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Show XTlncle tfub from Punkintown sez: Dear Mister Editor: It says here that ever onct in a while the city of New York has to git money from the state of New York to operate on. That's mighty consoling news. If a big city can't make both ends meet, 'there ain't no point in a feller like me even trying to git 'em together. I reckon them New Yorkers is using the same philosophy I use, just taking things easy and not with my sleep, although I shore hope this idea don't get popular over in them foreign countries where we got so much "aid" staked stak-ed out. Come to think about it, New York City ain't in a class by herself. her-self. The United States spends several billions more ever year than she takes in, which iputs me and Uncle Sam in the same class when it comes to balancing the budget. Them Republicans in Washington quote Abe Lincoln Lin-coln and holler that they is going go-ing to balance the budget, and the Democrats quote Thomas Jefferson and holler they've about got the budget balanced. Both of 'em talk a good budget but neither of 'em has balanced the dern thing since I was knee-high knee-high to a tumble-weed. I ain't balanced my budget in 20 year, ain't lived within my means onct in 10 year, and it's a great satisfaction to know that New York, Washington and, m all han- ' die this situation about the same way. Of course, they is going to be some bankers write in and say that the pa;ier ought not to print such things, as it might be a bad influence. influ-ence. You just tell 'em, Mister Editor, that the opinion expressed here don't necessarily represent those of the paper. I think that's .the way .them big papers handle it when they git in a hole. As a matter of fact, the opinions expressed ex-pressed here don't even represent those of my old lady. Just New York, the Unted States and me in lined up together in this thing. I see by the papers this morning morn-ing where the boys at a Alabama high school is wearing their shirt-tails shirt-tails hanging out in protest over the girls wearing them sack dresses. dress-es. Considering the nature and extent of the crime, I think them boys is making a very mild protest. pro-test. But Ed Doolittle says them sack dresses i. a improvement in modesty. He says it ain't nothin to see frying size gals walking around up town these, days in not enough clothes to keep a jaybird from freezing to death on a cool morning. morn-ing. And he says their mamas is as bad if not worse. The only difference, dif-ference, he says, is that the gals has got that certain sunupin that their mamas don't have no more. In fact, Ed allows, if these mamas knowed how they looked going north to a feller coming from the south ithey would go home and put some clothes on. Yours truly, I UNCLE FUD. |