| Show 6 y FROM THE FAR EAST by mail well all I 1 know Is just what I 1 apa read d in the papers and what 1 I see as I 1 prowl hither and thith thither br you know I 1 kinder like people to talk and write about more than I 1 do places and temples and churches well sir there was on our boat coming out here quite an in to resting b bunch u n c b we dedent aident have m many a n y passengers outside of the steer ago age but we iye had a mighty interesting little bunch two germans who had been home from japan on a visit prominent business men spoke good english that la Is about like me said things were very bad in the old country even worse they thought than most of the other places but seemed mighty cheerful and optimistic about it great race those folks when they do come back they will do it with a bang tor for they aa are built of fine find stock these were ero great readers well informed in everything and told us more of japan than even a japanese scientist that was with us ile he was mighty pleasant but he woul dent tell us exactly what we asked him ile he was smart though he had been down to tc pasadena and studying with prot prof milliken and all those fellows that einstein was with you know tunny funny thing it was just a japanese gardner that had a truck patch away out in the desert toward arizona that had a sort of an amateur amateur globe ot of some kind and he found a star a new one that none of the scientists had gad ever found there was wad a big tusa fuss made over it 1 I remember at the time and they give him a new set of tools or spy glasses or N whatever whatever it layou Is you find odd things with just tor for his bis contribution to science so BO he went right on picking radishes and I 1 bet in about another year he will bob up with another star or planet hope he finds one that dasent been hit by depression by br the pie way I 1 wonder it they are hit like all the tha rest ot of the world Worl dany anyway it if they are li A just shows you how tar far hoovers influence reaches then ot of course we had floyd gibb gibbons ons on there and ho he knows about everything and has been everywhere and read everything A scotch golf player from canada that ilag was as liberal fis ns any one you ever 11 saw aw I 1 dont know where they g get that scotch stuff but the fellow that V I 1 went want to tell you about was the bee man his name was riddell he had lately come irom from up in alberta canada and be was as ju just st about as odd and human a fish ahyou as you will find in a years trooping lie he had on board hives blies of bees taking them out to china well up to the time I 1 met him I 1 dedent aident know any more about a bee than I 1 do about about shakespeare but the bee uan man told me a lot he had em cm all stored on deck right out in the cold he first had em down below but he was afraid ot of the heat so eo they brought em ip ap and they was roped down tor for elleve me you brother those bees lid some rocking it if they was with that boat I 1 am going to get that book ot of Mater links on bees and read it IL he says what drove hlin him in the bee business I 1 remember Mat erlink when he bo was brought brouil it out years ago to hollywood with the sam goldwyn company that I 1 was with at the time I 1 know he knew anything about bees then or I 1 would have asked him he was a mighty pleasant old fellow and had a plum pretty little french wife I 1 knew lie he had written a play about I 1 think it was blue bird but I 1 dedent aident know a thing about this bee business out but it was the other that made this bee man stand sut dut ile he at first was kinder a windy B but ut as we ne kept crying to pin him down why we found out he be had bad really been there or he be had read it by by golly those fel iowa aws on the boat that had really read a lot coul dent find anything to stick does dees on old bees was pretty tough to down in an arg argument ament and you would about have to buy him a drink to lo beat hini him ho was nas a young fellow too about forty two but he was high on old or whatever his name me was he lived up around B beaton 0 a i 0 ri harvard man I 1 guess I 1 never could find out from bees just what type ot of stuff he turned out maby was a col lu he had also read a lot ot of chinese stuff ho he and the japanese would argue over that I 1 tell you this old bowman bee man was a freak lie he knew an awful lot about auts ants too something he got me interested torea te ted in and soon as I 1 can get my mind off movies I 1 am going into the ants this old boy just put more ambition luto me ile he has just got me all excited to learn so no more moie hoover and a nd the senate and and all that I 1 am going to devote nv my time from now on to ants thea do jomo 0 Syu duaH inc |
