Show r Notes of oj an Innocent Bystander The Thc Story Tellers Because of wartime war economic difficulties some have ceased publishing One of the regrettable casualties is The Living Livin A Age c The Nations Nation's In InThe InThe Th The Wind Dept Is its zippiest feature feature fea fea- ture World Digest reports there are five thousand press agents in America And twice as many wastebaskets thank goodness Back in fri June 1931 1031 GenI MacArthur wrote a piece for a vets' vets mag suggesting sug sus gesting a draft of 4 million men for I army training Naturally nobody I listened Hoover was President I Wm B. B Ziff's new book due in June is called The Coming Battle of I Germany We hear it is dynamite designed to tumble an avalanche of hat brass-hat thinking Duell Sloan and Pearce will publish Ziff Is the one responsible for the reinstatement reinstatement re re- re instatement of the late Billy Mitchell l The Murder That Rocked Br Broadway adway the Arnold RothsteIn affair in the current True Detective is our favorite murder story I It The Editorial of the Week From t the e Memphis Commercial Appeal Sedition laws need immediate reexamination reexamination re re- examination for the purpose of giving giving ing lug them teeth There is desperately deeper desper needed a policy of government which will lump all traitors seditionists sedi sedi- and whatever their citizenship status into one category In a total war where Internal attack is a chief technique we cannot expect survival from the incongruous and piddling policies the Government now follows in dealing deal deal- ing lag with those who seek its defeat or overthrow George Christians Christians Christians Chris Chris- of ot Chattanooga a crackpot and a fool Once they said that of the Nazi paperhanger who has en engineered engineered the greatest revolution and bloodiest conflict in all history Lets Let's swap the kid gloves for a n pair of ot brass knuckles The Front Pages Editor i Publishers Publisher's Pub Pub- Ushers Usher's thumbnail editorial UI If I its it's anything we cant can't print you shouldn't be talking about it iti Newsmen who woo used to see sec convicted Nazi agent Viereck in Washington say cay that h he acted as though he were above and beyond arrest that he rated himself invulnerable A notorious Sixth Sinh argues that writers who pen pea malicious things about women in public life deserve to be shot What Whit a fraud That from the Am who has made a career out of malice He lie has written dozens of dishonest dishonest dis din honest pieces about persons in public life including Mrs Roosevelt Roose Roose- veil velt whose politics his boss op op- op- op poses Like a shady lad lady he can be hired for an hour or a weekend week week- end Every one 0 of ot his attacks on Axis enemies in hi the U. 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S is repeated over the wave short circuits from Berlin Rome and Tokyo l If he had any Intellectual intellectual intel Intel- honesty honesty honesty-he'd hed he'd shoot him him- I self Scrambled Eggs Egg I No matter how little you have I yo youre you're re rich if you envy nobody The Indians who sold Manhattan for 21 weren't such goons It didden belong to them The island had to tobe tobe tobe be bought back again from the real owners I If I owned the paper Id I'd ten tell my editorialists and staff Before you write anything any thing always ask yourself the question ques queSt tion tion Will Will it be anything Hirohito Hitler and Benito would enjoy reading reading read read- ing jag Or hearing A scholar tells me that the style Time uses in part isn't so modernist modernist- ic That some of Times Time's literary are patterned after Homers Homer's u Iliad I The friends who are most descryIng deserving descry descry- ing of your favors are those who were your friends before you were in a position to do them any my N Nobody's body's ever perfectly content The poor man is often bored the rich man blase Next time anyone complains abut about trousers remind him that they dont don't wear em in the Army and Navy either The only acI actual ac- ac c. c talent possessed by many celebrities celebrities celeb celeb- I is the knack of getting their names in the papers If the late William Rhodes Davis the oil promoter pro moter he tried to Interest the State Dept in a peace with Hitler were alive would alive would he be in the headlines Whatever became of Verne Marshall the Cedar Rapids editor who said Davis was his backer inThe in inThe inThe The No Foreign War Committee gag One report had him In a sanitarium sani sani- mentally mentally upset etc Joan Edwards says that what the he country needs most right now to win the war is isa a blockade around Japan and fewer blockheads around Washington Wash Wash- ington Comes the real blackout what happens to tra guys carrying torches ly ty crack by a draftee Well Vell t b long Any messages men meg What sages for MacArthur we need too are more editors like Jack Carley of the Memphis l Com Corn mercial The way he be laid it iton iton iton on that Chattanooga Coo Coo-Coo who patterned himself after Hitler Boy Dor how bow they are being dealt with |