Milford News | 1928-08-03 | Page 7 | Special Duty Placed on Last Homecomer

Special Duty Placed on Last Homecomer Governor Gore ot West Virginia was talking at a Charleston luncheon about oil troubles. "Strong measures are needed," he said, "to save our oil reserves. Yes, we must cut to the root of the evil not just resort to expedients, like the paterfamilias. "A paterfamilias with a large family fam-ily of daughters said to a friend one day : " 'With all these daughters of mine coming in at all hours my night's rest Is naturally much broken up, and for some time the consequence was that I'd oversleep myself every morning and be late for work at the office. Bad business.' "The paterfamilias looked gloomy, then he brightened up. " 'But I've hit on a splendid expedient expedi-ent now,' he said. 'I've made it a hard and fast rule that the last girl in calls me on her way to bed.' "