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Show about : Windsor's Finances. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. By latest reports, the duke of Windsor must start life as a married man reduced to a personal estate of only about $600,000, plus guaranteed annual an-nual remittances amounting to but a beggarly $100,000 more. To be sure, as the old saying is, two can live as cheaply as one if one of the two hap- to pens to be a gold- pv-K8 fish or even a ca- . . v nary but otherwise f , the notion hasn't worked out under JJJ, ' modern conditions, N 0 ; wives these days I s ( being what wives E , rnnr i are these days. fV j Still, they do say X - : Mrs. Simpson is swr pretty handy with a skillet, which, on irvin S. Cobb the cook's Thursdays Thurs-days off, ought to save getting In extra kitchen help; and what with there being no crown jewels to keep polished and installment houses just crying to help all young honeymoon-ers honeymoon-ers out you furnish the bird, we furnish the nest! Well, by scrimping, scrimp-ing, the couple should get by, don't you think? Washington Rumors. HOW rumors do float about especially es-pecially in the neighborhood of Washington. Well, Washington always al-ways has been kind of a windy place. First we hear a boom is to be started for Mrs. Roosevelt to succeed suc-ceed the President at the conclusion conclu-sion of his term. This is promptly denied and the question arises how is that loyal soul, Uncle Jim Farley, Far-ley, going to stand the strain of waiting until Sistie Dahl gets old enough to run? Uncontradicted as yet is the ether report that the White House craves to revive the NRA, under another set of initials and let us hope with a better-looking Blue Eagle than that first one was. "Sweeping" Inquiries. AFTER every major disaster which conceivably was preventable, pre-ventable, we have a "sweeping inquiry" in-quiry" or a "searching probe" it depends on which phrase the reporters re-porters like best to fix the blame. Rarely does anything come of this, but it must indeed be a great consolation con-solation to the widows and the orphans or-phans of the victims. Seemingly, it never occurs to anyone any-one to make the said investigation before the tragedy occurs, with a view of searching out defective mechanism or imperfect construction construc-tion then. We are a great people for shutting shut-ting the stable door after the horse is gone shutting it good and tight so the probers may have leisure for their probing. Defying a Glacier. IN ALASKA, the Revell family are defying Black Rapids glacier which, without seeming provocation and after remaining perfectly calm for several million years, suddenly started coming down upon them, rumbling and roaring and acting up generally as it advances. Its icy snout is only about a mile away from their roadhouse now, but they're still serving ye olde blue plate special choice of jello or stewed prunes as usual. The Revells couldn't be New York people. In New York, everybody strives to move at least once every two years, whether there's reason for it or not. A lady flat dweller there likes the scriptural promise of a house of many mansions because it gives her such a warm glow to think of spending eternity shifting from one mansion to another, redecorating re-decorating as she goes. Crime and Punishment. AT A recent trial in New York for a hideous murder, the lawyer law-yer for the killer who, incidentally, has confessed wound up his plea with this old and reliable and beautifully beau-tifully logical standby: "Putting this man in the electric chair will never bring back the woman he slew remember that, GenUemen of the jury." But putting a brutal killer in the electric chair will never bring him back either, which, after all, is the main idea, isn't it Gentlemen of any rational jury? IRVIN S. COBB. Western Newspaper Union. |