It's All a Case Of Temperature

HELLO FOLKS! Ever wonder why the camel can endure the heat of the desert, go without water for long periods of time and still stay on his feet? Here is the answer. The camel's temperature may very from 93 degrees to as high as 105, while man must sweat much water and keep his temperature at about 98.6 degrees. A camel can dehydrate about 40 percent of his body weight while the limit of a man is about 15 or 20 per cent. When a camel drinks water he can take in as much as 100 quarts in a ten minute period; that is comparable to a man drinking about 4 or 5 gallons.

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AN OPEN mind like an open mouth is no good unless you can shut it again on something solid.

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A TRAFFIC officer ordered a motorist to pull up to the curb, and produce his drivers license. "I don't understand this, officer. I haven't done anything wrong," whimpered the motorist.

"No you haven't," the officers replied, "but you were driving so carefully I thought you might not have your drivers license."

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I'LL NEVER understand my little daughters; for about three weeks now they have been going round the house with the most outlandish dresses on you ever saw, and if anybody tried to take them away from them there would be war. The first week one of them had an old formal that had seen its best days. The next week it was a house dress that drug on the floor, and now it is another house dress that is full of holes. They will hardly part with them long enough to get them washed. Some times they get the notion that is has to be slacks, other times mother's or ladies' shoes, but anything... be different. As long as it is clothes that are worn out I am not going to complain, but if and when it gets to the point that they insist on new clothes I am going to be mighty firm.

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IT LOOKS as though the nutcracker is really on. I mean with the way Governor Freeman plans to lay on the income tax. He plans on taking the biggest bite out of the low income wage earners.

What this really points up is the hard fact that we are in the era that was bound to come. The idea years ago was to soak the rich and give to the poor. It was a popular thing to do; after all the poor were in the majority and the 'rich' had to take it and grin if they could. Such a policy did not encourage economy in Government, so the majority said in effect, "lets get all we can. 'Uncles Sam' is rich."

Now 'Uncle Sam' is up against it. He has given so freely of his seemingly bottomless wealth that he is fast running out; we have all gotten so used to 'getting' that we can't think of doing anything else. But the Government has to have money and so the only place to get it is from Mr. Average Man. We asked for it, and we got it. And the end is not in sight yet; not by a long shot. We are in the 'hole' around 8,000 dollars per household and 10 per cent of our tax money goes just to pay the interest each year. To top it off the age average is getting high each year and scientists say that in the forseeable future most people will live to be one hundred, which in turns means that there will be more voters on old-age pensions that there are working. With that in mind, do you think that the politicians are going to have too much sympathy for the hard-working taxpayer? You bet not. He'll go right on giving more and more of our money away as inflation get worse and worse. Look out folks, it's a long way to ground again, and the ground can get awfully hard when it is frozen.