Show what If thinks about Glory Vs Undernourishment SANTA O ANTA MONICA CALIF Li Because their dictators are piling up armaments and building up armies at a rate unprecedented the German people must it appears go goon goon goon on rations cutting d down o 0 w n n. their daily consumption of foodstuffs and fats with the prospect of still more stringent stringent stringent gent restrictions But their overlords overlords-a a reasonably well nourished lot to judge by their photographs keep right on preaching that such compulsory sory undernourishment ment is all for tor the 4 greater glory of the vater 1 and M 1 4 I know of but one i historic parallel to match this It is to tobe be found in Mother Goose where it is l t. t iI poetically set forth There was a piper Irvin g S. S Cobb had a cowAnd cowAnd cow cowAnd And he had naught to give her So he pulled out his pipes and played her a tune And bade the cow consider Signs of Disapproval O ONCE NCE in Montana I heard two cowboys talking about the father fath fath- er of the sweetheart of one of them Ive got a kind of a sneaking idea that Millies Millie's paw dont don't care deeply for me said the lover What makes you think so some so-some- some something thing he said No b because cause he dont don't never say nothing to me Just sniffs But the theother other other night night I snuck over there to see Millie and as I was coming away I happened to look back and the the theold old man was shoveling my tracks out of the fr front nt yard The archbishop of Canterbury is likely to wake up any morning and find the British public shoveling his tracks out of the Ule front yards I International JUST about the time the contesting contesting contest contest- S. S ing lug groups in Spain lose the twenty or thirty confusing names the correspondents have hung on them and resolve themselves into the army that's going to take Madrid Madrid Ma Ma- not later than 3 o'clock tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row afternoon and the army that's going to keep Madrid until the cows come home a fresh complication breaks out in China General Chang gets into a with General Chi Chiang ang possibly on the ground that hes he's a typographical error and the red forces of the north get all twisted twisted twist twist- ed cd up with the white army of the north and the pink army of the north by northeast and so on and so forth until the special writers run out of colors Just one clear point stands out o ot of the When the dust clears away some small brown brothers wearing the Japanese uniform uniform uni nfl form will be found sitting on top o of the heap Chinas China's poison is Nippon's Nippon's Nippon's Nip Nip- pons pon's meat every pop S S S Rationalizing the Calendar THE rilE pHE plan to adopt a rational calendar calendar cal cal- is finding favor tavor in adm administration administration admin admin- n. n circles at Washington as asin asin asin in European countries Every time this proposition proposition- which is so sensible and seemingly unattainable unattainable bobs bobs up I think of the little story of the venerable Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama pessimist who dropped into the general store just in time to hear the proprietor reading aloud from rom the newspaper that the project for tor thirteen months of ot twenty- twenty eight days each had been laid for consideration before the League of Nations Im a aein arin in it it declared the aged one be jest my luck for that extry month to come in the winter winter win win- ter time and ketch me short of ot fodder Stunts in the Films FOR JOR ordinary film stunts current I 1 prices are 1 Tree fall taU 25 stair fall 50 each additional flight 35 on head-on auto crash parachute jump mid-air mid plane change high dive 75 being knocked down by auto 75 being knocked down by locomotive trick horse riding riding rid rid- ing lag crashing a plane 1500 It doesn't cost a cent though for practically every slightly shopworn leading man on or of off the screen to crave to play Hamlet on the stage But it is almost invariably expensive for tor the producers who occasionally satisfy these Ulese morbid cravings IRVIN S. S COBB e Western Newspaper Union |