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"What this country needs,,' is always a popular text. Some wag has wisely said that what this country REALLY needs is a spot remover that will remove the spots left by a spot remover.

. Byron said: "He who wU, "", reason, is a bigot; he who dare not, is a slave."

And then, of course, ;":. :"" the ozark Mountain hill-billy who divorced his child wife because she brought home such poor report cards from school.

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Lazy lim sat motionless in tfie sun on the rickety wooden porch, and watched with something akin to agony his cousin Zeke, who was sitting in a rocking chair, and rocking sidewise. Lazy Jim said: ,,Zeke, if you just got to rock, why don't you rock with the grain of the wood, and save your strength."

FIow very, very often ,J*; "lr" on tears and punk radio advertising, do you find men who so undeniably mistake ambition for ability-a longing for success for the power to achieve it.

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A woman may be pressed and repressed, but never op_ pressed or suppressed, since she got the ballot.

And it looks a lot like 'i,r'roir,, to take all the he-men and the she-women, to keep the she-men and he-women from ruining this country.

The cumulative wisdom of the nation is greater far tharr the conclusions of any coterie possible, even though it be composed of all the gods of wisdom combined; and this fact is the strongest plank in the basic platform of this Republic.

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Which reminds me that some of the platform planks of recent years that looked at the time to be made of heart of oak, turned out in their administration to be slippery elm. * * *'

The world is learning fast this fact-that a dole. in the long run, curseth him that gives and him that takes. It is, at best, a poisonous European product that breeds sturdy mendicants.

Millions-as many "";;u:ror those in actual want, but not a thin dime for playing politics. There is a platform that will sink like sweet incense from the altar of God into the soul of the American sovereign.

A great American ,"O"rant*a, testifying recently before a Senatorial Committee, astounded his listeners while he recited what American business is doing, and. preparing to do, in the line of new ideas and inventions to make mankind happier and his life more worth living. He told of sixteen hundred firms that have powerful research departments, seeking new wonders for this world. *t*

We unquestionably stand on the threshold of another great era of invention-another mighty age of intellect. The products of these firms that operate the sixteen hundred laboratories, are moving sluggishly. A dotrbting American people hesitate to invest in their securities, so that new plants and new departments and new employment of huge character, are still in the offing.

But the day is near at h;u;"" the return of confidence in business ventures will loose the foodgates of finance in these directions. They can no more be held back eventually than King Canute could prevent the majestic ocean from rolling in the wake of the silvery moon. t<**

"Bring me another ham sandwich, and a paper weight," said the critical customer in the sandwich shop. ,,The fan blew that last one away."

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Rousseau said: "It is difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of getting a living."

Schemes for draggin* ;":Jaen Age in by the horns sound plausible totwo classes of our peo,ple, namely, the gullible and the lazy. But what an army of both do rend

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