Show cu oJo alJa about t Salting Politics Away ES T AS VEGAS N. N M. A few weeks week ago everybody on the train Im I'm traveling on was talking politics Tod Today y everybody everybody every every- every every- body nearly is talking footbalL foot foot- ball ban Exceptions noted thus far far o l 1 A middle aged lady talking symptoms s. s It seems she has bas had radically practically everything except lock lock- jaw aw And as s for operations operations well well her whole life must have been nn an open book I gather gathers she fi 4 never had a secret l lt that was not shared K with at least three f d doctors 4 2 A iA gentleman 4 connected with th the e w movies talking ies ics In an nn eighteen eighteen- I w h hour our s shift hi 1 0 f i 0 3 Another gentleman gentleman gentle genUe- man talking self Irvin s. s Cobb We e can tell th that up to now he is just just- browsing around th the edges edges' of this fascinating topic By tomorrow we expect him to get really into the me meat of it 4 An elderly gentleman talking steadily He has been going since we left Los Angeles We dont don't know exactly what his subject is He h has not s said yet S S Praising Grand Canyon across Arizona I was S SCOOTING moved to weave into this a complete com complete corn com description of the Grand Canyon Can Can- yon But mercy st stayed my hand Instead Instead Instead In In- stead I have decided to send to all deserving applicants' applicants souvenir postcards postcards post post- c cards showing views of the canyon This will vill give the general ide idea It looks just like the postcards only larger Theres There's one thing about the Grand Canyon long Canyon long after every other natural natural natural nat nat- ural vond has been desecrated ted with architectural doodads and the scribbled names of individuals whose signatures would look all aU allright allright right o on the register of any ny dollar dollar- day a-day American plan hotel but are sort of out of place when smeared over one of creations creation's masterpieces the Gr Grand Canyon will still be un un- un- un spoiled I S S S 'S California Rivers T TT'S TS T'S S 'S fun to cross a riv river r with a aJ at atI I J- J I least a trace of wetness in it I It must be my early raising but I like a river to be dampish in dampish in spots an anyhow how After tw two years I I. I cant can't get used to southern California rivers where for nine months a 1 year the only craft you can navigate te is a stone stone- I boat and unless they use a I I ing system you cant can't see where youre you're going and they deepen the channel by blasting and not by dredging and you come back from froman rom roman an aquatic trip full ull dust They do say the fish have ave to learn to to swim all over over again g every fall and down between the steep banks the thc poor little f frogs suffer terribly from sunburn Its It's a great country for Holy Rollers but hard on Baptists 5 S S Crater Versus Manville TM TORN between temptations rd Td TdA IM I'M A hike like to follow the search now on again for Judge Crater who has been mysteriously missing all these thes years except fo for the two or three thre hundred times when somebody said hed he'd been seen On the other hand Tommy Manville e the husband of o ohis his country is reported as having fresh woman trouble back east east- east east- this time of ot a blonde n nature Still I can always prowl the deserts des erts looking for the judge put Out here we hunt him at regular intervals Hes He's different from rom the Liberty League It disappeared just as suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly as he did but st stayed that tha W way S S S Football O ONCE INCE NCE up upOn n a time and not so very long ago a college was known by the football team it kept Now its it's known largely as as' as the college college college col col- col- col lege th that t some football team is s keep keep- ing And sport writers say that at more money is now being wagered on football than on any sport we have And It doesn't take an nn experts expert's exports export's ex ex- pert's ports eye to see that each season fo football Is becoming more and more commercialized more and more a industry professional profit making W Well Wall if it fo football is to go the way o of wrestling and horse racing and prize-fighting prize it'll pretty soon be so that about the only game a chap can play without without- fixing somebody beforehand will be solitaire Still being a football devotee tee does keep you out in the thc open ope air But Bu you could say that same thing for tor a seagulL IRVIN Si S. COBB Unon Union Western Vestern Newspaper |