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leaders are naturally studying all phases of the Moscow proposals for whatever hope may be in them. They find this: Moscow proposes that the United States, Soviet Russia and Red China be granted up to 1,500,000 men in the military services, Britain and France 650,000 each and smaller forces for other nations. Here is decided progress. The old Russian demand was reduction of military forces by one-third, which would not have disturbed the pronounced manpower lead of Russia and Red China. But there are traps in the Soviet proposals.

Moscow proposes to freeze all armaments as of last December 31. That would eliminate any West German rearmament. Then Moscow wants all foreign troops out of Germany. The West has already ended West German occupation. Russia hopes for complete clearance of West Germany while Moscow keeps its police and the threat near-by troops to make sure German reunification elections go Russia's way.

Moscow offers funny business in the way of control of nuclear weapons. Principally it proposes that the nations trust one another to stop making atomic bombs and other horrors. Then Russia, behind the iron curtain, can do as it likes. With total attack by the dictators against the free countries always in the reckoning, the West can take nothing on trust. Either Moscow has given up world conquest or it has not.

If it has not, there is nothing Western negotiators can do except listen to what the Reds have to say and, if it doesn't meet security specifications, shrug their shoulders and return home to keep their military strength adequate. No Distance at All The riots in Singapore, in which an American newspaperman was brutally killed, have Communist undertones which suggest they are more than part of an isolated uprising in a country accustomed to trouble. Indeed, the Redinspired. violence in the capital of Britain's colony of Malaya 38 may well be beamed back to the motherland where the Conservatives are seeking endorsement in the general elections later this month. Malaya, up until just a few years ago a hotbed of Communist guerrilla activity, has been relatively quiet of late, the result of effective countermeasures taken by Her Majesty's troops.

If anything, the British have been feeling rather cozy about their position in Asia, absorbed mainly in giving the U.S. advice with respect to Formosa rather than by any cares of their own. They have appeared notably unconcerned about the crown colony of Hong Kong, though its vulnerability, wealth and prestige would make it a handsome Red prize. Peiping is disinclined to make trouble over Hong Kong because it knows London wouldn't stand for any foolishness. But the tightly-knit global Communist conspiracy can be expected to do all it can to embarrass the Tories in hopes of seeing the more amenable Laborites returned to office.

Singapore to London is thousands of miles as the crow flies, but it's no distance at all along the Communist line. Big Four Expediency There is an evident expediency, about the projected Big Four talks which the United States, Britain and France will engage in with Russia. Our government is sure the West has gained in unity and in military and economic power. The Communist bloc is losing in unity and in economic strength. Expediency is explained by Western elections.

Britain is engaged in one now, France has one probably coming up and the United States will hold its quadrennial presidential contest next year. The popular reach for peace is SO strong everywhere that no possible peac. door can be closed, even though our leaders fear the Communists might regain unity and other advantages through peace talks. There are some who are impatient with any dallying with the Reds. David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America, thinks we should intensify, the cold war, using every weapon at hand to win it.

The present cold war, as he analyzes it, "is not a preliminary bout but the decisive contest in which the loser may not have a second chance." Sarnoff wants a Strategy Board for Political Defense, similar to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to plan and wage the cold war. He suggests political warfare expenditures of three billion dollars per year, encourage-. ment of popular resistance in Communist-dominated lands and use of all media of communication for propaganda purposes. His plan is stimulated by his thinking that any hope of compromise with the Soviet Union is a dangerous self-delusion. There is substantiality in the belief that only the end of the continually plotting Soviet regime will bring sure relief.

But we'll never know what might. be in the way of understanding if we don't try. Noble Idea Americans generally have their only contact with royalty when they hold five cards of the same suit and in sequence in a game of penny-ante. More's the pity, because a titled class not only lends an air of distinction to a nation, but the mere existence of authorized snobbery helps divert the populace from more serious problems at hand. In Britain at the moment the aristocrats are being exhorted not to be diffident about their coats of arms but to come out boldly and advertise their blue blood on autos, stationery, sofa cushions, door mats and the like.

