| Show what e 0 b 1 t thinks think about I Idolatry of Self SANTA SANTI ANTA MONICA CALIF CAUl Once Once upon a time there them was vas a strange race that while whit in n some ways quite civilized yet worshiped a murderous and a monstrous god got Now this god demanded hunan hu- hu nan sacrifice lie He had high priests who ministered d to his bIs Images he be had countless devotees devote devotees devo devo- te tees s who traveled tra about gathering In Inthe the tho victims to feed Nt his cravings The feeble and th car car- less the aged dodderer dodt dod dodo t derer and the un on unwary war wary a r y these chillI-these were the favorite Yet Vet the collectors spa spared red none nt at all all neither Irvin 8 S. S Cobb the strong nor the halt nor the helpless help help- less Often One In their madness ss they d destroyed one ono another Each year the tire cruel tally mount mounted mounted so so d-so so man many thousands dead so many hundreds of ot thousands crippled an and broken These curious people lived U In a R place called America and the god th they y worshiped was called Speed e e eThe e The World Problem World TM CONSTANTLY running Into IM I'M A som somebody who knows exactly what what's wring with the world ar and what ought to be done tune bout bollt It t. t but cant can't make ninke up his mind het whether er to have hae his eggs fried on one side or turn turned d o over At lunch today toda I 1 encountered one g gentleman man who could diagnose allour all allour allour our political and economic Just Ills Ills Just like that and 1 and name the r remedies too In tact fact he be did name quite a afew afew afew few while I was looking aft after r the check And AmI y yet t I know for a post pos live fact that his wife wont won't let him pick out his own neckties and he cant can't be lie trusted to cross crosa the the- street by himself owing to not beIn being be he In lug ing able to decide off hand which automobile he prefers to be hit by see seeThe The TLe P Passing in of Kipling 15 ENTY years ago I visited Rudyard Kipling at his home In Sussex Gracious In his hospitality he be nevertheless was already al ready rendy showing I signs of ot the mania for tor seclusion which following the death de-ath of ot h his hs only son In the World war made of him an entrenched recluse He lie shunned people he shunned things shunned the pageantry of or life tire lie developed an active e dislike dis dis- dislike like for fur Americans the Americans the people whom he once loved and who constituted con con- perhaps his most loyal fol lowing He lie became that most mOlt la lamentable In ha of figures amon among literary folk the life the spot marked I D 1 denot dent denotIng Ing lug wh where re a II quenched g genius was last seen slen Most of us who ho write are but assimilators as- as and assemblers rs Here lIero was a real creator and real creators creators crea tors dont don't happen lappen often Ills His jungle books and his room barrack bul bud lads his and his Kim Kim Kim- these will live while men read English Eng Eng- lish and speak It May Jay that be balm to his passing soul soult l I le e a s e Acting for the th MOT Movie MOllet I. I UT OUT here on this lot were we're fin fin- finIshing up the first moving pIcture pic pIc- tore ture In which Ye Scribe has had a areal areal areal real chance to give ghe his all to art The pictures picture's to be called 1 Old Man that Man that Is Is unless the producers producers producers pro pro- change their minds winds at the thelast thelast thelast last minute as Is customary and title re-title It The Rollo Iloilo Boys noys In an Igloo or something None of ot us seem seemed d to fe feel it while we were shooting scenes but If everybody everybody ev ev- everybody is as ns tired as ns the old manIs man manIs Is Is they the wont won't have to rock anybody to sleep Tho The head cameraman goes goeson goeson on a n rest cure soon and the I tors tor's wife just telephoned that she's a little bit worried about him h him him-he he keeps hearing brass bands playing I and a while ago he ran out and tried to stop top a runaway horse horae that wasn't there e a e e Tattooed Ladle Ladies IN A theatrical paper I 1 read that one of the most copiously ladles In the business is 18 fixing to be divorced from a husband hus bus band who's also of the sideshow Ing profession I remember r the lady lad well sitting on a platform and In response to requests slowly turnIng turning turn turn- ing lag around so the audience could see soe what she had to say on the theother theother theother other side Well every man to Ills his taste but butle Ive I've always figured life would be bekind I kind of ot fascinating with a tattooed lady for a helpmate Any time you got tired of talking you could ask her lIer to let you look hook at the pictures e e e I Namesakes Namesake of hero ITS IT'S getting III so you can tell when I twenty one one years ears have passed since some great national figurea figure figure- a president or maybe a military hero was hero was at the peak of his IOPU larity Its It's when a lot of ot his namesakes namesakes name name- sakes get too old for the reform 8 school hool and are Just the right age for tor the penitentiary Once In awhile n R while one of t the crop goes Joes Into the ministry but apparently not Mt enough of them to to make much difference dl Terence IRVIN 8 8 S. 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