Show what b bS d. d thinks about S S S S Making 1 1937 A Safe Sate Year ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA This time last year we were all an dedicating ourselves to a I crusading campaign to make 1936 a a safer year for motorists I We Vc were going to cut down the I volume of traffic disasters going to reduce the appalling mortality toll which had marked the preceding preceding preceding pre pre- ceding year 7 S So what S Ve Well 11 heres here's what The end of 1936 showed an all time S 4 top for deaths on the public highways highways- roughly or S approximately S 'S Smore more than in 1935 So now well we'll piously pious pious- Irvin S. S Cobb ly resolve all over again to do something about this hideous destroyer which kills kilIs by the thousands and maims by the hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of thousands and makes our fatalities and casualties in the world war seem by comparison puny And what will come of the renewed renewed renewed re re- re- re agitation The National Safety Council will wage a gallant hopeless fight various local organizations organizations organizations and civic bodies will do what they can newspapers will rail and statesmen will deplore deplore and and the ghastly record of slaughter will keep right on mounting The Value of Experts I T HEARD a supposed expert advising advising advising ad- ad a director bound for Africa to shoot a big game picture that practically everything about his kit was wron wrong except possibly his rear collar conar button It reminded me of the pampered millionaires millionaire's son who was heading for the arctic circle He called caned in ina in ina a veteran of polar expeditions ns and told about his outfit All went well lInt until J he started de describing his parka Its HIts fine he said made of sealskin sealskin sealskin seal seal- skin and the hood all fringed with wolverine and andOne and and- One HOne moment said the professional professional professional is His the hairy surface of the I pelt worn next to your body I No uNo said the youth The fur is outside of course All An wrong pronounced the crit crit- ic Thermal demonstration h has a s proved that to conserve the bodily heat the hide should be turned so the fur is u used us-ed cd as a lining and the smooth or naked side is exposed thus cutting the wind The youngster burst out laughing Have I said something to excite your mirth demanded the special special- S Oh aOh not at all said the amateur I was just thinking what a darned fool a buffalo is S Americans in England t R RENEWED excitement has been aroused in the British isles by bythe bythe bythe the discovery that yet another member member mem mem- ber of the royal family this family this time its it's the young duke of Kent not Kent not only shows a regrettable tendency t to o 0 enjoy himself as any normal natural natural natural nat nat- ural healthy youngster might but what is even more distressing has lately been seen in the company of an American woman Oh these pestiferous Yankee women In spite of all an that can be bedone bedone bedone done its it's almost certain some of them will witness the coronation and several thousands of them will win break their girlish necks trying to todo todo todo do so 0 S Militarizing l the C. C C. C C. C T p REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLS of A Ls Oklahoma is trying to accomplish accomplish something which should have been done long a ago o. o Hes He's preparing a bill to make military reserve units of the C. C C. C C. C boys which would mean discipline and morale f for r thousands of young Americans an and if needed would provide the nucleus nt u u 4 l Seems to me there is every reason why Congress congress should enact the legislation legislation leg leg- not as a warlike gesture but as a time peace-time move for naI national national na na- na- na I Honal defense and national tion But watch the professional j I pacifists ts fight it professional it-professional professional pacifists pacifists paci paci- fists being well meaning folks who beE beleve eve in Santa Claus turning the theother theother theother other cheek and the beautiful if slightly impractical theory that a white rabbit will be perfectly safe among a pack of greedy coyotes S Actors Trading Careers H tJ WAY ALF across the continent actors who have succeeded in Hollywood and are arc headed east hoping hoping hop hop- ing to break into the legitimate stage on Broadway pass actors who havin having succeeded on Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way vay are heading west hoping hoing to break into the movies in Hollywood It is a way two traffic which grows heavier all the time Thus we see ee how human hopes are uplifted and how curious a thing thin is human nature not to mention human ambition Also its it's good for railroad travel But if the jaybirds suddenly decided decided de de- de- de to trade their for fer woodpecker wood wood- pecker holes and the woodpeckers fell in heartily with the idea we s superior creatures could laugh at feathered friends for being such idiots IRVIN S. 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