Prime mover in this campaign is Debrett's "Barontage, Knightage and Compionage," Britain's who's who of the titled. This cataloguer of pedigree is broken up over the fact that many of the 250,000 Britons eligible to display coats of arms fail to do so. Least they could do, says Debrett's, is use their coats of arms to decorate the house. The low British refuse to toot horns that are hoary with history while in this country everyone and his brother vies to get into the public eye. Maybe if we had some royalty around it would bring out the nobility in the rest of us.

Action on Reading That American concern about the reading deficiencies of school pupils, is likely to result in action is indicated by the decision of the New York City board of education. It has ruled that those in the public schools who do not meet standards in reading will not be promoted after this year. This is based on the finding that at' least 20,000 from the fourth to the sixth grades alone "showed a reading retardation of two years or more." This impinges on another problem called automatic promotion. Under a theory of continuous progress it was deemed advisable to keep promoting pupils year after year regardless of their deficiencies. Now New York City will attempt to let the brighter pupils go ahead while deficient ones are held back.

As for singling out reading as the test of deficiency, school authorities said it was the most important subject in the primary grades. That is true, of course. Without reading ability there will be little grasp of any-. thing later. The New York board did not say whether it will overhaul the fundamentals of reading instruction.

But it follows that if tens of thousands of pupils in one city alone show reading deficiency, the fundamentals certainly need overhauling. Weather Bureau has 15,000 terms describing weather conditions. Wet and dry usually suffice. When one sees some of the names in the foreign news, he wishes the trend toward a universal language would speed up a little. Ike is said to be a reluctant candidate.

So is Stevenson. That job certainly looks fearsome to anybody who knows anything about it. Morning Prayer Dear Father, we thank Thee for sight, and the beauties of earth; for hearing, and the sweetness of music; for taste, and the food to satisfy it; for work, and the mind and hands for it; for love, and friends and dear ones; for the gospel, and for faith to receive it; for life, and the assurance that it is eternal. Forgive us for not showing our gratitude in greater devotion to Thy service. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen. Kansas Currents A man is important, notes Peggy of the Hills in the Topeka Capital, newspapers tell Flint, how many fish he caught on a trip. Topeka is probably the greatest gossip factory in Kansas. And to the credit of the women, may be said that the male politicians start it. Graduation time, says the Larned Tiller a Toiler, reveals the middle name of some of the graduates that they would just as soon keep secret.

American foreign policy is no policy, contends the Russell News. Like Kansas weather, if you don't like it, just wait' awhile--the change is that fast. If you think a man is important, you're flattering him. If he with you, says Jess Denious of the Dodge City Globe, you were wrong. Oklahoma Outlines At the Tri-State Music festival in Enid 7,500 teenagers downed 75,000 hamburgers per day.

The Navy now knows where to find an outlet for its 40-year supply. 'Nehru and many Asian leaders want the U.S. to get out of Asialeave the flow of money and other forms of relief alone. But if we get out, asserts the Ponca City News, we ought to get out completely. Ponca City is aglow with the prospect that the Cities Service Oil Co.

will spend four million dollars to expand facilities there and then purchase more barrels of Oklahoma crude per day. There is a ruling that in prohibition Oklahoma federal income tax payers can't deduct liquor bills as "business entertainment." Apparently the Washington boys have the fuzzy idea that business entertainment should be legal. Oklahoma considering making the turnpike from Oklahoma City south to Texas a route. One road would run south from Oklahoma City and the other southeast. They would intersect near the Sapulpa end of the Turner turnpike.

Farmer near Stillwater tells of planting some sprouted potato seed, most of which never came up. Digging into the hills eight weeks later, he got a bucket of new potatoes big as golf balls. Perhaps nature has found a way to eliminate surface foliage. Dr. William Brady's Your Health IODINE DEFICIENCY AND "COLDS" A reader says she and her husband have been taking the iodin ration for two years and "no colds, thanks to you.

We need more doctors like you. God love you" et Whadaya more doctors celerean like me? What really want is a doctor the truth people, in print but not in practice. If he tells the truth in practice they change doctors. For nearly a year I have been saving God Bless You letters in a special file, which is beginning to bulge. I had some vague idea that such testimonials--but now that I have the file ready I realize it is like money in the -you can't take it with you.

