Show what at S cobb 6 almita texas tex front yard TEX because HOUSTON H the texas rangers merged with a prosaic highway patrol thereby losing their entity as perhaps the finest fighting k force for law jaw enforcement that america ever knew saying romance has buffered ered a death blow hut but I 1 go EO so far as to say that not about texas theres romance in her scope raw drama draina in her business superlatives grow on trees out here and distance lives up to its name we may not always tall fall in love with the fat lady in tile the sideshow deshow sl but her size commands respect and sometimes as in this case theres beauty along with bulk take the famous king flu ranch the mightiest doma domain maln n in the hands of a single family in all the irvin S scoba cobb world probably there Is a saving and a true one that its ninety miles froni from the front gate to the L e front yard think of trying to shoo the chickens out of that front y yard andl 0 0 praising charles charlei curtis curt ills his active life there was a Dge gendral journalistic tendency to deprecate charles curtis curlis larger achievements and laugh at his little vanities now that hes gone the newspapers without regard to their politics are printing tributes to the distinguished career c and one fine citizenship of this man who wont went from an indian lodge to the second highest elective office in our gift since to critic lye our leaders Is ig an almost universal instinct it be ins fine if we reversed the rule about speaking spen hing no III of the dead and praised a deserving fellow f el low creature while lie be could henr what we sald said but sav saved ed up the scold ings until hed passed 0 n I 1 could elaborate on this text b but ut must stop to try to think up some small gibe at the expense of some prominent man 0 0 0 the yellow peril ascare taken the japanese war scare from the old cedar whatnot what not and shaken the mothballs moth balls out of it and are arc waving it in the breeze as a s signal ignal to the citizens of los angeles to remove the women and children to a place of safety and n warning to the folks in seattle to start building street barricades tius thus we have the revival of a time honored cut custom oin to be sure fieres tl ti pros eres a racial differ dikter ence to be reckoned with wre were a breed of opportunists the japanese are a breed of fatalists the american soldier wants to go home when the mess Is over and see if lie he can get his job bach from the lad ad that smuggled into it while he was at the front the japanese craves to rejoin his ancestors instead of his family so naturally a fellow prefer to go on living is nt at a handicap fighting a gentleman who thinks youre doing film a personal favor by killing him rut but no matter how acute the peril I 1 decline to retreat to the ozark moun bains until they prove to me that hint japanese explosives will explode when desired or at all white while folks folk melodies melodic california 1 I said im L LEAVING fed up on the kinds of singing that you hear so much of out here no matter what a mexican an song son starts out with it winds up with something about a love dove and the lie trouble with hawaiian singers Is that always telling you goodby good by bv but they never dever go thank goodness ill soon be listening to the stuff I 1 was raised on spirituals pouring gloriously forth from velvety afric throats cut but I 1 he hear ar now the lie distressing news that even here in the deep south some of the black lit ack people anre getting so self conscious or some something lhing they want to sing the white folks comparatively tun thin and hymns hymn instead of 0 their own rich glowing melodies les think of the race that made swing low sweet chariot not wanting to chant it I 1 think of nf a day when deep river Is forgotten hy by its very creators think of joshua fit the battle battie of jericho no longer ringing out where the field hands pick the lie cotton or cut the enne I 1 think of little david not being entreated to play on his harpt think of that and bust out crying 0 a glasses glare of eternal spring othere III MY much all over the country seems to be general complaint about the weather lier people ure are saying the trouble with this alner aln er I 1 Is s that so BO much winter to it iut but theres a philosophical way of clini atle my friend kd Kore iii the lie western painter knew an aa aged chief on the crow res er erv atlon up in the northwest who when the first freeze cume went to tile lie agency tind and beight a of ireen green W xa alps there searn to he be anything w wron rong with the hie old Ind hins sight lie he had OD an eye like a captive fuwk so borean isleib is leil questions im n no longer young answered the ancient and I 1 dont like ilki the snow and ice fee now wherever I 1 look I 1 see only gin gi n things und it makes springtime in rn my v lit once in we could goirn k 1 I I 1 rn something froin the lowly cited annn IRVIN S COBB 0 |