Show what what 0 b b d Vj thinks about Lloyd George Vs VI Pershing CALIF CALI F.- F. VERNALIS That shell of a once great mentality which is David Lloyd George may be right when he says in his latest book that Gen John Pershing was quivering with suspicion that the British and French meant to rob him of his army army A correspondent In France In 1918 I happened to know that that was wa exactly w what hat the British and French did try to do to break up the A. A E E. E fop Iz F.'s divisions for absorption absorption absorption ab ab- sorption 1 Into n t o 0 their own commands and thereby destroy Us its Integrity as a a consolidated consolidated con con- fighting 14 force and If f PershIng Pershing Pershing ing quivered with suspicion he had ample grounds for irvin S S. S Cobb his suspicion But Buthe Buthe Buthe he didn't quiver from any other emotions not emotions not so as you'd notice it After all our bragging about efficiency ef ef- we did slip sUp in the matters of ordnance airplanes tanks and during the first few months in transport service at the front But there were certain elements in which we never failed in man manpower manpower manpower power and manhood and manly courage I I I Uncle Sam In the Lions Lion's Den EXCLUDING EXCLUDING Britons and Scandinavians Scandinavians ours remains almost the only important white while race that hasn't a dictatorship or worse And the high tide of communism laps these shores which once we thought were Insulated by time and distance against evil alien contacts contact u We still stand u. u aloof from gling foreign alliances despite pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure from within and without but no longer may we bar treasonable foreign propaganda not with wit h science making ponds duck-ponds out of oceans Moreover sundry g great r rea e a t powers work to turn out warplanes capable of spanning a sea or a continent continent continent con con- on a single hostile dash Isn't it about time we realized realized- we the foolish virgin amongst the nations we who once fondly fancied this land was protected by its its hemispheric hemispheric hemispheric hem hem- isolation that were we're Just about as isolated as as as- Daniel was In the lion lions lion's s den And Daniel had a miracle to fall fallback fallback fallback back on I I I Benevolence In Reverse By T n Y EDICT Japan has deleted from her dictionary all mention of the war To the Koreans and the Chinese and the Manchurians these should indeed be tidings of great grea t joy joy joy- to find out what's been violently violent violent- ly happening to them was merely a benevolent brand of peace Even so Ut it'd barely possible that some of the survivors of this neighborly neighborly neigh neigh- borly bony friendship may still be like the distinguished American actorI actor actor- I think it was Jack Barrymore who Barrymore-who who went to a luncheon where the guest of honor a notable from foreign parts was as the saying goes rather chucking his weight about So Barrymore leaned over to a tablemate a and n d whispered The gentleman seems to be something of a formidable ass doesn't he Oh oh I wouldn't go so far as asto asto asto to say that that said the other Well at least least murmured Barrmore Barrymore Bar Bar- hell do till one comes I h I Great American Pests WHEN hes he's not working at his regular trade I know now what becomes of the gentleman with the brainpan development of a Potomac Potomac Po Po- tomac shad who makes a business of sitting at the ringside and yelling elling ellingto to some poor dub of a pugilist while the latter is being whipped into a Ii custard Go 00 on on kid kid kid-he he cant can't hurt you you- To show the other side lide of his nature this party attends picture theaters and hisses madly as the Jike likeness ess of the opposition presidential presidential candidate is flashed Bashed on the screen Statistics show that his breed already already al al- ready numbers nearly two millions and is constantly increasing because because be be- cause owing to a regrettable oversight oversight over over- sight of nature this species spawns close to shore and the hatch all aU live IRVIN S S. S COCK COBB Copyright aerate |