Show 0 5 00 THOUGHTS ON THE MINUTE MAN the minute man was a minute man regardless of hours ile was ready to fight any and nothing less than five years was considered overtime he came ito into be being ing at bunker hill which was not a golf course and at lexington which was not a sedan he would have hav tl thought ought he was being mollycoddled it all he had been asked to give up was cam comfortable for table transportation and the two lumps of sugar in his coffee the minute man would have thought tho light himself a five minute egg E 99 if he felt it necessary for his government to mention his war obligations obligation s every time there was any mention of indigestion tablets beer whisky cigars and toothpastes tooth pastes 0 0 rationing was such a self culli bated habit with him even in time of peace that in time of war he regarded it as impeding the national effort if he admitted he had an appetite for fresh meat 0 the minute alinur man A an so called because he watched the minute hand band on a clock when his country was in pe peril rl 11 be even watch the hour hand the one tool too h he kept kept at hand at all times was his rifle and he was his own night and day shift t his life was so haar hazardous dous that he thought saving his scalp was more important than saving money and he would have been a little sickened by the thought that he would be recorded as doing his part if he merely bought war bonds 0 0 0 the minute man alan thought the minutes important and the only price he fixed on them was in terms of 0 life and death in time of war he thought his rights fully protected if at the end of every minute he still had his gun and could replenish his powder 0 the minute M man never dreamed of 30 minute radio programs to arouse his patriotism to have listened to a 15 minute air appeal to his americanism every few hours would have made him feel insulted the minute man wanted his news straight and his battle reports undiluted and the one thing his government never had to ask was shall we tell him now or do you think it would upset him the minute man alan was a man every minute he won against incredible odds ads after years of heroism lour 0 DC made secure a great nation for nearly two centuries 0 0 NO CARDS CARD to market to market some sugar to buys buy home again home again sugar me eyel eye 0 elmer twitchell is so timid these sugar rationing days that he even address his wife as my sweet any more 0 a MIKE AND MEYER no leering fetid jests did they employ FLUY they used no jokes from smoking room or pit and yet down through the years they brought us joy by cleverness and decency and wit 0 0 0 theirs was no search for situations vile no gags dug from the sewers sewers of broadway clean wholesome comedy such was their style and they would have been out of place today 0 0 0 farewell to mike farewell to meyer too to them we bow and gladly give great thanks for put they were comics to traditions true who never dug for laughs beneath wet planks ft california to T try dim out headline it if it wants lessons it should tae take the matter up with connecticut WAR TIME R R TRAVEL fading out is peter mower who always had to have a lower 0 0 0 cramped in style is bosley baer who ride without a chair a 0 quite depressed is peter cable ile he had to have a chair and table bananas are bard ard to get due to sin kings of banana boats by subs sinking lemp cm as it were la in bunches i |