Show what thinks cob b y about 1 l the new bill ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA they do say the new bill as drawn by the gallagher and shean of the administration corcoran and cohen is more sweeping than was the original even gen hugh johnson once as conversational as mrs actors parrot but lately exiled amid the uncongenial silences crawls out from under a log in the woods with lichens in his hair but but the lower jaw still working amoo smoothly in the socket to tell how drastic a thing it is critics assert this legislation will cov business like er a IrvinS irvin S cobb wet blanket over a sick pup and point out that the number of sick pups benefited by being tucked under wet blankets is quite small however these fussy persons belong to the opposition and dont count anyhow they count much at the last election except in maine vermont and one backward precinct in the ozark mountains 9 friendly french visitors IT TT SEEMS we were vere cruelly wrong 1 in ascribing mercenary motives to those french financiers dhove been dropping in on us lately they came only to establish more cordial relations of course theres a new french bond issue to be floated but these visits were purely friendly and altruistic still and all I 1 cant help thinking of mr pincus who invaded the east side to invite his old neighbor mr ginsburg whom he seen in years to be a guest at mrs pincus birthday party he gave full directions for traveling uptown then added vere we lit lif now its von of dose swell valk up flats so mit your right elbow you gif a little boosh on the rhoid button in the doorjamb door jam downstairs und the lock goes glick glick und in you come you go up two floors und den mit your other elbow you git gif one more little boosh on the foist door to the left und valk in und vill be edl edt vait exclaimed mr ginsburg 1 I could get to that brodnix Bron nix I 1 got brains aint it but ulso I 1 got fingers und thumbs vot is de boosh mit elbows stuff murmured mr pincus gently surely you come visiting ancient Itan ranches chos U UNDER the guidance of leo carillo that most native of all native sons ive been visiting such of the ancient ranchos ranches as remain practically what they were before the gringos cringos came to southern california you almost expect to find ramona weaving in a crumbly patio more every one of these lovely places is lived on by one of leos cousins ile he has more kin folks than a microbe they say the early carillos barillos Ca were pure spanish but I 1 insist there must have been a strong strain of belgian hare in the stock when it came to progeny the strain was to the pacific coast what the potomac shad has been to the eastern seaboard its more than a family its ils a species and a mighty noble breed it is producing even yet the fragrant essence of a time that elsewhere has vanished and a day when hospitality still ruled and a naturally kindly people had time to be mannerly and the instinct to be both simple and grandly courteous at once privileges ages of nazism Naz idom T THE HE german commoner may be shy on the food rations and have some awkward moments un unless I 1 es he conforms to the new nazi religion but he enjoys complete freedom of the press or rather complete freedom from the press and lately another precious privilege has been accorded him ile he may fight duels heretofore this inestimable boon was exclusively reserved for the high highborn borm but now he may go forth and carve and be carved until the field of honor looks like somebody had been cleaning fish this increase in his blessings makes me recall a tale that charley russell the cowboy artist used to tell the boys were fixing to hang a horse thief charley said he only weighed weighed about ninety pounds but for his heft he was the champion horse thief of montana the rope was swung from the root roof of a barn then they balanced a long board out of the loft window and the condemned was out at the far end of it ready for the drop when a stranger busted in everybody thought he craved to pray but that unknown humanitarian had a better notion than that in a minute he came inching out on that plank and there a dry eye in the crowd as he edged up behind the poor trembling wretch and slipped an anvil in th the seat scat ot of his pants IRVIN S COBB 0 service |