\nfirst of alf tonight let us straighten out the facts about Maine’s mountains\u00a0and lakes. The lake question is easy to dispose of. Several listeners\u00a0have cal led me or wri tten me that they be I leve Moose lookmegunti cis our th i rd\u00a0largest lake. They are wrong. The .thlrd 1ake is Ghesuncook. Here are the\u00a0figures: first Moosehead, 117 square mi les; Sebago, 44.8 square mi les; Ghesuncook,\u00a038 square mi les; MooselookmegunticJO 26 square mi les.<\/p>\n
My question about mountains has stirred upa controversy, and what I supposed\u00a0was our second highest mountain proves not even to be among The first five.\u00a0I t never occurred to me that I nformat ion about Ma I ne mounta I ns pub I i shed 25\u00a0years ago could be hopele?sly inaccurate, but so it proves.\u00a0In 1928 Harry Cee,. th.en secretary of the Maine Publicity Bureau, published\u00a0a work in several volumes called “Maine — a History Resources, Attractions,\u00a0and Its Pe6p lell \u2022<\/p>\n
On page 7 of Vot. 1 of that work Goe said: HMaine’s second highest peak is\u00a0‘;” ‘” .,\u00a0a long distance from Katandih, way over in the Rangeley Lake region. It is\u00a0SaddlebackMountain”lh1-he township of Macfrid, 4,456 feet in height. The third\u00a0highest is towering Old Spec in Grafton Notch, 4,150 feet. There are 15 moun+{~i\u00a0tains in ~~aine over 3,000 feet!n b~ight.tr<\/p>\n
Apparently the method of measuring mountain heights has been impnoved since\u00a01928, or else somebody did a lot of guessing to provide Harry Goe with his figures.\u00a0He had.Saddleback too high by 350 feet. The Official State Highway Map\u00a0of 1952 gives second place among Maine mountains to Sugarloaf, 4,237 feet … – a\u00a0peak which Gee didn’t even mention. It is indeed not far from Saddleback, in\u00a0the Rangeley region, but it is 121 feet higher. Third in height, just as Goe\u00a0said, is Old Spec. Instead of Maine having only 15 mountains over 3,000 feet,\u00a0there are actually 22, seven of which are over <\/em>4,000 feet. Of those seven, five\u00a0are close together in the Rangeley region: Sugarloaf, Crocker, Bigelow.\u00a0Saddleback and Abraham.\u00a0It was from Cae’s book also that I got the statement that only five Maine\u00a0mountains have Indian names. He said they were Katahdin, Kineo, Kenneba90, ~.!Je .\u2022\u00a0<\/em>9 unt kook and Wassateq u i ck.<\/p>\n Now on the 1952 highway map I can’t find l\\fegunticook and Wassataquick at\u00a0all. But I do find six mountains not mentioned by Coo which have what I be\u00b7~\u00a0lieve to be Indian names. They are Musquacook in Aroostook County, Mattawisconti\u00a05 and Musquash in Penobscot ,Az i seoos j n Oxford ,and Ossipee and Agament icus\u00a0in York.\u00a01 n the future I must be careful not to take as present-day facts of geography\u00a0what I read in books 25 years old.<\/p>\n ~~e have sa i d so much about the huge nati anal debt, the heavy fede rat taxes,\u00a0and the exhorbitant government spending, that you may think we are incl ined to\u00a0b I arne a II <\/strong>our troub les on Wash i ngton. But that is not true. A lot of th is tax'”\u00a0at i on p rob I em hits much nearer home.<\/p>\n Every year the state governments in our 48 states are tak ing more and more\u00a0money from the taxpayers’ pockets. For every dollar that the average taxpayer\u00a0paid to support his state government in 1940, he now pays $2.50. Since 1946,\u00a0when World ~\/ar II was allover, state taxes across the nation have more than\u00a0doubled. Last year the total amountcolleded in state taxes exceeded ten bi II\u00a0i on do I I a rs \u2022<\/p>\n Yet that huge sum was not sufficient to pay the bi Iisin our states. Excactlythree-\u00a0quarters of the states, 36 out of the 48 .\u2022 fai led to balance their\u00a0budgets in fiscal 1951. State debts have jumped since 1946 from two and a half\u00a0TO four and a ha I f bi , I Jon.