Show I II I N DD I II ET I II I II I B BEING EING the more or less natural natural- born lazy type I follow with interest the increasing number of dissertations dealing with we Americans and our leisure time For the first time in history I read the average worker in America Ameri Ameri- ca has more leisure time tune than working time Elsewhere I note that we can expect more and more leisure time as this atomic age progresses Since I apparently have never been able to find all the time I would require to stretch out in a shaded hammock cooling drink in hand and dwell upon the wonders of the clouds the sky and the birds that soar unfettered and unhurried I can but wonder if I shall dwell long enough upon this old earth to live like a lazy man really should Already there are forces at work under the leadership of an enlightened enlightened enlightened en en- lightened few which have sinister designs on any new leisure time we may acquire They Issue the frightful warning that too mu much h leisure time can end in mass de generation They arent aren't worried I about the guy who chases along after a golf ball the who I plants roses and tomatoes in the backyard or he who spends the weekend chasing butterflies These people r get exercise They worry about those who would use their nothing do-nothing time just doing nothing Needless alarm I say No need for concern until the th-e sky is no longer high and blue till streams run dry and birds dont don't fly till you I cant can't find a fish or a fishing pole and all the wonders of Mother Nature Nature Nature Na Na- ture disappear into dark dark- ness You wont won't kill a lazy man with leisure time any more than youcan you youcan can drown a fish In a bathtub 1 V In 1946 there was less than I pounds of the rare metal titanium um a vital ingredient of jet aircraft I Now one company alone is erecting I a plant to produce tons of it a year It n would take candles a month month about about half a to tad of them themI them them- to furnish the light that a modern modem I home gets by electricity Because of f variations ions in the inI In in- intensity of the earths earth's gravitational I field a man who weighs pounds at the Equator weighs pounds I on ElIe Ellesmere mere Canadas Canada's northernmost northernmost northern northern- northernmost most island |