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The ARK is published twice each month, the stencil cutting and mimeographing
being done by and through the courtesy of the State Office, Kentucky Emer-
gency Relief Administration, Louisville, Kentucky. The Transient Bureau

is not responsible for any of the views or opinions expressed in this mag-
azine, nor is the accuracy of any statement made herein guaranteed.

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An editorial may be an elucidation of a policy, an expression
of the editor‘s personal views, or just a few plain screwy remarks.

This edition of the ARK is decidedly screwy. In the first place
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for the ARK - they just didn't feel_like it. E;

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In the fifth place all our parlays ran second when we bet 4“»
them.to win.

In the sixth place "Check 'em out" Carroll has gone to Blue
Licks and the place is quiet as a tomb and gets on our nerves.

In the seventh place we secured a dozen back numbers of "Field
and Stream” and went away on a mental vacation fishing up in the
northern lakes and we haven't got back yet.

In the eighth place we haven't any idea if the new works program
is going to do us any good, and if they do give us a job it will
be digging ditches - we did that in France once and we didn't like
it.

In the ninth place we have been bothered with flies.
In the tenth and last place we have a lot of chigger bites to
scratch because we went out to Camp Blue Licks and took Stubby, the

airedale pup, out into the woods to help us pick blackberries.

And we consider the above reasons good and sufficient excuses
for not writing an editorial.

~"Barnacle Bill".

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From Camp Lake Reba:

We have just about all the trees cut down and space cleared out to start
building a temporary kitchen and dining room. Have two big tents set up, and
expect more out there about the end of July.

Mr. Holmes was here the other night and said he intends to make this
place a model transient camp, the finest in the state and on a par with any
camp in the country.

All of the men here seem to be very well satisfied. The meals are ex-
cellent, but of course we are still staying at the boarding house while
working at the camp site.

A notice has been published in the Richmond Register by the Water Comp
pany to the effect the grounds of Lake Reba have been taken over by the
Federal Transient Camp, and that no bathing or fishing will be allowed. All
violators will be prosecuted. This is being followed out to the letter by Bob
Swofford and Lee Merritt who are patrolling the place night and day.

Wonder just who was the prominent doctor is that was caught fishing by
them the other night, in company with a city fireman? Yes, the boys are on
the job!

A Fish story will have to go with Camp Reba. Frank Smith and John Vigg
stayed at the lake to fish the other night - we can fish in the upper lake
you know. They arrived at the boarding house without any fish. Smith said
they caught 18 and John said they caught 13. After a lot of kidding, John
said he told Smith to throw it in the creek as they passed.

Lt. Crutcher has abandoned his riding boots and blossomed out in a pair
of shorts. Went out to the camp about 5 A.M. the other morning. Parked himp
self in the hammock and just about got to sleep when he fell out turning over.
Spent the rest of the night in the tent and said all was O.K. but for a
bombing raid by a party of mosquitos.

Bob Swofford caught a snake one day last week which measured a little
over three feet long. He treated the boys to an exhibition of how to kill one.
Simply by biting it's head off. Believe that one or not.

Several of the boys stayed out to the lake one night and went frog
hunting. Came in the next morning with fourteen. Frogs legs are really good
eating.

The latrine has been finished and a deep pit dug. A two foot ditch
is being dug from the road to camp for the water pipe. Dozens of trees have

been cut down and the ground cleared.
That's not bad for the few men we /ug< 0*“
have here. More coming next week. {’C%

What the hell, this ought to ”k @\

be enough for a page. Going to hit
the feathers. So long.

Bruce Carlton. T

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Apparently nobody went around to the N. R. S. and registered, so
Louisville sent up a couple of Registrars who did the job in first
class style. We noticed the questions were chiefly directed to find
out what qualifications each man possessed along the lines of con—
struction or clerical work. Of course, many of the men will be a long
way from here in a few weeks from now and will never know if a job
materialized or not. But at that, the government will get a true
picture of the class of men in the bureau — and something may turn
up.

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Bill Carey, who writes articles for the ARK on occassion telling
the big shots just what‘s the matter with the country, has just had
his faith in human nature given a severe set back. Bill left some
bozo in charge of the carpenter shop for a short while, and when he
got back the bloke had left with all Bill's clothes. We are expecting
another vitrolic article from.Bill regarding property rights!