Nevertheless I am grateful to this correspondent and to all the others who have blessed me. No matter what the circumstances be or how undeserving one may wt feel, such a blessing is always inspiring. Whether iodine deficiency has anything to do with immunity or susceptibility to the common respiratory infections (CRI) I do know. "But in any case it can do no harm to correct iodine deficiency, I am sure, and most American adults and children get insufficient iodine to maintain good nutrition. Bear in mind, everything I say about iodine in this column, applies to nutritional iodine.

The use of iodine or iodides as medicine is not a question of hygiene, physiology or health. It is strictly a medical question and should be left to your physician's judgment. Perhaps the most familiar sign of iodine deficiency in children from 8 to 12 is simple goiter. In children 12 to 16, moping. In children 16 to 20, tendency to doze in- church, class or other situations they shouldn't.

Common manifestations of iodine deficiency in persons past 35: Subnormal body temperature, cold hands and feet; desire for more clothing and greater indoor warmth than normal individuals find comfortable; accumulation of excess flabby flesh; dry, sallow skin; dry, falling, prematurely graying hair; a melancholic outlook and manner, noticeably unlike their former cheerful disposition. I do not advise anyone to take, continue or discontinue taking any medicinal preparation of io(dine or iodides recommended by Mrs. Sumsey or prescribed for your late Aunt Jane by a leading physician. In the pamphlet The Iodin Ration (pronounce the a as in Ray-D) I tell how to get the daily iodine everybody needs to maintain optimal nutrition. For a copy of the pamphlet send stamped, -addressed envelope to me care of The Wichita Eagle.

In my opinion most Americans can have better metabolism and better health if they boost their intake of iodine. And if they go about it as I say in the pamphlet, such iodine intake can do no harm. (Copyright 1955, John F. Dille Co.) The Harbingers TAX CUTS DEM. G.O.PE MUST BE AN ELECTION JOHN COMING and 1055, The Tribune Register Syndicate elusios Delaplane's Postcard Wife Doubts Mate's Tale About Woman from Space SAN FRANCISCO -If you keep your eyes open these days, you meet a lot of interesting people.

So the other day I went over to see Truman Bethurum, the only man I know who has been on a space ship. He said he was 57 years old. He had a touch of asthma was a member of Operating Engineers, Local 12, Los Angeles, and had parted from his wife over his space ship adventure. "I was working on Highway 91 up in Nevada in 1952. One of the fellows said up the mesa you could see where the desert had been the bottom of the ocean at one time.

"I didn't believe it. But my wife collects seashells so I asked the boss if it would be all right if I went up and looked. He said all right so I took an Army Dodge truck." After walking around awhile, Bethurum took a nap in his truck and woke up when he heard voices. He found the truck surrounded by eight or ten smallsize men. "When I say small, I mean about five feet.

I was kinda scared. I thought they was after my wallet. Well one of them stepped up and spoke to me in a foreign language. I shook my head and 'You name it. Language is no barrier to us Rooshians Maybe? "Well, I thought I'd get out and see what they was doing and get out of there.

They was dressed something like our Greyhound bus drivers. Bluish-colored pants with cuffs on them but no stripes down the side of them. Kind of cowboy jackets. Some had caps on, some didn't. They were olive-complexioned and had dark hair.

The ones without caps had wavy They didn't seem to know how hair." to shake hands, just touched it, said Bethurum. "I thought what is this, a Rooshain bunch or what? I knew they wasn't Rooshian but I thought Rooshia had trained a special crew to come over here and fool us." When he got out of the truck, he saw the space craft behind truck. It was hovering off the ground without noise. Looked like two giant hubcaps put together. It was 300 feet across and eight feet thick.

The space men, said they were not from Russia. When Truman Bethurum asked to speak to their captain they said: "Surest thing you know." Spoke perfect English, he said. Kind of a Midwest accent. noticed a little snicker they had when I mentioned the captain. They took me by the arms and pushed, me toward space craft thought, 'Well, this is the end'." Bethurum walked in with the aid of a ramp and handrail and into a room with a red davenport THEY'LL DO IT EVERY THE OFFICE SPACE WAS BEING REARRANGED, SO THE POOR DRAFTSMEN GOT THE UNWANTED BACK ROOM COPE.

KING FEATURES 5-16 News Behind the News Tammany Hall Boss Spurs Harriman's Political Aims By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, May 15-Carmine G. De Sapio, ambitious Tammany Hall boss, is the man who is spurring Averell Harriman's political desires to the point where the governor of New York is openly challenging his old friend. Adlai for AraldeRt.Stevenson, tion. Having wrested New City Hall Albany from the GOP. De Sapio yearns to become a maker of Presidents.

