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Show HERE AND THERE T' (By Hucaresl ''The most obsolete of our equipment equip-ment is our thinking'". Senator repper. And we still think we're r.,.t doing so badly. A year aero we were definitely inferior in aircraft, air-craft, armaments and motorized equipment and above in highly mined soldiers. The story is much different today, and rapidly we are overhauling the best there is in the world today. Don't be too surprised if we use it all very s on. V? are subtly being con- ditioned to active participation, whether you know it or not. We like a quotation of the late President Calvin Coolid.ee, recently recent-ly quoted by President Roosevelt. In commenting on a sermon on sin. the taciturn Coolidge said the minister was "against it". v The writer once worked in Palm Springs. California, which happens hap-pens to be a mecca for the stars at play. At the time Harry Rieh-iran Rieh-iran of Miami, Florida, the bandleader band-leader who flew the Atlantic, was assidiously courting Miss Hazel Forbes, the toothpaste heiress. We received a singing telegram and there being no one in the office who felt musical, we undertook to sine the telegram to the young lady in question. Although we are not musically inclined, she liked it very much and presented us with bon bons and cigarets on every visit to the Western Union office in Palm Springs. Later the impetuous im-petuous Mr. Richman captivated the captivating Miss Forbes so long ago. in fact, that now they are contemplating calling it a day. And we are disillusioned again. And Mr. Richman once spent folding money on telegrams every day! Governor Maw is not slipping, but the people who keep him posted post-ed on things are. By failing to appoint a new board of regents for the University, the men now holding office will have to serve (Continued on last page) I HERE ANMHERE j (Continued from first page ' another year. Maybe the oversight over-sight was intended as the gover nor is a very canny person anc 1 we can't conceive of him overlook i ing any bets. Some men are born great, anc i others get that way because thi outfield fence has been moved ii so close that every long fly is i home run. Italy warns us that our entr; into the European war would bi disastrous for America. We be lieve it wouldn't be exactly duck soup for Italy either. I Billy "The Kid" Conn, who pu up a beautiful battle with th' ; Brown Bomber, will probably get ' ; a return match. And don't be j ; surprised if there's a new champ! j ! ' '. 1 Old timers around the Cripple , Creek mining district in Colorado are recalling gold rush days with the revival of mining in that fa-1 mous district. As a matter of fact, almost every locality where strategic metals of any kind have been found, now is undergoing extensive exploration work. In-1 : eluded are attempts to bring in capital for the development of methods for converting into aluminum alu-minum the alunite ore found ex-, ex-, tensively in the Marysvale mountains. moun-tains. M 1 |