Show what co bb thinks about 0 pension pensions for veterans ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA merely another little prophecy by old doctor cobb the amateur soothsayer who never said a sooth hes he S surer of than this one agitation for a blanket pension to cover all world war ar veterans regardless gard less of ratings or physical condl tion will start as soon as those lately won billions are distributed at first some veterans organ will oppose it not for or long though at first congress will be lukewarm then it 11 see a great light and this new pension act one that will be to all previous pen slon alon acts what a whale Is to tadpoles will be passed at least the veter ans have the argument arvn S cobb of patriotic service on their side and jsn isn t it true that to nearly all of us has come a new con ceplon of the national figurehead no lon longer gerls Is it square jawed self dependent hankee doodle its a Ie generous nerous jolly smiling santa claus bringing free checks for everybody that Is free until the taxpayers start paying the bill defying the almighty FOLLOWING the example set some ayears A years ago by a certain famous per conage a cock sure infidel made a speech lately defying god to smite him dead on the spot it seemed first off a very sound idea but bothin nothing happened so the gentleman took this tor for proof there was no god and went ent his way rejoicing some look on this as blasphemy but granted that every man Is entitled to speak bis his opinion on religion I 1 d call it pure gall think of inviting the A al mighty to suspend the entire cosmic scheme scheme while forging a thunderbolt to abolish one solitary copycat of an amateur ajax would you call out the standing army of the united states to kill a cockroach lady killers I 1 TT T HAS been in print so often you must know it by heart yourself at sight of her recreant gentleman friend the poor bruised butterfly felt a great sense of her wrongs the wretch wanted to go back to his wife or something equally dastardly and the next thing she knew she was hold ing a smoking automatic that acci dentally happened to be in her hand bag along with some lipstick and a recipe for fudge and he was deader then the prosecutors a chance of con evicting her for the killing but just prior to that everything went black before her eyes I 1 there theres s one detail which never varies that going black before the eyes business it was in the case they tried recently in new tork york its it s in this latest case at chicago a sore affliction always marked by total lapse of mem mern ory and frequently coupled with tern horary insanity but its certainly fine for marksmanship the lady scores a perfect bull s eye invariably I 1 wish I 1 could go blind to order that a way I 1 d be the best quail shot that ever came out of kentucky instead ot of the worst brawls in hollywood I 1 have hot southern NATURALLY blood which seems to be the hot test there Is although down home I 1 never noticed it but up north if trouble impended people would speak of my hot southern blood when all the time I 1 thought I 1 was having a nervous chill being thus all hot blooded up I 1 adore fighting if somebody else does it since our movie heroes always stage their combats in some utterly secluded spot such as a cafe or a night club I 1 hurry hither and yon hoping to be present when an ambit star satisfies his honor by boune ing a special order of sweetbreads un der glass with mushrooms twenty minutes 00 90 cents oft off some rival a classic profile but it its s hard enough for me to ge get in touch with a waiter let alone a good plate tossing contest today the war correspondents report two brisk battles on the hollywood front and I 1 im in absent as usual in the main bout both gladiators were script writers proverbially proverb lally a breed believe it or not a mr air tangled with a mr air rus kin the presumption being that one of the gentlemen regarded tl ti e other as a typographical error english reds again printed I 1 ere recently SOMETHING S about the way the english handle their reds and pinks prompted an eng ilsa gentleman to write giving further details atwould seem thit over there all public servants including notably state paid school teachers must swear to uphold the crown which means they cannot preach communism to their pupils without violating a solemn oath and it if caught so doing they lose their official heads instanter moreover no avowed or suspected agent of the soviets may use the radio to preach the overthrow of the existing govern ment merit in favor of the russian plan in other words forgive the pun please britain never shall be slavs but on the other hand americans always will be suckers I 1 IRVIN S COBB 4 service ll 11 t AA t i fc il |