Show 0 71 abou about t Grou growing ring cannon fodder ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA to produce this crop takes time and planning first your veterans must grow past fighting age because those who survive the horrors of one war never willingly enlist tor for another meanwhile be sure the women have been bearing children since children are the seed corn of your future sowing As the newer generation W grows up dose it on the old reliable P P P irvin S cobb formula parades pomp propaganda bands and guns and flag murderous preachments preach ments and manufactured patriotism they all help to fertilize against the ultimate harvesting befuddle the first born on dreams of drunken glory teach him the neighbor over the way is an enemy who must some day be crushed without mercy make alake him believe his count rys destiny demands revenge for old hurts reprisals for old losses widened boundaries writ in blood and then in about 20 years you have a nation ripened for ruin a race of 0 mothers ready to offer their sons to the slaughter its a slow crop but a sure one and highly gratifying to professional sword rat tiers and power mad dictators to profiteers and financial hijackers lets see come 1938 1933 be just a bout about 20 years since the last time the world cut its own throat 0 0 0 two faced politicians SOMEBODY says the type of poli IJ bician who swaps worthless promises before election for the publics confidence and its votes reminds him of janus janu janus was a god with two faces and the ancients finally got so they trust either one of them but it took them a long time to catch on might alight I 1 be pardoned for thinking of a homelier simile im thinking of the pack rat of this western country the thrifty pack rat slips with stealthy tread into your camp whilst you slumber and carries off something of value but he steal it nothing like that he merely exchanges with you you being asleep at the time he leaves a dry twig behind and totes off a side of meat ile he confiscates one of your boots but in return confers on off you a couple of dead cactus stalks his intentions may be honest but there is no record showing where a pack rat ever got the worst of a trade 1 I figure hes part scotch and the profits resulting from his professional dealings certainly may be likened to the career of many a chronic officeholder now flourishing in in our midst this ulan ia dewey WHEN athe HEN the republicans get out the hound daggs to run down their 1940 nominee they might search in the tall timbers of man hattan island theres a young fellow there the name being dewey and he being kin t to 0 the great admiral whose deeds crackled at manila one may day morning like the on mount sinai lie he comes of old yankee stock he hails from a debatable state michigan lives in a pivotal state slate new york still in his mid thirties he smashed the foulest securest sechrest secure st nests of labor racketeers and vice racketeers in america he married a sweet texas girl as southern as they make em her granduncle grand uncle was jeff davis my daddy was jeff davis relative too and this young dewey trained for grand opera speaking of this charm thing think of a president wind up his fireside radio chats singing home on the range yes sir the G 0 P might go farther and fare worse nordic supremacy RECENT blittle events bring to mind a little story of some years back when ahen night riding patriots in an arkansas county felt called on as a sacred duty imposed upon all true caucasians to put the black brother in his place said place in at least one instance being a colored cemetery also there had been a hood flood of notices to vacate sent through the mail to members of the african race followed by unpleasant surprise parties did the recipients fail to heed the gentle warning so the community was getting more nordic by the hour and the sound of the anglo saxophone was heard oft in the stilly night the scene and the plot now for the sketch pelageia Pe lagria perkins meets hookworm hostetter hosteller on main street hooky says pelaghia Pe lagria effen you auz to git a letter trum frum dese here wite vite shirts would you do me says hookworm boy id finish it on the train IRVIN S COBB service |