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Show iabout: High Collars and Adam'i Applet BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. The moot question of whether the east coast or the west coast is America's artistic center is one of the most moot-ful moot-ful you ever encountered. Temporarily, though it's being eclipsed by the burning issue touching touch-ing on what the well-dressed man will wear around his goozle. fp New York's tas-tlest tas-tlest dressers are sSSSk jfS 5. encasing their V h 7 necks within high linen walls the v , highest since Jerl-i Jerl-i cho, I hear wliere- p ,-sv as Hollywood's de-f de-f 41 tenders fight on Vs5-, j for the rakish, not Bwws8 1 0 g n y winsome, Irvin S. Cobb open - throated effect ef-fect in other words, 'tis a war between the shut-ins shut-ins and the fresh-air fiends. Maybe May-be you don't Uiink this is important, impor-tant, but they do. Today, typical champions of these clashing schools of thought met here face to face. Sunset boulevard's entry was unbuttoned so far down In front he practically practi-cally was being served on the half-shell, half-shell, and one and all had a fascinating fas-cinating view of his Adam's apple as It raced up and down, the same as a fox squirrel on a snag. Like a boy chinning himself on a board fence, Fifth avenue's challenger was hidden behind the tallest, stiff-est, stiff-est, and flaringest collar I ever he-held. Kid Movie Actors Stampede ACCORDING to honest estimates, esti-mates, exactly one child in 3,000,000 gets a cliance to qualify as a child actor in the pictures not an outstanding star, mind you, but Just a reasonably successful juvenile performer. These figures have been broadcast broad-cast in a laudable effort to check the flood of hopeful parents who pour into Hollywood, seeking large salaries and fame for Junior or precocious little Doris, and finding, find-ing, Instead, only disappointment and heartbreak and finally despair and often destitution. So I'm repeating the doleful warning. It won't do any good, grown-up vanity and greed and ambition am-bition being what they are. Headaches From Economic Messiahs ALBERTA, in Canada, produced an economic Messiah, a spouting spout-ing John the Baptist of the dispensation, dispen-sation, who came out of the wilderness wilder-ness with a lovely device called a "social credit system" which, among other pleasant things, guaranteed every adult $25 a month for life. So the voters overwhelmingly elected him as premier and from all over the dominion flocked In thousands thou-sands to share In the distribution. Now they're busted ; the budget is , a sieve; citizens are faced with ruinous taxes and nobody yet has collected that twenty-five a month, Industrial depression always spawns Its self-anointed saviors who promise to restore prosperity by giving money they haven't got to people who haven't earned it. After a while, In spite of human folly, good times return. Crystal Gazing in World Affairs. IPUDAY we have a few fresh-laid A predictions by - good old Doctor Cobb, palm-reading, crystal-gazing, numerology (during income tax week) and car washing. France will save her face and Ethiopia will lose Its pants. The Rhineland, being German, will keep right on' being German, as It should. Although perhaps making some snoots at each other for public consumption behind the scenes Adolph H. and Benito M. will have nany a hearty laugh together. Several smaller nations will got painfully crushed in the jam, as usual. England will positively not get crushed in any jam. Japan will discover the Chinese are responsible for the whole mess and grab off another slice of territory. terri-tory. Got. Hoffman Overlooks a Bet IN THEIR efforts to impeach the prosecution's key witnesses, Governor Gov-ernor Hoffman and the other at torneys for the defense in the Bruno Bru-no Hauptman case are overlooking a bet There was one person who testified testi-fied most damagingly against the cause to which they have devoted themselves. Under oath, this person per-son solemnly declared that, on a certain night, alongside a certain cemetery, he recognized the voice of the kidnaper. True, this individual has gone abroad since a trial Jury and a high court decided the proof Justified Jus-tified conviction. But his whereabouts where-abouts Is known. In accordance , with the present campaign, why j not fetch him back and attack his evidence as spurious attack his credibility as an honest and a , truthful man? The name Is Llnd. bergh. I IRVIN S. COBB, j --VN'U Service. |