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Show ClL- about: SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Who today remembers this man's name? He was a Southerner. He was humbly born. From childhood child-hood the craving for power possessed pos-sessed him. He educated himself, him-self, studied law, got into the game, gained high office. The aristocrats despised him. They labeled him "poor white trash." Ue fought them and he fought the corporations. He flouted the old leaders and he organized "the great common DeoDle." F V ' 1 He built tip a machine ma-chine in his own Image; set np a partisan election board In his own behalf. The whole country coun-try watched the so-ealled so-ealled upstart some admired him. He went Into a eonven- ftsJ,,.. tlQn flg a dlscredit. Irvin S.Cobb e(j minority candidate. candi-date. He came out of it with the governorship nomination, leaving his party in warring fragments. On the eve of attaining his highest high-est ambition of all complete political po-litical control of the commonwealth he was shot down at the state house. His enemies and some of his friends believe that, had he lived, he would have ruled the national na-tional Democracy or else would have wrecked It. If Huey Long had liver If 'determination 'de-termination and courage had conquered con-quered the assassin's bullet what would have been his place ln future history? But with the grim parallel continuing con-tinuing to Its fatal end, will the next generation forget Long, as already al-ready this generation has forgotten forgot-ten Goebel of Kentucky, dead by a murderer's hand less than 36 years ago? Adopting Husbands. WE'VE got a new fad out here in Hollywood and a very lovely love-ly one. From time to time some among our glamorous cinema queens adopt orphaned infants, often doing do-ing so with all the shrinking reticence, reti-cence, all the strenuous efforts to avoid publicity, which you'd notice In connection with Barnuni & Bailey's grand street parade. Think of the heritage for a girl child thus favored, when she in turn grows up and her own firstborn first-born prattles at her knees and looks up with trusting baby eyes and says, "Mummie, .did the stork bring you to dear Grandmamma the same as he brought me to you?" I seem to hear the answering words, "No, darling. You see, precious, it happened hap-pened in Hollywood, so I came with three news cameras, two press agents, one eighteen-piece orchestra and a nation-wide hookup." Joking aside, though, while some of these screen ladies may be persistent per-sistent yet frequent wives, in the main they make devoted foster mothers ; In fact, are such successes at It that a fellow gets to wondering won-dering why. Instead of just beeping beep-ing on marrying husband after husband, hus-band, they don't try adopting 'em. Not Raising Onions. VERY BODY was so joyous over congress adjourning that, during dur-ing the public dancing in the streets, we overlook a few bets. Among the great gross of bills that went through at the 'leveuth hour was one whimsical little trick called the Potato Control act. We did so well lust year with cotton control. Anyhow, this one had the usual congressional brevity, a mere beggarly beg-garly 15,000 words. But 'twould seem it's loaded with crop reduction reduc-tion rules and what not for the 3,-000,000 3,-000,000 Americans who, for reasons best known to themselves, go on producing potatoes at the customary custom-ary ratio of 1G to 1 10 potato-bugs to every potato. By winter, I look for the G-men to be out running down potato-loggers and spud-runners. However, having gone on a strict reducing diet, in the Interests of the acting art, I'm remaining calm. Hitler's Trick Mustacha. "pilE Berlin dispatches tempt a -1 fellow to go into Nazi ln its various branches, but, after four weeks' of doing this job, I've already al-ready found out that to avoid causing caus-ing bitterness In one quarter or another, an-other, about the only thing you can take a linn stand against are boll weevils and side whiskers. And even the side whiskers have A few devoted friends left. Vet, without debuting any of his other outstanding policies, I foe, Hint all of us can Join In deploring deplor-ing a certain attitude of uncertainty taken by llerr Hitler. The strain would be greatly relieved If only lie could decide whether tlmt trick mustache of his is going to keep "ii clinging whore It Is now or climb bai'lt up his nose again. IWoro now, governments have fallen on lesser Issues than a nustneho giving such universal din-wtlKfai'tlou. din-wtlKfai'tlou. irvin' s. conn. fl North AmiM-li'nn NVv.,.n ivr AlllnnM Inc. WNl, s,.,vl,-. |