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Show TOWN LOYALTY (Deseret News) By Walt Mason At home in Punktown I deplore a lot of things most every day; the j citizens can hear me road with ar- dor, as I go my way, I criticise the ; bonehead lads who run our village : government, bewail the old ways of ; our dads the new ways arent worth : a cent. I write long letters to the ; press denouncing things at every : chance, and pointing out the grim ; distress that caused by town ex- : travagance. I kick when councilmen E would spend some money for a.vil- : lage pump, and ask, "When will this z orgy end ? Is Punktown headed for z the dump?" But when I go away s from home, as sometimes I am prone j to go, in far off bailiwicks to roam, z I boost old Punktown to and fro. : I visit Squashville-in-the-Hay, a vil- ; lage that is not so bad and citizens. : come up and say, "What think you ; of our gorgeous grad ? We think she : has all rivals skinned, she's diamonds i as compared with glass you'd jour- : ney to the furthest Ind and find no ; village in her class." "She has her : points, I must admit," I have at such ; a time declared, "but she would never : make a hit if she with Punktown : were compared. I would not run your : village down, I'd not depreciate her worth, but Punktown is the noblest : town that ever grew on this old earth. Her councilmen. are great and : wise, and her officials are the best; the place is full of happy guys who : think that existing there is blest. : In Punktown you will find no taint of : criticism in the air; the voters never make complaint or wring their hands : or rend their hair." And then to ; Punktown I return, and kick around : just as of old; rank evils make my : spirit bum, and I rear up and rant : and scold. (Copyright, 1929 by George Matthew j Adams Service.) : o 1 |