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Show 2about: Camels and Communists. i FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. : There's nothing new about the fable. The only novelty is in the moral. One night a camel came and begged to be allowed to poke his cold nose inside an Arab's tent So the Arab, being a good-hearted Arab, says yes. Pretty soon the camel claimed his i ears were chilly and could he shove in as far as his ears? And the Arab said that was O. K. Next the camel got permission to put his neck in out of the weather, and, after that, his forelegs fore-legs and then his front hump, closely followed by his rear hump, and finally his hindquarters. ST' a ,.iwSWW y: Irvin Cobb I When morning came the camel was inside the tent, completely filling fill-ing it, and the Arab had been crowd- ed outside and there he was poor j shivering wretch, as homeless as a ' ha'nt. j Moral Every time I hear of an ! Imported Communist smuggling himself into our midst, I think of a cold-nosed cameL Holding the Bag. I TP TO now our government has ! declined all invitations to jump Into the Italian-German-French-Russian-British snarl, but watch for an effort to induce America to join in when the time comes for dividing up control over poor old Spain's ports, islands and remaining colonial coloni-al possessions. Not that we'd want anything out of the grab-bag and not that they'd give us anything. They'd merely expect us to hold the bag afterwards, after-wards, which would make two bags in all this little new one and the big one we've been holding ever since 1918. Travelers' Homecoming. CALIFORNIA travel bureaus re-i re-i ' port an increase of incoming j tourists. But then again, on the I other hand, part of it may be due to returning residents who went hurriedly away when the papers started printing a certain romantic diary. If your sins do not always find you out, at least they frequently find you getting out. It's all over now and peace and quiet have been restored to our home circles, but at the height of the rush one involuntarily was reminded re-minded of the ancient story of the Frenchman who Let with his friend he could prove every man, however outwardly pure, had a dreaded secret sec-ret in his life. So, to test it, he sent to each of the ten most respected re-spected notables in Paris an anony-; anony-; mous telegram reading as follows: I "All is discovered. Flee at once." j And next morning nine of them ; were gone and the tenth had committed com-mitted suicide. "Backward" British Justice. ENGLISH news - reel producers have been fined $10,000 and that's important money in any language lan-guage for titling a film. "An Attempt on the King's Life." Mind you, they weren't punished for any injury this title might do his majesty. Incredible though it sounds to us, the charge was: "Contempt "Con-tempt of court for prejudicint the case against McMahon (the man who tried to shoot King Edward) before be-fore he was brought to trial." For contrast, take a not altogether alto-gether forgotten criminal case. Possibly you may remember a I certain murderer's trial and what j i sort of publicity went before it, and j what actually occurred whilst 'twas being held, and what the aftermath has been, with attorneys and key-witnesses key-witnesses and yes actually some of the jurors peddling their private views for public consumption; and the governor of a great state displaying dis-playing curious and violent activities, activi-ties, even when the verdict had been called a fair one by the high courts? Backward race, these Britishers, trying people by the evidence and not by the newspapers and the moving-picture cameras. A Gentleman's Dinner. BACK EAST, a distinguished continental con-tinental chef rises up to outline the American gentleman's ideal dinner. din-ner. He names eight courses, which Is too many, and no domestic flavor about any part of it In rebuttal, I crave to offer a menu of all native products. First Lynnhaven oysters on the half shell, with western celery and ripe olives. Second, terrapin stew. Third, rice-fed canvasback duck, with lye hominy and p. bakec wine-sap wine-sap apple. Fourth, one very small slice of hickory-and-sassafras-cured razor- back ham with watercress salad, soused in a plain oil ano. vinegar i dressing. i Fifth, toasted southern beaten biscuit and a mere morsel of old-fashioned old-fashioned country rat cheese preferably pre-ferably from Herkimer county, New ; York. j IRVIN S. COBB. Western Newspaper Union. |