Show what 05 eco s bb thinks about the lord lords shock troop troops HILLS CAL WESTWOOD in peace I 1 knew streets in new york where citizens went at their own risk and policemen walked in pairs but some were as safe as though been in church a doctor with his kit a nurse in her uniform a priest or a nun a preacher or a aabol and al ways a salvation army worker in war ask any veteran wb what at or no matter how big its personnel or how fat its purse outdid the salvation army in service to our soldiers whatsoever the race or the creed or the color at christmas who sent santa down cold chimneys to gladden the hearts of children at hearthstones that would be irvin 8 cobb desolate who brought a measure of holiday cheer to the misery laden putting clothes on the backs and dinners in the stomachs ot of the naked and the hungry so for their eleventh hour drive tor for their christmas fund thank god tor for the salvation army every cent ent went where it should have gone when you gave gaie it to them for verily I 1 tell you as one who knows these are the shock troops of the lord 0 that marvelous Marv elou hen HATI VER became of the hen which from time to time hauled off and laid an eg egg with mysterious initialing on it in my days on a country newspaper this gifted fowl was a regular journalistic feature her output might be soft shelled and shy a yolk but always the cryptic writing was there once she produced an egg bearing hearing letters which many translated as prophesying war but somebody pointed but that if it you read the mes ines sage the other way it spelt raw which also seemed to cover the case this ba inyard phenomenon died too soon how the new deal boys could use a hen capable of turning out weird alphabetical combinations and then go ing off and forgetting them 1 afterthought among all the office seekers or office holders who have been or may be mentioned for a den bial nomination next year or even for vice president iou will search jn in vain for the name of governor hoffman of new jersey destroying a skunk I 1 IVD just been reading until I 1 stopped to gag the latest novel of one of the new school of authors yoi know those so called realists who mis take filth for fiction and lewdness tor for literature I 1 wouldn t say this person was much of a writer but he certainly Is a practical dirt farmer ive I 1 ve never believed in censorship tor for creative work and as its regards this group I 1 ve always gone on the theory paraphrasing an old line of an old ballad that they were more to be pit led than censored but for the individual offender against common decency well when I 1 was a youngster youn ster down south they told me the surest way to destroy a skunk was to pen him under a barrel and just let him smell himself to death on his own personal perfumes our younger younge generation N TUG THE paper I 1 see where for their I 1 IN sunday sermons three ministers preached on modern youth alth par nicular references to the short shortcomings comin s of same I 1 haven t a doubt that the first caveman surveying the antics of his colt ish brood remarked in tones tone s of gloomy resignation to his hairy mate atvell well the world worlds s done pretty well while we ran it I 1 ook at the hole bole in the roof to let the smoke out that I 1 thought up right out of my own head be geel gee 1 and mw nw when I 1 get the trick of this new throwing stick worked out will just about have reached her peak but heaven help the poor old earth when that bunch of crazy kids yonder takes hold I 1 before we we start blaming the doncom ing generation for everything include ing its own sins which are s diffidently manifest already lets go back to where this bick b ick passing habit started lets go back to adam adam tie berned old experimentalist I 1 IRVIN S COBB a 0 north american newspaper alliance inc ina service |