Show what thinks in Sr about i iThe t The New Bill S SANTA ANTA MONICA CALIF They do say the new bill as drawn by the Gallagher Gallagher- and Shean of the administration tion Corcoran and Cohen is more sweeping than was the original Even Ev-en Gen Hugh Johnson once as conversational as Mrs Astor's parrot parrot parrot par par- rot but lately exiled amid the uncongenial ial fal silences crawls out from under a to log login login J in the woods with lichens in his hair but the lower jaw still working workings s m 0 0 t h I y in inthe the socket to tell how drastic a thing it is Critics assert this legislation will cover cover cov- cov ii I Ier er business like a Irvin s b S. S Cobb Lobb wet blanket over a asick asick sick pup and point out that the number of sick pups benefited by being tucked under wet blankets is quite small However these fussy persons belong to the opposition and dont don't count Anyhow they didn't count much at the last election except except except ex ex- ex- ex in Maine Vermont and one ona backward precinct in the Ozark mountains Friendly French Visitors IT TT T SEEMS we were cruelly wrong A in m ascribing mercenary motives to those French financiers who've been dropping in on us lately They came only to establish more cordial cordial relations Of course theres there's a new newl French bond issue to be floated but these visits were purely friendly and altruistic Still and all I cant can't help thinking of Mr Pincus who invaded thinking the east eastside eastside side to invite his old neighbor Mr Ginsburg whom he hadn't seen in fan in fanI years to be a guest at Mrs Pincus Pincus' I birthday party He gave full directions for travel travel-I traveling traveling travel travel- ing uptown then added Vere we lit ill now its it's von of dose dos l' l swell valk-up valk flats fiats So mit your right elbow you gif a little on the button in the am downstairs und the lock goes glick l glick glide und in you come You go two floors und den mit your other I elbow you gif one more little on the foist door to the left und in und in-und und vill viii be surprised I Vait exclaimed Mr Ginsburg I could get to that I got brains ain aint t it But ulso I got fingers fingers fingers fin fin- gers und thumbs Vot is de mit-elbows mit stuff Murmured Mr Pincus gently Surely you come empty- empty handed f Visiting Ancient Ranchos Ranches I U UNDER T the guidance of Leo Carillo that most native nath-e of all aU native sons Ive I've been visiting such of the ancient ranchos ranches as remain remain practically what they were before the Gringos came to southern Cali Call fornia You almost expect to find Ramona weaving in a crumbly patio pa pa- pa tio What's more every one of these j lovely places is s lived on by one of j Leos Leo's cousins He has more kinfolks kinfolks kin kin- folks than a microbe They say the thee I early Carillos were pure Spanish but I insist there must have been a aj I strong strain of Belgian hare in the stock When it came to progeny I the strain was to the Pacific coast I what the Potomac shad has been beenu to the eastern seaboard Its It's more than a family its family its it's a species And a mighty noble breed it is is- is producing even yet the fragrant essence essence es ese elsewhere has has' I sence of a time that vanished and a day when hospitality still ruled and a naturally kindly people had time to be mannerly and I Ithe the instinct to be both simple and grandly courteous at once Privileges of THE HE German commoner may be shy on the food rations and have bave I Isome some awkward moments unless ess heI he I conforms to the new Nazi religion But he enjoys complete freedom o of i ithe the press press press-or or rather complete freedom freedom freedom free free- dom from the press And lately i an-i other precious privilege has been I accorded him He may fight duels Heretofore I this inestimable boon was yas exclusive exclusive- exclusively ly reserved for the highborn But now he may go forth and carve and be carved until the field of honor I looks like somebody had been cleaning clean i ing fish This increase in his blessings makes me recall a tale that Charley Russell the cowboy artist used to tv tell The boys were fixing to hang a horse thief Charley said He only weighed about ninety pounds but ut for his heft he was the champion horse thief of Montana The rope roper was swung from the roof of a barn Then they balanced a long board out of the loft window and the condemned condemned condemned con con- was out at the far end of it ready for the drop when a stranger busted in in Everybody thought he craved to pray but that unknown humanitarian humanity humanity- ran rian had had a better notion than that In a n minute he came inching out on that plank and there wasn't a dry eye in the crowd as he edged up un behind the poor trembling wretch n and d slipped an anvil l in the seat of his pants IRVIN s. s COBB e Service I |