Show what thinks i iThe a about ou The Place of Radio ANTA MONICA CALIF IJ SANTA Deke Aylesworth says radio can never displace news news- pa papers pers Deke Doke is with Roy Howards Howard's newspapers now and naturally wouldn't care to have his job shot out from under him by a loudspeaker Most 1 of us feel that way about our jobs unless unless unless un un- un- un less we happen to be working in some state institution such as a penitentiary Radio never can displace newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers any more than tickets milk can displace milk The new newspaper spa per reader chooses what wha t the he p pleases leases from the days day's coverage coverage- gratifying obituary notices of people he 4 didn't like convincing convincing convincing ing statements from financial wizards explaining explaining explaining ex ex- why his investments in investments investments in- in vestments turned sour after hed he'd I i bought them on ad- ad Irvin S. S Cobb vice of aforesaid wizards and about once in so oft- oft ten exciting special articles about the the Hope diamond or the V William lliam Desmond Taylor case or the lure of Mr Robert Taylor But the lis lis- lis- lis tener-in tener on radio must accept what somebody else already has predigested predigested predigested which puts him in the same class with tapeworms So long as you cant can't wrap up a picnic lunch in a radio or use short wave sets to line pantry shelves with well we'll have newspapers Thanks Deke Im I'm wor working ng for fora a string of newspapers myself t s The Leagues League's New Head TAKE back all I ever said about I the League of Nations being as futile as a fly swatter in a saloon brawl The league has a new president president- the Aga Khan who has the largest private income on earth because l regard him as divine and pay for the privilege privilege privilege often going hungry in order to do so And he certainly is qualified qualified qualified fied to head a society dedicated to peace peace peace-he he never parted from any of his wives e except with the utmost harmony Well VeU to celebrate his election the Aga Khan gave the most gorgeous banquet ever staged in Geneva Geneva- 1500 bottles of champagne and pounds of caviar Thus did the league justify its right to existence There were but few flies in the ointment Ethiopia's delegates were ere either deceased or missing the league having drawn the color line so to speak which was more than Mussolini did when he wiped out their country last year Spain's delegates likewise were absent absent absent ab ab- sent being mostly dead or else fighting one another Sick Calls De LU e. e pAT DAT AT OBRIEN O'BRIEN the actor tells teIts this 1 one about an Irish cop at the crossing who waved a car containing containing containing contain contain- ing three priests to proceed after the stop signal had gone up and then with harsh words checked another another another an an- other driver who sought to follow along wong too But you let that other car with those three clergymen in it go through protested the halted one They was on their way to a sick call stated the officer Now wait a minute said the citizen I happen to be a Catholic myself and I know about those things Who Vho ever heard of three priests going on one sick call For a moment only the policeman hesitated Then he snapped Say young feller feUer tell me this you that knows so much much did did you never hear h ar of a solemn high sick call S t French Slickers pOLICE DOLICE OLICE are still trying to round roundup up the slickers who in one day raided twenty-nine twenty banks scattered all over France This reminds a fellow of 1931 when the bank examiners examiners examiners ex ex- ex- ex were coroners simultaneously simultaneously simultaneously sitting on the mortal remains of an even larger number of American Amer Airier ican lean b banks the main difference being being be be- ing that these French banks were looted by outside parties partie According to dispatches this job was accomplished through fraudulent fraudulent lent credentials for strangers P presenting presenting pre pre- resen re- re sen ting forged drafts But I be beg g leave to doubt that part remembering remembering bering when I turned up at t various outlying points over there with P prop prOf- rover rov- rov er identifications and a perfectly perfect y good letter of credit What excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment then on the part of the cashier spade beard and what deep distress distress dis dis- tress for the president trellis trellis' whiskers and what stifled moans from om the board of directors assorted assort assort- ed d beavers when finally they had 0 o fork over Why you can wreck a s perfectly good bank here in less time than it takes to get a certified check for less exchange cashed in a French provincial bank But should it develop that any of these recently stolen francs were earmarked for payment to us on account account ac ac- ac- ac count of that war debt-brethren debt that would indeed be news IRVIN S. 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