Show f M i cures for lor Communism SANTA MONICA CALIF- CALIF CALIFA CALIF tJ A certain rich man out o here rich but bilt indulgent got a letter from his heir a sophomore at one of the big b eastern colleges college The lad announced he had been be to communism and was w contributing to the cause So what P about It The old 10 man an wrote back Son you have a J perfect right to fol follow low the dictates of you y e u r conscience But as a n consistent communist you nat nab naturally naturally would not n o t continue to live on the ill gotten gains Irvin 1 S Cobb grabber of a wicked money money- grabber Today I 1 am cutting oft t your somewhat generous allowance You will also vacate the luxurious apartment you now occupy because Im I'm not paying the rent of same any az longer So go ahead my boy and ax commune with freely freely with my bles bless blessings ings I But from date that'll be about abo all from this end of ot the line Exactly four hours after the ar- ar arrival a arival ar arrival rival by air mail mall of ot this ultimatum the hard hearted parent got back a rush telegram stating that tt the young man bad had been thinking things over and had decided d not to take up t the new doctrine The Art of ot Listening V TE 1 HAD a party at which there VY appeared what I may call tt the dumb poets Sam poets Sam Hoffenstein ar and Ogden Nash At the studios where whet they re both turning out epics epic theres there's a rule that neither shall sha burst forth into poetry while hes he's he under contract no contract no thumbing of tl the harp no sounding of the lute Cine Crne- Cm Cinema's mas ma's gain is creations creation's loss Maybe that explains why the made such good listeners the othe other night And isn't a good listener a I don t mind being Interrupt Interrupted ed provided th the interrupter chooses choose the right subject Mute and rapt I Ican Ican can harken for tor hours on hours it someone Is talking about me say sal salor or even reading from my published works But Jut these two only broke in to ask that the pickled pickle shrimp be passed or gently to sug sui suggest suggest gest Best that another little drink or two tw wouldn't do any harm barm Ogden Nash has attained the high higl highest highest est peak of distinction attainable fo foa for fora tora a writer His Iris chief imitator has an a imitator who is bringing up his oldest old oldest est boy to be an Imitator Resurrecting Old Words X THIN HEN a word gets fashionable W V V especially a new word which some wordsmith thought up right out of his head it head it gets too dog doggone doggone doggone gone fashionable The same applies to old words which have bave been dis die disinterred interred from their forgotten tombs tomb in the dictionary I seem to see sec grave robbers robber prowling through the unabridged in at aard which is isan i ian isan an formerly common on only to Africa but now frequently found in cross word puzzles and working on through to a very ver strong beer drunk by ancient tribes I guess those old timers Imbibed co copiously copiously copiously piously of the brew and then names named it It doesn t sound like the sort of o word a dead sober party deliberate deliberate- deliberately ly would make up Do you remember the run in in intrigued intrigued had I never got so sick sic of a word in my life hIe And then ther along came provocative and it i turned out to be a pest People went wen around just looking for a chance to ti work provocative into the conver convey conversation conversation The only way to lick en em was to pretend to be deaf and dumb And now the reigning favorite 1 is allergic to Folks spout It everywhere every every- everywhere where whether they know what it it means mE-ans or not I r dont don't mind saying Im I'm getting awfully allergic to al There must be many others like me Campaign Books ET us not cavil too much be- be be because L LET BET cause high pressure salesmen working on commission have been unloading upon the faithful at fancy prices the gift book put out by Washington headquarters to payoff pay payoff payoff off campaign debts In fact 15 cents worth would cover practical practically ly all the cavil I personally lave have used up in this connection The Tho result tends to prove the grat grato gratifying hying fact that while more Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats may not necessarily have learned how to read and write ob obviously obviously obviously more of us have got than formerly was the case when the Republicans were in power Besides think of what the strain would have been upon the poor post postman postman postman national committee had man if the been stuck with all this bulk litera litera- literature literature congressmen bad had started ture turi and franking copies out to their con titu the with Uncle Sam paying freight To give you a further idea about this franking pr I may for tor Frank state that it was as named Jesse s brother and brother and you U li remember remember ber how careless those James boys were with the United States malls mails I IR I S COBB g Service |