The build-up for Harriman has assumed unexpected proportions within the last month. He given a tryout before a distinguished audience when he was invited to speak for the Democratic opposition before the recent Gridiron dinner, with Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of California as his opponent. The New York man never misses a chance to air his national views, rather and than always discusses state Whereas he was known at Washington as a modest.

unassuming and taciturn individual, he has become a political extrovert. He has followed F.D.R.'s policy of surrounding himself with able advisers and publicists, including men who once wrote the late President's flowery and fiery speeches. Their labor in his povineyard beginning bear at Washington and elsewhere. Called publicity theme, for the Harriman promotion is that he is a "dedicated In order to offset any prejudice against his multimillionaire status, it 1S pointed out that he deserted the party of wealth and conservatism to support the late Alfred E. Smith.

It is also noted that his acceptance of low- paid federal posts under Roosevelt and Trum actually cost him money. Since many of his official and unofficial household members at Albany were Roosevelt New Dealers or Truman Fair Dealers, Harriman has adopted an extremely liberal line. He has chided Capitol Hill Democrats, albeit mildly, for not pressing a more belligerent attack on the White House. He thinks that administration blunders should be laid directly at Ike's door. The Harriman-De Sapio strategy calls for a chorus of demands that Stevenson divulge his 1956 intentions.

Then, if the reaction to his declaration to seek the nomination again is not favorable, Harriman will strut his stuff more actively than he is doing now. Stevenson's own friends think that he should not delay in notiwhether he will be available. 'For one thing, it might rivals and prevent bitter primary fights next year. Although deferring public politicking pending a statement from the 1952 nominee, there are numerous other Democrats who are nursing ambitions for the great prize. Others Ambitious They include Sen.

Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, a perennial; Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri; Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois; Sen. 1.

Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota; Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas; Gov. G.

Mennen Williams of Michigan and, of course, Harriman. The Democrats apparently to cling Roosevelt- Truman technique of making a political scapegoat out of the American press, especially the newspapers in the great publishing, centers. Their recent 'attacks on reporters and editors was so concerted that it appears to be. designed strategy rather than accident. Stevenson has complained against what he calls the "one party press" in the United States.

The Shepherd INFERIORITY "Strengthen ye the weak hands." Isaiah 35:3 Don't ever tell a man he's weak Or woman she's too frail or meek To take a job or meet need Or win success or do la deed A crack like that to sex May give to them either, complex And make them feel inferior Their whole life through and they'll abhor The very thought of you -as they Brood on the thing you said that day. JULIEN C. HYER Odd Facts In Cincinnati, a woman was granted her eighth divorce, the fourth one from the same man. In Austin. Texas, a bill was introduced in legislature which would give police the right to order snail-pace drivers to speed up or face a misdemeanor charge.

After teaching two baby. elephants to step on and off a small platform 18 inches high, a Milwaukee animal trainer tried himself, slipped and fractured his ankle. Comic Dictionary BEST MAN A person whose chief duty is to prevent the bridegroom from escaping before the ceremony. (Copyright, 1955, Esar) Former President Truman charged that the Washington corps had thrown a "protective cloak" around Eisenhower. In several addresses and conversations, Harriman expressed the wish that newspapers would be as "critical" of Ike as they were of 'his two predecessors.

Robert Hutchins, former president of Chicago University and 8. confirmed New Dealer, recently read a "riot act" to editors for their alleged partiality. House Majority Leader John W. McCormack. inserted the Hutchins critique in the Congressional Record.

It may be ironic, and significant, but many of Ike's Cabinet members think that the press exaggerates administration mistakes! (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Ask Andy Fish Believed Extinct Found In Deep Sea Andy sends complete. 20-volume set of American. Peoples tO Susan Arbit. 11, of Albany for her question: What WaS the first fish like? In 1939 some fishermen hauled in their nets from the blue waters off South Africa. Among the catch was a total stranger.

No one present had ever seen such a fish. He was sizable, sturdy and bright blue. His scales were large and tough. His fringed fins were attached to stubby limbs. His tail fin surrounded a solid triangle of muscle.

