Show S e 1 in about Japs Killing SANTA ANTA MONICA CALIF 13 The The formula still holds good A Jap kills a Chinaman China China- man That's another dead Chinaman A Chinaman hinaman kills a Jap That's a war But before we get too busy deploring deploring de de- de- de Jap Japans Japan's ns n's little way of disregarding disregarding disregarding garding pledges so as to gobble more W Chinese territory let letus letus t us look at some records records rec rec- 1 closer home F a a j Since the tho republic s. s f- f was formed we have deliberately broken I r. r 4 l separate e treaties I l with the original Red h f owners' owners of this land From these violations violations viola viola- of our solemn promises bo r d de e r Irvin S. S Cobb wars frequently en en- sued When the Indians started figh fighting we called caned it an uprising When we sent troops forth to slaughter slaughter ter the Indians it was a punitive expedition ex ex- ped ion to restore law and order If U the white soldiers wiped out the Indians that was a battle If the Indians wiped out the soldiers that thai was a massacre Tho ThoSe e who make history rarely get a square deal from those who write history Keeping Undercover rT THIS HIS is the land where in self self- protection you hide your place of residence and have your telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone privately listed The result is isi i if your aged grandmother happens happens happens hap hap- pens along and d doesn't t know knY Y your address she she- can never reach you but any smart stranger may approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap the right party party let let us call him him a and and and by payment payment payment pay pay- ment of a a small fee get the number instantly So in about two calls out of three you answer the ring to find at the theother theother theother other end of the line somebody w with witha th a n neat little scheme because here herein in neat little schemes grow on every bush and gentlemen promoting pro them are ore equally numer numer- ous Through long suffering Ive I've become become become be be- come hardened to this but today over the wire came a winning vinning voice saying the sp speaker aker d desired sired to give i me as os he put it a checking over for lor white termites I admit to a touch of dandruff and there have been times when I suspected suspected sus sus- petted fleas we fleas we excel in fleas on this coast coast but but I resent the idea of also being infested with white ter ter- ter- ter mites Ive I've about decided d that to modem modern modern mod mod- em ern n civilization telephones are what cooties are to o a war war nobody nobody likes em but everybody has em Camera Carnera Sniping S O of famous folks from rom ambush may be upsetting to the victims of the sniping but the subscribing public certainly gets an illuminating eyeful every time one of the photographic magazines appears Ive I've just laid aside the current copy of a peri periodical which could be called either The Weekly Expose or Stop Look and Laugh Among other fascinating not to say illusion illusion- ing illustrations I note the fol following following follow follow- ow ing A reigning movie queen with her mouth so wide open that her face looked like a n gates ajar design If I had tonsils like hers Id I'd have em right out A political idol taken in a brief one piece one piece bathing suit Next timthey time tim they snap him he would be bev v ij advised to wear more than a mere g string A Mother Hubbard would be better Or anyhow a n toga A statesman is greatly handicapped when he suggests a barrel of leaf leaf- lard with the staves knocked off A up close-up of Mr John L L. L Lewis with the lips pouting out and a congested congested congested con con- expression Would not this tend to confirm the impression that lately Mr lr Lewis bit pit of more than he could chew This candid camera stuff is translating translating trans trans- lating into the pictorial fact tact the nightmare all of us have had that had that horrid dream of being caught outdoors outdoors out out- doors with practically nothing on Field Days Das for Cor Reds F U UNDER the warming suns of tolerance tolerance tol- tol erance crance and indifference and even tacit encouragement in c certain certaro r. r tain taro quarters many of our hot hot- hothouse house Communists are changing from the pallid timorous of discontent into full-blown full advocates advocates cates of the glad new age when Lenin will take talc Aver Lincoln's niche In the gallery of the immortals and ond government everywhere will be of the by br the for tor the True there still remain some wavering souls who are so pink they'd be red if they fuey weren't so yellow yel yel- yel- yel low But these quivering aspens shrink in number as ns their bolder comrades openly profess the blessed doctrine which is doing so much for the undertaking undertaking un un- un- un business in Russia IRVIN S. S COBB Copyright Service |