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Show ujtXfot o Jhjnkd about SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Out here the new Authors' club is functioning nicely and abounds in surprises. For in stance, at one of our luncheons, lunch-eons, the following types were observed: An Armenian, he being the only Armenian I ever met that didn't try to sell me a rug. A visitor from Aberdeen who not only bought for him- sell but wanted to buy copiously for others. A native writer who declined to talk about his own works. A British writer in the same admirable fix. A radio comedian who did not discuss 1 ' I i.'v '"- S' 1 1 "i his nationally im- Irvin Col)b portant feud with some other radio comedian probably prob-ably saving that stuff for his regular broadcasts. A house committee chairman who neither bragged nor apologized. If we can only maintain this average, av-erage, the Authors' club will become be-come the most unusual organization on earth. "Made in Japan." A HIGHLY patriotic function there was a tiny American flag at each place, and on mine I found, in very small print, "Made in Japan." And it is officially stated that at least three out of four of the totem poles sold to tourists in Alaska as authentic relics of the aborigines come also from the orient. If, as and when we get to heaven, I wonder how many of. the angels we're going to find running around wearing the label, "Made in Japan?" Ja-pan?" . Collegiate Cosmeticians. THE students' newspaper of the University of Wisconsin has made a scientific study of the subject and announces that the average coed (female type) uses enough lipstick in one year to paint four barns. That sounds like an exaggeration, or may be mouths are running longer and barns are running smaller. But the barns do look better for being painted. Movie Family Parties. MONTHS after a moving picture studio has changed hands or undergone an upheaval such earthquakes earth-quakes being quite frequent the new bosses sometimes are still finding, tucked snugly away in the payroll, relatives by blood or marriage mar-riage of the ousted bosses. To you, reader, a new production may be either an epic or a flop, but out here it's often just a pleasant family party, extending even unto the third generation. In other words, Hollywood has added a new line to the old spiritual, as follows: "All Gawd's chillen got kinfolks!" An Aniti-War Prescription IF SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON of California had never done any other statesmanlike thing and he's done many a one during his long service in Washington this country would owe him a debt of gratitude for that act which he put through . congress providing that America can lend no more moneys to any foreign government still in default for sums previously borrowed from us. Can any sane man doubt that certain cer-tain European powers, now heavily heav-ily in debt to us, would not be at one another's throats if they were assured of financial backing by Uncle Un-cle Sam for their fighting. In other wors, they'd love to enjoy another world war so long as they didn't have to pay for it. But once in awhile, even a born sucker takes the cure, provided there's a Hiram Johnson to write the prescription. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright. WNO Service. |