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Show Shaw Comei Through HOUSTON, TEXAS.-I always al-ways said there was only one living person who could convince me that George Bernard Ber-nard Shaw was not the smartest smart-est man in the world and that person would be George Bernard Ber-nard Shaw. And by gum, he did it! For this admirer he began the disillusioning job the last time ne was over here, telling tell-ing us so frankly what ailed us, and on the present trip he already has finished fin-ished up the contract con-tract When a man, no matter how great he was in the past, reaches the point where he mistakes rudeness to his hp A 1 -, i IV" 1 hosts for proof of -vjn s. Cobb his own brilliancy, instead of just bad manners well, to me one of the most distressing sights on this earth is that of an extinct crater still trying to be the flaming volcano it once was. Only for Wettemeri WHAT, I ask you, is the use of being a consistent old line Republican Re-publican back East, with fine banking bank-ing connections, when all you're permitted per-mitted to do. as the other fellows start drawing their hands for this year's big game, Is to fuss with the discards? Why, lots of ns can remember when it wasn't regarded as fatal to the Presidential prospect of a bright member of the G. O. P. younger set If he happened to reside re-side on the Wall Street side of the Allegheny mountains. In fact, quite the contrary. Now It seems there's a rule that only westerners may look longingly toward the White House without being accused of trying to peep In the deck before the deal. So-Called "Sunny South" IF THE poetic pioneers who first christened the lower cross section sec-tion of our country the Sunny South came hither at this season of the year, I think I know what actuated them. They called Dixie the Sunny South for the same reason that naturalists nat-uralists have named a certain type of African hyena the laughing laugh-ing hyena not because the creature crea-ture laughs 60 often, but because he laughs so seldom that it naturally nat-urally attracts attention. After contemplating lowering or leaking skies for a straight ten days, I'm beginning- to wonder whether the sun has retired from business permanently. Probably about next July I'll wish he had. Valuable Advice TODAY I ran into my old and wise friend, Bassett Blakeiy. He stuck to the cow business, whereas Will Rogers was weaned from It Otherwise these southwesterly ranges might have produced one more corn-fed philosopher-humorist with a national reputation. During the depression, Bassett tried to borrow a sizable sum from a gentleman with a well-earned reputation rep-utation for frugality. It was a forlorn for-lorn hope. "No," stated Bassett, emerging from the interview, "he didn't let me have any money, but on parting he gave me free of charge some beautiful advice. Bassett, my son, he said, never feed your stock dry fodder In windy weather. I did that In March In 1884 and one shuck blew away on me." Long's Machine Endures T AXE CHARLES, LA. I mean no disrespect for any man's memory, but for most any one of us who ever tasted success the verse that was written about little dog Rover might serve as an epitaph: "While he lived, he lived In clover, but when he died, he died all over." I would have said that Huey Long'B machine, being essentially a one-man machine, would start falling fall-ing to pieces before ever they burled him. But It yet endures and is powerful pow-erful and, right or wrong, It functions. func-tions. Admire such a man's record or despise it, nevertheless you have to take off your hat to a personality that can project itself back across the grave. They're AH Ranches UT In California every patct of ground where things gnw regardless of size, ts a ranch, fv far as I know there are only tvrc farms In southern California; ono'f a Hon farm and the other Is an na trlch farm. I look for the dij when a Hollywood scalp speclallsi will refer to his establishment ! a dandruff ranch. In Texas, which we just left be hind ns, nearly everybody Is i rancher, too, or used to be. Tod3 we're In the land of the plnnte-s and If we keep golnR, hearing norMi tomorrow we'd bo among the farm ers. The so-called gentleman farmer ns we know him back East, rtocsn' (lonrlsh anywhere down here. IRVIN 8. COBB 'WNU Servlr. |