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Show about: Curing Stuttering. CHIN LEE, ARIZ. Away up here in the Indian country comes a newspaper, saying some expert at cor- j recting human utterance has turned up with a cure for stuttering. But why? By his own admission, nearly all stutterers can sing and most of them can swear fluently, thus vSHSyT providing superior JS? - J emotional outlets in v jiJ two directions. One W "3 of the smartest A criminal lawyers I s know deliberately 1 cultivated a natural : MKS I impediment in his ,,1 II speech. In court- ; 4 room debates It I s i gave him more time kmi to think up either irvin s. Cobb the right questions or to figure out the right answers. And one of the most charming voices I aver heard belonged to a Louisiana girl whose soft southern accents were fascinatingly interrupted inter-rupted at intervals by a sudden stammer like unexpected ripples in a gently flowing brook. Bow to Relax. rEFORE I started out here, feel-ing feel-ing somewhat jumpy after wrestling a radio program for six months, Jimmy Swinnerton, the artist, art-ist, who's one of the most devoted friends these high mesas ever had, advised me to try stretching out on the desert sands as a measure for ! health and complete relaxation and a general toning up. "Just lie down perfectly flat," he said. Then he took another look at my figure. "Anyway, lie down," he said. So today I tried it. Another friend, John Kirk, the famous Indian trader, trad-er, helped me pick out a suitable spot on the Navajo reservation that was forty miles from the nearest habitation. But the site I chose was already pre-empted by a scorpion with a fretful stinger and an irritable disposition dis-position that seemed to resent being be-ing crowded. So I got right up again. In fact, I got up so swiftly that Kirk said it was impossible to follow the movement with the human hu-man eye. It was like magic, he said. Speed Crazed Drivers. WHY the hurry, Sonny Boy? I see you almost daily. You're roaring through populous streets or skidding on hairpin turns or whirling whirl-ing at sixty perilous miles an hour around the kinked andsnaky twists of mountain roads like some demoniac de-moniac bug racing along the spine of a coiled rattler. II I am one to say, you probably have primed yourself for this senseless sense-less speeding on that most dangerous danger-ous of all mixed tipples the fearsome fear-some combination of alcohol and gasoline. Or perhaps, like the blind mule of the folklore tale, you just naturally don't care a dern. One thing is plain: Despite the high percentage per-centage of mortality your breed is on the increase. So, again, echoing the question which the coroner must frequently ask at the inquest, why the hurry. Sonny Boy? It can't be that anybody wants you back at the place where you've been or that anybody else will be glad to see you at the place where you're going. Really now, Sonny Boy, what is all the hurry about? Civilization's Predicament. I FEEL it my duty to call attention atten-tion to the following warning, recently re-cently published: "The earth is degenerating in these latter days. . . bribery and corruption abound. . . the children no longer obey their parents. . . it is evident that the end of the world is approaching!" However, it should be added that this prediction is not, as might be assumed from its familiar ring, the utterance of some inspired observer ob-server of the present moment. It is a translation from an Assyrian tablet, dated 2300 B. C. So, if the fulfillment of the doleful prophecy has been delayed for 4,-737 4,-737 years it seems reasonable to assume that it may be some months yet before civilization flies all to pieces. Waning States' Rights. AS I watch commonwealth after commonwealth below the Mason Ma-son and Dixon line tumbling over one another to embrace centralized authority in exchange for federal funds for local projects, I'm reminded re-minded of a trip which a friend of mine out here just made. He's a descendant of the Lees and : he decided to pay a pious pilgrim- 1 age to the last remaining strong- I hold of the late Southern Confed- j eracy. So he went to the only two states that voted last fall for states' i rights, making his headquarters in the ghost city of Passamaquoddy He reports that, in both Maine ; and Vermont, the secession sentiment senti-ment is getting stronger all the time and that there's a growing tendency to name boys for Jeff Davis rather than Ethan Allen or Neal B. Dow. IRVIN S. COBB. (E WNU Service. |