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Pr Praising usmg Grind Gnnd Grand Canyon .CCOOTING CCOOTING . across Arizona Anzona I wasmoved wasmoved was SCOOTING moved to weave into mto this a complete com com- complete complete - plete description of the Grand Can Can- Canyon Canyon Canyon - yon But mercy stayed my hand In Instead Instead Instead stead , I have decided to send to all alldeserving alldeserving alldeserving deserving applicants souvenir souvemr post post- postcdrds postcards postcards - cards cdrds showing showmg views VICWS of the canyon canyonThIS canyonThis canyonThis ThIS ThISllll \ vill \llll llll will give the general idea It Itlooks Itlooks Itlooks looks just lust like the postcards , only onlylarger onlylarger onlylarger onlylargerThere's larger largerThere's There's Theres ' one thing thmg about the Grand GrandCanyonlong GrandCanyonlong GrandCanyon Canyon-long Canyon long - long after every other nat natural natural natural ural urallonder \ wonder \londer londer has been desecrated desecrated11th desecratedwith desecratedwith \11th 11th with \ architectural doodads and thescribbled the thescribbled thescribbled scribbled names of mdlvlduals individuals mdlvldualswhose individualswhose individualswhose whose signatures would look all allright allright allright right on the register of any dollar dollar- dollara dollar-a dollar a - . a day American Amencan plan hotel , but are aresort aresort aresort sort of out of place when smeared smearedover smearedover smearedover over one of creation's creations ' masterpIeces masterpiecesthe , the Grand Canyon will still be unspoiled unspoiled un unspoiled spoiled . . * . California Caltforma Rivers . T T S fun to cross a river v/ith v ith wIth / at atleast atleast DT ITS 1 least a trace of wetness m in it It Itmust Itmust Itmust must be my c early rJy raising ralsmg but I IlIke Ilike Ilike lIke a river to be damplsh-m damplsh m dampish-in dampish in dampish - in spots spotsanyhow spotsanyhowAfter , anyhow anyhowAfter After two t\lO t lO tiro \ ye years rs I can't cant ' get used usedto usedto usedto to southern California CalIforma rIvers.here rivers , \.here .here where \ wherefor . , for nine DIne months a year , the only onlycraft onlycraft onlycraft craft you can navigate is a stone- stone stoneboat stoneboat stone-boat stone boat - boat , and unless they use a sprink sprm1- sprm1 sprink- sprm1ng sprinkling sprinkling . - ; ling ng system you can't cant ' see where whereyou whereyou whereyou you re going gomg , and they deepen the thechannel thechannel thechannel channel by blasting blastmg and not by bydredgmg bydredging bydredging dredgmg dredging , and you come b back ck from froman froman froman an aquatic trip tnp full of hayfever dust dustThey dustThey dustThey They do say the fish have to learn to toswun toswim toswim swun swim all over again agam every fall , and anddown anddown anddown down between the steep banks the thepoor thepoor thepoor poor little frogs suffer terribly fromsunburn from fromsunburn fromsunburn sunburn It's Its ' a great country for forHoly forHoly forHoly Holy Rollers but hard on Baptists . . . Crater Versus Manville . T M TORN between temptations I'd Id I'dlIke I'dlike ' I'dlike Idlike ' DM 1M ! lIke to follow the search now on onagain onagain onagain again for Judge Crater , who has hasbeen hasbeen hasbeen been mysteriously mystenously missing all theseyears these theseyears theseyears years except for the two or three threehundred threehundred threehundred hundred times tunes when somebody saId saIdhe'd saidhe'd saidhe'd saidhed he'd hed ' been bcen seen On the other hand hand handTommy , , Tommy Manville Manvllle , the husband ot of otlus ofhis ofhis lus his country , is reported as havmg having havmgfresh havingfresh havingfresh fresh woman trouble back east- east eastthlS eastthis east - this thlS time tune of a blonde natureStill natureStill nature natureStill Still , I c can n al\\ al always alays \ ays prov/1 prov 1 prowl / the des des- deserts deserts deserts - erts , looking lookmg for the ju judge ge Out here herewe , we bunt hunt him at regular mtervals intervals intervals.He's intervals.Hes intervalsHes . He's Hes ' different from trom the Liberty LibertyLeague LibertyLeague LibertyLeague League It disappeared just lust as sud sud- suddenly sud- sud suddenly suddenly - - denly as he did , but stayed thatway thatway that thatway way . . . . Commercializing CommercialIzmg Football FootballNCE . ONCE / \NCE NCE \ upon a time , and not sovery sovery so - very long ago , a college was wasknown wasknown wasknown known by the footb football ll team it kept keptNow keptNow keptNow Now ! it's its t's ts ' known largely as the col- col college college col college - - lege th that t some football team is 1.S 1S . keep keep- keepmg keeping - . ingAnd mgAnd ing mg And sport writers wnters say that more moremoney moremoney moremoney money is 1S now being bemg wagered on onfootball onfootball onfootball football than on any sport we wehave wehave wehave have . And it doesn't doesnt ' take an ex- ex expcrt's expert's ex expert's - pert's perts pcrt's pcrts ' eye to see that , each se season seasonfootball son , football is becoming becommg more and more morecommercialIzed morecommercialized morecommercialized commercialIzed , , more and more n a nprofessional aprofessional aprofessional professional , profit making makmg mdustry industry industry.Well industryWell . Well , if 1f football is to go the w way y of ofwrestlmg ofwrestling ofwrestling wrestlmg wrestling and horse - racing racmg and andprize andprize andprize prize fighting , it'll itll ' pretty soon be so sothat sothat sothat that about the only game a chap chapcan chapcan chapcan can play without fi . fixing mg somebody somebodybeforehand somebodybeforehand somebodybeforehand beforehand will be solitaire . Still . , being a football devotee does doeskeep doeskeep doeskeep . 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