RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 28

RANDOM REMINDER

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

The residents of :urban areas do not see country folk as yokels jin smocks chewing straws, but there is often a tendency to think that those jWbo till the soil are not really with it. Older readers may remember -the ventriloquist Edgar ’ Bergen and his Charlie McCarthy, a smoothie if ever there was on<\; but when Charlie’s couintry cousin Mortimer Snmrd came to visit, he

seemed to be a turnipfaced buck-toothed halfwit But he had his occasional day. Some time ago a stock agency took Into Its employment a city youth and sent him to work in one of its country stores. His duties were not arduous nor invovled: they consisted principally of keeping the store clean. He was thus engaged for about six months. Then he came to his boss one mom-

ing and said he would have to have a new vacuum cleaner. He explained, in the simplest terms at his command, that the mechanism had worn out, and it was no longer performing its primary function of drawing dust and dirt into its bag. In his simple, country way, the boss discovered that the lad, during his six months in charge of the machine, had not once emptied the bag.