Show what I what thinks S about Tragedy in the tIle News New SANTA Q ANTA MONICA CALIF l To To me the biggest most tragic story in the weeks week's papers was not a war in Africa or a aIe Mexican Ie border raid or the passing of a gallant American soldier It was a little press dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch from an nn Ohio town where a n t tel year twelve el e boy lived Th The was on relief the father tather fa ta- ther out of or work There was no luou In the house no pennies to buy uy I food tood with The littie littie littie lit lit- tie chap owned a n. C rabbit The parents parents par par- voted that the rabbit must go In Inthe Inthe y the pot to pu put J strength I Into n to the thes s stomachs tom n c h s of the hungry brood Their son was hungry hungry hun hun- gry too But hi hIs IrvIn S. S Cobb rabbit was his pet his one possession So he went and hanged hImself with a loop of or frayed clothes line People Including some same me who have hav plenty of It for themselves ar are given gl to saying money Isn't everything every every- tiling thing Mn Maybe be not but It'll buy quita quite quit a n lot of or things Just a little tittle money In that poor household would have hav bou bought ht a n boys boy's life Ufe And a n boy who so dearly loved a dumb and ami helpless thing that he died rather rathe than see It die ml might ht have ha grownup grown ro up to be somebody In a world which needs all the compassion and al althe aU all aUthe the loving It can cnn get f The Lion and the Lamb 0 MATTER who gets Jets Involved olve N NO In It or how this Ethiopian war turns out watch motherly oh old Britain emerge from the mess with valuable something territories concessions mandates or what have you you tucked tucked away In n her commas commo dious bread brend baskets Any time the lion on and the lamb lie down to together ether eth- eth er tl the e lamb stays down provided down its it's the British lion youre you're thinking o of I Let those who will fl fight ht the battie hatI hat hat- I tie and font foot the hills All John TohnI I Bull asks Is s a n chance to exercise the benevolent process of or tion dl digestion and assimilation Theres There's one appetite has stood the tale test of the a ages es For the valor of her sons perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps Its It's fitting that as a n s symbol England should have Leo but hilt 1 If youre you're picking something to typify her policies my choice would be bethe bethe the tapeworm Today Today's Stein Stern Song Sont T THINGS never come out rIght In this faulty world Just as os Professor Einstein the scientist arrives arrives ar ar- ar rives with a n large are crate of fresh relativity Gertrude Stein the poet goes goes' hence For years I have been heen waiting salting to see these two mn massive sl e minds brought under the same hul bulging n roof hoping then thc they'd yd take on a aJob ajob ajob Job which lesser Intellects ts could never ne cope with I wanted d her to explain his theory and I wanted wante him to explain her poetry I even had the welcoming chorus fixed up For Its It's always fair weather when good m mysteries get et to together with Einstein on the tile table and a Gertrude ringing ln clear What This Country Needs A LADY writes in In n wishing to know what this countr country needs the most Would It be more citizens who'll quit cuss cussing n the kind of or JO government government govern govern- rn ment they get ct for lon long enough h to togo togo togo go to the polls Just once e and vote Or more mor patriots who'll 11 quit waving way a aIn In lag ing Old Glory lon long enough h to help smoke out some som alien enemy hiding hid hill lag ing In In the folds of ot the flag he ire hates Or fewer of those noo Roosevelt anti e Ites who still go 0 on the apparent nt assumption that when the Pr President J dent promised to give 1 hu business n a breathing spell he lie meant sneezing spell Or fewer fewer of of those thoe Roosevelt pro Ites who still stilt think nn any hon honest st rt of the man ninn In the White WhiteHouse House Is s Just the same as ns breaking the second commandment nt But lady since youre you're asking me mp I say what this country needs most Is Is' Isa a Mae l West Vest Joke to end all aU Mae Mo West Jokes The Hunting Season W WITH the open season I Impending Impend Impend- lag ing n certain sportsmen n again are declaring that because our hunters should have ha more ducky ducks and geese cese to shoot nt at the go JO vern ment ought might hr to stop Ih he Ali Ah relatives cs from eating Patin the e eggs s of or wildfowl But nut I Isn't nt It sort sorl of true that those benighted 1 nib Inn the nests because they're hun hungry ry Ive I've shot nit nil over mpr this country o and Canada hope Canada-hope hope to keep Irp on doing doing do do- In ing so too but Ive I've yet t to run across the gunner professional 01 n. amateur who wn was nut not there shoot In Ing because hanse hl his family mit it starve P to death ath If hp he didn't trine tonic some ducks Still wh why worry a lot of or Yukon Indians They don't dont vote dont don't even buy y anything on onI the Installment plan I IRVIN S S. 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