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Show il2 fluPhillipr ? THOUGHTS ON TIIOSE PREWAR SUMMERS Can you remember those summers sum-mers away back when the only wars raging were between baseball clubs? When you could hear the name Adolf anywhere and not link it up with anything? When you thought you were making mak-ing a sacrifice if you shared the luntan oil with somebody else, passed up the moonlight swim or refused re-fused a second hot dog? When an "all out" effort meant participation by the whole family in the argument with the motorcycle cop? Those were the days! The only "ultimatum" that disturbed dis-turbed you was "Pull over to the rurb." Yu thought a dictator was the fellow on the ferry pier who barked, 'No more cars on this trip!" nitler was a name on a delicatcs- len store window. "Total war" was an argument in Sunday traffic between the occupants occu-pants of two cars, the fenders of Ahlch had just been scraped. Ah mel It was away back when all voi worried about in summer was poi9 Ivy, sunburn and whether you'd ever learn to dive. The Russian front was a certain ityle in sable coats. A 100 per cent American was any fellow who asked the swimming re-lort re-lort band to play "Yankee Doodle. Hampering the war effort was I throwing a pop bottle at a pitcher. The headline, "Yanks Forge Ahead," meant that Babe Ruth was clouting 'em over the fence as usual. The only way you could run short f gasoline was through a leak In the tank. The complaint, "It's been a tough tummer with me," could be voiced by anybody who had fallen out of a boat, lost a pair of oars or eaten too much stewed corn. A disaster was thought to have occurred oc-curred if one of the two spare tires bad been stolen. The "manpower problem" had something to do with getting the necessary music for a summer retort re-tort orchestra. And the only "woman-power problem" prob-lem" revolved around the task of petting the dishes washed and the beds made in time to start the weekend week-end auto trip by 12 noon sharp. Oh, boy! Just recall 'em ... the days when dotted lines on maps ihowed the best roads to vacation resorts. The only "objective" that had to be taken was a room with cross-ventilation. cross-ventilation. And you thought a beachhead was a bather with a hangoverl Salute Here's to Stillwell Uncle Joe; Fighter from his Head to toe; Soldier when the Breaks are hot, And even better When they're not! The Federal Council of Berne has ruled that Switzerland no longer 6hall admit bad actors to that country coun-try as a friendly haven. Swiss authorities au-thorities are now empowered to forbid for-bid entry to all foreigners "who because be-cause of reprovable deeds, appear to have made themselves unworthy oi asylum." At last the Swiss abandon aban-don the rather absurd view that an egg is an egg fresh, storage or rotten. rot-ten. ' The film "Wilson" has been barred from the army. A great fuss Is being made over the ruling al home, but the indignation among the fighting men is nil. "Wilson" Is a swell movie, but It is not the kind the fighting men go for in a big way. For the GI's to get excited, it would have bad to have Lana Turner playing play-ing Mrs. Wilson. We see by the papers that the OPA in New York has fixed ceilings ceil-ings on "two eggs any style," the ham and egg sandwich, the hamburger hambur-ger and the ham and cheeser, but we remain a skeptic. You can't find two eggs any style on most menus, it having long been the custom cus-tom to limit the dish to one egg. And if Mr. Wooley can find a place where a hamburger sandwich ii available at his ceiling levels we will crown him the Wizard of the Month. A woman In a suburban town hat been fined $10 because she fired a pistol at a house guest. If a woman caa't provide more excitement than that at modern house parties she deserves de-serves to be punished. ' Can You Remember- Away back when the term "butter "but-ter and egg man" was used disparagingly? dis-paragingly? We hope that America's postwai world will not include the "jd taxicab." |