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By the way, the carpenter's shop has emigrated across the street
into another building, which will give the gang room to move around.
The Handicraft School will be located there, and it won’t be long now
until the boys are turning out some plain and fancy carpenter work.
Read the ad. somewhere ahead about this and join up.

*********************

One of our old members, Lee Fowler, recently of Camp Foster, Fla,
dropped in the other day. He left here for New York a few weeks ago,
and was fortunate enough to run across an old employer who had a job
for him. He is now traveling several states doing redecorating work
for some chain store branches. Says he met Overman in Rochester, N. Y.,
driving a company car and back on his old job. Also mentioned seeing
"Brown" For in Trenton, N.J. "Grey” Fox left for a couple of weeks
but returned without finding any job, and Dean Burke did the same

thing. The boys keep trying. K :5 (ii:
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Some of the Center boys and some from lb g(
the Camp played ball against the Carlisle
Division of the National Guard the other /
day and won the game with a score of 51 44/ ,
to 5. Somebody must have given the boys - ‘
a shot of "hipe" or whatever it takes
to make such a phenomenal score. maybe
they're goodl

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Can you imagine it? Bruce Carlton, who went over to Camp Lake
Reba to be first aid man, has fallen hard for a blonde. Bruce has
had to lay his campaign with cake and forethought, so he takes the
little girl to church. Nothing like a good impression to start with,
and we understand Bruce takes the whole family along with him on
his moonlight walks. S'matter Bruce, don't they trust you?

*********************

Charlie Watson reported the above. New Bruce Carlton reports
that Charlie Watson has a case on the little girl who lives down-town
not far from where the boys board. We have heard it's so serious the
boys are considering getting "Preacher" Galloway down from Blue Licks.
What about the red head in Lexington, and the little girl over in
Carlisle, Charley? Are you going to be a Mormon or sumpin'?

*********************

Since, "Check" 'em out" Carroll went to Blue Licks the place has
been as quiet as a graveyard. We have had no riotious drun 5, every-
thing runs smooth as silk, and the boys seem to be in a coma. We
appreciate the peace and quietness, but we sure miss the arguments.

*********************

Here‘s the May 15th Federal Transient Census. Unattached males
total 148,854, which includes 19,765 state cases and 12,602 local
homeless. There are only 4,989 unattached females, wheih total in-
cludes 819 state and 435 local homeless. The total number of in—
dividuals in transient families is 135,018. Which gives a grand total
of 286,871. On April 15th last the grand total was 506,564. Some
of them must have clicked on jobs - or died!

*********************

We have no meals lines in this bureau, or meal tickets. The
monthly card system is used and all the men have to do is enter the
dining room at the proper time and sit down at a table. Waiters
bring the food to the table. The office men and routine men sit at
certain tables if they wish, the outside work project men at other
tables, and the newcomers sit at other tables. Most of the men group
themselves according to their own preference as to companions. The
routine is similar to any boarding house - no red tape and no bull
dozing. Come to think of it - everything around the bureau is oper—
ated on the basis that the men here are neither convicts, morons,
or pigs. We appreciate it.

*********************

The magazines appearing in the reading room are from the Fer—
guson News Company on N. Mill St. They are very welcome, consisting
as they do of fiction never more than a few weeks old. Intake Worker
Blastock promoted these magazines, and he's also worked hard to keep
the ball-team operating. That‘s no easy job with so many check outs.

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Maybe it might be a good idea to pass this item up, but some-
how we think it should be in the record, if only as an example
of the damage that can be caused by thoughtless wise cracks. It
seems that a weekly published at Richmond and called the "One
Timer", carried an article headed "Tramp Camp Comes to Richmond".
The occasion was the opening of Camp Lake Reba — a project where
the boys will do much work strictly for the benefit of Richmond
for the usual one dollar per. Lt. Crutcher took the matter up with
the Chamber of Commerce, with the result a letter of apology was
published in the regular newspaper, the "Richmond Register", and
also in the ”One Timer". So we'll let it go at that.

*********************

Here's a sidelight on the origin of transients. While nearly
two thirds of the unattached transients come from cities east of
the Mississippi River, family groups come, most frequently, from
the cities west of the Mississippi River. With unattached transients,
New York was the state most frequently reported, and Illinois, Penn-
sylvania, and Ohio followed in the order named.

