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Show fhiPhillipr W AFTER LISTENING TO A EUROPEAN EURO-PEAN DICTATOR "I," he said, "excuse my knife-Am knife-Am champion of the broader life; I," he said, "excuse my gun-Am gun-Am Just a little ray of sun." "You," I said, and raised my hand, "I find quite hard to understand; How can you be my guiding light While slugging me with left and right?" "I am," he said, "a leader kind-Excuse kind-Excuse my wallops from behind The things I do are for the best-Excuse best-Excuse my fist; it's just a test!" "Your logic isn't overclear," I said (then landed on my ear); "It's hard to think you such a lamb When underneath your feet I am." "I am." he said, "a leader kind If you can't see it you are blind; I want this world a sweeter place-Excuse place-Excuse it if I bash your facet" "I somehow fail to follow you," I said, now very black and blue; "How can I see you as my hope? You're standing on my chin, you t dope." "You are," he said, "so very dense, It always gives me great offense; If I but run you up a tree STou question if it's best for thee." "It Isn't very clear," I said, "When you have knocked me nearly dead, That every new atrocity Is done to make it nice for me." ? "I am," he said, "the Voice of Good-Excuse Good-Excuse my bombl (I knew you would) ; I am all sunshine and all bliss . . . Take that ... and that! and this ... and this!" now ABOUT IT? Judging from what Mr. Knudsen lays, our national defense program bas developed into a lag show. "Germany has nothing against the American people. Germany has all along recognized the Monroe Doctrine Doc-trine as a basic principle." Berlin newspaper. Wanna bet? IMPRESSIONS General de Gaulle: Man Without i Country. Tommy Harmon: The Michigan Limited, with shoulder pads. H. L. Mencken: Hermit dwelling In a huge dictionary. John Garfield: Pix bad boy. I. J. Fox. Danger! Curves Ahead! ("The London Board of Trade recused re-cused today to reconsider its order :utting British corset production SO per cent of last year's sales." News item.) rhe Ship of State for an even keel. Needs tons and tons of corset steel, The die is cast, the Fates have written writ-ten That ladies now must bulge for Britain! Louise Shaw. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm has rejected a chance to return to Germany. There's one man who has sense enough not to make any move before be-fore the final score. "Whitestone Bridge, New York Sways at Times." headline. How about calling it the Great White Sway? Mussolini is shuffling generals because be-cause he doesn't like the way the war is "running." LO, THE POOR INDIAN! On the Tonawanda Seneca reservation reser-vation in New York, the United States government made its 146th annual presentation of six yards of calico to each Indian in the Iroquois Confederation Saturday, keeping a treaty of 1794. A speaker glowingly reminded the Indians (and the assembled as-sembled newsreel men and camera men) that the United States was keeping a faith which was "unique in a world of broken promises and enslaved people." Well, we get the idea, and It Is okay with us, but the Red Man was certainly entitled to a loud guffaw and nine giggles. It was old Peter Doctor, oldest of the Senecas, who got his point over. "The Indians were civilized with a veneer of savagery," he said, taking his calico and wondering what to do with the darned stuff. "Over there white men have turned to savagery with a veneer of civilization." SPEAKING OF DESTRUCTION Neither Vandal, Hun, or Goth Holds a candle To a moth. Richard Armour. Add similes: as funny as the Vichy government's branding General De Gaulle as "a man without honor." AO those European small nations na-tions must be singing It "FACT all your troubles in your old kit bag." |