Show I I IN NEW YORK 1 By PAUL HARRISON NEW YORK YORK YORK-or Of course coure there's theres a good deal of substance to the old bromide bromide bromIde bro bro- mide about newspaper men meeting a alot alot lot ot of ot Interesting peo people l A lot of highly unusual people too with novel missions In life There Is F. F M. M for Jar example ex cx- ample who goes about lecturing on A commanding personality personality per per- he announces that he Is from the of ot England and is president of ot the Society of Social So So- cial He tells people that the molecule of mirth has set out outto outto to io murder the microbe of misery while the of energy gazes upon the sightly scene with ecstasy and Mr does very well financially with his lecturing Then there Is Joseph A. A a former broker who has been overtaken overtaken overtaken over over- taken by an inspiration to do some Orne prophesying for the world He discovers discovers discovers dis dis- dis- dis covers everything in mathematics and says that In a couple of oC years yellS he will be more famous than Einstein Some of the things his calculations have revealed thus tar far he declares arc are the of the Statue o ot of Liberty the secrets of ot the great pyramid pyramid pyra pyra- mid and the facts about the sea of glass gIMS mentioned In the Book of Revelations People are silly to plan rocket nights lights t to the planets according to Mr who says anyone can leave eave the earth plane simply by projecting pro pro- his consciousness Of Ot men who have acquired divine missions of ot one sort of another New NewYork NewYork NewYork York never can forget that colorful fellow ellow Com Oom the Omnipotent Loving Guru of ot the His career of ot mysticism began In Chicago more than 20 years ago then he came caine to New York and numbered m many ny wealthy women amon among amon hi hig hII f fol A lowers At his country place ha ho kep elephants went about In la robes rob and a turbans and spoke In Sanskrit Oom has hai gone a lon long way since thi that thai time As plain Dr Pierre A. A Bernard of r l' N. N Y Nyack he is Ls president of two banks and a savings and loi loan association Last summer ummer he built a sports stadium presented It to the tha 1 community and invited President Roosevelt to the opening ope Postmaster General Farley attended Dr B Be Benard nard still gives lectures on Oriental ism b but t he doesn't go in for mystic j. j rites any more For years one of New Yorks York's mo most moil I persistent minor rackets has b been the street peddling of large printed sheets sheet containing the words of si ill all S the current popular songs These lyrics are copyrighted of course and antI such unauthorized sales naturally hurt the sheet music business The American Society of Composers and Publish Publish- J ers has spent fortunes fighting tit the practice but is making little headway As fast lat as peddlers arc are arrested oth take their places and no cat oni 5 seems scorns able to track down the source of the illicit sheets 3 Sometimes too the pec peddlers thea selves are not even punished It A X derelict who said his name wu to was dragged into court the tha theother theother other day for selling song long sheets Th They looked up his record and found ho he had been in trouble many tIm times b b. b fore Six months said Magistrate Louis Brodsky i Just then a lawyer came caine forward and b the courts court's indulgence for fora 1 a n moment Surely your honor would not jail jaU a man for promoting patriot I Ism lam he said He held up one of th the pink sheets See See among among these songs sones I are The SP Star Spangled Banner and f My try Country of Thee The court 3 will grant I am sure that there ii is 1 nothing censurable in the act of pop pop- j the words lords of ot our national anthem I doubt that there Is Js a person per t son in this courtroom with the possible possible pos pos- J sible exception of the prisoner who knows the of verses the Star Span Banner Does your honor know the verses His honor started reciting got lot to the middle of the second verse verle and stopped Gamely he tried again and faltered All right he said Sentence Sentence Sen tence suspended i |