| Show Between You and Me Silly Ev Events r ts Cast st War Shadows Dills Dill's Juvenile Book Welcome the Politico Political I P Parade rdo By Boi RAYMOND CLAPPER In America w wo we dont don't like liko what I the tho nazis are doing to the Jews In Germany So In New York Mayor LaGuardIa with a large Jarge flourish refuses a license to to toa a aGerman aGerman German masseur In Washington Washington Wash- Wash I ington a Utah senator talks about bout breaking relations and offers otters a resolution calling for a senate investigation of ot the way Catholics and Jews are being treated 1 in h Germany A New York mob of 2000 swarms around the tho Bremen Bremen Bremen Bre Bre- men and members of ot the crowd board her and rip down the nazi flag How would we feel if a n ngang gang of ot German rowdies boarded an American ship in Hamburg and tore down the American flag nag Well when the Mexicans did som something equally outrageous we demanded an apology and failing railing to get It sent the nav navy down to occupy Vera Cruz When the news of the American mobs mob's mistreatment mistreatment mis mistreatment mis- mis treatment of the German flag Jag reached Berlin the newspapers there as might be expected set setup setup up p a demand for tor an apology from Washington Thus the silly season op opens ns With with Its touch of ot midsummer madness when people want to burn down the barn to kill the rats poison the family to kill the cockroaches throw rocks from the top fop windows windows' of their gla glass s houses when they've got ants in ln t their pants This is not an advertisement but the best reading now on the market for r o-r the silly season jitters jitters jit itt tern Is is is' Walter Vatter Millis' Millis book The Road to War From that book you learn to what such things lead and lead and have led lcd only recently You learn that a nation which does docs not net mind its own business which thinks that it can reform the world which lets its justifiable justifiable justifiable able indignation howl bowl down its sober judgment drifts toward war war slowly and imperceptibly at first and floats unsuspecting on onan onan onan an emotional current which gradually grad grad- willy rises in intensity until at last it becomes all powerful sweeps away ever every obstacle and finally crashes rashes over the falls fails in ina ina ina a headlong torrent No one can can put the book down without out feeling that in the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of irritations beyond our own borders it is important not only for statesmen but for private Individuals to keep p their shirts on Former Senator Dill of ot Washington ash Wash ashington ington is is' writing a a book on government gov government gov gov- for Ifor the children In it ho is telling in simple language how the wheels go around fn in n nW W Washington hington so that children can understand it Such a book is especially needed at this time tim when it is the du duty y yot of ot every child hild to aid its parents par en in better belter understanding their own government When Senator Dills Dill's book comes out it will vilI be possible for tor every thoughtful child who has the interest of its parents at heart to bring mother and father together and find place in their hands a simply limply written volume which i in plain but hut discreet will wUl set forth the facts of life In Washington the tho tendency Isto is isto isto to assume that adults are arc more precocious about such things than they really are One One senator ator quite eminent had a rather disconcerting disconcerting dis die concerting experience when he ho re returned returned returned re- re turned to his home city after aeter an active session at Washington On the street he encountered an anold anold anold old acquaintance one he regarded as among his more intelligent constituents Its good to see you back thE tha constituent said sad How is eV everything every every- ry- ry thing down at the state capital I fI haven't been there for a long time replied the crestfallen senator Since I left the legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature I 1 seldom get down there dh Oh h you OU arent aren't in the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture No Ive I've been at Washington several years ears Well Vell how do you OU like being a congressman anyway asked the jovial constituent f. f Im a senator the tho unappreciated statesman snapped and departed de departed de- de parted sorrowfully And he said later I always thought t that fellow was one of tho the most intelligent men in the community A revealing questionnaire could be drawn up for lor voting parents parents par par- How many marly people know what happens to the pending bills which do not pass at this session of congress Nothing happens to them Yet any number of business business business busi busi- ness men now are trying to postpone postpone postpone post post- pone tax legislation thinking that congress would have to start allover all all' allover over again next winter Just for fun tun correct the following fol fol- fot- fot lowing towing statement supposedly made by the nephew of that Texas representative e who claimed he re received received re- re a box of cigars from the son of a utilities s executive Hell HeU them wasn't cigars Can Huey Long disciples correctly describe how the Kingfish makes a Ramos Ramos Ramos Ra Ra- Ra- Ra mos gin fizz Or what prominent official is a faker A liar As every congressman's mall mail reveals the care and feeding of voting adults is a job that can cannot cannot cannot not be dismissed by giving them thema a new alphabet and New v England Republicans thinking of their 1936 1036 shopping are making malting inquires about Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Landon Landau of Kansas They heard he lie was a second Coolidge You dont don't suppose do you t tie the e administration gave former S Senator Sen n- n ator Tom Heflin that speaking job in in the south with the idea that he would work on Talmadge and H Huey Hey ey Long in their own language language lang lang- Governor Nice of Maryland i isn't nt the same man he was before he hc made that trip to to the Pacific Coast They took ook him up on the he mountain out there and discovered discovered ered cred that he tempts easily casily NoW Now it seems to him only a running broad jump from Annapolis to the White House The administrations administration's up size-up of the political sitU situation tion Some |
