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Show jVeai Sill: August 18, 1949 Dr. Joshua Loth Leibman has -' truthfully said that peace of mind is the greatest possession of man. It's funny, Bill, where you see examples of peace of mind and under what circumstances circum-stances it comes to your view. Wednesday afternoon we had 3. fire in town. It wasn't much, but a call went out to the fire department to drown it out. 3arry Sprouse and I rushed to lhe scene and found a board ience burning away in back of , Clyde Murray's station. We j didn't see Clyde running around-shouting around-shouting orders to the fire de-! de-! partment and otherwise putting on an emotional exhibit, f I thought maybe he was out I of town, but he wasn't. He was sitting on a step inside the sta-f sta-f lion talking to a couple of peo--pie who were sitting on the I .-grease rack, and he was talking j ;about everything except the I lire. Sure, he knew there was a : .fire back there, but that was ' r .about all. lj i The more I think about it, the ' farther I get away from a con- h elusion, Maybe Clyde was ex- pressing perfect peace of mind I or maybe he didn't care whether 1 that fence burned down or not. j I can't decide. 9n tne other hand' there are f, atlo,t of businessmen up town J' who ve decided one thing that the major repairs being made It along Main street are tough on i business. The main "drag" is i pi- u njgn Wltn gravel from l which billows great clouds of oust every time a grader moves t it or a car passes. Even just plain P: ordinary window shoppers can't ' see what the merchants have for ' sale because the dust settles t Jown oyer the windows like a t "m. And the merchants are f -complaining. I don't blame 'em a bit, Bill. s interrupting their trade. But on the other hand, it takes just C 50 long to make a whole road out of half a road, and We've i. Jn waiting for Main Street ff. to be turned into a whole road xpr quite a while. I have an idea ' "t Lyman Burdick and his " pew are pushing things pretty . ftard to get the dust out of the JJI Merchants' hair. ' ' , w' Ive always maintained xnat patience is one of the great P virtues of mankind, and I think jC f1 merchants are trying to be Patient under trying circum-Pfices. circum-Pfices. I sympathize with them, out the fellows I really feel sorry for are Homer Edwards jad Clarence Lambert. Now If I you can have hay fever and pa- r?ncf too, your chances for success suc-cess In this old world are pretty ' Stood, As Ever, A ' Unc I i i |