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Show yJhl.Phillipr P LUKE AND ELMER ON THAT SEA CONFERENCE What do you think of the eight point program?" asked Luke Twitchell of his brother Elmer. "Well, Wilson needed 14," replied Elmer. "So you see Roosevelt took six strokes on Woodrow's game." "And Roosevelt is playing over a much tougher course," said Luke, always the golfer. "I'll say so," agreed Elmer. "They didn't have so many hidden i greens in Wilson's time, the course didn't cover so much territory and there were fewer contestants." "I suppose it ain't quite right to speak of a terrible war like this in terms of golf," sighed Luke. "Why not?" snapped Elmer. "It has all the violence, bad manners, cheating and general brutality of the public links game, anyhow." I "Why meet on a battleship to : frame a program for peace and brotherly love?" asked Luke, plain-j plain-j ly puzzled. "Dramatic suspense, color, mystery mys-tery and all that," explained Elmer. "It ain't so much what you do or say in a crisis like this. It's how you put it over. That meeting had everything but sex appeal." "All it needed was some John Powers' models," nodded Luke. "It got across without 'em," insisted in-sisted Elmer, "but I wonder they weren't used, at that. John Bull and Uncle Sam are out to fire the imagination of the world, kindle the enthusiasms of all friends of freedom free-dom and get their message into the mikes and onto the front pages everywhere. ev-erywhere. And tii is sea huddle did it" "Whoever thought Churchill, number num-ber one man of the British empire, would leave London, fly to sea and hold a conference with the President Presi-dent of the United States in mid-ocean? mid-ocean? And who ever thought the President of the United States could drop everything at Washington to go to sea for the same purpose?" asked Luke. "It would even have been cut out of a movie script as too farfetched," far-fetched," declared Elmer. "Get the picture! Roosevelt gets on his yachl and disappears in one of the big moments of history. His disappearance disappear-ance is so complete even the news-reel news-reel men can't find him. The suspense sus-pense is terrific. Democrats everywhere every-where begin to fear something has happened to him." "And Republicans begin to feat something has not," put in Luke. "Rumors of a conference with Churchill at sea are spread, but dis credited as something that the hail tonic company would delete as incredible in-credible even if Gabriel Heatter put it in his radio broadcast" continued contin-ued Elmer. "Nevertheless it turns out to be the real McCoy." "Can you imagine the fit Hitlei must have thrown when he turned aside from his Russian blitz in what he thought was one of his big moments mo-ments and realized that Winston and Frankie had grabbed all the headlines?" head-lines?" asked Luke. "He's still howling," said Elmer "What do you think of the eighi points themselves?" asked Luke. "I don't see much new," replieo Elmer. "They're just Wilson's old model streamlined and with the fluid drive. But there was nothing wrong with the 14 points except that w forgot 'em too soon." "Do you think the Roosevelt Churchill eight points could have been improved?" asked Luke. "I do." declared Elmer. "By what?" asked Luke. "By a ninth point" snapped El mer. "A ninth point pledging Uncle Sam and John Bull not to go tc sleep standing up in the middle of a bowling alley." MORE REVIEW Oh, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Despite each horrible ' new "facey" No matter which you try to be ltnow you're simply Spencer Tracy. Babs Morgan puts it this way,-Uhen way,-Uhen in Rome, do as the Germans Ger-mans do." Martin Ragaway says Mussolini is so eclipsed lately that Hitler must oe doing his publicity. DIFFICULTY IN A GAS ECONOMY DRIVE Now if I should run out of ' Bes.de some rural fence. She thinks it's done to make a pass And not for home defense! Carl Holmquist Athens, actmg under Nazi orders, street from Franklin D. Roosevelt I.:"' 10 the Rue de la Paper 'Sf Hm "r Somethi"g- will do i. Hitler's own free wiU. |