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...friends of the Hopi." Rattlesnakes are never friendly nor care to be handled. Their nervous and fighting makeup places them as a defensive reptile-irritable and ready to strike. I have yet to see a pet or friendly rattlesnake. C. H. MACDONALD The Florida Reptile Institute Silver Springs, Fla. Shiftless Iowa Farmers
TIME did not imply that all western farmers are shiftless, did say that many of the Iowa picketers were such. Observers variously described the picketers as youngsters "just blowed in"; as former farm-owners reduced, because of debts, to the class of farm laborers; as the poorest class of farm tenants.-ED. Seiberling's Cuddly Toodles Sirs...
...Iowa last week a thousand shiftless, debt-ridden farmers, many of them with no underwear beneath their ragged blue overalls, extended their strike for higher produce prices from Sioux City to Council Bluffs, across the Missouri River from busy Omaha. On seven highways leading into town they used placards, planks and palaver to turn back truckloads of milk, eggs, hogs and cattle. Sometimes a glib driver argued his way through the picket lines but not often...
...Griffith knew the patois of the cinema 15 years ago, but with his Abraham Lincoln of last year he revealed that he has not bothered to keep up with the times. The Struggle, written by Anita Loos and John Emerson, acted by Hal Skelly and Zita Johann, is a shiftless and pitiably stupid homily which, esthetically and financially, should be an embarrassment to all concerned. Its story-of a steel-worker who takes to tippling and ends up with a case of delirium tremens in a thunderstorm-is really no story at all. The dialog is atrocious. Hal Skelly gives...
...escape commitment. Teacher Friendly called Helen a moron, offered additional reasons why she should be sterilized: "The girl herself may turn out all right, but I don't think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between right and wrong." She said that the family is "low-brow," and "riff-raff. . . . Neighbors complain that the children are a nuisance with their marauding habits and the family is unspeakably dirty...