<\/p>\n How does Maine compare with the other states in respect to state taxes?\u00a0In per capita taxation we hit almost exactly the national average. Over the\u00a0whole nation the states collect an average of $64 for every man, woman and\u00a0chi Id in the population. Maine’s per capita state tax last year was $63.04.\u00a0It is worth noting that thirty states have a higher per capita tax than\u00a0Ma ine, and on Iy seventeen states a lower tax. We have togo to the far Northwest\u00a0to find the highest per capita state tax. In the state of Washington it\u00a0i5$102.72. Louisiana is second with $102.70. Those are the only states with\u00a0per capita taxation more than one hundred dollars.<\/p>\n In total dollars per year, the largest amount is not collected by New York,\u00a0as you might suspecT, but by.California. That state takes in from its taxpayers\u00a0$1,064,000,000 a year. In per capita collection it stands third, with $96.51\u00a0for every person in the state.\u00a0Surprisingly the state with lowest per capita is New Jersey, $35.83 com-pared\u00a0with f..1aine t s $63.04. Nebraska’s per capita is only $41, and Alabamals $43.\u00a0In total amount of money annually collected in state taxes, Maine stands\u00a037th among the 48 states. Highest, as we have sa i d, is Ca Ii forn j a, and lowest\u00a0is Nevada.<\/p>\n Our i n9 recent years s tate taxes have so expanded that they now reach into\u00a0many areas of life. The sales tax is so new in Maine that it may surprise you\u00a0to learn that sales taxes prov! de the biggest revenue for the states taken as\u00a0a w~ole — $2?200,OOO.OOO. Second come gasol ine taxes, accounting for\u00a0$1,900,000,000. Automobile and operators I icenses bring in $900,000,000.<\/p>\n Especially interesting is the fact that personal income taxes provide the\u00a0states with no more money than do auto licenses — $900,000 , 000. The states\u00a0have clearly found that sales taxes bring much better revenue than do income\u00a0taxes. Finally here is a bit of informatfon that came to me as a shock. Taking\u00a0our 48 states as a whole, more money comes into the state treasury from another\u00a0source than comes from auto licenses, state Income taxes, I iquor and tobacco\u00a0taxes, or property taxes. What 1s that source? It Is inheritance taxes. That\u00a0source of taxation was the only one except sales and gasoline taxes which\u00a0yie I ded more than a b I II Ion do liars last year. I n fact one dollar in every\u00a0e I ght,;collected by the states came from lnherl tance taxes.<\/p>\n Did you Know that there was once a plan for an elaborate system of canals\u00a0in Maine? The famous Erie Canal, completed <\/em>in 1825, started a canal-building\u00a0craze a II over the country.<\/p>\n As early as 1826 John Holmes, U. S. Senator from Maine, submitted a re-\u00a0. solve in the Senate, instructing the Committee on Roads and Canals to inquire\u00a0about the expediency of a survey to provide a canal to unite the waters of the\u00a0Kennebec and the Androscoggin with Casco Bay as wei I as the possible uniting of\u00a0the Kennebec a nd the Chaud i ere.<\/p>\n On June 24, 1826 the Kennebec Journal stated in an editorial: “The union\u00a0of the Kennebec, Penobscot and Chaudlere may be regarded as a nationa I project\u00a0and may receive national encouragement, if our state legislature shows sufficient\u00a0spirit, and if they do not, as so often happens, order us to advance backwards\u00a0In the march of improvement. ~I<\/p>\n Governor Albion K. Parris was an ardent supporter of the canal project. In\u00a0a message to the Legislature in the winter of 1826 he said: “The faci lity with\u00a0. which some of our large rivers may be rendered boatable to a great distance\u00a0above tide water challenges us to action. Without great expenditure, the Kennebec\u00a0can be made navigable to a considerable distance within Somerset County,\u00a0perhaps even to The Forks. There is a\/feady a continued chain of water communication,\u00a0with the exception of twomi les, <\/em>from Bangor through the interior to\u00a0the waters of the St. John.”