*********************

The attendence to the religious services conducted by Allen
Galloway at Camp Blue Licks is steadily increasing. Among the men
attending are many who have excellent voices, and it is truly in-
spiring to hear those beautiful hymns sung in the stillness of the
gathering dusk.

*********************

Our mural painter, Jerry Shultz, out at Blue Licks, has secured
the job of painting an immense canvas depicting pioneer life, which
will be hung in the museum. We understand, that through the efforts
of mrs. Emma Guy Cromwell who has charge of the State Parks, Jerry
will be paid at the rate of thirty dollars a month for the job. He
is also custodian of the grounds, and is supposed to keep the grass
cut on the lawn in front of the museum. Berry is a real artist. We
have no idea how good he is at cutting grass.

*********************

Camp Blue Licks is indeed as much a picturesque spot as well
as it is historical. From the top of the hill upon which the camp 0
is located, one can see the rolling Licking River far down in the
valley; the green of the uncut hay mixed with the dark tilled soil 4
and the vivid coloring of the native wild flowers. Also, there are //
the white farm houses with their bright red barns and their grotesque?
but stately windmills. Kentucky is truly a place where_a.pget may//
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rhapsodise.

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Canada now has a series of work camps<’
similar to 000 and transient camps in this
country. If any member of the bureau has
any experience of these camps, come up and
tell us about it.

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A P L A Y I N O N E A C T.

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Scene: Meaning pines and hemlocks, weeping willows, sighing branches,
rustling bushes, and other noisy vegetation. Curtain rises on Eve, down
front center, trying on various sizes in fig leaves, fore and aft.

Eve: (Throwing down a handful of fig leaves, thus creating great excite-
ment in the audience) Think I'll change my dressmaker. I'm getting fed
up on fig leaves.

(Enter Adam in light morning suit of bluegrass) Adam: Wherenell's
m!overcoat?

Eve: (Expression changing to one of contempt): You were soused last night.
You tore it up. Since you found out that hops can be used for something
else beside clothes you've been on a tear. You'll get us checked out of
this joint yet.

Adam: well, you got us checked out of the last place. Can't check us out
any more anyhow - there's no place to go.

Eve: Don't be so sure. They can tell us to go t'll. (Picks up some poison
ivy leaves and gives them a thoughtful look)

Adam; Hey, watch your step with that stuff. First thing you know you'll
be in the Iso ward or sumpin. Where’s Cain?

Eve: He went to Carlisle last night on a pass and hasn't come in yet.
Said he was going to pick up a rib.

(Great racket coming from direction of Blue Licks. Loud voice singing
"'Twas fathers love of garlic that drove all the skunks away)

(Enter Cain, carrying assortment of lingerie and basket of empty bottles.
Riding very docile rinocarpus with side saddle. Has on pair of riding boots
like Charlie Watson)

Cain: Greetings, governor. Drag forth the royal stepladder and I will
alight.

Adam: Get t'ell off there and give an account of yourself, you overgrown
bottle baby. You ought to have been a night watchman or a milkman so you
could do your stuff to good advantage.

*Cain: (Sliding down and hitching rinocarpus tplflag pole in center 6
camp): When do we eat, and if so, what? a i“ ,

Eve: I'm sorry, honey, but we can't eat ({3“

until Abel comes back from Camp Lake \)
Reba with the can opener. Iﬂ\ﬁ\

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Adam: What's he doing with it?

Eve: Draw your own conclusions. What do you think he wants a can
opener for?

Adam: I think he's running around with them hussies.

Eve: What hussies you talking about. You know we don't mix with those
kind of peeple. First thing you know he'll have to marry the girl.

Cain: (Rousing out of a deep meditation) Well, a fellow's got to get
himself a wife from some place. Wheren'ells that old serpent? I wanna get
a pint off of him.

Adam: You lay off that serpent, he's caused enough trouble around the last
place we was at. Lookit that fig leaf of yours - all tore, and the press
gone clean out of it. Ain't you ashamed to appear in front of your mother
looking like that?

Cain: What's the difference - we‘re only camping out, ain't we? (Exits

singing):
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And others get prestige in art. \\\\\: ‘\\\\

A few find renown by making men think, ‘\I ‘~ ‘ (
Two wheels and a board make a cart. ‘\\\\\ VCXJ

But when you discover the truth of this rot, ‘ <

Quite a lot you'll find never was known,

However, on one thing you couldn't go wrong, y

my Dad pulled the original bone." ‘\23\

Adam: There he goes, throwing up that old gag again. One of these days
I'm going to whale the tar out of him.

