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Show f Those Were Good Old Days ; t I W hen the smoking of a two-for-a-1 j nickel cigar didn't bring the health department de-partment and a court order anating yourself as a public nuisnnce. When it took only an ice crenm soda at the corner drug store and a neighborhood neigh-borhood card party instead of a $5000 automobile and three "movie" shows evenf evening lo show your bet girl a wonderful time. " .When you could match coins to pay i for the noon lunch and know you'd I be stung only a half dollar instead of j about ?16.30 if you lost. j I When you could, achieve a reputation reputa-tion for being a millionaire by purchasing purchas-ing ?S shoes instead of being considered consid-ered terribly penurious when you kick about pa j ing 525 for a pair.- When your wife could run over (o the neighbors and borrow a cup of j susar without forcing you to mortgage your home to secure the indemnity bond you must now put up for ir. When a man could spend a quiet evening at home with his family with-j out being considered balmy in the I bean. When a billion dollar congress look-1 ed as big as all creation instead ot be-' ing considered in the pin monoy class. When the very foundation of society were not shaken and there scorned no prospects of the heavens falling at your purchase of a big schooner of suds for a nickel and the inhaling of a hot dog at the free lunch counter at one and the same time. When a man could say he had made 510,000 the provious year and get away with it without being forced to ex-ilam ex-ilam to a half hundred internal rove-me rove-me sleuths that it was all a joke and hat his real income totalled only M000. all of which is exempt. oo |