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Show ZI about: Pensions for Veterans. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Merely another little prophecy by old Doctor Cobb, the amateur soothsayer, who never said a sooth he's surer of than this one: Agitation for a blanket pension pen-sion to cover all World war veterans, veter-ans, regardless of ratings or physical physi-cal condition, will start as soon as those lately-won billions are dlstrib-foH dlstrib-foH At- first some veterans' organization organiza-tion will oppose It n o t for long, though. At first congress will be lukewarm. Then it'll see a great light, and this new pension act one that will be to all previous pension acts what a whale Y is to tadpoles will rvin S. Cobb be passed. At least the veterans have the argument ar-gument of patriotic service on their side. And isn't it true that to nearly near-ly all of us has come a new conception con-ception of the national figurehead? No longer Is it square-jawed, self-dependent self-dependent Yankee Doodle. It's a generous, jolly smiling Santa Claus bringing free checks for everybody ; that is, free until the taxpayers start paying the bill. Defying the Almighty. FOLLOWING the example set some years ago by a certain famous fa-mous personage, a cock-sure infidel made a speech lately, defying God to smite him dead on the spot. It seemed, first off, a very sound idea, but nothing happened, so the gentleman gentle-man took this for proof . there was no God and went his way rejoicing. Some look on this as blasphemy, but, granted that every man is enti-, tied to speak his opinion on religion, re-ligion, I'd call it pure gall. Think of inviting the Almighty to suspend the entire cosmic scheme while forging a thunderbolt to abolish one solitary copycat of an amateur Ajax. Would you call out the standing stand-ing army of the United States to kill a cockroach? Lady Killers. TT HAS been in print so often you must know it by heart, yourself: At sight of her recreant gentleman friend, the poor bruised butterfly felt a great sense of her wrongs the wretch wanted to go back to his wife or something equally dastardly and the next thing she knew she was holding a smoking automatic that accidentally happened to be In her handbag along with some lipstick lip-stick and a recipe for fudge; and he was deader than the prosecutor's chance of convicting her for the killing. But just prior to that "everything "ev-erything went black before her eyes." There's one detail which nev er varies that going-black-before-the-eyes business. It was In the case they tried recently re-cently In New York. It's in this latest case at Chicago. 'Tis a sore affliction, always marked by total lapse of memory and frequently coupled cou-pled with temporary Insanity, but It's certainly fine for marksmanship. marksman-ship. - Brawls in Hollywood. XTATURALLY, I have hot south-ern south-ern blood, which seems to be the hottest there is, although down ' home I never noticed it. But up north, if trouble impended, people would speak of my hot southern blood when all the time I thought I was having a nervous chill. Being thus all hot-blooded up, I adore fighting, If somebody else does It. Since our movie heroes always stage their combats in some utterly ' secluded spot, such as a cafe or a night club, I hurry hither and yon hoping to be present when an embittered embit-tered star satisfies his honor by bouncing a special order of sweetbreads sweet-breads under glass witli mushrooms twenty minutes, 00 cents off some rival's classic profile. But it's hard enough for me to get in touch with a waiter, let alone a good plate-tossing contest. Today To-day the war correspondents report two brisk battles on the Hollywood front, and I'm absent, as usual. In the main bout, both gladiators were script writers, proverbially a tigerish breed. Believe it or not a Mr. Kiskln tangled with a Mr. Kns-kln, Kns-kln, the presumption being that one of the gentlemen regarded the other as a typographical error. English Reds Again. COMKTH1NG printed here recent-y recent-y y about the way the English handle their reds and pinks prompted prompt-ed an English gentle-man to write giving further details. Twould seem that over there all public servants. Including, notablv state-paid school teachers, must swear to uphold the crown, which means they cannot preach communism commu-nism to their pupils without violating vio-lating a solemn oath and, if can-lit so doing, they lose their official heads lnstantor. Moreover ,,o avowed or suspected agent of tlu Soviets may use the radio to preach the overthrow of the existing government gov-ernment In favor of the KSsi, plan. In other words-forgive tho pun please Britain m.vor s,,.in ,)p Shv8 iRvin s. cobb' WNU SorvU-o. |