<\/p>\n In March, 1826 the Committee on Roads and Canals of the national <\/em>Congress\u00a0reporJed favorably on the great project to connect Interior Maine with Canada\u00b7by canal s. Sa I d the report: “The numerous and large lakes. wh i ch abound at\u00a0the height of land, where the Chaudlere and the Kennebec approach each other,\u00a0leave no doubt that it is practicable to connect them so as to accompl ish continuous\u00a0inland navigation from Quebec, to the Atlantic. The Kennebec Is already\u00a0capable of sloop navigation to Augusta; thence It is navigable for’ boats to\u00a0Watervl lie. Ttlence it is only 50 mi les to the Chaudiere.”<\/p>\n Soon a number of canal projects, large and small, were being ardently proposed.\u00a0One was designed to connect Brunswick with Casco Bay; another to connect\u00a0the Androscoggin and the Kennebec at the r r upper waters; another from\u00a0Gardiner to Winthrop and on to the Androscoggin via Wayne Pond and Dead River.\u00a0Sti II another was the so-called Seboomook Sluiceway — a proposed cana I to\u00a0connect Moosehead Lake with the Penobscot, at a point off the northwest angle\u00a0of the lake where the river is nearly twelve feet higher than the lake. The purpose\u00a0was to divert timber Into the lake and thence Into Kennebec waters and thus\u00a0avoid what the cana lads of the time ca lied “the long, d Iff icu It, and expensive\u00a0driving” down the Penobscot.<\/p>\n But It Is :, the canal plan for the Upper Kerinebec Tn which we are most in.,.\u00a0terested tonight. Early in 1827 the Kennebec Journal launched a vigorous campaign\u00a0for opening up the Kennebec to navigation all the way to Skowhegan. The\u00a0river then reached Its head of tide at the foot of Cushnoc Rips just above Augusta.\u00a0There it was proposed to bui Id the first dam and lock. As most of you\u00a0know, a lock was actually built there, enabling fairly large boats to make the\u00a0trip to Watervil Ie and making our city a prominent shlp-bui Iding center in the\u00a01830’s and 1840’s.<\/p>\n The plan called for another lock at Tlconic Falls, and another at the Great\u00a0Eddy just below Skowhegan, and dams at the eollege;~R.fps:~t Watervi lie and at\u00a0Kendal Is Mills. The College Rips were the rapids near the present Maine Central\u00a0carshops; and Kendal Is Mi lis was of course fairfield Vi Ilage. The Kennebec\u00a0Journal went all out for this plan. ORe of its numerous editorials on the sub ….\u00a0ject said: “With two dams and three locks, the heaviest loaded boats may ascend\u00a0a nd descend from T j coni c Bay to the Great Eddy, 250 rods be I ow Skowhegan Fa I Is.\u00a0There a lock, construct.ed at sma II expense, w I II ra i se boats the 19 feet f nto\u00a0Morse’s Mill Pond. Thence is smooth and uninterrupted navigation to Norridgewock\u00a0Vi Ilage. ”<\/p>\n The Kennebec Journal admitted the di ff iculty of computing accurate Iy the\u00a0cost of construct i on \u2022 “In this part 0f the country”,i t noted, “we lack experience\u00a0iii constructing locks. Much depends on the sol idity and elegance of the\u00a0work. lfbuilt wholly of granite in even dimensions, laid in lOne mortar arid\u00a0secured by iron fastenings, a year’s revenue .in the whole state woul d hardly\u00a0pay the bi I I.. But substantial structures of timber can be bui It at relatively\u00a0I ittle expense. Wooden dams can be bu i It at College Rl ps and Kendal Is Mills\u00a0for $600 each. A substantial lock and gates should not exceed $2,000. Surely\u00a0such expense is within the abi I Ity of the state and county to pay.”