Eve: (weeping). There you go again, always beating up the children. I was
a fool to marry you in the first place. I should have married lb. Serpent.
He was a nice man. He showed me a lot of things you didn't know. {

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Adam: Crying again. Well, I got to see a man about a dog. (Unleashes (i33v
rinocarpus from flag pole, climbs aboard and heads in general direction. <§S
of Carlisle)

(Eve watches him leave and then drys her tears,
picks up discarded fig leaves and arranges them
tastefully fore and aft. Then walks over to the /
bushes, looking around to see if anybody is
watching.)

Eve: It's all O.K. mr. serpent - come on out
and tell me if you like the fit of my new
fig leaf pegnoir.

C U R T A I N.

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«wee teLLj’eM dept".

Some years ago we remember Thomas A. Edison making the
remark that within a hundred years poverty would be abolished
from the face of the earth.

At that time we had no idea that in a few short years
over thirty-five million people would be directly and indirectly
on the relief rolls. we seemed headed for perpetual prosperity.

The remark was brought to mind by reading that just over
two hundred years ago about 80,000 vagabonds and beggars were
hanged in Europe in one country. They thought this drastic
method of treatment would end poverty. Capitalists did not
believe in this relief business if it cost money.

The cannibals of New Guinea have the same idea - except
they eat the candidates for relief, going a step farther. In
his heart the capitalist who cries out against this relief
business believes there's only one way to end poverty - all
poor people should be destroyed.

Because they breed more people who are unfit. Only people
who are intellectually and physically able to hold their own
and not get on relief should be allowed to live.

This is the philosophy expressed in many capitalistic
newspapers and magazines in their tirades against relief
measures. The unthinking man in the street who bothers to
read the editorials in such papers does not stop to analyze
the thought underlying these tirades - he merely senses them,
and if he is on relief he gets sore about it.

Thus the seeds of communism and revolution are sewn -
not by radicals and fanatics, but by the very class who have
most to lose from the activities of the bolshevicks. By the
way, the word "bolshevic" in Russian means "Majority". Laugh
that one off!

The capitalistic press is the most potent factor today
in causing the wave of unrest and discontent that is sweeping
the country.

Analyze the articles and stories appearing in their pages
and you'll read between the lines the same old slogan of the
jungle - "Dog eat dog."

Somehow, we don't like this kind of capitalism!

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Joe: "I" call my girl Excelsior,"
Moe: "Because she's your ideal?"
Joe: "No, because she’s the stuff."

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"Those gals should be wearing one of
those labels we see stuck all over the

place - Made by the Lexington Transient
Bureau."

"When I was a girl," said the
mother, "I wore petticoats."

"Yes," said her daughter, "and
even than boys would be boys."

'WWry don’t you like Jack any more?"
"Oh, he just rubs me the wrong

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We've been reading a lot of "Pollyanna" articles about the tran-
sients being put to work on the new wage scale - mostly in other
bureau magazines. We have seen or head nothing official as yet.

Before we get too optimistic, let's do a little analyzing. In
the first place there‘s only about 148,000 unattached men on the rolls,
and only a small percentage of these have registered at the N.R.S.
we are given to understand we shall not be discriminated against in
the new work program.

we know there‘s ten times the number of families on relief as
there are transients, and most of them have or can control votes. To
this class will go the major part of the work relief money. We think
it entirely right that the married men with children should have pre-
ference over the single man.

The administration expects business to pick up when the work
program gets under way, and also expects the single unattached man to
get out and hustle himself a job. Educational and vocational schools
have been in existence in many bureaus for some time, and the man who
has not taken advantage of them has been simply kidding himself.

During the next six months we can look forward to some drastic
changes in the bureau set-ups. The "social worker" system has fallen
down - it has not stopped transiency, but if anything, has encouraged
it. In the near future, all bureaus will be merely receiving stations
for men who wish to accept work camp conditions, and entrance to these
work camps will be on a term basis at only a slight increase over the
present pay.

No man who will work need starve - we have at least progressed
that far along the path of civilization. If he wants to take a chance
on hoboing around the country he will be perfectly free to do so - but
the bureaus will not be available for overnight stops or even for a
few days rest up.

