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By a tragedy familiar to the world of art, the April enthusiasm of Chet Laylock served only to stimulate the talent of the older craftsman, George F. Babbitt. He grumbled to Stanley Graff, "That tan-colored voice of Chet's gets on my nerves,'' yet he was aroused and in one swoop he wrote:

DO YOU RESPECT YOUR LOVED ONES?
When the last sad rites of bereavement are over, do
you know for certain that you have done your best for
the Departed? You haven't unless they lie in the
Cemetery Beautiful
LINDEN LANE
the only strictly up-to-date burial place in or near
Zenith, where exquisitely gardened plots look from
daisy-dotted hill-slopes across the smiling fields of
Dorchester.
Sole agents
BABBITT-THOMPSON REALTY COMPANY
Reeves Building

He rejoiced, "I guess that'll show Chan Mott and his weedy old Wildwood Cemetery something about modern merchandizing!''