| Show 1 t L LAMENTS J PASSING OF PION By iA Ct-iA CHARLES LES P. P P. P ST STEWART WART NEA Service Writer I IW W WASHINGTON July 20 Ex Ec Ex- Ex Representative Alfalfa Bill Bm Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray of ot Oklahoma is disgusted He lIe writes from South America to friends here that the spirit of ot the time old pioneers Is dead in North American breasts Some time ago Bill DIU got got a land Jand concession In Bolivia a Bolivia a tract the size of or half halt a dozen Texas counties at least ledat His lIis plan was to colonize It with a lot of ot hard fisted tough tough- frontiersmen from the states states men men of ot the type of th the gone by-gone covered wagon on days A wild w westIn stin s short ort was as what Bill Bm was trying to create He loved the wild west In this country while it Jt stayed wild and pined for tor it as It began to to grow more and more domesticated te 1 Finally his yen became so acute acut that ho he decided to see if it he coul couldn't scare up upa a substitute for the real old thing to satisfy it Somebody told him about the only unco unconquered which nevertheless nevertheless never never- th less Is Is a nice place to live Uve In was to be found oun in In central South America r 4 5 J Accordingly away awa Bill journeyed to South America and I as nearly as a he could to the he center ceriter of it There Indeed he found a first class wilderness wholly i 1 unconquered just the th raw material materia for tor forthe forthe the old wild west wet he remembered remembered remembered so well well well-a a little hotter otter perhaps perhaps per per- haps hops but all the th better bett r from an agricultural standpoint for tor twelve twelvemonths month months a year if f crop growing weather Now thought Bil to get some wild westerners to locate here I For a wild west has to be something somei something some some- i thing besides mere roer landscape lands ap To conquer nature conquerors are necessary and conquest Is what Alfalfa Alfalfa Al falfa Bill Murray lives for tor It isn't the wilderness in Itself that he ho The Job of ot taming it itis ItIs itis is what he gets his fun tun out of ot Having Ha done so hes he's ready to o nove on to a new one one Just as he moved on from from- Oklahoma to Bolivia Bolivia Bolivia Bo Bo- Bo- Bo livia when the former got too civilized civilIzed civilized civil civil- for tor him Nowhere else in the world said Bill to himself are there such pioneers pioneers pioneers pio pio- pio- pio as back in the states where I came from Gosh I remember em in the old gays days How they'll Jump at a chance to get back to toem toem toem em f fHe lie He propagandized accordingly He offered extremely favorable terms to the land-hungry land for tor it was recruits he wanted rather than their money He made nade pioneering sound blamed romantic He described the country country country coun coun- try as a cross between a garden of paradise and a storehouse of ot riches which was true enough but ut Bill rather slighted the detail that settlers settlers set set- tiers would have to start from scratch on the task of developing the resources he he was bragging about Probably he took It for granted that as experienced frontiersmen they'd th y d have sense enough know to-know to know that without having it diagramed What Bill forgot was that the the od timers he had In mh mind d either were dead or mostly too old to make fresh tresh starts In a new country countr He just happened to be an exception He got colonists all right but they were the old h shells ird shells shells' sons and grandsons two grandsons two entirely different different differ differ- ent eat and progressively softer sotter genera genera- A look at Bills Bill's wilderness scared emBring em Bring a a aman man up up In an electric electric- lighted heated furnace farm house with running water telephone radio radio ra ra- ra- ra dio dlo set phonograph well built barns cribs and silos all about him a tractor to do all the hard Work j. j and ar an al auto waiting to rush him in fifteen minutes to the nearest movie whenever he Ie feels like it It- It I Bring a man up like Uke this then slam him down at the end of at a I weeks week's eel s 's ride on a hard Jogging hard with his entire equipment im ine imin in what he can load onto th the tens ter's back behind hdm slam hm slam down thus on a spot ht man hand band or foot since ti titie tB tE tie the creator finished with it ft a ato an anto anto to him 1 Dig Diga a a n well Cut bricks J. J cm m. m Build a house Tha C Raise crops Reduce em to i thing edible Cook Look out for tor ugly or dieas die as a's you please I b d dIt a cares r It IS disconcerting So So Bills Bill's colony didn't 1 l lIt Ia It dwindled away at nt firs firs' ox or two two at a n time then thea in group in a body No Now Novi Bill Dm has his wild west there but no no wild westerners westerners' the stories those colonists h ethey e ethey they straggle back home Heck What were were they 1 for I 3 S Tough experiences s a tough experience |
