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Show Couldn't Make It Go y. on That Much Money Mrs. Elizabeth Mortimer Miller, Vtiie eugenics expert, told a story to a;bu-luth a;bu-luth reporter. ., - ' ' "Our children," she said, "live too much with their elders. They hear too many things that are unfit for children's ears. This makes, tbe'm precocious. pre-cocious. "In my native Sioux City a boy answered an-swered a butclx?r's want ad. "'What can you do?' the butcher asked liiiu. " 'Anything,' said the boy. 'What will you pay me?' " 'Two good dollars a week, starting start-ing right here and now,' said the butcher. 'But what can you do?' " 'Anything, I told you,' saitl the boy. ; " 'Anything's no answer,' safd the butcher. 'Re specific. Can you dress a chicken?' "'Gosh.' said the boy, 'not on ?2 a week.' '' |