Show e ran 0 V t tt Growing Cannon Fodder MONICA CALIF ANTA S SANTA To To produce this ero crop takes time and planning veterans must grot gro grow First your because those who wh past fighting age survive the horrors of one war never willingly enlist for another Meanwhile ibe be sure the women have been bearing children since chil dren are arc the seed 43 corn of ot your future futuro sowing ter As A the newer gen generation oration grows up upa dose It on the old a I reliable P P P Irvin S Cobb formula parades pomp propaganda Bands sands and gun murderous and flag o and manufactured pa patriotism a- a they all help to fertilize fe against the ultimate harvesting 1 Befuddle the first born on dreams dream of drunken glory elory Teach him bim the th neighbor over the way Is an enemy enema who must some day be rushed crusher without mercy Make him destiny demands re- re revenge revenge re revenge his country s for tor old hurts reprisals for tor old oh losses widened boundaries writ in ii blood And then In about 20 years you yol a have nation ripened for ruin a l arace I Irace read offer oHM tr tl race of mothers re ready to jt td 1 sons to the slaughter Its It's a slow slow crop but a sure one and highly gratifying to professional sword rat rat- rattlers rat tiers and power mad dictators to t profiteers and financial hijackers Lets Let's see come 1938 It'll be just jus about 20 years since the list Fist time the world cut its own throat P e Two-raced Two Politicians says the type of poll poli- politician SOMEBODY who swaps worthless worthies promIses before election for tor the public s confidence and confidence and its votes votes- votes reminds reminds him of Janus Janus vial viala a a god with two faces and the an an- an ancIents ancients rents finally got so they couldn't trust rust either one of them But It tools took them hem a long time to catch on Might I be pardoned for thinking of if a homelier simile I 1 m thinking of if the pack rat of this western coun court courtry country try ry The thrifty pack rat slips with stealthy tread Into your camp whilst you You slumber and carries oil oft some some- something something thing hang of value But he doesn't nothing t-nothing nothing like that that lie He merely ex- ex exchanges ex exchanges changes hanges with you you being asleep at Lt the time He leaves a dry twig behind and totes oiLa oft off a side of meat meatHe meatHe He Se confiscates one of your boots but but In return confers on you a couple of dead cactus stalks His may be honest but there theres Is s no record showing where a pack pack- packrat rat pack rat at ever got the worst of a trade J figure hes he's part Scotch And the profits resulting from his professional dealings certainly may maye maybe I Ibe be e likened to the career of many a ironic chronic officeholder now flourishing I in s our midst e e e eThis This Man lan Dewey WIlE x i the Republicans get out W VY the hound to run down their meir 1940 nominee they might search earth In the tall timbers of Man Man- Manhattan Manhattan hattan attan island Theres There's a young fellow there the name ame Dewey and he being Itin in to the great admiral whose deeds eels crackled at Manila 1 one May Mayday Mayday day ay morning like the ligh on Mount fount Sinai Sindi I He comes of old Yankee stock He lie hails from a de state Michigan lives In a pIvotal state New York Still in inIs his Is mid thirties he smashed the foulest securest nests of labor rack rack- racketeers racketeers Leers and vice racketeers in Amer Amer- AmerIca America ica a aHe He married a sweet Texts Texas girl as s southern as they make cm em Her Herrand grand rand uncle urcle was Jiff Jen Davis My daddy was Jeff Davis relative too And this young Dewey trained for forrand grand rand opera Speaking of this charm charming ing think of a President who'd tad up his fireside radio chats sing sing- singIng singing Home the 1 ing g on Range flange Yes sir the G 0 P might go farther and fare worse e Nordic Supremacy i-i i RECENT events bring to mind a tv little story of some years back when hen night riding patriots in an county felt called on as a acred sacred cred duty imposed upon all true Caucasians to put the Black broth brothin brother tr in his place said plate place in at ati i least ast one instance being belOg a colored I Also there had been a flood Hood of notices dices to v vacate sent through the theall mail all to members of the ra ce followed bv by unpleasant surf suri surprie prie Ise parties did the recipients fail to heed the gentle warning earning So the community was getting more ore Nordic by the hi h hur ix and the sound end of the tho Anglo saxo saxophone hone was wasand heard and oft in the stilly night nl ht That B a the th 3 scene and the plot plott Now t far faro r the o sketch Perkins meets Hook Hookworm orm irm Hosteller r on Main street Hocky says Pel eften effen you u to git a letter frum front dese desere here re wite shirts would you do Mel says 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