Show what cab bb d tt thinks about The New Dill Bill ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA They do say the new bill as drawn by the Gallagher and Shean of the administration Corcoran Corcoran Corcoran Cor Cor- coran and Cohen is more sweeping than was the original original original inal Even Gen Hugh Johnson once as conversational as Mrs Astor's parrot parrot parrot par par- rot but lately exiled amid the uncongenial uncongenial ial silences crawls out from under a log login login login in the woods with lichens in his hair but the lower jaw jaws s still till working workings s smoothly moo t h I y in the socket to tell how drastic a thing it is Critics assert this legislation will coyer cover cover cov coy er business like a Irvin S. S Cobb wet blanket over a asIck asick asick sick pup and point out that the thc number of sick pups benefited by being tucked under wet blankets is quite small malL However these fussy persons belong to the opposition and dont don't count Anyhow they didn't count much at the last election except except except ex ex- in Maine Vermont and one backward precinct in the Ozark mountains Friendly French Visitors IT TT T SEEMS we were cruelly wrong ong in ascribing mercenary motives to those French financiers who've been dropping in on us lately They came only to establish more cordial relations Of course theres there's a new French bond issue to be floated but these visits were purely friendly and altruistic Still and all all I cant can't help belp thinking of Mr Pincus who invaded the east cast eastside eastside side to invite his old neighbor Mr Ginsburg whom he hadn't seen in years to tobe be a guest at Mrs Pincus Pincus' birthday party He Hc gave full directions for traveling traveling traveling travel travel- ing uptown then added Vere Vero we lif ill now its it's von of dose swell valk-up valk flats So mit your right elbow you gif a little on the button in the downstairs und and the lock goes glick- glick glick und and in you come You go up two floors und and den mit your other elbow you gif one more little on en the foist door to the left und and valk in und in-und und vill be surprised Vait Va it exclaimed Mr Ginsburg I HI could get to that t I got brains aint it But ulso I got fingers fingers fingers fin fin- gers und and th thumbs Vot is de mit elbows stuff Murmured Mr Pincus gently Surely you come empty empty- handed Visiting Ancient Ranchos Ranches T the guidance of Leo U UNDER Carillo that most native of all native sons Ive I've been visiting such of the ancient ranchos ranches as remain practically what they were before the Gringos came to southern Cali Cali- fornia You almost expect to find Ramona weaving in a crumbly patio patio pa pa- tio What's more every everyone one of these lovely places is lived on by one of Leos Leo's cousins He has more kinfolks kinfolks kinfolks kin- kin folks than a microbe They say the early Carillos we were e pure Spanish but I insist there must have been a strong strain of Belgian hare in the stock When it came to progeny the strain was to the Pacific coast what the Potomac shad has been to the eastern seaboard Its It's more than a family its family its it's a species And a mighty noble breed it is is- is producing even yet the fragrant es essence essence essence es- es sence of a time that elsewhere has vanished and a day when hospitality still ruled and a naturally kindly people had time to be mannerly and the instinct to be both simple and grandly courteous at once Privileges of THE HE German commoner may be shy on the food rations and have some awkward moments unless he conforms to the new Nazi religion But he enjoys complete freedom of the press press press-or or rather complete freedom freedom free free- ree- ree dom from the press And lately another another an an- other precious privilege has been accorded him He may fight duels Heretofore this inestimable boon was exclusively exclusive exclusive- ly reserved for the highborn But now he may go forth and carve and be carved until the field of honor looks like somebody had been cleaning cleaning cleaning clean clean- ing fish This increase in his blessings makes me recall a tale that Charley Russell the cowboy artist used to tell The boys were fixing to hang a horse thief Charley said He only weighed about ninety pounds but for his heft he was the champion horse thief of Montana The rope was swung from the roof of a barn Then they balanced a long board out of the loft window and the condemned con- con was out at the far tar end of it It ready for the drop when a stranger busted in Everybody thought he be craved to pray but that unknown humanitarian rian had a better notion than that In a minute he came inching out on that plank and there wasn't a dry eye in the crowd as he be edged up behind d the poor trembling wretch and slipped an anvil in the seat sent of his pants IRVIN S. S COBB conn e Service |