A determined effort will be made soon to return men to their local
settlement if they are eligible for work relief and have dependents. The
unemployables will be placed under State care if eligible, and efforts
will be made to determine just who is really entitled to transient

relief among the transients.
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soon disappear from the bureau set-up ’\’
- the handwriting is on the wall. )9
The day of the efficiency expert is ,»—..7:‘\

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CAN YOU MAKE MONEY PLAYING POKER?
CAN YOU MAKE MONEY PLAYING RUMMY?
CAN YOU MAKE MONEY ON THE STEM?
CAN YOU MAKE MONEY SHOOTING CHAPS?

IF YOU COULD YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE!

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PAINT BRUSHES, SAWS, HAMMERS, AND NAILS.

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AND PUT YOURSELF IN THE WAY OF MAKING A GOOD
LIVING. IT'S ALL FREE!

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We had managed to hitch-hike up as far as Tampa from Naples,
after living on turtles while crossing the Everglades. Barnacle Bill
and me stood on the Lafayette Street bridge looking at the Hillsboro
River. We were wondering what to do next.

"Lookit at them pretty blue flowers floating out to sea" said
Bill. They were water hyacinths, and huge masses of the blooms were
drifting down the river. "They would look pretty in fish ponds," we
mused, thinking more of a well fried snapper steak than water hyacinths.

"That’s the ticket" said Bill as an idea struck him all of a
sudden. He went on enthusiastically. "We'll gather up millions of these
things, and sell 'em for a dime apiece up north. They're a drug on the
market down here but a novelty up there. We‘ll advertise for agents
and clean up. All we'll have to do is gather 'em up and ship 'em. Let‘s
go!"

So, we went. Our two dollars capital had dwindled down to fifty
cents - not much to start a million dollar business with. But little
things like that never bothered Bill.

"We'll go over to the library and get some addresses out of the
city directories from up north," said Bill as we went along. We spent
half a day looking for the names of people who sold gold fish as a
commercial proposition. We found quite a number, and also took down
the names of a some commercial florists. We had a list of two hundred
names when we left the library that evening.

We were sleeping on a vacant house boat moored on the Hillsboro
just above Plant Park - we had simply moved in and took a chance.
That night we composed a sales letter that would knock your eye out.
Then we caught a few cat fish over the stern of the boat for break-
fast and went to bed. How to get the campaign started was tommorrow's
problem.

Our front was still good so we made the rounds of several estab-
lishments who specialized in multigraphing sales letters. We were
looking for a partner: On the fifth call we found a confiding soul
who agreed to run off two hundred letters, with return order cards,
mail 'em for us, and allowed us to use his address. He was to have one

third of the profits. ;:D;

The cost came to around fifteen dollars < Z:;:;5
and that was some promotion for those days/ &//,/’
of the dying boom. On the principle of_ -—1~3 \‘ \
never giving a sucker an even break,

we borrowed five dollars from him to see (9 ® ® a @ § @ @Q
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us through.

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Then we went out and gather up é:
all the discarded egg crates we could 5 _;m ‘_j
find, and waited for the rush of business.rt;:243 t’fjftg , *‘ﬁgy
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Then we gathered up large bunches of water hyacinths as they floated
past our houseboat, and kept them corralled at the edge of the bank.
we wanted to have plenty of stock on hand to take care of the rush
or orders.

Sure enough, in a few days the orders came straggling in. We
promptly shipped the crates out C.O.D. As our sales letter had given
instructions how to hire agents to resell the plants from house to
house - we soon had more orders coming in.

The chap who was backing us on the deal began to get enthused
over the prospects. we went over to the library and dug up more names
from the directories of northern cities. He placed them.on the mailing
list, and pretty soon the orders came in faster than we could cope with
them. we had taken up golf and fishing again with the return of presperity,
and considered forming the business into a stock company. With more
capital we could cover the whole of the country.

At the same time we would be doing Florida a great favor by rid-
ding the waters of the state from.an aquatic pest, which, while being
very beautiful to gaze upon when in bloom, at the same time impeded
navagation of small boats. We found all this out when we read it up
in the library. Bill was trying to find out where all these hyacinths
were coming from. He had an idea they had broke lose from somebody's
fish pond.

