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Show 1lia'll"tr.Mw mm i "" i in mbi iU HC ., i Chatter Box Dear Suzy, Reed Woods, corn and bunnion pincher at D. Stevens & Co., is , getting ready for any future eventualities event-ualities and is making fair headway. head-way. His start came during the cold spell when he had his knife sharpened by Dean, but Dean failed fail-ed to return it. So, on returning from lunch Reedisnitched the keys out of the car Dean, Marion Dill-enbeck Dill-enbeck and Bertha Love drive to and from work. After closing hours the three were grouped in front of the store trying to find the keys i and each one accused the other ' of being the one who had taken j them. Finally Marion remembered I Reed volunteering help if they had trouble getting to Hinckley and so put two and two together ' with the resulting negotiations in . which Reed got his knife and they j got the keys in exchange. All was well with all but Bertha, ' and she felt that she had endured 1 more cold while they searched for , keys than an Eskimo keeping house in a deep freeze outfit and so wanted Reed to make amends. Reed offered to shine her shoes ! the following day, if that would 'make 'it OK, and the offer was accepted. The next day Bertha brought her shoes in to Reed and had him shine them while she waited, (at least I think she waited wait-ed as I can't picture Bertha going down to the Service Drug barefooted). bare-footed). This shining business was so pleasing to .Bertha that she went back to the store and brought Reed an all-day sucker. Now Reed is swamped with shoes in need of shining and is gorging himself on lollypops. He figures if the diet gets tiresome he will change to licorice sticks and can thus keep his shining up in case he has to shine a lot of shoes in the future, , and sell a few pair on the side. ', I Glen Crawford and Dewey San-I San-I ford went to Nephi Monday, where as Glen explained, both had an overdraft in the bank there and the bank had asked them to come up and pitch manure to pay it off. Glen is always getting beat on ! these deals and was trying to get ' there ahead of Dewey so that he could get the best manure to pitch, as he said Dewey always got the I better of him on any kind of a trade or deal. Personally I can't think of any two men in West Millard more qualified for the position pos-ition than Dewey and Glen, overdraft over-draft or no overdraft, as they both were voted the men most likely I to succeed by their classes in the 8th grade. Of course, the 8th grade students had little idea in what field these two men would excel. This having to go to work on a manure pile is a dangerous practice prac-tice for banks to instigate and one that should be stopped as soon as possible. One could never tell, if the idea is carried any further, when one might have to do work in this lowly occupation when one had only been pen-happy when it came to writing checks. Some of our best and supposedly most solid citizens would find themselves called to duty much to their embarrassment, em-barrassment, while the onlookers could only say, "why I thought that man was positively filthy with money." It would open a lot of eyes, and also give a lot of people some badly needed exercise. On the other hand, banks are always looking into the future and what they consider is best for the community as a whole, and their plan to have the manure put back on the soil is a step in the right direction. One can see that it would be far better to have the persons overdrawn hauling manure to build up our country than to have them chucking it about promiscuously pro-miscuously on the street corners, pool halls, and those places men like- to gather and while away a few hours keeping out of work. The plan has its merits and also its disadvantages, and will have to be debated out in some civic organization or-ganization to come to the correct solution. Toots. I |