<\/p>\n The State of Maine once.9stablished a lottery to finance a canal, and it\u00a0. turned out . that it was the on I y cana I actual I y bu.1 I tin Ma i ne, except for the\u00a0shorter cana I s wi th in single mun i cipal i ties, such as those in Lewi ston and Ban~}\u00a0gor. That lottery sponsored canal was the Cumberland and Oxford, the old canal\u00a0which connected the City of Portland with Sebago Lake, along the course of the\u00a0Presumpscott River. You have heard me speak of that canal before on this pro ….\u00a0gram. I n my boyhood days it had a I ready been abandoned, but my father reme m~ti)~\u00b7\u00a0bered It well. He always cal led it the Presumpscott Canal, and it was over\u00a0its waters the huge hogsheads of rum and molasses were transported to the old\u00a0Dixie Stone store in Bridgton. Over that canal traveled the five hogsheads of\u00a0Jamaica rum which have always suspected of playing a partin a Baptist convention\u00a0in Bridgton In 1838.<\/p>\n That cana lout of Sebago Lake was qui te a project for a time II ke 1830.\u00a0It cost $206,000, $136,000 of which was raised by the lottery.\u00a0Folks in many small communities yearned also for better transportation.\u00a0China Village, strategically sJ:tuated on its big lake, developed several schemes,\u00a0the most I ikely of which was to connect with the Kennebec at Gardiner. Butnothing came of it, and noth,Jng came of all the other Maine projects — more\u00a0than fifty of them. Fate had decreed otherwise: Neither the Chaudiere and\u00a0the Kennebec, nor the Kennebec and the Androscoggin wou Id ever be connected by\u00a0canals. No lock would be bui It at Ticonic falls \u2022. Boats would not be lifted\u00a0the 19 feet from the foot of Skowhegan Fa 115 to Morse’s Mf II Pond. What hapo:..\u00a0pened?<\/p>\n Surely you know the answer. It was the coming and rap I dexpansion of the\u00a0i ron horse on iron ra i Is. In 1842 the ra i I road reached Port I and _ Sma Iler\u00a0lines were alieady open between Bangor and Old Town and between Middle Falls\u00a0and Machiasport in.Washington County. In 1848 the Atlantic and St. lawrence\u00a0opened to Danville Junction. In 1849 the Androscoggin and Kennebec reached\u00a0Watervi lie. The rai I road had come to stay_ The canals were doomed.\u00a01 uOth Br-oadcasT<\/p>\n Do ‘lOU rec: r ize that one dol fer out of ever”y six paid in w2Iqes 01- sedar”ies\u00a0a I i over the Un i ted States now goes to a qovernment worker? One civi Ilan out\u00a0of every ten now worl~s for the government. :’lore than t’l’!enty mi II ion ,A,mericans\u00a0uiar!y receive government checks — for” wages, saiaries, subsidies, social\u00a0security, Old age pensions, veterans; benefits. or’ some other form of 90vo3rnment\u00a0compensation.<\/p>\n Verytew people would advocate getting rid of these benefits. I’le know very\u00a0wei r <\/em>that socia! security has come to stay, that veterans j benefits are with us\u00a0for many years. What we do have a right to ask is that these th i nqs be managed\u00a0efficiently and without waste. And we have especial fy the right and duty to\u00a0demand that the padd i ng of payro! I s be stopped and that for its amp loyees the\u00a0government set standards of efficiency no lower than those In private business.\u00a0for government is today America’s biggest business –.8 <\/strong>business for whlch every\u00a0one of us is charged, for in this particular big business it Is the taxpayer\u00a0who foots the bl! Is, For 90vernrnent is not like ordinary business’ it is not\u00a0conpel led to show a profit if it would escape bankruptcy, because it always has\u00a0a sour”ce of r”eady cash — the taxpayer! s pocketbook.<\/p>\n Just think what has haDpened in 40 years. In 1910 each American 0’i4sd $12\u00a0as his or her share of the national debt. Today each of us has a share of\u00a0$1,400 1n that debt.