Show what cc abb thinks aks sall about curing stuttering C HIN LEE ARIZ away up here in the indian country comes a newspaper saying some expert at correcting human utterance has turned up with a cure for stuttering but why by his own admission nearly all stutter ers can sing and most of them can swear fluently thus providing superior emotional outlets in two directions one of the smartest criminal lawyers I 1 L know deliberately cultivated a natural lm pediment impediment in his 1 speech in cour courtroom tech 1 45 debates it gave him more time to think up either irin s cobb the right questions or to figure out the right answers and one of the most charming voices I 1 ever heard belonged to a louisiana girl whose soft southern accents were fascinatingly interrupted at intervals by a sudden stammer like unexpected ripples in a gently flowing brook how to relax B t FORE I 1 started out here feeling somewhat jumpy after wrestling a radio program for six months jimmy t the he artist chos one of the most devoted friends these high mesas ever had advised me to try stretching out on the desert sands as a measure for health and complete relaxation and a general gen eral toning up just lie down perfectly flat he said then he took another look at my figure anyway lie down he said so today I 1 tried it another friend john kirk the famous indian trader helped me pick out a suitable spot on the navajo reservation that was forty miles from the nearest habitation but the site I 1 chose was al ready already pre preempted emited empted by a scorpion with a fretful stinger and an irritable disposition that seemed to resent being crowded so I 1 got right up again in fact I 1 got up so swiftly that kirk said it was impossible to follow the movement with the human eye it was like magic he said speed crazed drivers WHY W HY the hurry sonny boy I 1 see you almost daily youre roaring through populous streets or skidding on hairpin turns or whirling at sixty perilous miles an hour around the kinked kicked and snaky twists of mountain roads me like some demoniac bug racing along the spine of a coiled rattler if I 1 am one to say you probably have primed yourself for this senseless speeding on that most dangerous of all mixed tipples the fearsome combination of alcohol and gasoline or perhaps like the blind mule of the folklore tale you just naturally dont care a dern one thing is plain despite the high percentage of mortality your breed is on the increase so again echoing the question which the coroner must frequently ask at the inquest why the hurry sonny boy it cant be that anybody wants you back at the place where youve been or that anybody else will be glad to see you at the place where youre going really now sonny boy what is all the hurry about 0 0 0 civilizations predicament FEEL it my duty to call attention to the following warning recently published the earth is degenerating in these latter days bribery and corruption abound the children no longer obey their parents it is evident that the end of the world is approaching however it should be added that this prediction is not as might be assumed from its familiar ring the utterance of some inspired observer of the present moment it is a translation from an assyrian tablet dated 2800 B E C so if the fulfillment of the doleful prophecy has been delayed for 4 years it seems reasonable to assume that it may be some months yet before civilization flies all to pieces waning states rights A AS S I 1 watch commonwealth after commonwealth below the mason and dixon line tumbling over one another to embrace centralized authority in exchange for federal c eral funds for local projects im reminded e of a trip which a friend of mine out here just made hes a descendant of the lies and he decided to pay a pious pilgrimage to the last remaining stronghold of the late southern confederacy so he went to the only two states that voted last fall tor for states rights making his headd headquarters barters in the ghost city of he reports that in both maine and vermont the secession sentiment is getting stronger all the time and that theres a growing tendency to name boys for jeff davis da vis rather than ethan allen alien or neal B dow S COBB 0 service lc |