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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks March 26, 1958 There were two news items last week kind of hid in the back part of the daily papers, that I'm afraid most of you people missed. Both of them were alarming in a mild sort of way. One of 'em was about bugs and insects. Lt. Col. Samuel O. Hill, chief of the entomology division of the Army Medical Laboratory at Fort Sam Houston said insects and bugs could withstand atomic radiation better than man or other animals. That means that if all the people and all the animals should be killed by an atomic blast the bugs would survive and with nobody to kill 'em, pretty soon the country would be knee-deep in ticks, red-bugs, mosquitoes and the like. Somebody else can worry about Col. Hill's report. If I'm not going to be around and none of my friends or relatives are going to be around, the bugs can have the country, as far as I'm concerned. They can't do much worse a job running it than we have. However, a report by another scientist says that insects are getting immune to must of the bug-killing sprays now on the market and if something isn't done mighty quick we're all going to be up to our waistline in bugs of all kinds and descriptions. Now that is alarming because they're pretty bad already. What we had better do right away is for everybody to stop what they're doing and go bug hunting. If 170 million people would kill a thousand bugs a day for 30 days that would be - well, it would sure be a lot of bugs and it might stop 'em about ankle deep. If you join in this drive on obnoxious insects remember that candidates will not count on your daily quotas. Better watch out Another guy, an anthropologist, whatever that is, has called for a shorter working day so fathers can spend more time with their families. Ordinarily, I'm powerfully strong for any movement designed to cut down on work and might support some kind of plan that would eliminate it altogether, but if a fellow is going to hang around the house all day I'm afraid it's not going to help matters any. This anthropologist fellow, a Dr. Ashley Montague, just hasn't figured out all the angles. Most married men like to stay on the job longer so they can rest up. Now if a husband had more time to spend at home, his wife would have a list of things for him to do as long as his arm. Then, if he ever got caught up on the lawn mowing, the screen painting, shrubbery trimming and all that, and got a little time to sprawl out on the sofa, she would figure it was a good time to go visit Aunt Minnie for a few days and there just isn't anything worse than visiting Aunt Minnie unless it is having Aunt Minnie visit you. There's not much merit to this business about how fathers should spend more time with their children. The average father can't understand the language used by teen-agers anyway, what with this talk about the "coolest" and the "most" and the first thing you know the poor "crazy-man" who couldn't "dig" that kind of talk would be "real gone." In fact, the teen-agers would just about "send" him to a mental institution. What we need It looks like scientists, anthropologists and bugs are about to take the country. What we need is a fellow with an H.S. Degree (horse sense) to come out with the information that men need to spend more time out fishing, hunting, going to football and baseball games and playing pinochle every Tuesday night.
Like it is now, a man on a 40-hour week schedule sleeping 56 hours, uses up only 96 hours a week leaving 72 hours. I just wonder if the average wife could look at her husband more than 72 hours a week without letting the thought flit through her mind that maybe she had better stock up on rat poison. Too, the husband, who had to look at his wife that long might even be anxious to try a dose or two.
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