Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MAY 8 1931 ' A RED FLAG IN A BOG OR SOMETHING Taking a Fling at This and That — Some Short Shavings By O O McINTYEE Some things I'd like to abolish: Paper napkins Owners of police dogs who violate inuzrle and leash law Scandal mongering Gigolo c if? Carrots Those counts you meet at teas Masters of ceremony Breach of promise blackmailers Baby talkers Hennaed hair First night tfiowoffs People "like that" with Jimmy Wal- ker Sentimentalities ever gangster ruch as Capone Taxi drivers who never have change Algonquin log roller dramatic critics ' Chain letters Flowing ties Men who wear hereto Imitations of Chevalier Fifth avenue parades International bankers Inanities of George Bernard Shaw Ridiculous movie types of ruthless newspaper men Inheritance tax that prevents an American from building an estate for his family Any more Andrew Mellons In the cabinet Those horrible British steeple chase news shots Wise-cracki- The new mayor of Medford Mass will rise to greater heights than a small-tow- n chief excutive Taking office he removed “Private" from the door and replaced It with Only one per cent of men In America receive $10000 a year or over according to Hie U S Chamber of Comlf merce One and per cent receive from $7000 to $10000 Three per cent $5000 to $7000 three and lf per cent $3000 to $5000 four pec cent $2000 to $3000 while the balance of 87 per cent receive $2000 and less one-ha- one-ha- They were discussing eccentricities of the greet Victor Herbert always touched a certain post near the Lambs en passant Raymond Hitchcock would only get a haircut on FriA L Erlanger wore an old day cap while a show was in rehearsal Perhaps ths strangest of all was that Of Garibaldi great Italian patriot nr vjrfmjrM & In business A Inc) (Com matching wbs m&de impossible) gftesv AND THE OTHER' HALF TO PORTUGAL 1493 Yr 7 Short shavings: Jack Osterman thinner Is in circulation again No one puts over a sentimental song with a bigger bang Every second costa American taxpayers $317 Jackie Cooper carries an autoCobina graph book everywhere Wnght society supper club owner was bom on a ranch In Wyoming Barbara Stanwyck calls on her old schoolmates In Flatbush whenever cate GREEK CITY OF I5TRVS TO PREVENT GAMBLING Pope Alexander!! drew a line from pole to Pole and gave one half to Spain As a modest Investor I've never known a bond to stand up when its sponsors advertise: “We do not guarantee but believe this information to be correct”— In ballyhoolng the securities Nor have I found investment houses advertising so vaguely worthy of confidence (Copyright THE lm who split j The WORLD IN TWO Jack Haley says a dressmaking establishment made one dress for the hefty Aunt Jemima and retired from 1932 McNaught Syndi- BY The mother” old-tim- MINTED $! i his last 20 years he had a hallucination that before falling asleep a voice would whisper: “Are you well?” He "Yes always replied out loud: Wilson M lishe comes to town ner’s forthcoming book la to be called “A Child's Life of Wilson Miner" Anita Loos helped Georgs Kelly is the most isolated of all playhave films Horror gone wrights out like a light Grace Moore the singer was born In Jelico Texas More than 800 young men can sing exactly Ilka Rudy Vallee and Lewis Milestone Bing Crosby considers it lucky to have a small Lee hit in all pictures he directs Shubert has milk toast every midThe Statue of Liberty night John F Curry weights 225 tons has been shaved by the same barber 20 for Sixth avenue is years giving sandwiches free with each glass An amusing of orange juice book: “A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidness" by Walter B Pitkin David Chasen was the original stage stooge with Joe Cook Kate Smith made the big- gest hit any entertainer ever made at the fashionable Casino Only one carnival show has made Ed HiU famous money this year reporter is making big hit on the radio Willie Howard has two Pekinese on tour New York’s most baffling disappearance mystery Is the Dorothy Arnold case She seemed to vanish Into thin atr Decem12 1910 ber And was last seen In front of Brentano's at 5th avenue and 27th street Governor James Hogg of Texas bestowed the title of colonel on E M House Will James brings a Navajo blanket to New York and sleeps on the floor of his hotel Ogden Nash la to write lyric for the "Fourth Little Show” Clarence Budlngton Gelland’s newest Harper book is “Speak Easily" An honorable New York banker— there are several left— ys that most of the bond defaults are “piain welching" and not necAn F P A contributor essary esnnot stop repestlng “Honl solt qul Pons" Lily England and Canada have not had a bank failure In even years Philip Merlvale is to tour the cost shortly m his hit The first stop is play “Cynara” Denver There used to be two Peggy Fears on the stage Bert Lytell prowls around old churches the Coin of HEADS A TOMBSTONE ' V ncd Enoch 96 94 T td L$J J Kft T&WE6B BROTHERS o& Kentucky jKWyV pijcrt vlf ToTaL 3 "'4 4 3 (MlkvMf 79 J 7 500 COSTING ERECTED Tb TWO DOGS I $ IM ftfii Fetra lyMkat IN tM Orati ftrtlaft ngk WAS MARTS DA LI N mar' Sir YEARS IN AGE ' EXPLANATION OF LAST SUNDAY’S CARTOON 30000 Death Sen-tenc- es and the Life of a Dog— Benedict Carpzow teas president of Sehop-pcnstu(court of sessions) in Leipzig Sax- hl on g from 1620-16C- 6 Dur- ing his long term on the lench he passed a n d signed more than SO 000 death sentences the executions of which he teas obliged to attend in his official capacity A bizarre feature of these executions teas that in accordance with the scn- fence of the court the culprits were interred with a dead dog and a rodent as companions in the grave Petty theft and witchcraft accounted for most of the “capital” crimes judged by Carp -zow No less than 20000 death sentences were against 'women “convicted” of sorcery This barbarous judge who considered five death sentences daily “ just a day’s work” was a man of deep personal piety He prided himself on his religion his r e g it I a r church attendance and the fact that he had read the Bible from beginning to end 53 times in the course of his life lie died a few minutes after the expiration of his pet dog the grief it is said causing his sudden demise The Tree That It a God — The God-Tre- e of which mine is an authentic drawing is located in the port city in the distant Chinese province of Szechuan The natives consider this old tree a divinity to which prayers are offered and the worship of which is considered to have great merit I was seriously assured that this tree had made a pilgrimage to Omei Shan the highest and holiest Suifii Buddhist sanctuary known as the Temple of the Golden Peak The Law of the Swing — The swing is govermd by the law of the pcndio- - lum which makes the ac curate measurement time possible The pen duhun of a clock moves farther when the spring is tightly wound but exactly in the same cadence An increase in the arc results in an increase of momentum (weight multiplied by speed) accounting for the fact that it will not take the swing any longer to swing back and forth between A and B than between C and D Copyright 1032 King Features Syndicate Inc |