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Show fhi.phiii;Pr McGOOFEY'S FIRST READER I 1. Oh, see the egg! Is it a fresh egg? 2. Yes, but you musn't be too particular these days. 3. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? 4. That no longer matters. The point to bear in mind today is that the customer comes last. n 1. Who Is this? 2. It is Jennie. Penny is a housewife. house-wife. Jenny is carrying a basket. 3. What is that in Jennie's basket? bas-ket? 4. A revolver, a letter from her senator, some credentials from her minister, a coil of rope, a map, a megaphone and a large bundle of money. 5. Where is Jennie going? 6. Jennie is going to try to get some eggs. 7. Will she get some bacon, too? 8. Don't be redick. Ill 1 Oh, see the egg! It is not like the egg in Chapter I. 2. No. The egg has been polished, taken to market, card indexed, graded, stamped and given wound stripes. 3. How does an egg get wound stripes? 4. If you had to go through the wars that an egg has to go through in getting from the farm to the consumer you would have wound stripes. rv 1. Jennie Is looking at the egg, Isn't she? 2. There are 67 people ahead of her, though. 3. Will Jennie get the egg? 4. No. V 1. Where Is Jennie going now? 2. She has left the store. She is going to a bingo party. 3. Why? 4. The door prize is one egg. 5. Will she have a better chance to get the egg there? 6. It won't be any worse. VI 1. Who Is this? N 2. This is a maker of adages. He is author of the adage 'Never place all your eggs in one basket." 3. What is he doing? 4. He is changing the adage to read: "Never use a basket to get negative answers." IN THE FOG Ernie and 'Erbie and Clement A. A Big Three of their own are they; John Bull with dripping, furrowed brow, He hardly knows the old place now! "Truman in Frankfurt Review." Headline. Is this the first formal recognition of the hot dog in the global setup? To a lap his old position balanced on top of a high ladder in a circus must today to-day seem a position of comparative security. se-curity. Robert S. Wilson has been named the new United States rubber administrator. ad-ministrator. He is reported to have plenty of bounce. The Pullman company announces that after the war the old fashioned diner will largely disappear, to be replaced by a hot and cold buffet, or "Smorgasbord" car. Huge platters of "tempting dishes" foods will be piled on a center table, from which the passengers will take their choice. The old cry "Last call for dinner" will disappear. This is okay with us, although we doubt that the railroads have even a remote idea what constitutes "tempting dishes." Nothing in the general record to date so indicates. If anything on the diners today is tempting, we will eat the flagman's lantern, without mustard. Of course the war is largely responsible, but in peace days we never once heard anybody leave a dining car exclaiming "Boy. wasn't that dinner a knockout!" A Harvard board has decided that the present educational system there, in most colleges and in high schools is pretty defective. It must make a university blush to find thai it has ben teaching the wrong stufl for over 100 years. The board says Harvard has beer educating the boys in specialties and neglecting the all-around gen eral education necessary to develof the intelligent and sound citizens. Howard Hughes is completing giant airplane that will have eigh' motors, carry 750 passengers and be big enough to support a super fortress on each wing. The genera.' idea is to assure airplane tourist; every discomfort they can find or the ground. Joe Stalin is now the only survivor survi-vor of the original Big Three. H must have moments when he won ders whether he is conferring wit) some team mates or just helpini break in a junior membership. |