Show what cobb thinks about our good will ambassador BEVERLY HILLS CALIF what better salesman of good will and brotherly understanding could we send to our great sister republics in the lower half of this hemisphere than our own dent who carries for his samples his personality and his spoken words if in the past we looked mainly to the old world for our markets it is certain that in the future we must increasingly cultivate tha the th a latin stocks of the new world on a con ap whose inbred ible natural resource es are for a great part still virgin and nations who must be cured of persisting irvin S cobb beliefs that the monroe doctrine is for them a threat and not a shield if yesterday was europe s and today is north america s th then sure ly the promise of tomorrow belongs to south america tugwell s ne new w job now that brother tugwell almost i the last surviving lobe of the brain trust has left the government flat folks are wonder ing how he 11 make out in his new line don t worry anybody to some the molasses business might b e sticky but it off offers ers no obstacles to a young gentleman who wrote and what s more had published a poem with this deathless refrain I 1 will now roll up my sleeves and remake america mark the words in six months he 11 be an outstanding popcorn balls baron and inside of a year the acknowledged taffy kisses king of north america and pretty soon we U 11 be lasses conscious to a point where the effect will be that the entire country is with fresh fly paper I 1 wouldn t be surprised to see us using caramels for currency and as for peanut brittle well I 1 ve al ready started hoarding 11 II duce s son in law WHEN mussolini let the word percolate that he was groom ing that new son in law to fill his dictatorial boots he must have meant what he hinted at because latest photographs show the heir apparent with his jaw also thrust forward his brows also knit in menacing frown and his plumpish bosom inflated until his medals stand forth like carnival tags on a mar quee the likeness to the original model is so perfect that II 11 duce could use a picture of the young man for a hand mirror it seems fitting that italy having kicked the dove of peace in the pants should cher ish the pouter pigeon pose to typify defiance the language of lawyers I 1 T REGRET I 1 didn dian t think this up i first some dirty plagiarist is always thinking up something be fore I 1 get around to doing so but I 1 feel it my duty to help spread it around especially since it was a lawyer who wrote it I 1 m quoting him if a layman gives an orange to you he simply says have an or ange but when a lawyer puts the transaction in legal form he writes 1 I hereby give and convey ah and singular my estate and interests right title claim and advantages of and in said orange together with all its rind juice pulp and pips bips and all rights and advantages there in with full power to bite cut suck and otherwise to eat the same or give the same away with or without the rind skin juice pulp or pips bips anything herem hereinbefore before or hereinafter herem after or in any other means of whatever nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding and then another lawyer comes along and takes it away from you underdone movie alovie hams aa A MEDICAL journal reports that a preventative has been found for trichina but I 1 m afraid it s too late to do anything for some of our hollywood actor folk trichina being a thing common to underdone hams A lot of us who came out here as greenhorns and went to cutting up dedoes for the screen have an alibi when the movie critics ac cuse us of having contracted the dis ease of bad acting our defense is that we d been exposed to it yet the films have produced a grand crop of good actors out of very raw material too sometimes and they keep right on doing so notwithstanding that every now and then the popular fancy picks on some male beauty with a set of educated eyelashes and the win some trick of a languishing glance IRVINS IRVIN S COBB copyright ce |