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COLUMN WITH A HEADACHEIf we were a drinking man and had the taste of sour

liquor in our mouth, we'd swear we have a hangover. Butbeing that type of citizen to whom the temperance league

points with pride, it can't be a hangover.

It's not an ordinary headache we have, but a super

special de luxe job. One of those kind which spreads outand exerts a steady push.

There are headaches and headaches. One type may makeitself felt at a certain point, concentrating all its energy in

a particular spot. Another type<

is of the hammer and chisel va-riety, as if some little demon wasinside trying to chisel himselfout with throbbing blows. Butthe kind we have feels as ifsomeone had inserted a shoestretcher inside our dome andwas steadily tightening thescrew.

Perhaps we could relieve the

situation with a large and tasty

dose of castor oil. Some maytake issue with us when we referto castor oil as tasty, but wemaintain we are right. The trou-

ble with it is it's too tasty. Andpersonally we'd rather worry

along with the headache thantake the stuff.

To make our headache worse,Blaine Warren, super super sales-man for old and new automobiles,

comes in and insults the memoryof our gone but never to be for-gotten model T Ford, Calamity.Blaine said it was lined with fer-tilizer sacks. It wasn't no such!All we did was to cover the seatwith green burlap. We likegreen burlap, and if our wife

hadn't been so set against it, wewould have blossomed out Easterin a green burlap suit!

But that's the way it goes.

Seems like everybody picks onus. Even the police. Just theother night we almost got ar-rested by Luke Darnell, Elkin'snight policeman. And all we didwas nearly run over Mr. Darnellat one of the stop lights. We

wouldn't have done it had weknown at the time it was him.

We have always tried to be care-ful not to run over policemen.

We have always made it apractice to cooperate with thepolice. And we also make it apractice to be as helpful as pos-sible to the public at large. Whyjust the other day we took ablackboard eraser and followedCorbett Wall for four blocks rub-bing out all the chalk marks hewas putting on automobile tires.We figured we were doing themotorists a real service in keep-

ing their tires clean, but when

Policeman Wall found it out hedidn't seem to appreciate it alittle bit. For a moment itlooked as if we were going to loseour standing as one of the publicat large, if you get what we mean.

Oh well, that's what comes ofbeing in the public eye?like acinder.

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THIS AND THATProm here it looks like Elkin

has a pretty doggone good firedepartment, what with good fire-men, a good truck and a goodplace to keep it.

Quite a far cry from the old

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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA Thursday, March 28, 1940

truck that frequently had to bepushed from Its little tin shanty

in the back alley, and whichcouldn't generate any water pres-sure when it finally reached thescene of a blaze.

Elkin is sort of growing upthese days and it's only rightthat her fire department shouldkeep pace. And we'll say for thebenefit of town officials that they

realize the fact and are cooperat-ing with the firemen in everyway possible.' Pact is, we haven'tseen the town run along smooth-er and with less friction in a longtime. Seems like there's notanything even for us to find faultwith anymore. Why, we are ac-tually on speaking terms with allthe town commissioners.

i But there is one thing we feeljis needed, even though we hesi-jtate to mention it. It's this: the

I commissioners should add aportable grandstand to their firefighting equipment which couldbe hauled to the scene of everyfire for the benefit of Elkin'smany sideline firemen. Hard asthese sideline firemen work, whatwith giving advice and findingfault "with the way the fire fight-ing firemen work, they need aplace to sit down. We believe thecommissioners will agree that ad-vice giving in time of a blaze ishard work, and Elkin's advicegivers are entitled to every con-sideration. And please see thatone seat is upholstered for us.

Speaking of fires and firemen,no matter how good a fire de-

partment is, once a really big fire

gets started, it's hard as all get-out to get under control. Andno one, not even the most expertexpert, can tell just how a fire isgoing to act once it gets started.No one can tell how fast it willspread, or in what direction. Thatis why all public buildings shouldbe provided with every safe-guard.

Take, for instance, the recentfire which gutted a large apart-ment house in Charlotte. Despitethat city's crack fire department,

the death toll from that blazenow rests at eight. And it mightbe mentioned, in case you are in-terested, that the building hadno outside fire escapes. It didhave so-called fire escapes on theinside. Trapped by smoke, sev-eral were killed when they jump-ed from upper floor windows. Hadoutside fire escapes been provid-ed, these lives perhaps wouldhave been saved.

Someone, whom we gather isopposed to outside fire escapes onschool buildings, and who wouldrely on the "many little noses" togive adequate warning of anyblaze, fold us about a woman whowent to school in a building thathad fire escapes. This woman, asa girl, was so afraid to go down

I the fire escapes when fire drillwas sounded, that she .always hid Iin a closet.

We couldn't help but wonder,in case an actual fire had brokenout, if she would have run andhid in the closet then?

And if so, how she would havearranged to keep cool?

But maybe it was a refrigerat-ed closet.

.Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Ger-many has 52 grandsons in thepresent war.

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