<\/p>\n Now let’s not lose siqht of one sobering fact. We can’t al I of us live\u00a0on 90vernment checks. Somebody ‘Ii i I I 8! ways have to be found to produce the\u00a0wea! th and earn The waqes whi ch can be taxed to make good those gover-nment\u00a0checks.<\/p>\n flboui a vear- ago I mentioned tnat vigorous weeklv newspaper published mrG\u00a0than a hundred years ago at China Vi I fage, called i”he China Orb. Tnis summer.<\/p>\n through ihe courtesy of [”irs. Pol lard of the Fi r’st f~anqeway, I had a chance to\u00a0peruse several issues of that old paper for the years 1834 and 1835.<\/p>\n The masthead reads as follows: ‘IThe China Orb is published everv Satdrdav\u00a0by an association of qent!emen. Devoted to agriculture and the mechanic arts;\u00a0temperance; religious, Il-h9rar-y and po!il-lcal intellioence; and whatever eise\u00a0is calculated to render a weekly journal interestinq, useful and pieasinq. The\u00a0underta k 1 ng is expens i ve; therefore the patr~onage of a gene rous pub I ic i s !~espectfully\u00a0solicited. Two do! lars a year if paid anv time within a year. A. discount\u00a0of 12t per cent wi! I be made if payment is within three months. No paper\u00a0will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid. J. C. \\\/[ashburn, General\u00a0Agert.n<\/p>\n The Orb was a strong supporter of Andrew Jackson, who was in his second\u00a0term as President. ,Iackson cal led himself a Democrat, but the Orb refers to his\u00a0party as Republican. This, of course, is not to be confused with the modern\u00a0f~epub ! i can Party. wh i ch was not born unti! 1854, twenty vears a fter these issues\u00a0of the Orb appeared. This was the old party of Thomas Jefferson, variously called\u00a0Democr-atic and Pepublican,. but which officially had the hyohenai-ed name\u00a0Democratic-Republican. They were the ani-i-federalists, the str’onq suppori-er-s\u00a0of statE’:s! rights, and after the passlnq of the Federalist party, were the vigorous\u00a0opponents of the Whigs.<\/p>\n By 1834 the Jacksonlans were called Democrai-s in most of the states, bui;”,\u00a0ialne supporters apparently preferred the name Republican, -for other’ papers\u00a0besides the China Orb so labe!ed the Jacksonians — especially i’-he influential\u00a0Kennebec Journa I .<\/p>\n Lei’s have c few wor-ds from one of the Orb’s politica! editorials of 1<334:<\/p>\n “Prospects are bright. Our worthy Chief jvlaqistrate (that was Jackson} received\u00a0a pOl’lerful majority of votes last year-, and has adm.inis-rered the 9()Vernment to\u00a0tIle satisfaction of most citizens. Yet every r~epub!!can must be on his quard,\u00a0while tite enemy searches for somc~ vulnerable poini- to attack the stronghold of\u00a0our I iber-t-les.!<\/p>\n In 1d34 i”li3ine 1s fir’5t Governor, ::c,eneral ‘Iii!! <\/em>ian.! Kinq, was sti! I i ivlno’\u00a0but the China Orb had no use for him because rw had deserted ‘tlhat the Or-b con-\u00a0Sidered the true and righteous cause and Vias now labeled a ItJhiq. The Orb so\u00a0hated the V”higs i’hat tt frequentlv and deliberatelv spelled the name\\lJiqs’~ in\u00a0derision.<\/p>\n Concerning a social gathering at General r(inCjl s home the ;:.kb vented its\u00a0Scorn: !IOn the return of the members of the Federal convention from !’