Show I Pre Prevailing V Comment L of the American Opinions Press ion s I The Gullible Radio Public The federal communications commission is considering what action it should take regarding the recent broadcast of the H. H G. G Wells The War of the Worlds A considerable number of people perhaps several thousand thousand thousand and in all were frightened by the broadcast but it would do them thema a serious injustice to say they were lightened out of their wits all the evidence indicates they never had any wits to lose By and large the radio audience isn't very bright Perhaps it would be more tactful to say that some members of the radio audience audience audience audi audi- ence are a trifle retarded mentally mentally mentally men men- tally and that many a program is prepared for their consumption Newspapers books bools magazines the stage and even the movies strain the fat boys' boys powers of understanding understanding understanding under under- standing and appreciation but they can generally find something something something some some- thing on the air which is within their comprehension If it is the duty of government to encourage imbecility by safeguarding safeguarding safeguarding safe safe- guarding it then the communications communications communications commission ought to do something drastic about The War of the Worlds Otherwise no action will be taken No harm has been done on the contrary the incident may have jolted a afew afew afew few persons into a realization of oft t the their h c i r intellectual limitations Possibly some hundreds of citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens have learned that they are not as smart as they thought they were Possibly too they have been taught that credulity is an Intellectual vice and skepticism Isan is isan isan an intellectual virtue Chicago Tribune And God Save Us Announcement that the king and queen of England will visit the United States next spring indi indi- cates that the esteemed gentlemen ruling Britain are genuinely worried worried wor wor- ried ned over American reaction to the Chamberlain deal at Munich So they propose to play their trump card just as they played it with France not many months ago America of course will give the royal couple a royal welcome No question of that At the same time let no one be under any illusions as to the purpose of their coming Monarchs do not cross the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic ocean merely to to dedicate monuments in Canada The British want American help Churchil Churchill said so plainly I That's what they are after They want a trade agreement which will give us a stake in the British empire They want token payments payments payments pay pay- ments to be accepted on the war var debts so they can float new financing here So when King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive let arrive let us give them our best cheers and our best wishes Yes let us join in singing God GodSave GodSave GodSave Save the King But let us also sing perhaps more softly softly God God Save Us New Us-New New NewYork York Post 30 Worth of Wind Quoting from Miss Ruth Finney on inflation One German widow with an annuity of a month was re reduced reduced reduced re- re to complete destitution during the German inflation Her entire income would not buy even evena a postage stamp Which is a pretty good tip on how many plates of ham and eggs that 30 every Thursday will buy buy if if a majority of California's voters next Tuesday mark their ballots to start the states state's printing printing printing print print- ing presses on a mass production of old age pension scrip Happily Happily Happily Hap Hap- the ham and eggs amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment was beaten at the polls Its It's been tried before in many ages and many climes Kubla Kahn used mulberry bark The early American Indian traders used wampum The results were the same as with the or revolutionary France and the war post-war kronen of Austria and marks of Germany And unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately it continues to be true that something cant can't be made out of nothing as most American adults of today should know re recalling recalling recalling re- re calling what happened to the Florida land boom and the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York stock market of the Jimmy Walker era San San Francisco News |