| Show 1 0 71 calhou t magazine solicitors TEXAS what hhas HOUSTON has all the struggling collegians ranging in age up to fifty five who used to solicit magazine subscriptions so they could spend another semester at dear old buschwah Bush wah we counted that day lost whose low iw descending sun find us signing on the dotted line and sometimes we got the wrong magazines and sometimes we get any magazines at all and once in awl awhile dle we got the magazines wed ordered a and nd then like them but our consolation was that wed ftc irvin m S cobb aided all those earnest undergraduates to complete the education for which they panted as the hart after the can it be that the gallant army packed the campuses until vast numbers got crushed in the jam or is it that many of them are getting too old to travel around lately there has been an unaccountable falling off in the business we are bearing up bravely since now we have more time in which to lead our own lives P S I 1 have on hand a complete file for 1935 of the northwestern bee raiser which I 1 would like to trade for a ukulele 0 0 Matriarch ys approach SOME COME inspired philosopher and U not a woman either declares that within a century women will dominate every imaginable field of human endeavor what do you mean within a century if the prophet will leave out the ancient science of growing chin whiskers and the knack of making a sleeping car washroom look like a hurrahs hur nest im saying that women are already away out in front everywhere since henry the eighth the two greatest kings england had were both queens elizabeth and victoria men thought up war and improved the art of war and now are hoping to perfect it to the point of exterminating the species but in the midst of bloody war fares that florence nightingale laid the foundations and clara barton built the structure of mercy by method and lifesaving life saving by skill and tenderness and sanitation take this country at the present moment for energy for readiness of speech for range of interest for versatility in making publicity and incidentally acquiring it for endurance under strain what man amongst us is to be compared with the first lady of the language mrs franklin D roosevelt 0 0 banishing sectionalism 0 N ONE stretch of road down here and it is not a main trav aled highway and this not exactly the tourist season I 1 saw cars bearing license tags of nine separate states ranging from new hampshire and florida to utah and oregon besides one from hawaii and one from puerto rico and next summer texas cars will be boring into every corner of this union and the folks riding in them will be getting acquainted with their fellow countrymen and finding out that when you know the other fellow hes not so different after all like most evil things sectionalism and part parochial chial prejudices and with vermont neighbor to virginia and the dakotas talking it over with the carolinas theres seed being sown which inevitably must sprout a finer yield of americanism than any our land ever produced if only we keep the tares of communism and the chaff of snobbery out of the crop only make patriotic service a thing of elbow grease and not of lip movements what price then the wearers bearers of the black shirts and the white sheets the parlor pinks the yellow internationalists and the red flag wavers freedom of 0 the press r invariably cancel Df freedom of the press and curb freedom of education otherwise they fail although he uttered the words over years ago governor berkeley of virginia spoke tor for all the breed of political tyrants when he said 1 I thank god there are no free schools nor printing for learning has brought disobedience and heresy into the world and printing has divulged them foulness in drama or literature ake a skunk penned under a barrel eventually destroys itself by just naturally choking to death on its own smell control of the newest medium of publicity the radio is easy but information put in type keeps on traveling no people ever stayed free once the press and the schoolteacher had been muzzled IRVIN S COBB copyright service |