\\uqusta,\u00a0The steamboat touched at 8ath, and the passenqers were i nv i ted to the house at\u00a0General r(jng. f\\Her drinkinq as much old wine as they pleased, -rhe company pre-pared\u00a0to depart. The candidate for Congr’ess, [.’Jr. Brooks, thanked the General\u00a0for hishospitaiiiy and congratulated him on havinq sDurned all rewards to induce\u00a0hi III to desert the ‘vi <\/em>i 9 banner. That WdS an unk: i nd cut. ! tis “‘Ie II known\u00a0that General King did not spurn any reward untl I he was sure it was vain for\u00a0him to seek one. He was a warm friend of the Jackson Administration unti! he\u00a0found he must lose his office. Then he became a \\’tiq of the first wotel-. His\u00a0old federal principles, his insatiable desire for office, and above all his p\u00a0doiie conuuct durinq the last war, in ministarinq to the wants of a foreiqn\u00a0enemy, have rendered riim a fit associai-e for -rhe ~\u00b7iiG party. They ai-e welcome\u00a0to hi rn ”<\/p>\n This old China newspaper reveals that the former’ name of East Vassalboro\u00a0was utiet Vi llaqe. \/\\n 2dvedisemen1- in the issue of f\\pri I 5., 1 reads thus:<\/p>\n “To let –, the farm now occupied by ~’iI II iarn Bl Iso of Vassalboro, about 40 r”ods\u00a0south of ina Oui-l at Ii i I I age; 10;) acres we I! fenced Vi <\/em>i th 500 rods of 5 tone We I ! .\u00a0[h,va I 11 r.~1 house 37 x 26 feet, barn 82 >< 30. I araG woodhouse cha i sehouse, nil k\u00a0room and granary. Flourishing orchard producing 300 bushels. The situ_ation is\u00a0very pleasant, commanding a full view of the village and pond. Privileges of\u00a0every kind are handy, such as stores, blacksmith shop, grist mill, saw mill,\u00a0carding and spinning machines, and various other machinery carried on by water.”<\/p>\n Speaking of ads, the firm of Owen and Duel ley made this announcement in\u00a0the spring of 1835: “The subscribers have just received from Boston a good\u00a0assortment of English, West India, and Domestic Goods, crockery and hardware,\u00a0which they offer for sale, as cheap as they can be purchased anywhere, for cash,\u00a0country produce, or approved credit. A new lot of 7 x 9 glass has just come in.”<\/p>\n A departing physician was trying to collect what was due him from the folks\u00a0in China: “Dr. A. Hatch wi II positively leave the town of China for the eastern\u00a0country on the first of September-next. All persons who wish to settle their\u00a0accounts wi th him wi II do we II to ca II before that time.”<\/p>\n Vvhere was the eastern country to which Dr. Hatch was departing? It proves\u00a0to have been fa r-away E II swo rth \u2022<\/p>\n One of the Owen and Due Iley ads has me stumped. I t announced for sa I e a\u00a0good assortment of settee crad les. What was a settee crad Ie? Sure I y some Ii stener\u00a0can te I I me.<\/p>\n What did people wear on their feet here in Maine 117 years ago? Listen to\u00a0th i s ad of the Ch ina shoemaker: “S. Hanscom has removed his boot an d shoe-making\u00a0business from his former stand to a part of the shop occupied by Haml in and\u00a0Lincoln in China Vi Ilage, where he intends to keep a supply of boots and shoes\u00a0of all kinds, for the accommodatoon of his customers. Thick and thin boots,\u00a0thick and thin shoes, ladles’ morocco and prunella, chi Idren’s leather and morocco.\u00a0-All to be sold as cheap for cash as can be bought in Hallowell and Augusta.<\/p>\n Twenty-f I ve years after these issues of the Ch ina Orb appeared, the most\u00a0famous name in American journalism was that of Horace Greeley, editor of the\u00a0i’jew York Tribune. But in 1834 Greeley was just starting as an unknown journa!\u00a0ist. In the China Gr-b hE: inserTed an aovedlsernent for his new paper in New\u00a0Y::nk, which, believe it or not, he callE:d thE: ”i’~ew Yorker’. “Th,;:) [‘Jew Yorker”,\u00a0declared Greeley, Hl-d!1 combine rnor-e completely than any of its rivals the distinguishing\u00a0characteristics of a literary Journal with those of a regular, systematic\u00a0chronicle of passing events.”<\/p>\n Greeley wanted to be sure his reader’s oidn’t get confused, so he said:\u00a0i’The New York”er has no connection with an ephemeral affair of the same title,\u00a0which had a brief existence last season. But in order to free our good name\u00a0from a I! opprobri um, we hereby agree to send our- paper free -1-0 all patrons of\u00a0that defunct sheet for the v\/hole term for which they paid that publisher. Ii\u00a0Then, at the end of the statement, we discover \\\/Ihy the Orb printed Greeley’s\u00a0announcement. !lEditors and publishers who wi t f give this prospectus an\u00a0insertion wi II positively receive the New Yorker free for one year.”