Show what co bb thinks about seeking contentment CANTA ANTA MONICA CALIF S 0 out in the desert country I 1 met kindly hospitable folk bravely making the best of things on remote small homesteads on little faraway far away ranches on reservation er tra trading ding posts they are educating their children by resolute self sac keeping in touch with the world ahr through ough r radio a d I 1 0 through books and ma magazines and newspapers and almost invariably con tent lent with their lives and proud of their struggles ai and id living comfortably yes and happily within their means how irvin IrvinS S cobb ever meager then I 1 come back to crowded cities where wealth seems only to make the inmates dissatisfied because somebody with greater wealth puts on a gradler show ot of ostentation and extravagance and I 1 see the man who feverishly is striving after riches so that when he breaks down he may afford the most expensive nerve specialist and the spoiled woman who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth but judging by her expression the spoon must have been full of castor oil and the flavor lasts and the poor little rich children who have everything now and so will have nothing except maybe dollars when they grow up cu curious r lous it that so little buys such sah a lot for some people and such a lot buys so little for the others the return of prosperity T CANT help gloating over what 1 appeared in this space when I 1 predicted that the temperamental and fickle bird of passage known as prosperity was winging its way back because the better business bureau reports that sellers of no go good od stocks are showing increased activity moreover I 1 hear that tor for the first time in ye years ars practically all the veteran bunco steers lire are off relief the lean times when the locusts of depression gnawed away our substance must indeed be over if the customers begin to nibble more freely asahe at the same dependable old baits so as he thumbs his copy of the sucker slicker uth against the morrows morrows campaign I 1 seem to hear mr henry hanry J 1 SlIck guy late of leavenworth but now opening offices in the wall street district murmuring to himself happy days are here drouth may kill the corn rust rots the wheat boll weevils destroy the cotton but thanks be theres one crop in america which never tails have you a little gold brick in your home dear reader well dont worry nob odys gys going to D be slighted ere long get your chance to invest in one 51 making aking mental slips HE most incredible thing has acome THE come to pass here I 1 go along year after year building upa up a reputation for invariably being right the same as george bernard shaw and mme ame secretary perkins then baggot I 1 make one little slip and the trusting reader is shocked from pit to dome theother the other daill suggested taxing salaries of governmental employees plo now from all sides im told federal employees are subject to income taxes only the vast ma bority of them and probably the hardest worked ones draw such small wages wage s that they owe ove uncle sam nothing when march 15 rolls around so tar far as I 1 recall this is the second time in my life ive been wrong 1 I cant cite what wh althe thi other instance was some som every very trifling matter no doubt but A it must have occurred because I 1 remember the nation nationwide wide excitement which ensued with people going around in a daze muttering can it ba possible I 1 now admit that early error and the recent one too and humbly beg pardon of my devoted demoted public all eight 1 I them never happen again concu conquered ered champions T HAS been brought to the attention IT of mr james J braddock that something happened to him a while back probably by now he has quit wondering whether many others were baug caught ht in the earth quake but is reported to be still saying buchl at intervals and now as is customary his backers will insist he demand a return engagement or disaster with the brown bomber but if I 1 were mr braddock game though 1 he ie be I 1 think id pattern my re reply pi y on the example of the gentleman wh who was knocked galley was by a hit and run motorist As the dazed pedestrian was trying t feebly to ascer ascertain tahi whether h he was all in one piece a kindhearted kind hearted I 1 citizen hurried up 4 have an accident he Inqui inquired rid brightly brightly no thank you said the vacti victim m just had one arvin S corn service |