Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-02-12

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clared Elmer TwitcheIl, welI-known
philosopher, horseshoe pitcher and
stamp collector, today. morale is
important in any struggle. Three
cheers for all we can get. But moth
ing is breaking my morale down just
now like some of the baloney being
spread by alleged morale builders"
Mr.. Twitchell was more dis
--turbed than usual. 'tThe quick
er we get the phony element out
OF this morale stuff the better"
ne resumed, pounding a table. +.
AT the moment it is the race
track people who are pretty close
to tops in overriding this angle. T.
like racing. I hope the war won't
stop it. But it gripes me to listen
to continuous stream of bunk
about horse tracks being of primary
Importance to the war effort. You
would think from some of this stuff
that the war and the mutuel win
doWs were linked in the about de-
Tense effort.
Il listened to broadcast after a
big race in Florida the other after
noon, and, Immediately after giving
the payoff prices, the broadcaster
went into spiel on the Importance
OF the eight-race program to ulti-
mate victory. It lacked only Hearts
and Flowers by string orches-
ira.
1T was the GROWING peak to a
lot of similar fapdoodIe that has
been coming from the racing inter-
ests for months, and it is doing the
morale-building business no good.
Give me day at the races when
l have been working hard and am
feeling blue. I yield to no man in
my love Of the thoroughbred. I find
a peculiar attraction in the rnutuel
window. I love the soft whispers
about the good things coming up.
can even stand all those photo fin
lshes. But don't give me that stuff
about the ponies being of such vital
Importance that the American peo-
pie will never be able to bear uu
through the war without them!
There's limit!' -. -... =.
1t is now predicted that it may
be necessary to ration mems
socks. The center of minimum
worry about this is in the
SONG FOR TAXPAYERS
(Irving Berlin has ,Uritten song to
cheer up income taxpayers. 1t is called II
Paid My Income Tax Today" Ne,vs
itenl.) .-. ,...... .,..,.
Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray!
paid my income tax today; -.
In acts like this. I love to glory
At least, my friend, that is my
story!
A tax is quite joy to me-
| paid it very cheerfully;
1t made me anything but blue
| love to come across, seq you!
When I'm feeling rather sad,
There's always something makes
me glad: F..
l love to sing, ira la ira loo
The minute that my tax is due.
When I am feeling extra low
And down my spirits seem to go
find relief, oh, many thanks,
In filling out some income blanks.
Should dark depression DER me
spread .>
Such feelings know how to shed:
I ask an income tax to pay
And Morgenthau, he says "Okay."
Old Irv Berlin is happy, too
To pay each levy high and new,
And I'd be twice as gay, I know
If I had all that fellows dough.
A vaudeville unit is on it's way to
Iceland. 1t will, Of course, open cold.
"Need Parachutes for Food
Headline in the N. Y. Times. -.
Well just take plain dirigi-
BILE salad with no fixings.
The king and queen of Eng
land have moved from Bucking-
ham palace and taken fiat.
What a kick it must be for
queen to be close enough to her
own kitchen to smell toast burn
ing! -"
Remember back when a man
wasn't ashamed to allow his chill
dren to look at the covers of maya
zines displayed on news stands?"
asks Merrill .Chilcote.
Electricity in private homes
may soon be rationed. 1t is 60.
ing to be tough to have to turn
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