Milford chronicle., 1935-10-25

sisslppl waters SOS they'll catch
cold and die. But perhaps when
modern engineering has taken some
of the backwoOds romance out OF
the valley, the song-writers will give
another river a Publicity Break
and we viii be turning the radio on
because 1t is playing my Collar,
the Colorado. and You" for the
sixth milliOnth time. Not that we
really give a Boulder Dam.
The only tune about the Missis-
sippi valley which will be sung from
now on, will be on Old English
Folk Dance, and the singers will be
performing Just where you suppose
when remind you that the words
begin:
Here we go. Lobby. Lobby, Lobby,
Here we go. Lobby, Lobby. Light"
The second. benefit the valley
would reap from the government
quitting haywire and switching to
electric wire, is that the farmer
could heave a big sigh Of farm re-
lief. Maybe we will discover that
It takes an electric iron to iron out
the farmers troubles In this region,
anyhow. Can you feel that there
Is anything re-vOIting in the idea?
Ouch. Stop that. you're hurting
met
However that may be. this new
project will certainly get the light
ning-rOd statesmen at their wits
end, that is, II they haven't come
to the end of their wits long before
this, I mean. 1t they ever had any.
While the farmers wanted to keep
electricity out of their houses. light
ming rods were hot. And now that
they want It in their houses, light
ming rods are as cold as last years
asparagus and about as useful.
But what fun the boys who sell cOf-
fee pots with hitching ropes to 'em.
milking machines with cold water
mixed attachments. dating machines
for hens to punch. and so forth, are
going to have!
OF a winters night the boys a.
the grocery store down to the cen
ter will be sitting not around the
old stove. but around the electric
pad. We hope the statesmen put
across a few electric washing ma
chimes with the wives before the
boys get their socks on that stean
Better take along a few perma-
nent wave machines IN the sample
cases. boys. you might run into an
farm.
suppose when the iva and the
other big rural errors. or eras, or
areas or whatever one should Gull
the layout are completed. a lot Of
the old charm Of the backwOOds
will be gone. Every housewife will
have an electric stove instead of a
backache from hauling up coal for
the old type cooker. The old oaken
bucket will have kicked itself and
an electric pump win have taken
the vacant job. With no trouble
about hauling water. every night
nay be Saturday In the sweet bye
and bye. Considerably sweeter, II
vou ask me, which you'd probably
better not. on account OF it's a
-ather delicate subject.
But when the horse has turned to
horse power. the old farm won't be
he same. I suppose it's Okay to
)ut the rescue in picturesque. but
when the hay goes hey hey all
an say is. It'll take an electrically
woven straw hat to show which
way the wind Is blowing.
Cheap power Is a swell idea. But
he cheap use Of power is a mighty
dangerous thing. I'll hold my
Dreath while you figure that onS
,ut. After all l guess we can onlS
lope for the best, no matter watt
lappens
The real question about the whole
,roject down there Is. will the farm
RS have any farms left By the time
he Job is tinished3 And win their
lub-song be "Sweet Land Of Lib.
Irty" or "Old Man RibbeF'3
Q Nina Wilcox Putham.-wNU Service.