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Main StreetsandSide RoadsBy PEARL SWIGGUM (Guest Columnist)As a farmer’s wife turned Crawford County Independent ( (Gays Mills) columiwriter whose ( readers are mostly rural, I sat j down to prepare this guest col-', umn with a great deal of trepida- ’ tion.After all, what could RFD Crawford county possibly have to say that would interest Shore-wood Hills, Maple Bluff, Gannon ave. and Nishishin trail? But then I ’ remembered what (Benjamin Franklin jonce said.I “It is the dutyI of the press to seize every oppor-II u n 11 y to foster 1 congenial relation ships between urban and rural peo I pie,” that’s what 1 he said.MRS Viewed in thati ^SWIGGUM “*»* ‘h“ 'O'1™ ’ could bee ome -public relations promoter. And ]since there’s no shorter road to I' good will than understanding and jempathy, let’s take them along r on a convivial Sunday morning I stroll.Empathy (a word used by the unfortunate illiterate who doesn’t know how to spell s i m p a t h y P should come easy, for in many n' ways Mrs. Duncan Phyfe and the j farmer’s wife are sisters under, the skin. They both have prob-! lems. A common ground. Maybe,a;not the same soil analysis but a common ground. Probably theonly basic difference is that Mrs. ;uPhyfe isn't up yet.Lawsuit Target wTake our children. A1 w a y sj a] wanting to play in the neighbor’s \ „ yard. Out here in the country n that may be 80 acres away. And |(] sometimes that’s an asset. But then if the neighbor’s kids fall Into your swimming pool (if any) or our creek, which meanders through 60 acres of bottom land, we're proportionately a much better target for a lawsuit. And p, that's a liability.We women all stand together ^ on a mutual plateau where educa- j i0tion is concerned. Nobody has 0l enough to cope with a 2-year-old’s “Why?”, a teenager’s ‘Why lj not?” or a husband’s Why the th Sam Hill?” faWe have the same problem get lng everybody (except of course b« our chore-partner) off to work or m school on schedule and you prob-1 nlt; ably solve it the same way wejYlt; do. First the aroma of bacon and Ft eggs, then a shout or two. But wi then we’re way ahead of you in dr routing the stubborn ones. Most 20 cities have ordinances against the Use of dynamite.Outdoor entertaining meanse problems for both of us. Our love- V ly lawns are often marred—yours by crabgrass if we can believe j O the suburban-aimed cartoons, oursj ( by cows. Ants are just as anxious PI, to crawl into our potato salad he as into yours, and fUes, gnats, and i mosquitoes are just as pestiferous wi on Route 4 as on Atwood ave. jCr We all need altiis, for instance off to get out of serving as a volun- nes teer fund-driver for Shoes for the wi Unshod Urchins of Upper Slob-1 mi bovia. and there again we shade. 1 you. There’s nothing so indisput- sei able as an ornery heifer: ^She just got out of the pasture 1 and 1 have to put her back in. ll0' “.she just got into the cornfield, he(Continued m Naxt Page)
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Madison Wisconsin State Journal
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Aug 29, 1965
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