Show what 0 bb d 0 thinks about I The Tho Place of f RAdIo SANTA ANTA MONICA CALIF- CALIF CALIF Deke Aylesworth says radio can never displace newspapers Deke is with Roy Howards Howard's newspapers now and naturally wouldn't care to have his job shot out him loudspeaker loud loud- loudspeaker loudspeaker from under by a n speaker Most of us feel that way about our jobs unless we happen to be working in some state institution such as a n penitentiary I Radio never can displace news news- newspapers newspapers newspapers papers any lIny more than milk tickets can displace milk The new newspaper spa per reader chooses what lie he pleases from the days day's coverage coverage- gratifying obituary notices of people he h didn't like convincIng convincing P Ping ing statements from financIal wizards ex- ex explaining ex explaining why his In- In Investments in investments vestments turned sou sour our r a after Her hed he d bought them on ad ad- ad Irvin S Cobb vice of aforesaid wizards and about once In so 80 oft oft- ten oft ten exciting special articles about the Hope Hop diamond or the th William Desmond Taylor case or the lure of Mr Robert Hobert Taylor But the Ur lis- lis listener lis listener tener In on radio must accept what somebody else ele already has predIgested which puts him in the same class with tapeworms So long as you cant can't wrap up a picnic lunch In a radio or use short wave sets lIets to line pantry shelves with well we'll have hav newspapers Thanks Deke I 1 I m working for fora fora fora a string of newspapers myself The Tir Leagues League's New Head I TAKE back all I ever said about the League of Nations being as futile as a Q fly swatter in a saloon brawl The league has a new president president- the Aga Khan who has the largest private Income on earth because 40 regard him as ns divine and pay for tor the privilege privilege liege often otten going hungry In order to do 10 so And he certainly cel Is quail quail- qualified ned fled to head a society dedicated to peace peace-he he never parted from any of his wives except with the utmost harmony Well to celebrate his his election the Aga Khan gave the the the- most gorgeous banquet ever staged In hit Geneva Geneva- Geneva 1 1500 bottles of champagne and pounds of caviar Thus did the league justify Its right to existence There were wore but few rew flies files In the th ointment Ethiopia's delegates were either deceased or missing tho the league having drawn the color line se so to speak which was more than Mussolini did when ho he wiped out their country last year Spain's delegates likewise were absent ab- ab absent ab absent sent being mostly dead or else fighting one another Sick Calls Calta DC Do Lux pAT PAT 0 BRIEN BRIEM the actor tells this one on about an Irish cop at the crossing who waved a Q car contain contain- containing containing containing ing three priests to proceed after tilt t stop Iop signal had gone up and nd then the wife barsh words ds checked an- an another an another other driver who sought follow along too But you let that other car with those three clergymen In It ft go goI I through protested the halted one They was on their way to a sick call stated the Ur officer Now Now wait walt a minute said the th citizen I I happen to be a Catholic myself and I know about those things Who ever heard of ot three priests going on one sick call For a moment only the policeman hesitated Then he snapped Say Say young feller tell me m this you that I knows s noss so much did much did you never hear bear of u a solemn high sick call Trench French Slickers POLICE T- T are rn bUU trying to r round roundup roundup 1 up the slickers who In one day raided twenty nine banks scattered aU all over oer 0 cr France rance This reminds a fellow of 1931 1831 when then the bank examiners ex- ex ex examiners were ela coroners simultaneously simultaneously simultaneously sitting on the mortal remains ot of an even cven larger number of Amer Amer- American American ican scan banks the th main difference be being bIng big ing that these French banks were ere looted by outside parties According to dispatches this Oils job was accomplished through fraudulent fraudulent fraudulent lent credentials tor for strangers pre pre- presenting pre pre- presenting presenting forged drafts But I beg leave to doubt that part remembering remembering remembering bering when hen I 1 turned up at various outlying points over there with prop prop- proper proper er Identifications and a perfectly good letter of at o credit What excite excite- excitement excitement ment then on the part of the Ute cashier pado beard and what deep dis distress tress for the th president trellis whiskers and what stifled moans from the board of directors assort assort- assorted assorted assorted ed beavers when finally they had to fork over Why s ou can cnn wreck a perfectly good bank here her In less time than It takes to get a certified check for less exchange cashed In a French provincial bank But should It develop that any of these recently stolen francs franca sere ere earmarked for tor payment to us on ac- ac account ac account count of that war debt brethren debt that would indeed be news m un IRlY iv lY s COBB conn C O Service I |