Show what cobb about V the faculty flag flae pledge S CANTA ANTA MONICA CALIF 1 I never heard of a law compelling a private individual in times of peace to take an oath to defend our hag flag and respect our institutions neither do I 1 know of laws compelling us to give public jobs to men and and women who refuse to take such an oath or requiring Quiring rc us to leave them tn in their jobs should they violate that oath from the president of this country t on down the run of officeholders odice holders must swear to uphold the constitution and support the government should any one of thorn them wilfully f fall a 11 to do so the offender Is fillible to removal amid loud cheers irvin S coob then why not include teachers and college professors those whose high hl h task it Is to mould youth into stuff fit for citizenship and civic responsibility why should they be suffered buffered to peddle sedition and yet so go on drawing salaries laries ba from the public fund these people who claim they have conscientious scruples when what most of us think they really surfer suiter from Is communistic muni biliousness and for the students as I 1 understand it the right of free speech and the gift of free education do not mean license to spout treason on a campus or scorn america in a classroom A red flag fits an auction sale fale but I 1 dont believe id ever get used to seeing it afloat over a district schoolhouse political cal plagiarism P certainly produces copy 1 cats first the young republicans meet being greeted by a typical bounding juvenile chos the last surviving drummer boy of shiloe I 1 then the young democrats come rallying as fait fact as will bring them with their breakfast shawls and their ear trumpets the self proclaimed young leader of any party Is usually somebody who hopes to set a patriotic example to ills his grandchildren and at the same game time get the old job back the republicans hold a grassroots grass roots convent convention lon so this month at atlanta therell be what you might call a grass rass widow convention for the revolting southern democrats absolutely too revolting for words to hoar hear jim parley farley talk you see fee been divorced but the decree Is not yet final southern democrats are great hands for seceding and remaining so every day in the year except just one day on election they become reconciled long on enough to vote the straight democratic ticket twenty minutes later off the reservation again I 1 hear a number of bankers will attend this would seem to indicate a changing trend for quite a while after 1929 very few bankers went to atlanta voluntarily gong going nuts in n hollywood IF F WHILE touring los angeles you see a bushy headed wild eyed odely gentleman aimlessly alm lessly wandering about dont jump too soon at the conclusion that hes a typical specimen of our famous coterie ot of hermits you see they laid out los angeles and environs on the ground plan of a drunken angleworm and the system of numbering houses Is further designed to encourage raving insanity so what you behold may merely be an ex r resi est dent of the west who came out here years ago to retire and bought him a cozy bungalow and incautiously went for a stroll and has icen tran ever since to find his way back home borne again not all the nuts were nutty when they first arrived many of them got that way trying to trace street addresses after a year and a halt half here im beginning to have trouble with the knee reflexes myself but theres one consolation about going crazy in hollywood unless you leave town nobody would ever notice it gen Ligget tt failing 0 R LIGGETT Is dead at SO S seventy eight the only contemporary lieutenant general of the united states army F for or bodd 50 odd years lie he wore with gallantry tin and with honor the uniform of his country he fought indians fought border bandits fought spaniards n cuba fought germans in F france rance and at the end fought off death for many dragging months I 1 saw w him overseas commanding com mandin our splendid first corps which he be mad more splendid still lie he was as plain as an old shoe and as easy to get along with ills officers respected him his bis soldiers loved him they went he sent oem em and if they failed in ID their objective they come back they went instead to report at the sills of the judgment seat the reason why they failed behind his back the ruck nuck privates called him uncle bigg that ought to give iou the idea like him over thero them israel putnam and stonewall jackson and forrest and grant and all the rest of our real ones IRVIN S COBB 0 north americ newspaper poper alliance inc WHO |