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Show 9 buftna, i By STEVt: WILLIAMS Brose Dalton says he hopes the next time the Beaver Volunteer Vol-unteer Firemen have an alarm it's either in the daytime, or it doesn't effect the lighting system. sys-tem. Last Monday when the siren wailed about midnight, Brose was floundering around trying to find something to drape over his knobby kn,ees, and wound up wearing one heavy boot and an overshoe, one leg in and one leg out of his trousers, and when Bertha 'finally lit a candle he was groping for armholes in one of her underslips. Anyway, he drove the fire truck to the scene of the supposed sup-posed blaze in record time, and when the firemen drifted homeward home-ward he spent the rest of the night tossing and turning, dreaming about straight-jackets. Thrift is something wonderful, wonder-ful, we're told, but now's the time we wish our ancestors had practiced more of it so we wouldn't have to practice so much of it. Do you think you're working to hard?? There aren't as many people actually working as you may have thought. At least not according ac-cording to a survey included in the Iowa State Daily. "The population of the country is 160 million, but there are 62 million people over 60 years of age, leaving 98 million to do the work. People under 21 total 54 million which leaves 44 million to do the work. "Then there are 21 million who are employed by government govern-ment and that leaves 23 million to do the work. Ten million are in the Armed Forces, leaving 13 million to do the work. Deduct 12,800,000, the number of State and County officers, and that leaves 200,000 to do the work. There are 126,000 in hospitals, insane asylums and so forth and that leaves 74,000 to do the work. "Now it may interest you to know that there are 73,998 people in jail, so that leaves just two people to do all the work. And that is you and me, brother, and I'm tired of doing everything by myself." Contributed. Money may not Jbe everything, every-thing, but it sure has a big lead on whatever's in second place. Dear Mr. Williams: I am very much interested in the form containing the boxes to be checked which you checked off and signed. I assume that this is a clipping from a recent issue is-sue of one of the Beaver County newspapers. It is an interesting gimmick, but unfortunately it is pretty general and doesn't contain much that can be of specific help to me. My own personal opinion is that I am going to look at every important category in the budget bud-get with the realization that any savings we make must be the sum of a lot of comparatively small savings. There is one thing about this problem that few people understand. under-stand. That is that appropriations grow to finance new laws. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, we never relate the law when we pass it to its cost, which we discover later when the appropriation bill is -before us. These increases are not so much the result of extravagance or carelessness on the part of the Executive Department as they are the result of their obligation ob-ligation to set up organizations to carry out laws that we pass; and in many cases it is impossible impos-sible to make cuts in the program pro-gram without invalidating the law. My guess is that we may be able to cut as much as $2 billion from the proposed budget, which is less than 3 per cent of the total budget. You can be sure I will work for every cut I think I can justify. Kindest personal regards. Sincerly, WALLACE F. BENNETT Suzy Says: The greatest disappointment disappoint-ment for our maiden auntie was when she discovered that the glint in her boyfriend's eye was just the sun shining on his bifocals. |