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I once did hail the joyous spring, My thoughts would turn to love I'd pick the buttercups and sing Of azure skies above; Now springs may come and springs may go, To cheer I have no reason, You'll find, as you much older grow, Spring's just another season.

There was a time when spring drew nigh, I'd note the ladies fair;

But now f yawn and loudly cryWhere's my light underwear?

I sip a cup of sassafras, f often start a-sneezin';

And then I moan, alack, alasSpring's just another season:

-Carl Victor Little in the llouston Press.

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Yes, Junior, that's the way it is. At most other seasons of the year men who have passed that mark on the highway of life where tfie shadows point to the West, can find some sort of satisfaction in the recollection that most of the mighty thinking that has been done ttrroughout history, has been by men of mature years; the great thinkers have frequently been greybeards. But in the spring, for some reason, small satisfaction can be found in such philosophizing, and we join the poet Little in moaning-"alas, alack, spring's just another season."

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Spring is the season when, according to the best poets, the young man's fancy "turns to thoughts of love." And likewise it has been found that the fancy of thousands turn to planting a garden. There.is something about spring that has that very definite effect on a lot of people, and, armed with small implements they hie them forth into the yard and go to digging and planting. Some plant flowers; some garden truck, vegetables, and other eatables. The reason for this conclusion in this space at this time, is to utter some timely advice to the home gardeners, towit: don't plant food; plant fowers. And I'll tell you why.

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The reason is, we've GOT eatables ! Oh brother, have we got eatables ! Got 'em in quantities such as nobody ever dreamed of before. No eater of dope in his most overloaded state ever conceived of the accumulation of food and sich like that we folks, we citizeng we taxpayers of this here United States own and possess today. So it's ;ust no use your going out into the yard and getting yourself all muscle sore, and sunbaked, and weary trying to

BY JACK DIONNE

raise food. To say that we've got food-much too much food-is a champion understatement on that subject. *t<*

Before giving you some of 'the iarro*irrg details of how much food we Americans own, it might be only fair to make THIS statement, one that nobody will deny: there are approximately two and one-half billions of people living on this earth today, AND MORE THAN HALF OF THEM ARE HUNGRY. All well informed sources accept that statement as incontrovertible fact. More than one and one-fourth billions of people, men, women, and kids on this earth, are continually and continuously in a state of hunger'

Well, Junior, here's what we've got in the way of accumulated food, according to the very best authorities and facts released in the newspapers the day this is being typed. We've got about six and one-half billions of dollars worth of surplus foods, such as butter, cheese, milk, wheat, corn, cotton, oils and other farm products which the U.S. Government has bought or is obligated to buy under our farm support plan. We've got it stored from Bath to Beersheba and from hades to breakfast in elevators, bins, storehouses, warehouses, cribs, caves, refrigerated plants, in the holds of ships, and other impossible places. The newspapers as this is written show pictures of grain being piled out in the open streets of one city; four blocks of wheat piled high for want of somewhere else to put it.

We are paying, you and f, Junior, and all the other Americans who pay taxes-and who does not?-about TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AN HOUR JUST TO STORE, THIS STUFF. And still more than half the world is hungrY'

This is a treasure-house of food for which history has no comparable record. Even Joseph of Old Testament illfame-the guy who cheated and robbed the poor Egyptians out of all they possessed and stored it away-never heard of a food collection like this.

And this vast accum;; J, ,"r- products has been created by the farm support program of the U.S. Government; and it is still growing, with no relief in sight.

Take milk. The figures published show that this Government now owns about eight billion pounds of fluid milk