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Show XTlncle ub from Punkintown sez: Dear Mister Editor: Them Congressmen has been arguing fer six months over a bill to keep billboards off them .new Federal highways high-ways they is fixing to build. The fellers at the country store Saturday night decided they'd put the subject on the barrelhead barrel-head fer one evening. Farmers can often decide things better in one evening than Congressmen Congress-men can in six months. Ed Doolittle allowed as how it would set education back 20 year to do away with billboards. bill-boards. He says the magazines maga-zines is all talking about Tohn-ny Tohn-ny can't read much no more on account of this new progressive pro-gressive education system we got in the schools. Ed's magazine maga-zine information ain't too up to 'date on account of the only magazines he ever sees is the ones his old lady fetches home from the beauty parlor. But he claims the only reason Tohnny can read the stop sign at the railroad crossing is from what he picks up from them billboards while he's riding the school bus back and forth. He's in favor of billboards 100 percent as a education measure. meas-ure. Tim Clodhopper didn't agree with Ed. He savs everything else has gone scientific and he can't see no reason why Johnny John-ny can't git a education without with-out learning how to read and write. He thinks Tohnny peeping peep-ing at them billboards is bad fer education under the new system we got now of educating educat-ing & kid without learning him nothing. I sided with Ed in the argument. argu-ment. I've lived a full life, Mister Editor, a long span of years, from the days when folks had a plain cabin to now when they got a cabin plane, and things is gitting too scientific. scien-tific. What little schooling I got was when they supervised a kid while he worked and turned him loose when he played. Now they supervise him when he plays and if he does any work I ain't heard about it. I ain't belittling science in general. It can do a heap of things. Fer instant, I know we're living twict as fast as we did 50 year ago but it takes a woman twict as long to git to be a old maid. That's science. sci-ence. It's mighty hard these days to tell how old a woman is if she uses these beauty things, paint and lipstick, just right. Personally I feel about the same toward 'em as I do a used car. I git mighty suspicious suspi-cious if the paint job looks too good. Yes, I know beauty parlors par-lors has got a lot to do with holding up the old maid situation. situa-tion. I don't know what's holding up the billboard situation situa-tion in Washington. I see by the papers where Senator Talmadge from Georgia Geor-gia says those hidden taxes is eating people up. It'll be plenty of time fer me to worry ' about them hidden taxes after I can git them out-in-the-open taxes paid. I Yours truly, I UNCLE FUD. |