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C.E. [[?W]] add used April 7/49 WAR.C.
Phone Mr [[?Laudow]] at Lauers.

Blanche Stuart Scott.

1 Recording.
Four Commercials.
Charlotte Esther White
Lauer's Furniture
Speer's Photographs
Ivanhoe Mayonnaise

STATION WVET.
ROCHESTER N.Y.
"RAMBLES WITH ROBERTA."
THRUSDAY JANUARY 22/48.
10.15 - 10.30 AM.

THEME:  "CHINESE DANCE."

ANNOUNCER.

EACH DAY AT THIS TIME, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, WE PRESENT "RAMBLES WITH ROBERTA."  A LITTLE OF THIS AND A LITTLE OF THAT.  AND HERE SHE IS ..... ROBERTA!

Good Morning, Everyone.  I've made a discovery and this it - it's a rather strange thing - but most of us do not like to think.  We have funny ideas about thinking too.  For instance, someone will say:  "Oh!  He's a terrible lazy man.  He never does anything around the house.  His wife has to do it or hire it done."  Yet that man may spend his entire day, and day in and day out, in hard intensive mental labor.  For there are two kinds of laziness - Physical and mental.  Most of us recognize physical laziness the moment we see it - but we blandly ignore mental laziness not only in ourselves, but in others.  Somewhere, from something there is a quotation:  "It is easier to do and die than it is to reason why."  Thinking actually comes under the head of hard work.  Just the other evening a man I know, left my home very very angry - and for the life of me I couldn't understand why.  After he had gone, I inquired of another friend - "What did I do or say that made him angry?  I didn't intend to offend him, surely he knows that."  My friend answered - "You did a terrible thing to him, you offended him in the worst possible way."  I was aghast!  I couldn't think of a thing I had said or done to make him so violently [[strikethrough]] offended [[/strikethrough]] annoyed.  So finally I said:  "All right, I give up, what did I do to the man?"  And then my friend answered softly "You forced him to think.  Don't you know that most people hate to think - and they