So we drew up a prospectus with all kinds of figures showing how
it was possible to clean up a million dollars within a few years from
the operation of the business with sufficient capital. we called it
the "water Hyacinth Exporting Company of Flordia," and had a printer
run us off a dummy prospectus. Of course, it was to be a pre-organiza-
tion deal as we didn’t want to get in dutch with the blue sky laws or
anything like that.

We took the prospectus with us back to the house boat that night
— we were still sleeping there as nobody had come along and claimed
it. The longer we studied over the proposition the more we became sure
we had found a gold mine. we put a few finishing touches on the story
we intended to tell to the prospects, and then we went to bed. From
cleaning up a million dollars in a few years, we had got down to six
months. we had the figures to prove it.

we were awakened the next morning by a loud rapping on the door
of the house boat. Some man in a loud voice was demanding that we open
up. He turned out to be the owner of the boat who had taken a trip up
north, and some friend had told him two suspicious characters were
living on his boat. we asked him in for breakfast.

By the time we were through with ._4_~
breakfast he had the whole story of [-1 :33;
the water hyacinth venture with gestures.
Then we went up town and saw our partner,

and it all ended with the house boat i 0 -
owner also owning an interest in the water 555;
hyacinth venture. we sold the business L :35;
to the multigraph man and the house boat ‘3555

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man. "All you have to do is use your
head” said Bill, as we boarded the bus
for Jax. -15 -

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Dumb Dora is so dumb she thinks "Where were you born?”

"no kidding" is a slogan for birth "In a hospital."

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"What do you think of the bare leg *************

fad?" "Really, my dear, you should

"Oh, it's alright as far as it goes." wait for more than three months
************* before marrying again."

"How do I look, John?" "Yes, but you forget. My husband

"Dearest, you look mighty good to me," was paralyzed for eight months

he answered. before he died."

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frown, "You musn't let appearances Southern moon, southern belle-

mislead you." 4;: Halitosis, Aw, hell!
************** I; *************

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drinking?" (9" This little sheep stayed at home-

"Who told you?"
"A little bird."
"I'll bet it was one of those

And so we have Virgin Wool.
*************

"I seem to have run out of gas,"

darned stool pigeons." (5 he muttered, "here's where I do
************* some fast work."

'Tty girl's got a fine mind." The girl's face, small and white,

"Too bad. Mine ain't built either." was turned up to his, her eyes
************* glowing dizzily from beneath heavy

Then there was the modest old maid lids. Her head swam. Her red lips

who wouldn't undress with the were parted and she sighed faintly.

Christian Observer in the room. //’ Slowly he bent over her. He was
************* her dentist.

**************
"I surely like to take these
experienced girls home."

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Now watch him stop and leer;
I'll wait until he says "Hello,"
Then sock him on the ear. '"Well, I‘m no experienced girl"
************* "Naw, and you ain't home yet."
Man, very hoarse with cold, not **************
able to talk above a whisper, "Jack wants me to wear my new
knocks at doctor's home and dress to the hop tonight."
whispers "Is the Doctor at home?" "What are you going to do about it?"
The lady also whispers in reply, "Oh, I'll wiggle out of it some way.‘
"No, come in." *************
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"You may go as far as you like," and baby twenty years ago will come

she said softly. So they drove on home his baby will kick the hell
eight miles further before starting out of him - want ad.
back home. *************

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Oh, Bill, please don't park her “ -‘ ’ "How did you make out?"
Oh, Bill, please don't park— ' ’ *************
Oh, Bill, please don’t— She was just a quarryman's daughter
Oh, Bill, please- - you could take everything for
Oh, Bill- granite.
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wont be long now until Camp Blue Licks will be but a memory to the boys.
Preparations are under way for moving the entire personnel over to Camp Lake
Reba, together with all the equipment. The recreation hall has already gone,
and work will begin on the mess hall immediately.

work is still going on around the state park and the rock crushes is busy,
with the boys loading rocks into the machine to complete the road around the
hill top. This is the final project. When this road is finished, the last
touch will have been given to the job. And what a difference in the looks of
things!

A little less than a year ago the camp was started with only a dozen
men, and with the park in a primitive condition. Since then, a new museum has
been built of native rock; a caretaker‘s house has been erected, a new rostrum
has been erected for public speaking, a new road has been built, stone steps
have been laid to the the Soldier's Grave, a new park entrance has been formed,
the park has been landscaped and ornamental shrubbery and bluegrass planted.
The thou