The astonished fishermen planned to the speciman to experts. decomdeliver, posed before reaching shore. No wonder the fishermen failed to recognize the strange fellow. The experts knew him as the coelacanth. They had fossil remains of his relatives in collections.

But they had supposed that he and his kind had been extinct since the days of doesn't belong to him and which he has filched from a. companion or tradesman. Don't Expect too Much on two sides and a big flattop desk in the center. Woman in Charge "There was a woman sitting on the davenport beside some filing cabinets. She immediately stood up.

She had a red skirt on and black blouse. The red reflected the light. She was also dark-eyed and dark haired. No makeup. You never laid eyes on a more beautiwoman.

She had a black beret with "She said, 'Speak up my friend, you're not hexed'." Bethurum then asked her if she was from Russia. She said: "No, we: travel interpianetary." said, "I can believe that." They then sat down and had a good chat. She said: "We get around." "You certainly must," said Bethurum. The lady said her name was Capt. Aura Rhanes.

She spelled it out and pronounced it They came from a planet called Clarion. It had no jails, hospitals, crime sickness or squabbling over money. They picked up all Earth's radio and TV and learned their English the hard way, presumably by tuning in Hopalong Cassidy and Our Gal Sunday. Bethurum was aboard the space ship 11 times in the next couple of months. Unfortunately none of the other workmen were around when it landed and he had to endure a great deal of skepticism.

When he wrote his wife about it, she wrote back: "Your' just trying to make me jealous with all that talk about that woman captain. I'm not coming up in that hot desert no matter what you say." STAN DELAPLANE. (Distributed by The McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) There are so many bits of advice which are continually given Mildred Eldred's Your Baby PATIENCE, WITH ADVISED CHILDREN to parents by authorities, and sometimes these can become' very confusing. I have in behest to "be patient." You've heard that countless times. Be patient with children Don't expect more than the child can fulfill at any certain age.

Don't expect the 2-year-old to play with companions as he will at 3. In fact he is more apt to bite, kick or slap them. Don't expect that a child of will be interested in dressing or undressing himself, though he may spend hours taking off and putting on shoes and hose. Don't expect that your child, 4 to 5 years old will avoid profanity no matter how conscientious you may be not to use it in front of him: or that some day your visiting child won't come home with some object which WHY DO THESE CRUMBUMS NEED A ROOM LIKE THIS, CHIEF? I NEED MORE SPACE! I WANT THIS FOR MY PERSONAL OFFICE! IN WORLD LIGHTS RESERVED. Don't expect that children won't ever act silly, or be rude or fight and hurt each other.

Don't expect that you not have to wrestle with unclean. toilet habits to though you you had put across how he to felts act, long before this. When you say, "Isn't he too old to be soiling his pants? I know plenty of children his age who are trained." you are being impatient rate of growth. For he isn't "plenty" of children, he is your child, and he isn't being bad, or contrary or stubborn just because this partieular type 01 growth hasn't kept up with the average. Bowel and bladder controls come easy to some children and are slow to develop with others.

Now you know some of the things with which you should be patient. But isn't there ever an end to them? Do you have to go on giving in, being stepped on, picking up, cleaning up, separating quarreling companions and on and on? Where are the limits? You Have Answer Right within yourself. You know when a child is taking advantage of you and you have a right to stop it. You know when a child's able to be toilet clean. You know when children get almost hysterically giggly, or scuffle and fight to the point of exhaustion.

Sometimes they don't know how to stop. But you can stop them with that stern voice mothers and fathers know now to use and say, "Stop that monkey business: I won't have any more of it." Every day, you have to be up and about the business of showing a child how to act and acting that way yourself, but there is a point beyond which patience is no longer a virtue and action becomes necessary. That point arrives when children get "out of hand," in any of their hehavior and need to be stopped, disapproved of, or punished a the case may be. Yes, even patience has its limits. The 10 cent booklet, "Obedience and may be had by sending 10 cents and 8 stamped.

-addressed envelope with your request to Myrtle Meyer Eldred in care of The Wichita Eagle. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1955) Factographs Draft rejections for Minnesota young people are the lowest in the nation. West German bakeries now enrich their flour with Norwegian seaweed meal. Cancer has killed 20 times as many Americans as lost their lives during three years of the Korean struggle.

