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Show Q -about: Reducing Auto Fatalilif. SANTA MONICA, CALIF: Being revolted by our hideous record of mortality resulting from mad nutomo-Liling nutomo-Liling as what decent citizen citi-zen is not? a pentleman writes in some pertinent recommendations. rec-ommendations. lie suggests laws providing. In ad-d.'.ion ad-d.'.ion to such other penalties as n , fallow a con viction for drunk driving or criminally criminal-ly reckless driving, or hit-and-run driving, driv-ing, that the convicted convict-ed party shall lose his license for five years and that his automobile be sold and the proceeds used for the vic- -((. I tim s ncirs as uie case may be. Irvln S. Cobb Whilst we're cn the subject of the disgrace which costs America more lives every month than are being destroyed In the Spanish civil war in any month, here's another little notion: That a flagrant offender or a chronic offender shall be given a jail sentence, without the option of paying a fine, the only alternative from jail being his or her willingness willing-ness to be handcuffed and chained before the public gaze through a period of hours or days at the scene of the accident for which he or she was responsible. That ought to make some converts con-verts to the crusade for prudent driving, don't you think? Windsor's Musical Proclivities. LATEST word is that the duke of Windsor has taken up accordion accor-dion playing in a serious way after first toying with the deadly saxophone saxo-phone and then doing some intensive inten-sive bagpipe toodling. Obviously the duke Is in a fair way to estrange those who, until now, have faithfully faith-fully supported him through his recent re-cent harrowing experiences. Even loyalty can be pushed just so far. Or maybe he has a lot of close friends who are deaf. Or maybe Mrs. Simpson is practicing prac-ticing wearing earmufTs. Or maybe she can wean him on a mouth organ a comparatively inoffensive in-offensive instrument. Or he may just up and reform of his own accord. Or something. Let's not be too hasty in our judgments. Jefferson and Ickes. SECRETARY ICKES is sort of opposed op-posed to naming the projected great national auditorium in Washington Wash-ington after Thomas Jefferson, because be-cause it is proposed to hold sporting sport-ing events there when the building is not being used for public gatherings. gath-erings. He invites us to imagine the feelings of Jefferson upon looking look-ing down on boxing matches or such-like goings-on under that roof. Well, let's carry the thing further: fur-ther: Can anybody imagine Jefferson Jeffer-son imagining a Secretary Ickes? Madame Perkins' Ambitions. AT AYBE it's not wise to add those new departments to the Presidential Presi-dential cabinet right now. True, Madame Perkins shows a patriotic willingness or shall we say determination? deter-mination? not only to look after her own portfolio, but to snatch up such responsibilities as her fellow-secretaries fellow-secretaries are so careless as to leave out of nights. Still, it's expecting an awful lot of one weak woman that she should relieve two more members of their responsibilities, duties and authority author-ity when the task of trying to take over the other nine present jobs besides be-sides her own already has taxed her strength severely. And besides, there's annoying talk that congress may actually oppose the madame's latest little suggestion that she be made practically the supreme power pow-er in all labor disputes. But she needn't worry about that. Who ever heard of guinea pigs defying a lady lion-tamer? The Flood's Aftermath. 71TH slackening of the tor- rents, the peak of drama out of the scene, but the tragedy, less spectacular but nevertheless' desperate, des-perate, lingers on the tragedy of destitution and ruin and sickness. For the rebuilding of wrecked homes, the rehabilitation of morale, it is necessary that through the Red Cross we give and keep on giving and I reckon we will. We always have. But there are certain things we need not give the victims, for these be things they never lose and never will their courage and their sense of humor. We can still laugh at our personal misfortunes even while the world at large weeps for them. I guess, for our race, that's the main saving grace. IRVIN S. COBB. 6 Western Newspaper Union. |
