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Show ILt O D(UAihji about Defenders of Communism SANTA, MONICA, CALIF. Every time I write a squib against communism, there follows fol-lows a flood of letters from persons per-sons who begin by saying they're not communists perish the thought. But either I'm attacking free speech as though free speech ; meant free license to undermine our ! government; or, by indirection, I'm j trying to undermine trade unionism, at-! at-! though what trade I unionism has i n l common with communism com-munism is something some-thing which I don't quite see. One camouflaged red or anyhow he must be reddish states there are on-iv on-iv inn nnn ir n communists among irvin S. Csbb 120,000,000 of us, so why worry? But wouldn't you worry if 100,000 lepers were suffered to go at large among us, or 100,000 stinging lizards to run wild? A very passionate lady has been writing in, calling hard names. But I shan't argue with her, because I'm a victim of aelurophobia. On looking look-ing in the dictionary, you'll find that aelurophobia means one who has an intense aversion for cats. "Smitty's" Travels. T) EADING about a police sergeant who retired after forty years' service and never set foot off of his native Manhattan island made me think of a gentleman known a s "Smitty" who, in my reportorial days on Park Row, was general roustabout at Andy Horn's saloon. Smitty was born in the shadow of Brooklyn bridge and grew up there. He had traveled the various boroughs, but no matter where he went was always within the greater city. Finally he took a tour to foreign for-eign parts. He went to visit his sister, who'd married a truck gardener gard-ener back of Newark, and the brother-in-law, who owned a car, toured Smitty about the landscape. I was one who greeted Smitty on his return. "Fur me," he said, "never again! I don't like that Joisey. Why, all them towns over there is got different dif-ferent names." Dolling Up Lobbyists. WHAT ever became of the bill introduced into the Louisiana legislature requiring lobbyists to wear special uniforms while following follow-ing their trade? As I recall the original act, it provided that lobbyists lob-byists of less than three years' experience ex-perience should wear green skull caps and rainbow-hued plaid trousers; trous-ers; veterans were to wear the green caps and all-white suits, which latter seemed especially appropriate, ap-propriate, white being the color for purity. It's just too bad if the notion has been allowed to languish. And if an amendment were tacked on requiring requir-ing that a certain type of legislator must wear garments with no pockets pock-ets in them and buttoning up the back, princesse style, so the wearer wear-er couldn't slip anything inside his bosom well, there you'd have an idea that any state in the Union could profitably adopt, or, anyhow, almost any state. Styles In Women's Hats. HiAVE you noticed those sub-divisional hats the women are wearing this season?If not, kindly do so. It'll distract your attention from the part-time frocks some of them are wearing. The average woman is wearing what looks like part of a hat say one-hall to two-thirds. I've heard the more of the original hat the milliner chopped off, the higher went the price for what was left. I suppose with hats, as in the cae of a good clean appendix operation, opera-tion, if they'd cut the entire thing away, only very wealthy women could afford to go bare-headed. Even so, the wearer has something some-thing to do with the effect. I ran into the lovely Mrs. Clark Gable and she had on one of the new fractional hats and it was powerfully power-fully becoming to her. But I'll bet it would look like the very dickens on me or Jimmy Durante. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright. WNU Service. Wroth Silver Ever since the year 1170 the parishes par-ishes surrounding Knightlow, Stret-ton Stret-ton - on - Dunsmore, Warwickshire, ! have paid Wroth Silver to the Lord j of the Manor on St Martin's day. ; Shortly before sunrise the money is placed in a niche in the remains of an old stone cross, and then is collected by the Steward of the Manor, according to Tit-Bits Magazine. Mag-azine. The fees are purely nominal, ranging from one penny to two shillings shill-ings and threepence-halfpenny. Defaulters, De-faulters, however, are dealt with severely, and have to pay a fine of twenty shillings for every penny, as well as a white bull with red ears and a red nose. Eut there has been no necessity within living memory me-mory to enforce this fine. i |