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Show what C r U) Vthinks S- about: Parole Boards at Laro. OXNARD, CALIF. Did it ever occur to you this might be a happier, or, anyhow, a safer land for the rest of us to live in if those in high places were just a bit fussier about the criminals they let out and the aliens tlicy let luV Apparently nl most any known radical from overseas over-seas can drop In without being registered reg-istered or finger-printed or naturalized natural-ized or anything and nmUe himself at home even to the extent of trying try-ing openly to undermine under-mine our government. govern-ment. Whereas, If all these violent foreign-born reds w h o lack citizenship citizen-ship papers were laid end to end, It would indeed he a lovely sight, espe- ,.-.!.. pi, e.u.n j,,,,, Irvin S. Cobb had a lily in his hand. As for the average chronic offender against the laws well, on his way Into the penitentiary, he's likely to meet himself coming out, with release papers in his pocket and hope in his heart. For him a sentence Is just a pleasant week-end back among the boys at the old manse. Here today and gone tomorrow that's the grand Idea. Might I make so bold as to suggest there would be more habitual criminals staying In prison if we had fewer parole boards going at large? Old-Fashioned Ideal SECRETARY OK STATE HULL makes a statement on the heels of a similar statement by the British Brit-ish foreign secretary, and, if you dig down through the diplomatic spinach under which utterances are always burled, you'll find that neither nei-ther nation is deeply tickled over the plan of Japan to gobble up north China by what is called politely po-litely an "autonomy movement" But If that wasn't Its fashionable name It could pass anywhere for an armed invasion. Unless you're a statesman, you wouldn't be able to notice the difference. For some days the Impression has been getting around that the Chinese Chi-nese weren't so hot over the Idea, either. Well, the rabbit that's about to be absorbed by the python rarely rare-ly does show any real enthusiasm. Here's the curious thing, though apparently both our Mr. Hull and his English brother still labor under un-der the whimsical belief that a treaty by a stronger nation guaranteeing guaran-teeing the Integrity of a weaker nation is meant to be kept. How quaintly old-fashioned. Prison Petulance, THAT on the same day three jail-breaks should occur at places as widely separated as Boston Bos-ton in Masschusetts, Nashville in Tennessee and Muskogee in Oklahoma Okla-homa is only to be accounted for as proof of a growing wave of dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction with prison life on the part of the boys. How much belter we manage in some stales I might name where it would seem a boarder has merely mere-ly to mention to the parole board that he's getting bored with the accommodations ac-commodations and craves to go and sin no more. "Well, so long warden," war-den," says the departing one. "Hold any mail that conies and try to keep my old room for me the one with the southern exposure and the radio set. It's not good-by, just au revoir." But no, those chaps who blasted their way out got so Irritable they just couldn't wait It all goes to show that petulance never pays in this world. Kindly be patient, fellows, fel-lows, and, sooner or later, the sentimentalist sen-timentalist will perfect a plan to turn practically everybody loose immediately alter conviction, tons curing the present unavoidable annoyance an-noyance of a round trip to the hoosegow. Joint Debates on Religion. A CONTROVERSIAL, gentleman, who thinks he read between the lines of one of these squibs a hidden meaning which I certainly never meant to put there, writes in, challenging me to a j eiit debate on socio-religious grounds, whatever what-ever they are. Much obliged, but the answer, briefly and in a word, Is no. So far as I've observed, the only person who ever wins a joint debate de-bate is the one who takes no part In it A Laugh on Berlin. WOULDN'T it seem to sort of put the laugh on somebody If we sent a lot of Jewish athletes and there are many splendid ones scattered around to Berlin on our Olympic team, and, our team mopped up? Everybody In Hollywood turned out for a party to II. G. Wells. I think they thought he was a visiting visit-ing producer. Sure sign of returning prosperity women have started In again, marrying the Mdivani boys. IRVIN S. COBB. C North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. WNU Service. |