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Show WSotlTCreek I'll' JJJJ "wrif Well sir, we are being stamped-ed.Green stamped-ed.Green stamps, gold stamps, and blue stamps it's all the same. Pact is, color blind husbands are almost afraid to come home of late, after a trip to the food mart, for fear they have picked up the wrong ones. Housewives have a brown taste in their months from licking hundreds hun-dreds of the gooey little demons and pasting 'them in the 'tiny squares in the pretty books. Time was when the little women coidd sit down and relax after a shopping shop-ping spree; but not now. It's Uck 'em and 'Stick 'em 'til the cows come home. Some years back, red-blooded Americans reached for their shoot-in' shoot-in' irons because King George made it mandatory to buy a stamp every time they bought a packet of tea. That was the biggest mistake a King ever made. George not only lost his tea and his stamps but 13 colonies as well. Things are a sight different now. If tea were the only product involved in-volved it wouldn't be so bad. Makes nlo difference what you buy these days bread, butter, gasoline, or an easy chah' you have to pick up pesky stamps in order to eat, sleep, move about or just sit helpless. Most vendors advertise that they "give" stamps. That's the biggest little understatement ever made to an unsuspecting public. The stamps cost 'the merchant about 2 cents on every dollar of their cash sales. And obliging souls that they are, the 2 cents are added, to the prices the customers pay. That's just simple sim-ple arithmetic and a necessity in order to stay in business. The next move is up to the housewife. She can save and lick and stick, or forget the whole business. bus-iness. If she plays the game to the bitter end, she winds up with a four-bit stew pan that has cost her at least a dollar. If she forgives and forgets she's out the entire extra outlay. The only players who win in this silly ring-around-a-itisy game, are the slickers who sell the stamps and peddle the premiums. All the stamps that are lost or discarded are clear gain; and there is a big profit in the stew pans. " There ought to be a law," but it was too late for tliis session of the legislature. The boys up-state have been too busy building governor's gov-ernor's mansions and changing the name of colleges to consider anything any-thing as lowly as a "Stamp Act." Maybe they will get around to it in 24 months. Some states have already. In the meantime, this writer is sounding a call in this year of '57, for all American patriots to return to the "Spirit of '76." If stamps regardless of color, make you see red; why not don an Indian costume, cos-tume, break out the trusty hatchet and sound the battle cry, "We're sick of lickin'." Perhaps a war dance on Main Street would start thing-s rolling. So long 'til Thursday. |