Show S J This Turvey Topsy World WIE MUST lUST not be surprised to read in ill our l p newspaper on the very da day that th t. t the wad war wa d department stages a demonstration of its new 4 4 red ta k c carrying fr i g three machine guns I S iii capable o of tr traveling at 60 GO miles an l hour S over er rough ground announcement that Cort Cor- Cor J t Hull Hl H l our secretary of state is proposed j f f he I ward award of f the Nobel Nob 1 peace prize We Ye we Ne e in In a topsy world else we should be bei i me fat stunned to note that that- thata a Du Pont chills Is for r go government lt pru pruning ing of munitions i S' S profits in iii wartime that Ogden Mills says saS a af aI f I y word for unemployment insurance I tat t at t the United United States chamber h of or commerce S the e National Association of 1 1 I ers approve features of the new deal 1 j If If th these se things timings are arc strange or unusual t are te other things which are not not hut but what S they if the they are arc not crazy r For i instance stance Wr r Cleveland I veI nd ma man stabs another to his death in an n argument nt ov over r t time the le proper poper way t slice e- e bologna and a n Colorado high school 1 sl slugs gs nine university coeds oeds just to prove th how Jiow- Y good a boxer he be is Wh While Ie Babe Ruth Kuth agid d his professional comra comrades es stir Japan apan to fo a pitch l h of enthusiasm for Am Americas America's great- great f 1 national pastime American f farmers in the Ih seek to oust a colony of J Japanese N ruck gardeners and thereby help bring J Japanese Japa Japa- apa- apa 1 nese public opinion one notch nearer the stage I. I tj at at which hit it would agree to toa a war Then Then- Gov J Murray rray 4 o of OkI Oklahoma hotha gives a shotgun sl t to c d.- d. S 'S t i S S 'S the states state's No 1 bank hank robber and lets him go into the hills hm to hunt I IA t tA A N New w York woman announces that she will endow selected poets to the time tune of a year The Daughters Dau of the Confederacy meet in New York City and a model citizen of Herkimer N. N Y who voted vote in iii every election for 14 years discovers that he lie is not a citizen after all nIl and prepares to take out naturalization tion papers A Spokane husband accuses his s wife of ol communicating with his rival by u using ing the Morse Moise olse code in iii her snores and a New Yorker hammers his wife to death with their framed I marriage certificate U. U S. S customs men detain detain de de- le- le tain a quart bottle hottIe of gin shipped from the Philippines declaring that while gin from flom the theS Philippines is duty lUty free there is a tax on the time S I bottle that contains it And so it goes Try to r reduce these news dispatches to some orderly significance and you will go daft The time has come when there cannot be a truce with crime nor even a pause in the pursuit ot of criminals Scott M. M Loftin LoWn president American Bar association |