Show OGDEN tmMONDAY (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINEEVENING APRIL 11 1949 Uncle Ray's Corner R Burgess Bedtime Stories M Peter Asks a Personal Question tzard would be content to do withTo be too personal is impolite out a nest of some sort unless they Wo watch your tongue and guide were indeed very lazy and shift-- ! it right less Peter himself is not at all fond To ask personal questions means to ask questions about things which of work you know and right down in his heart he had 'a little feeling lly concern only those to whom of sympathy for Ol Mistah you may happen to put them Perin avoiding unnecessary work sonal matters are those which are But even Peter felt that it was no one but the ones the business of quite unpardonable that Ol Mistah whotn they immediately concern Buzzard's children should have no and there is no greater rudeness or Inest at alL The more-hthought impoliteness than to ask about about it the more it seemed imthat could be quite anyone them out of Idle curiosity Peter possible so as this His respect for Rabbit knows this Anyway he Ol' shiftless Mistah Buzzard had received a should know it He ought to have shock At last he made up his learned it by this time But Peter's great mind would find out if what curiosity is forever leading him to Sammythat he had said could be true Jay do things which he shouldn't do So over to the Green Forest The more Peter thought over p what Sammy Jay had said about the scampered Peter straight to the tall dead! tree laziness and shiftlessness of OF Ol' Mistah Buzzard delights Mtstah and Mrs Buzzard the more where sit when he was not sailing round he was inclined to think that Sam- to round high up in the blue blue my must be right about the matter and Ol' Mistah Buzzard was there sky no one as seemed as if It eartainly his wings half spread for holding Buzas OF Mistah trig and strong the air to blow through them and the sun to fall on them His eyes twinkled as he saw Peter "Yo' seem to have something on your mind Br er Rabbit What isit this time?" said he Peter hesitated a minute as if a little ashamed Then he blurted out what he had in his mind "Are you really and truly shiftless Mistah Buzzard?" he said Ol' Mistah Buzzard closed his wings and blinked his eyes very rapidly as if he didn't quite know what to think "What's that Brer Rabbit?" he demanded sharply "Ah think Ah couldn't have understood yo' What's that yo' said? "I asked if you are really and truly shiftless?" repeated Peter "Or Mistah Buzzard ruffled Up all his feathers indignantly Buz-jza- Jv 1U R The moon is the closest neigh-bo- r of the earth and it comes to mind when we think of rocket travel to different parts of our solar system If we ever do have successful rocket travel away from this planet the moon almost surely will be the first place to be reached The planet which is closest to our earth is Venus and it never comes closer to us than about 26000000 miles The moon on the other hand is less than a quarter of a million miles away on the average A quarter of a million miles would be a long distance to go but we must suppose that our rocket would speed at least seven miles a second At that rate the journey would last only nine hours and 52 minutes Before this I have told about the troubles there would be in refiching the moon or any planet by rocket I also have spoken of the moon being without air and water offering further trouble to any person who could land there 4 It is interesting however to suppose that we got there in good condition and could do some of the things we do on earth Since the baseball season is opening this month let us suppose that we played a game of baseball on the moon': We should need a larger playing r If rd I I lipperty-lipperty-li- Aunt Het tion Who says Ah'm shiftless? Who says that? Ah want to know who Ah'm shiftless?" Ol' Mistah say's BUzzard looked so fierce that Peter began to be afraid of him and wished with all his might that he had held his tongue MI— " he began and hesitated Then he hurried on "You know Mistah Buzzard you havent any nest and— aid I've heard it said "Ah reckons yo' done lost all that it is because you and Mrs Buztoo lazv and shiftlace' your manners Br'er Rabbit'V said zard are he That s a mighty personal ques build one I thought there might be some other reason and so I came to you to find out" he finished lamely Jt WM Next story: Or Mistah Buzzard U Starts a Story (Released by The Associated Newspapers) 9 I always feel kind o' silly when It's almost like choosin' I vale o' four men for a husband and every one a stranger you haven't even met M Moon Baseball Players Would Need Huge Playing A THt DAYS FLASH PAST I FOR MARGO NORMAN AAY t& DAIhlTF P HORSES ON A CAROUSEL! " A few of the moon's iZl3S Lf£F A CORSAGE NEXT TIM?! Y HAND- - OR MAO - CJM 0Li enters field than qh earth With much smaller gravity we could bat the ball six time-- - as far A person who can senk a ball 450 feet on earth could send it half a' mile when he struck it on the moon For that reason it would be well to increase the number of fielders for our game on the moon Perhaps 100 fielders would be used Each one we had would find himself " He wduld take steps of from 18 to 25 feet when running to catch a ball instead of three or four feet as on earth If we played the game near some craters a heavy hitter might lift the ball so high that it would fall into one of them Perhaps We would count that as1 a home rim! 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