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Show SBI Ll 1 1 " -'' ''- t .... "1 Notvs of an Innncrnt Bystander: The Story Tellers: Eecause of war-time economic difficulties, some maps have ceased publishing. One of the regrettable casualties is The Living Age . . . The Nation's In The Wind Dep't is its zippiest feature fea-ture . . . World Digest reports there are five thousand press agents in America . . . And twice as many wnstcbaskets, thank goodness . . . Back In June 1031, Gen'l MacArthur wrote a piece for a vets' mag suggesting sug-gesting a draft of 4 million men for army training. Naturally, nobody listened. Hoover was President . . . Wm. B. Ziff's new book, due in June, is called "The Coming Battle of Germany." We hear it is dynamite, designed to tumble an avalanche of brass-hat thinking. Duell, Sloan and Pearce will publish. Ziff is the one responsible for the reinstatement re-instatement of the late Billy Mitchell . . . "The Murder That Rocked Broadway" (the Arnold Rothstein affair) in the current True Detective is our favorite murder story. The Editorial of the Week: (From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal): "Sedition laws need immediate reexamination re-examination for the purpose of giving giv-ing them teeth. There is desperately desper-ately needed a policy of government which will lump all traitors, sedi-tionists, sedi-tionists, and subverters, 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 piddlin;: policies the Government now follows in dealing deal-ing with those who seek its defeat or overthrow . . . George Christians Chris-tians (of Chattanooga) a crackpot and a fool? Once they said that of the Nazi paperhanger, who has engineered en-gineered the greatest revolution and bloodiest conflict in all history . . . Let's swap the kid gloves for a pair of brass knuckles!" The Front Pages: Editor & Publisher's Pub-lisher's thumbnail editorial: "If it's anything we can't print, you shouldn't be talking about it!" . . . Newsmen wno used to see convicted Nazi agent Viereck in Washington say that he acted as though he were above and beyond arrest, that he rated himself invulnerable. A notorious Sixth Colyumist argues that writers who pen malicious things about women in public life deserve to be shot . . . What a fraud! That from the Americounterfeit, who has made a career out of malice. He has written dozens of dishonest dis-honest pieces about persons in public life, including Mrs. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, whose politics his boss opposes. op-poses. Like a shady lady, he can be hired for an hour or a weekend. week-end. Every one of his attacks on Axis enemies in the U. S. is repeated over the short-wave circuits from Berlin, Rome and Tokyo ... If he had any intellectual intel-lectual honesty he'd shoot himself. him-self. Scrambled Eggs: No matter how little you have you're rich if you envy nobody . . . The Indians who sold Manhattan for $21 weren't such goons. It didden belong t them! The island had to be bought back again from the real owners ... If I owned the paper I'd tell my editorialists, colyumists and staff: "Before you write anything any-thing always ask yourself the question ques-tion "Will it be anything Hirohito, Hitler and Benito would enjoy reading?" read-ing?" ... Or hearing? ... A scholar tells me that the style Time uses in part isn't so modernistic' modernist-ic' That some of Time's literary acrobatricks are patterned after Homer's "Iliad," The friends who are most deserving deserv-ing of your favors are those who were your friends before you were in a position to do them any . . . Nobody's ever perfectly content. The poor man is often bored, the rich man blase. Next time anyone complains about cuffless trousers remind him that they don't wear 'em in the Army and Navy, either . . . The only actual ac-tual talent possessed by many celebrities celeb-rities 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 Dep't in a peace with Hitler) were alive would he be in the headlines? . . . Whatever became of Verne Marshall, the Cedar Rapids editor, who said Davis was his backer in "The No Foreign War Committee" gag? One report had him in a sanitarium sani-tarium mentally upset, etc. Joan Edwards says that what the country needs most right now to win the war is a blockade around Japan and fewer blockheads around Washington Wash-ington . . . Comes the real blackout what happens ti guys carrying torches? ... ty crack by a draftee: "Well, b' lung. Any messages mes-sages for MacArthur?" . . . What we need, too, are more editors like Jack Carlcy of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The way he laid it on that Chattanooga Coo-Coo, who patterned himself after Hitler . . , Boy, how they are being dealt with. |
