Show coi what 5 i thinks about Cobb the lordt lords shock troops CAL W WESTWOOD in peace I 1 knew streets in n new york where citizens went at it their own risk and policemen walked in pairs but son some ie were as safe as thou though ii they d been in ill church a doctor with his kit a nurse la in hir her uniform a priest or a nun flun a preacher or a rabbi anut always a salvation llva army in war ask any veteran what organization no matter how big its personnel or liow how fat its purse outdid vie salvation army in n service to tn our soldiers whatsoever e er the anee or the creed or thi color at christmas who sent santa flown own cold chimneys to gladden the hearts of children at hearthstones hearth stones that a would ie he i irv irvin in S cobb il esola afef who brought a measure of holiday cheer to them the misery laden jaden putting clothes on the lie hacks backi and dinners in the stomachs ot 01 the naked anti and the so for thear eleventh hour bour drive for their christmas fund thank oil od for the Salvat lour army every tent ent went where it should have conf when you gate it to them fur for verily 1 tell you as fine abo knows these are tile the shock troops of 0 the lord s that marvelous Marve loui lien hen fic became bame of the it hen en which from time to time hauled off and laldan laid an egg with mysterious initialing on it in my liva 11 ys on a country newspaper tills this gifted fowl was a 8 regular journalistic feature Cen ture iler her output min might lit lie ile soft shelled find and shy a yolk auf always the cryptic writing was there once site she produced an egg bearint letters which ninny many translated as prophesying war but somebody pointed hut but that if you read tile the message the lie other wily way it spelt spell raw which also seemed to cover the case tins this barnyard barnard phenomenon died too soon how flow the rew new teal deal boys could use tle a lien hen capable of turning out weird alphabetical combinations and then going in olt and forgetting them I 1 afterthought among all the office seekers or office holders who have been or may be mentioned for a presidential nomination norril mill on next year or even eve n for vice president you ill spich in vain for the name of governor of new jersey destroying Dettro ying a skunk f IVE VII just been leading until I 1 stopped to gag the latest novel of 0 one of the new school of authors you know those so called realists N who ho mistake filth tor for fiction and lewdness lewd noss for literature I 1 say tills this person was much of a writer but lie certainly Is a practical dirt fanner ive niver believed in censorship for creative work and as regards this group r ive e always gone cone on tile the theory paraphrasing an old line of an old ballad that they were viere more to le be pit led than censored dut cut for the individual offender against common decency well nell when I 1 was a youngster youn ster down south they told me the su surest rest way to destroy a skunk was to pen him under tinder a barrel and just let bilm smell himself to death on his own personal perfumes a our younger generation IM 4 THE paper I 1 see where tor for their sunday sern sermons ions oliree ministers preached prea clied on ma modern youth with particular references ref frences to the shot comings s of sanie same z a doubt that the first caveman the antics of ills his colt ish li r remarked ked in tones of gl resignation to ills his hairy mate well tile worlds done pretty well while we e ran it look RC at the hole in the root to lt let the smoke e out that I 1 thought up right out of my own head lie be geel gee 1 and now when I 1 get tile the trick 0 this new ick horfed worked out will just about nave reached reached her peak pat cut hcan heaven n help the poor old earth when that bunch of crazy kids yonder takei hold bold lefore blaming tile the oncoming in generation tor for everything including jt ta own which are sufficiently manifest already lets go back to where this buck passing habit started lets go back to adam adain the berned old experimentalist IRVIN s COBB co BE 0 north american Ail Alllan lancit CM inc service |