Glacier ice covers about 5,800,000 square miles of the land area of the world. About 98 per cent this total is located in Antarctica and Greenland. More than 500 teachers trained at- Clarke School for the Deaf, Northampton, serve the hard-of-hearing throughout the United States and in 20 foreign countries. By JIMMIE HATLO NOBODY ELSE WOULD TAKE-ER-UHMEAN-UH-I KNOW DRAFTSMEN GOTTA HAVE LIGHT-SO-UH- IN THE SHUFFLE WE MOVED YOU BOYS IN HERE-ER-UH-EXCELLENT LIGHT INDEED VERY! I ASKED FIRST! BALONEY! AND AFTER THIS ROOM WAS THE DRAFTERS JUST MADE FOR FIXED THE THE ADVERTISING PLACE DEPARTMENT! PRACTICALLY WITH THEIR OWN A LIFT THANX HATLO AT OF AIRCRAFT the dinosaur. Fossils Studied Experts have unfolded the long history of fishes from- fossils left in ancient rocks.

But for each fossil type discovered it iS estimated that 1.000 others remain hidden. No coelacanth fossils had been discovered in rocks younger than 60 million years. Yet all this time the primitive creatures had been living in the deep ocean. Another living coelacanth of a still different type was discovered in 1952. This one was properly preserved.

One of the earliest fishes. on record is named the Ostracoderm the shell- kinned His fossils date back 400 million years. He came into being toward the end the Age of the Trilobites. Ostracoderm was most likely the first of the true fishes. And he may, have been the first creatare to have a backbone.

Though very advanced for his day, the Ostracoderm would rate as a very primitive animal today. He was somewhat like the round-mouthed lampreys and hagfish that prey on modern fishes. Coated with Armor Unlike these disagreeable fellows, the Ostracoderm was heavily coated with armor. He had no jaws and no He may have preyed on certain mollusks that swarmed in the waters. It is not likely that he swam about like a modern fish.

He most likely sucked his food up from the muddy bottom of the seas. He is believed to have been extinct for some 280 million years. The bony, toothy fishes are thought to have lived first in flowing streams and rivers. They may have had to dodge the huge mollusks that lived in deeper waters. BY 300 million years' ago the fossil records show strange, fishy monsters and fierce, toothy sharks.

The fishes had surpassed. the earlier tribolites and mollusks and grown powerful enough to dominate the seas. Andy sends an "American Peoples Encyclopedia Yearbook," plus Everyday Encyclopedia." to David C. Roberts, 11, of Tucson, for his question: Which planets are the Morning and Evening Stars? The word planet means a wanderer-and for a very good reason. The planets appear to roam in curliques against the.

background of fixed stars. For centuries they had the star-gazers in confusion. Sometimes golden Venus apat sunset in the west, somepears times at dawn in the East. At times Venus plays the role of Evening Star, and other times the role of Morning Star. And sometimes this planet is just nowhere to be seen.

What's more, other planets understudy for the role of Morning and Evening Star. Jupiter, Mars, Mercury or Saturn can rise before the dawn and be the Morning Star. At times any of these also play the role of planets can Evening Star. Maybe you are skilled enough to recognize the different planets. small telescope will soon show A which is which.

Otherwise you consult a star to you may discover which planets will appear. at dawn and sunset. Children: Send your questions, to Ask, with name, age and address, your Andy of The Wichita Eagle. in care (From Columbia Features, Inc. I Headline Hopping Barbers Sure Winners On All Sharp Arguments But when some Old Guard member gets in the chair, they won't be able to tell whether he's lathered, or foaming the mouth.

(Copyright 1955, General Features Corp.) BARBERS By URGED TO HELP MOULD PUBLIC OLLIE CRAWFORD UNION OPINION. Well, here's a clean-cut idea. there's no place comes to shaping public opinion, like barbers could. talk about new hone." The union president says the from little acorns labor laws, instead start with little shavers. When of the weather.

Mighty oaks grow, and a big nothing like a scissors hold. movement could wrestling with new ideas, there's hours and end up A customer can argue against shorter with a shorter nose. where the barber wins all The barber shop is one place makes a point every time he waves the sharp nine, and a nod in the right arguments. edge. time.

saves place can save nine stitches. until he One customer thought he had won the argument, tried to turn his head..