MARSHALL, MINN. 
chance of buying a new car or tires for us 
to take a trip this summer and we will be 
forced to remain at home, save the car and 
tires we have and buy more Defense Bonds and 
Stamps. 
Everyone should get busy and raise a Vic- 
tory Garden to supply their families with 
all the needed vitamins in order to be strong, 
healthy men and women. Don’t fail to use the 
Defense Time to plant, hoe and weed your 
gardens. 
Now, to tell you a story, believe it or not! 
There was a little boy starting to school 
and his teacher asked him what nationality 
he was. He replied “I am Irish.” ‘Where 
were you born?” He answered: ‘Marshall, 
Minn.” “Well, then you aren’t Irish. You are 
an American. “No,” says the boy, “I am Ir- 
ish. My father and mother are both Irish, 
therefore I am Irish.” The teacher still per- 
sisted that he was an American. “Well, then, 
by the way you figure it out, I suppose if 
an old cat had kittens in an oven they would 
be biscuits.” 
The above reminds me of one more. 
A young farmer, expecting to be called to 
serve in the army, didn’t want to go. He was 
talking to a neighbor who said he believed he 
could help him if he wanted him to. Naturally, 
the young farmer was game. The neighbor told 
him he knew of a widow with four children 
whom he could marry and by so doing, have 
a wife and family and be exempt. The young 
farmer exclaimed: “No, thank you, I am not 
interested. If you happen to know a good 
widow with four good tires it would be all 
right with me.” 
GEORGE 
