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Show fo Fooling" jf Babies Should j It Registered! ! I j ij tables should be jvjrlstemi, jfa ! j n0 fooling, according to Will H America's cowboy humor- "!.iiwpher. Several years n-go. jjjj iral a. crack In one of his -a : to the effect that down 'n,BB I j courfry (OktahomsO to see n M L "nmn'ns around with a pair ffl latches on was Rood enough Si i-vf he has kvn bciu-." M j 1 still contend it does prow he j! been born," said Rogers, "but J iont prove when? at nor who tc, oi that's mighty Important." j somewhat bothered by this clas- 1 'j. utterance of Refers, which i 2l lives in every nook and cranny a United States, I sought aM J Ointment with Mr. Rogers to him to consider the other side ; the master anl to "crack bade ; other way" to offset the incal- B i aisle harm his wit'icism had V j jrittingly caused. I j H received me on a beautiful p Isming at his comfort ab Is rancli i) j a the rim of San a Monica can- j ij5, overlooking the Pacific Ocenn. r lien I arrived in a taxioab Will, p iis wo beys and five quests were : n jlaying pclo on the comedian's k jtivate polo field Aftir the chukker (I b?lieve Jut's what they call It) was fin- j ated, Will excused himself to his nests saying tw "had to go see a j H Kler about somep'n" and came nidging up to the high lawn whr; a I sat basking in Cal fornia's famed 1 3 acshine. . Sj I explained my mission t him. gj ud he had some lib.le trouble re- pjj nembering when he had written 1 3 this utterance in question. Finally i jfl he recalled it had been published 8 in the Saturday Evening Pest in H 1S2I, and then grinned widely over j the fact that his "crack" was s ill iliw and kicking. S "Now, here, wait minute," he g all "I still think I was right, fj When you see a boy running a- j round wearing a pair of britches. j or vuhout 'em for that matter I m contend it is good proof he has a been born. g "Yes, I think so, t:o," I admitted, f "but ft does not prove when; I e tai born nor to whom, and the thing we are after is to put native born American children in the position that they can prove at any time that they are American citi- Km" g "You say it does prove he was ? bom, but it don't prove where at j nor Tho to," he ruminattd slowly. ' "Yep, you're right. I just didn't o fur enough. I'll fix that. Watch g for it in one of my Sunday articles K 1 can say more about it in one of them than I can in the daily ones, I and anyway, I have to use the daily onea to aort of keep the gov-ttent gov-ttent in shape. Dang that there rosebush I " Thia last was when the thorns of a magnificent rose stand" caught in my bushy locks and the actor leaned over to disengage it j "Well, so long. Glad you ome out. We'll fix it up so the babies 11 git registered." |