Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-08-18
(By Henry Ansley)

The author of the following ar
ticle, Henry Ansley, is a well known
rewspaperman of the Panhandle
Plains, on the staff of the Amarillo
News-Globe, an original associate
of Gene Howe and Wilbur Hawks.
This article, reproduced from the
latest issue Of West Texas Today, is
a boil down of an address Ansley
has been delivering with riotous
success in many towns.
I like depression.
No more prosperity for me.
/ have had more fun since the
depression started than | ever had
in my life. I had forgotten how to
live, what it meant to have real
friends, what it was like to eat COM
mon everyday food. Fact is,
was getting just little high hat.
Then-And Now
Three years ago, only one man
of the News-Globe organization
could be out of town at a time and
he had to leave at the last minute
and get back as soon as possible
Many times / have driven 100 miles
to banquet, sat through three
hours of bunk in order to make
five minute speech, then driven the
100 miles back so as to be ready
for work the next morning.
Nowadays, as many News-Globe
employees as are invited make these
trips and we stay as long as we
want to. The whole outfit could
leave the office now and it wouldn't
make any difference.
/ like the depression. I have
time to visit my friends, to make
new ones. Two years ago when
went to a neighboring town, ] al
ways staid at the hotel. Now [ go
home with my friends, stay all
night and enjoy home cooking. /
have even spent the week end with
some of the boys who have been
kind enough to invite me.
It's great to drop into store
and feel that you can spend an hour
or two or three or a half day just
visiting, and not feel that you are
wasting valuable time; l like the
depression.
/ am getting acquainted with my
neighbors. In the last six months
I have become acquainted with
folks who have been living next
door to me for three years. / am
following the Biblical admonition,
Glove your neighbors." One of my
neighbors has one Of the best look
ing wives l have ever seen. She
is dandy. l am getting acquaint-
ed with my neighbors and learning
to love them.
Three years ago, | ordered my
clothes from a merchant tailor
two or three suits at time. All
my clothes were good ones. | was
always dressed up. But now, |
haven't bought a suit in two years.
| am mighty proud of my Sunday
go-to-meeting clothes. When | dress
up, l am dressed up and I don't
mean maybe. | like the depression.
Three years ago / was so busy
and my wife was SO busy that we
didn't see much of each other, con-
sequently we sort of lost interest
to lunch. About twice week |
went home for dinner-at $50
o'clock / never had time to go
anywhere with her. If | did go on
a party, I could never locate her;
since there was always ''blonde"
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much worry about it.
My wife belonged to all the clubs
in town. She even joined the young
mothers club We don't have any
children, but she was studying
and between playing bridge and 60
ing to clubs, she was never at home.
We got stuck up and highfalutin.
We even took down the old family
bed and bought a set of twin beds
on the installment.
When | would come home al
night, if my wife was at home, she
would already be in her bed and /
would crawl in mine. If she came
in first, it was vice versa.
Beds and Clubs
We like the depression. We have
come down off our pedestal and
are really living at my house now.
The twin beds are stored in the
garage and the old family affair is
being used. We are enjoying life.
Instead of taking a hot water bottle
to bed these cold nights, she sticks
her heels in my back, just like she
did before Hoover was elected.
I haven't been out on party in
is months. I have lost my book or
telephone numbers. My wife has
dropped all the clubs I believe we
are falling in love all over again.
am pretty well satisfied with my
wife. Think / will keep her, at least
until she is 40 and then if l feel
like I do now, l may trade her for
two twenties.
| am feeling better since the de-
dression. | take more exercise.
walk to town and lot Of folks who
used to drive Cadillacs are walking
with me. / like the depression.
My digestion is better. l haven't
been to see doctor in a year.
can eat anything I want to!
Food-And Food
I am getting real, honest-to-good-
ness food. Three years ago, we
had filet mignon once week, now
we have round steak with four