<\/p>\n These rural weeki ies of the early 1800’s contained very I ittle of what we\u00a0would call nevIS, They were, indeed, as they pl-oc\/aimed themselves to be, I iter-\u00a0ary, religious, and political publications. In all the issues of the China\u00a0Orb that i have examined for 1834 and 1835 there is not a single local item of\u00a0news. Only the ads give the local touch. And I noted just one item that fe-ferred\u00a0even to any place in fJjalne. It was brief and to the point. -‘\/\\t a fire\u00a0in Old Town lastrnonth a man nam(?o i’kCarty was run over by a fire engine and\u00a0suffered a broken arm.”<\/p>\n Can you stand a revi more of those schoolboy boners tonight? Here are a few\u00a0from a civics class in high school. ‘The President has the power to appoint and\u00a0d i sappoi nt his cab i net”. “A U, S. Senator must not be an i nhab ii-ant of the\u00a0state in which he lives”, ilCitizens of i-he U. S. maybe either mare or female,\u00a0on reachino the age of 21, if of good moral character.!! ”\\lie <\/em>have fish laws so\u00a0the fema Ie fish wi I I have time to go up the rive r to spoon!!. “The d i ffe rence\u00a0between a king and a president is that a king is the son of his father, but a\u00a0pres i dent i sn ‘t” \u2022<\/p>\n Of course not a II the twi sts of language that pass for boners are acc;dents.\u00a0Some of them are intentional wise-cracks of smart-alec youth. Such we\u00a0suspect is this one: “What is the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere? SundaY.\u00a01I Here are a few more of the same kind. “Name six animals peculiar to the\u00a0Arctic regions. Three bears and three seals.” “The principal exports of Sweden\u00a0are hired girls.” “Who said ‘Kiss me, Hardy’? Laurel.” “FoiJr minor prophets\u00a0of the Old Testament were Hosea, Joel, Amos and Andy.” “Draw an inference\u00a0from the fact that when water freezes, the pipe bursts. have never\u00a0seen an inference, so I cannot draw one.” “In what circumstances does the\u00a0fourth act of Hamlet begin? Immediately after the third act.1T “Give an example\u00a0of hard water. Ice.”<\/p>\n Science papers in high school provide some weird examples of true boners.\u00a0“Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog’s tongue wi II ki I I the\u00a0strongest man.” “Sound is a rapid series of osculations.lT “In some rocks you\u00a0can see the fossi I footprints of fishes.” “It is a scientific fact that women\u00a0die tw i ce as often as men. If “The co I d at the North Po Ie is so great that the\u00a0towns there are not inhabited.” “A_ vacuum isan empty p lace where the Pope\u00a0lives.<\/p>\n And just to round out our information tonight, you may be interested to\u00a0know that Alexander the Great entered Troy disguised as a wooden horse, that\u00a0the people of Japan ride in jigsaws, that at dinner the Romans recl ined on one\u00a0elbow and ate with the other, that monasteries are places where monsters are\u00a0ept, that savages are people who don’t know what wrong is unti I missionartes\u00a0show them, that the element is hottest nearest the Creator, that when a man has\u00a0only one wife it is called monotony, and that two sports of Ancient Rome were\u00a0An-t hony and Cleopatra.<\/p>\n Year: 1952<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read the script for “Little Talks” program #159, broadcast on October 26, 1952<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[787,35296],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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