Show what what e fl thinks about Making l 1937 a n Safe Year SANTA CANTA MONICA 1 CALIF Li This This time last year we were all dedicating ourselves I to a crusading c campaign to tomake tomake I make 1936 a safer year for forI I motorists We Wc were going to cut down the volume of traffic disasters going goine to reduce the appalling mortality toll which had marked the preceding pre ceding year TSo T- T So what Well heres here's what The end of 1936 1036 showed an all time top for deaths on the public highways highways- roughly or approximately more than in 1935 1035 So well we'll now pious pious- Irvin s. s Cobb ly resolve resolve- all over again to do something about this hideous destroyer which kills by the thousands and maims by the hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot thousands and makes our fatalities and casualties in the world war seem by comparison puny And what will come of the renewed renewed re re- re agitation The National Safety Council will wage a gallant hopeless fight various local organizations organizations organizations and civic bodies will do what they can newspapers will rail and statesmen will deplore deplore and and the ghastly record of slaughter will keep right on mounting S S S The Thc Value of Experts T I I HEARD a supposed expert advis advis- A i ing a director bound for Africa to shoot a big game picture that practically everything about his kit was wrong except pt possibly his rear collar button It reminded me of the pampered millionaires millionaire's son who was heading for the arctic circle He called in ina a veteran of or pol polar r expeditions and tol told about his outfit All went well until he started des describing his parka Its fine he said made of sealskin sealskin seal seal- skin and the hood a all fringed with w wolverine and and Of One COne moment said the professional professional protes- protes is the hairy surface of the pelt worn next to your body No said the youth The fur iso is o outside of course All wrong pronounced the crit crit- ic Thermal Therm l demonstration h has a s proved that to conserve the bodily heat the hide should be turned so the fur is used as a lining and the smooth or naked side is exposed thus cutting the wind The yo youngster burst out laughingH laughing Have H ve I said som something thing to excite y your ur mirth demanded the Ule special special- Oh not at all said the amateur I was just thinking what a darned fool a buffalo is S AmerIcan Americano in England RENEWED RENEWED E excitement has been I v ar aroused used in the British isles by bythe bythe bythe the discovery that yet another member member mem memo ber of the royal family this family this time its it's the young duke of not Kent Kent not only shows a regrettable tendency to enjoy himself himsel as any normal natural natural nat nat- ural healthy youngster might but what is even more distressing has hasla la lately tely been seen in the company of an American woman Oh these pestiferous Yankee women In spite of all that can be bedone bedone done its it's almost certain some of or them will witness the coronation and md several thousands of ot them will break their girlish necks trying todo to todo todo do so 5 l militarizing the C. C C C. C. C T D of J. J Oklahoma is is trying to accomplish accomplish pUsh something which shou should J have been done long ago Hes He's preparing a bill to make m military reserve units of the C. C C. C C. C boys which would mean discipline and morale for thousands of ot young Americ Americans ns and I if needed would provide the nucleus of a trained citizen Seems to me there is every reason why should enact the congress legislation leg not as a warlike gesture but as a 3 peace time peace ime move for tor forna national national na na- na defense and n national tion lion But watch the professional pacifists fight it professional it-professional pacifists pacifists paci pad fists being well meaning folks who believe in Santa Claus Glaus turning the theother theother theother other cheek and the beautiful I if slightly impractical theory that a white rabbit will be perfectly safe among a pack of greedy coyotes S S Actors Trading Careers Car WAY HALF H WAY ALF Y across the continent actors who have succeeded in in Hollywood and are headed east cast hopIng hoping hoping hop hop- ing to break into the legitimate stage on Broadway pass actors who having succeeded on Broadway Broad way are arc hc heading ding west vest hoping to break into th the movies in Hollywood It is a way two traffic which grows heavier all nIl the time Thus wo we see see how human hinan hopes are arc uplifted ted and how curious a thing Is human nature not to mention human ambition Also its it's good for Cor railroad travel tr vel But flut if the jaybirds suddenly decided decided de de- de- de to trade their nests for tor woodpecker woodpecker wood wood- pecker holes and the woodpeckers fell in heartily with the idea we superior creatures could laugh at feathered friends for or being such idiots IRVIN S. 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