted to the new silent models. "Tales of The Town" in The Seville Se-ville (Ohio) Chronicle. |