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Show WHSULCSQ BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know Is just what I read in the pa-papers, pa-papers, or the mail. You get aU kinds ' 'DID I '.' WRITEq THAT ( j W A of letters, and say if you think this thing of being in the movies and in the papers is a cinch, you ought to read some of our mail sometimes, some-times, and what hurts is that most of the time they are about right. You know you realy don't know how silly you are till you have to read it awhlie after Its written. But we are all that way, not only with, the written word but with the spoken. If somebody had a dictaphone dicta-phone on us all the time and then we had to sit and listen to it all ruu off every night or every month, or every year, I bet that would break us from shooting off so much. We had a great illustration of that out hero in California during the late election. This fellow Sinclair had written an awful lot of stuff in his life. Well they would go back among his writings and reprint things that he had said. (Maby it was only one of the characters char-acters in one of his books that was made to say that thing, but as he was the author of it, why naturally he come In for the blame). Well that had an awful lot to do with beating him, for a lot of thosa things sounded mighty cuckoo, but on the other hand if he had had the means of publicity, that is the papers to do it with, and had been able to have every one of the papers who printed what he said maby in 98, and had been able to go back over their editorials and reprint what they had said, he would have had them hollering hol-lering "Quit". 1 sure would hate to be running for something and have somebody dig back through old papers pa-pers and confront me with all the nut things that I have shown my ignorance ig-norance on. You see conditions and events change so fast, that what is passable today, is redicilous tomorrow. Look at Mr Roosevelt. He started in with an idea of a balanced budget, and said that was what he would hold out for. But look at the thing uow. But conditions are different, and he dident know this thing was going to be among us so' long. The N.R.A. looked like a good bet at the time, but part of it, in fact maby over half of it have proven to be non pratical. It all had the right idea, but we are still just too selfish to see that exactly ex-actly the right thing is done for the good of everybody. I doubt very much if Civilization (so called) has helped generosity. 1 bet the old cave man would divide his raw meat with you as quick as One of us will ask a down and out to go in and have a meal with us. Those old boys or girls would rip off a woll skin breechclout and give you hali of it, quicker than a Ph.D. would slip you his umberrella. Civilization hasent done much but make you wash your teeth, and those days eating eat-ing and knawing on bones and meat, made tooth paste unnessasary. Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers, in those days people fought for food and in self defense. Nowadays we have diplomats dip-lomats work on wars for years before arranging them. Thats so that when its over nobody will know what they were fighting for. We lost thousands, and spent billions, and you could hand a sheet of paper to one million different people and tell em to write down what the last war was for, and the only answers that will be alike will be, "D if 1 know". So thats what you call Civilization. Civilization is nothing but acquiring comforts for ourselvs, when in those days they were so hard they dident need em. We will strive to put in another an-other bath, when maby our neighbors neigh-bors cant even put in an extra loaf of bread. No our Civilization is not so hot. Poor Mr Roosevelt has tried to right some of it. He couldent do it by persuasion, and he cant do it by law, so he may just have to give it up and say, Boys I have tried to bring a little social justice to you all, but even the Constitution is against me, so back to the old times, "Sicke em "re ' 1 Tige". Now all this aint what I started in to write about. I started to write about some woman writing me about paying for her divorce as she had a better offer, and 1 just drifted into this mess. But at that maby I wouldent be afraid to be confronted with it 20 or 30 years from now. Nothing Noth-ing would hurt me but my Conscience Con-science for living like a "Civilized Citizen." 1935, McNauRhi Syndicate, Inc. |
