Show l I cn A OJ-I. OJ ili about abo t Cures for Communism ANTA MONICA CALI CALIF A F.-A F. A SANTA certain rich man out here here here- rich but indulgent indulgent got got a letter from his heir a sophomore atone at atone atone one of the big eastern colleges The lad announced he had been converted to communism and was contributing to the cause So what about labout it The old man wrote back Son tiSon you have a perfect right to follow follow follow fol fol- F low the dictates of Fy your o 0 u r conscience But as a n consistent communist you naturally naturally naturally nat nat- would n not o t continue to live on L the ill gotten gains irvin Irin s. s Cobb f of a wicked moneys money- money s grabber Toda Today I am cutting off your somewhat generous allowa allowance ce You will also vacate the luxurious apartment you ou now occupy because Im I'm not paying the rent of same an any y longer So go ahead my boy and andt t commune freely with freely with my blessings bless bless- blessings ings lings But from date that'll be about all from this end of the line 5 Exactly four hours after after the arrival arrival arrival ar ar- rival b b- b by bair J air I mail of this ultimatum the hearted hard parent got bac back k a Sr rush telegram stating that the thet t young man loan had been thinking things over and had decided not to take up the new doctrine r The Art of Listening WE E HAD a party at which there appeared what I may call the dumb pox poets Sam poets Sam is-Sam Sam Hoffenstein and andS ande e S Ogden Nash At the studios where they're both turning put out epics theres there's a rule that neither shall burst forth into poetry while hes he's under contract contract no no thumbing of the I harp no sounding of the lute Cinemas Cinema's Cinemas Cinema's Cinemas Cinema's Cine Cine- mas ma's gain is creations creation's loss Maybe that explains why the they made such good listeners the other night And isn't a good listener a aboon aboon aboon boon I dont don't mind being interrupted interrupt interrupt- ed provided the interrupter chooses the right subject Mute rute and rapt Ican I Ican Ican can harken for hours on hours if someone is talking about me say or even reading from my published I works But these two only broke in to ask that the pickled I shrimp be passed or gently to suggest suggest sug sug- gest that another little drink or two wouldn't do any harm Ogden Nash has attained the highest highest highest high high- est peak of distinction attainable for fora a n writer His chief imitator has an imitator who is bringing up his oldest oldest old old- est cst boy to be an imitator Resurrecting Old Words T HEN H a word gets fashionable V especially a new word which 1 some wordsmith thought up right out of his head it head it gets too doggone doggone dog dog- doggone gone fashionable The same applies to old words which have been disinterred disinterred dis dis- interred from their forgotten tombs diS 1 in the dictionary I seem to see ee grave robbers I prowling through the unabridged starting in at aard which is isan isan isan an animal formerly common only to Africa but not frequently found in word cross-word and working on through to a very strong beer drunk by ancient tribes I guess those old tuners imbibed copiously copiously co co- co piously of the brew and then named it It doesn't sound like the sort of word a dead sober par party deliberately deliberate deliberate- ly would make up Y t Do you remember the run intrigued intrigued in had I never got so sick of a word in my lie ife e. e And then J r along came provocative provocative and and it turned out to be a pest People went around just looking for far a a. chance to work provocative into the conversa conver conver- sa on The only way to lick em vas was to pretend to be deaf and dumb t I I f And now the reigning g favorite is allergic Folks spout it everywhere every every- r where whether they know what it means or not I dont don't mind saying Im I'm getting awfully allergic to allergic al allergic There must be many others 0 like me Campaign Books T LET ET us not cavil too much because beJ because be- be J cause high b pressure salesmen working on commission have b been een I unloading upon t the e faithful a at t I fancy prices the gift gUt book put ou out I by Washington headquarters to p pay off campaign debts In fact 1 15 5 cents cents' worth would cover practical practical- i ly all the Ue cavil I personally have hav e used up in this connection I The result tends t to prove the grat Brat 1 gy mg ing fact that while more Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- may not necessarily have hav e l learned arned how to read and write obviously ob oh I more of us have ha go got t move money mone- y I than formerly was the case when whet the Republicans were in power I Besides think of what the strain stra m i would have been upon the t poor postman post pos man if the national committee ha had d been stuck with all this bulk literature litera liter a I ture and I I congressmen had start started franking copies out to their constituents constituents I with Uncle Sam paying th the e i I freight To give gi you ou a further ide idea a I about this franking ranking privilege I 1 m may state that it was named for Frank Fran Jesses Jesse's brother brother and and you'll reme m I ber how careless those James boy boys bops s I were were- with were with the United States m mails I S. 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