Show 1 PAW pr 1 gh about cures cares for communism MONICA CALIF A ANTA S SANTA certain rich man out here rich but indulgent rent got a letter from lits HS heir a sophomore at one of the big eastern colleges the lad ad announced lie he had been converted to communism and was contributing to the ca cause use so what jib about it the out old d man wro wrote te back son you have a perfect right to fol low lowthe the dicta dictates es of your conscience but bat as a cor consistent insistent isi stent communist you naturally would n not continue to live on the ill gotten gains irvin S cobb of a wicked money grabber today I 1 am cutting off your somewhat generous allowance you will also vacate the luxurious apartment you now occupy because im not paying the rent of same any longer exactly four hours after the arrival by air mail of this ultimatum the hardhearted hard hearted parent got back a rush telegram m stating that the young man had been thinking chinkin g things over and had decided not to take up the new doctrine the art of listening E HAD a party at which there ther e WE appeared eared what I 1 may call the dumb poets sam hoffenstein and ogden nash at the studios wh where ere both turning out epics theres a rule that neither shau shall burst forth into poetry while hes under contract no thumbing of the harp no sounding of the lute cinemas gain is creations loss maybe that explains why they made such good listeners the other night and a good listener a boon I 1 dont mind being interrupted provided the interrupter chooses the right subject mute and rapt I 1 can harken barken for hours on hours if someone is talking about me say or even reading from my published works but these two minne singers only broke in to ask that the pickled shrimp be passed or gently to suggest that another little drink or two do any harm 4 resurrecting old words WHEN a wo word d gets fas fashionable hio especially a new word which some wordsmith thought up right out of his hc head ad it gets too doggone fashionable the same applies to old words which have been disinterred from their forgotten tombs in the dictionary I 1 seem to see grave robbers prowling through the unabridged starting in at aardvark aard which chichis is an animal formerly common only to africa but now frequently found in crossword cross word puzzles and working on through to zy thurn a very strong beer drunk by ancient tribes I 1 guess those old timers imbibed co I 1 piously of the brew and then named it it sound like the sort of word a dead sober party deliberately would make up h do you remember the run intrigued tri gued had I 1 never got so sick of a word in my ife and then along came provocative and it turned out to be a pest people went around just looking for a chance to work provocative into the conver bation the only way to lick em was to pretend to be deaf and dumb 0 j campaign books L T ET us not cavil too much be cause high pressure salesmen working on commission have been unloading upon the faithful at fancy prices the gift book put out j by washington headquarters to pay i off campaign debts in fact 15 10 1 cents worth would cover practical ly ay all the cavil I 1 personally have used up in this connection f the result tends to prove the grat buying fact that while more demo brats may not necessarily have learned how to read and write obi more of us have got money than formerly was the case when the republicans were in power besides think of what the strain W would have been upon the poor postman if the national committee had been stuck with all this bulk litera 1 I ture and congressmen had started franking co copies pies out to their ants with uncle sam paying the t y y freight eight T to 0 give you a further idea 5 j abort about this franking privilege I 1 may K state that it was named for frank p jesses brother IRVIN S COBB Y i 0 service lab labor or recruited through the national re employment service operation cooperation co by the commonwealth of massachusetts the city of salem the united states treasury the society for the preservation of new england antiquities and private individuals cleared the way for the government to assist the project through the national park service and the fifty thousand dollars was voted by the massachusetts legislature the treasury department file nt consented to the transfer of t the he old custom house to the department of the inter interior bior the society for the preservation of new england antiquities donated the richard derby house and local citizens subscribed approximately towal toward u the expenses involved in acquiring title to associated associate d properties once IIi mistress stress of seas derby wharf national historic site will be an example of the scope and intent intention ign of the enabling legislation lat ion it will commemorate the most flourishing epoch in new eng lands maritime history when salem was mistress of the seas her the pioneers in opening aw swift ift ships her trade with the far east up with that of the name synonymous united states long before boston baltimore and P phila hila new york |