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Show ONCE OVER i Wee Willis Waxes Anti-Korean By H. I. Phillips j 1 tnON'T tell me these generals U are fighting for a j better world," groaned Willis the White-. White-. wing as he took off weight cleaning the streets after the great parade for General MacArthur. "The better bet-ter life for small people, my eye! Freedom! Baloney! This confetti and ticker tape will tie me! down like I ain't been tied down since Lindbergh came home. Whiiddaya mean, 'stopping aggressors everywhere'? every-where'? How about those people who threw all this litter down on me!" Willis, never a parade lover, was plenty sore this time. "This job finishes me with Truman and the Democrats. They have been talkin' about makin' life easier fDr the common man for years, and look at these streets!! They promise me they'll make it easier for rie and what do they do? Call hoioe our greatest national hero and b ring on. the biggest parade in years. If I am ever the same again it will be due to miracle drugs and a switch to the Republicans." "The streets certainly traok a beating," we observed. j "The blizzard of '88 coinldn't of topped it," said Willis the Whitewing. "See that piUe of confetti over there? I'll bfet I'll find a half-dozen guys under it still tryin' to blow horns. Other parades had just one-handed ticker tape and confetti tfhrow-ers. tfhrow-ers. This one used only oeople who threw with both hands. I always said it was a mistake gettin' into Korea anyhow. We should get out." "Immediately?" we asked. 1 "No. That would mean I another an-other parade and I wanna get a little rest after I get this one cleaned up," he replied. 'But what have we got out of the1 Korean Ko-rean war? Brooms with longer bristles and shorter handles! Smaller shovels! Longer lines of marches! j ' ' ' "Didn't you get a kick out of MacArthur's homecoming? j' We asked. "He's a great guy. I like him. But strictly before a parade, not after. With me he's extend in' the struggle, not limitin' it. I expect to be strugglin' in this rubbish another an-other ten hours. I hear the army is keepin' the Chinese off balance. Anyhow, that's where they'ns keep-in' keep-in' me." "You don't favor a holding operation, opera-tion, do you?" "The way I ache now I would even cheer for a stalemate," snapped Willis. "Don't you realize the world is in a state of crisis and that we must all do our part in any givera situation?" situa-tion?" I "So a broom and shovel stops Russia!" shrugged Willis. t'So we show the Kremlin we are alhead in confetti! So we prove to Joe Stalin that we lead the world in ticker tape tossin'l I'll bet Malik would pay big money for a picture of me knee-deep in this litter." ! i t I j |