Show what thinks i n s about t Shaw Comes Through I TEXAS I always always al- al HOUSTON ways said iel there was only one living person who could convince me that George Bernard Bernard Bernard Ber Ber- nard Shaw was not the smartest smart smart- est man in the world and world and that person would be George Bernard Bernard Bernard Ber Ber- nard Shaw And by gum he did It I For Tor this admirer he began the tine disillusioning Job the last time he was over here tellIng telling tell tell- ing lag us so frankly what nt ailed us and andon andon 9 on the present trip he lie already has finIshed fin fin- fished up the con con- rr tract When a man no matter how great he lie Ie was In the past reaches the thc point point where he hc mistakes r rudeness u den e s s to his hosts for proof of Irvin S S. S Cobb his bits own brilliancy Instead of Just bad manners well manners well to me one of the most distressing sights on on this earth Is that of an nn extinct crater still tr trying to be the flaming volcano It once was Only for Westerners WHAT A THAT T I ask asic you jou Is the thc use of oC V V being a consistent old line Republican Republican Re Re- pu publican back East with fine e banking bankIng bankIng bank- bank Ing connections when all youre you're permitted permitted per per- perI I to do as the other fellows start drawing their hands for this j years year's ears ear's big bib game Is to fuss with the discards Why lots of us can remember when It wasn't regarded as fatal to the Presidential prospect of a n abright abright bright member of the G G. G O. O P. P younger set If he lie happened to reside reside reside re re- re- re side on the Wall Street side of the Allegheny mountains In fact quite the contrary Now It seems theres there's a rule that only westerners may look Jook longingly toward the White House without being accused of or tr trying ing to peep In Inthe Inthe inthe the deck before the deal So Called Sunny South IF THE poetic pioneers who first christened the lie lower cross section section section sec sec- tion of our country the lie Sunny South came hither at this season season of the year I think I know what actuated them They called Dixie the Sunny South for the same reason that naturalists naturalists naturalists nat nat- have hac named a certain type of ot African h hyena enn the laughIng laughIng laughIng laugh- laugh Ing h hyena not hyena not enn not because the creature creature creature crea crea- ture laughs so often but because he laughs so seldom that It naturally nat nat- naturally attracts attention After contemplating lowering Jo or leaking skies for a n straight ht ten days daj's Im I'm beginning to wonder whether the sun has retired from business permanently Probably about next nest July Ill I'll wish he lie had Valuable Advice ODAY I ran Into my oid old and T TODAY J- J wise friend Bassett Blakely lie lle stuck to the thc cow cow business whereas Will n Rogers gers was weaned from It OtherwIse these southwesterly esterly ran ranges es might hove have produced one more corn fed corn fed philosopher-humorist philosopher with a national reputation During the depression Bassett tried to borrow a sizable able sum from froma a gentleman with a well well Tell earned reputation reputation reputation rep rep- for frugality It was a n forlorn forlorn forlorn for for- lorn hope No stated Bassett emerging from th the Interview he lie didn't let me have ha any money but on parting partin he gave me free fre of ot charge some beautiful advice Bassett my son he said n never ner er feed your our stock stock dry fodder In windy weather I did lid that In March In t 1854 and one shuck blew away on me Longs Long's Machine Endures LAKE T ARE AKE CHARLES LA I LA-I I mean no disrespect for any mans man's memory but for most an any one of ot us os who ever eyer tasted success the verse that was written about little dO dog Rover might serve ser as an epitaph While WIBle he lived JI he lived JIved In clover er but when he died he lie died all over I would have said that that Huey Longs Long's machine being essentially a aone one one man man machine would start fallIng falling fall fall- In Ing to pieces before ever they burled him But ut It yet endures and Is powerful powerful pow pow- erful and right or wron wrong It Admire such a mans man's record or despise It nevertheless ne you have to take tale off oft your hat to a n personality that can project Itself back across the thc grave They're All Ranchos Ranches 0 OUT UT UT In California every patch of ground where things grow regardless of oC size sl Is a n ranch So SoI I far as I know there are only two farms In southern California ones one's a n lion farm and the other Is an ostrich ostrich os os- os- os rich farm I look ook for the lie day when a n Hollywood scalp sp specialist will refer to his establishment as ns asa asa a dandruff ranch In Texas as which we Just left behInd behind be be- hind us J nearly ever everybody body Is n a rancher too or used to be Today were we're In the land lane 1 of the planters and If we keep going bearing north tomorrow wed we'd be among the farmel farm farm- el ers s. s The so so so called d gentleman-farmer gentleman I n ns as we Know him hack East doesn't I flourish anywhere 11 down own here IRVIN S. 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