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Show TOMTOOLERY., Y Emil Rutishauser stopped at the office the other day f0r his weekly visit and left us a copy of one of Henry " f McLemore's recent columns. 5 Henry, whose column appears in the Deseret News, is fJ noted-for his light, but biting touch. (Now don't ask how a touch can bite.) Anyway, the piece that Emil brought in -was McLemore's deft dissection of Gen. Eennett E. MyerS( who is presently in trouble with the courts over some highly csJ P questionable conduct during the war, but who, as someone has said, at least knew what he was fighting for. & 1 Henry's treatment of his topic was of particular interest to us because it said in a much better way the things v,-e V tried to say recently in this column about Meyers and his ilk. Our effort was, as you may remember, promptly torn ' to shreds by Mrs. Jane A. Thompsen who wrote all the way 'r from Texas to tell us it stank. If Mrs. Thompsen doesn't write Henry McLemore a V similar rebuttal, we'll be disappointed in Mrs. Thompsen. After all, Henry gets paid a lot more to write that stuff than we do. Somehow we've never associated tongue-in-the cheek writing and amateur philosophizing with the Eible, but the other night while trying to locate an Old Testament passage quoted last Sunday evening at the South Ward by Irvin T. Nelson in his speech on community beautification, we care across some dandies. ; Incidentally, if you're interested, the quotation used by Mr. Nelson can be found in Proverbs, Chapt. 24, Verses 30 and 31. " Now about those other passages; also to be found in Proverbs, by the way. Except for their stylized wording, A they might have been spoken by men of the 20th century A about present day institutions. , Below, for instance, are a couple which could certairiy f have been voiced by a modern who had just come to tie end of a long weekend after essaying the role of host at a i house party. j To his guests in general he night say: I "Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbors house; lest he 1 be weary of thee and so hate thee." ( And for the inevitable guest who likes to wake with W the birds and thinks everyone else ought to, the host night J have these words: "He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him." j Although the writers cf Proverbs probably hain't heard of divorce, one of them had a pretty good solution t: i: the wife problem, as follows: "It is better to dwell in the corner cf a house top, than j with a brawling woman in a wide house." And our favorite, because it covers a lot cf around in a k very few words, is the following: ' "There be three things which are too wonderful for yea, four which I know not: The way cf an eagle in the a::,' the way of a serpent upon a reck; the way cf a ship in the ct.' midst of the sea; and the way of a nan with a maid." |