Show what at 0 tta thinks C u obb about the faculty flag pledge CANTA ANTA MONICA CALIF 1 I S never heard of a law compelling 14 a private individual in times of peace to take an oath to defend our flag and respect our matitu eions neither do I 1 know of laws compelling us to give public jobs to men and women AN who ho refuse to take such an oath or requiring us to leave them in their jobs should they violate that oath from the president of this coun try on down the run of officeholders must swear to uphold the constitution an and sup port the government should any one of them wilfully fall to do so the offender Is liable to removal am d loud cheers irvin S coob then why not include leathers teaL hers and college professors those whose high task it Is to mould youth into stuff fit for citizenship and civic responsibility why should hould they be suffered to ped die dle sedition and yet go on drawing salaries si laries from the public fund these people who claim they hav cons clen blous scruples when what most of us th they really suffer from la Is corn com monistic biliousness and for the stu dents as I 1 understand it the right of free speech and the gift of free edu cation catlon do not mean licence license to spout treason on a campus or scorn america in a classroom A red flag fits an auction sale but I 1 don t believe I 1 d ever get used to see ing it afloat over a d strict school house political plagiarism P POLITICS certainly produces copy cats first the young republicans meet being greeted by a typical bound ng dg juvenile who s the last sur alving drummer boy of shiloh then the young democrats come rallying as fast as wheelchairs will bing b ing them with their breakfast shawls and their ear car t limpets the self proclaimed 4 young leader of any party Is ally somebody orne body who hopes to set a pa example to his granI grandchildren children and at the same time get the old job back 4 the republicans hold a grass roots contention so this month at atlanta there 11 II be what you might call a grass widow convention for the revolt ing southern democrats absolutely too revolting for words to hear jim parley talk you see they ve 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 enough to vote the straight dem dern socratic ticket twenty minutes later they re off the reservation again I 1 hear a cumber number of bani ers will attend this would seem to indicate a chang ing trend for quite a wl lie ile after wa I 1 very few bankers went to atlanta voluntarily going nul nuts in hollywood IF WHILE touring los angeles you see a bushy headed wild eyed elder ly gentleman aimlessly wandering about don t jump too soon at the con elusion that hes he s a typical specimen of our famous coterie of hermits you see they wy 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 resi resl dent of tl e middle west who came out here years ago to retire and bought him a cozy bungalow and li it cautiously went for a stroll and has been trying ever since to find his way bick back home again not all the nuts were nutty when they first arrived many of them got that way trying to trace street ad dresses after a year and a half here im 1 in beginning to have trouble with the knee reflexes myself but there s one consolation about going crazy in hollywood unless you leave town nobody would ever no tice it 0 gen liggett liggetts gett passing 0 HUNTER LIGGETT Is dead at S SO seventy eight the only bontem horary lieutenant general of the unit ed states army for 60 50 odd years he wore with gallantry and with honor the uniform of his country he fought indians fought border bandits fought spaniards in cuba fought germans in france and at the end fought off death for many drag dragging ing months I 1 saw him overseas commanding our splendid first corps which he mada more splendid still he was as plain I 1 as an old shoe and as easy to get along with his officers respected him his soldiers loved him they went whole he sent em and if they failed in their objective they didn dian t come back they went instead to report at the sills of the judgment seat the reason why they failed behind his back the buck privates called him uncle bigg that fugit it to give you the idea they 11 like him over there israel putnam and stonewall jaci jacl son and forrest and grant and all the rest of our real ones IRVIN 8 COBB 0 north american newspaper all ance inc ca ce v ij A |