Show I f I Inor nor u s rl Notes o of f an l Innocent Bystander The Story Tellers Because of war-time war economic difficulties some have ceased publishing One of the regrettable casualties is The Living Age The Nations Nation's In InThe InThe InThe The Wind Dept is its zippiest feature feature feature fea fea- ture World Digest reports there are five thousand press agents in America And twice as many wastebaskets thank goodness Back in June 1931 MacArthur wrote a piece for a vets' vets mag suggesting suggesting suggesting sug sug- gesting a draft of 4 million men for army training Naturally nobody listened Hoover was President Wm B. B Ziff's new book due in June is called The Coming Battle of Germany We Ve hear henr it is dynamite designed to tumble an avalanche of hat brass-hat thinking Duell Sloan and Pearce will publish Ziff is the one responsible for the re reinstatement reinstatement reinstatement re- re instatement of the late Billy Mitchell The Murder That Rocked Broadway the Arnold Rothstein affair in the current True Detective is our favorite murder story The Editorial of the Week From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal Commercial Sedition laws need immediate reexamination reexamination reexamination re- re examination for the purpose of giving giving giving ing them teeth There is is' desperately desperately desperately desper desper- needed a policy of government which will lump all traitors seditionists seditionists sedi- sedi and whatever their citizenship status into one category In a total war where internal attack is a chief technique we cannot expect survival from the incongruous and piddling policies the Government now follows in dealing dealing dealing deal deal- ing with those who seek its defeat or overthrow 0 George Christians Christians Christians Chris Chris- of Chattanooga a crackpot and a fool Once they said that of the Nazi paperhanger who has engineered engineered engineered en en- the greatest revolution and bloodiest conflict in all history Lets Let's swap the kid gloves for a pair of brass knuckles The Front Pages Editor Publishers Publisher's Publishers Publisher's Publishers Publisher's Pub Pub- lishers lisher's thumbnail editorial If its it's anything we cant can't print you shouldn't be talking about it iU Newsmen who used to see convicted Nazi agent Viereck in Washington say that he acted as though he were above and beyond arrest that he rated himself invulnerable A notorious Sixth argues that writers who pen malicious things about women in public life deserve to be shot What a fraud That from the who has made a career out of malice He lIe has written dozens of dishonest dishonest dishonest dis dis- dis- dis honest pieces about persons in public life including Mrs Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt whose politics his boss op op- poses Like a shady lady he can be hired for an hour or a week week- end Every Everyone one of his attacks on Axis enemies in the U. 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S is repeated over the wave short-wave circuits from Berlin Rome and Tokyo If he had any intellectual intellectual intellectual intel intel- honesty honesty honesty-he'd hed he'd shoot him him- self Scrambled Eggs No matter how little you have youre you're rich if you envy nobody The Indians who sold Manhattan for 21 weren't such goons It didden belong to them The island had to tobe tobe tobe be bought back again from the real owners If I owned the paper Id I'd tell my editorialists and staff Before Defore you write anything anything anything any any- thing always ask yourself the question ques ques- tion Will tion Will it be anything Hirohito Hitler and Benito would enjoy reading reading reading read read- ing Or hearing A scholar tells me that the style Time uses in part isn't so modernist modernist- ic That some of Times Time's literary are patterned after Homers Homer's Iliad The friends who are most descrying deserving deserving descry descry- ing of your favors are those who were your friends before you were in a position to do them any Nobody's ever perfectly content The poor man is often bored the rich man blase Next time anyone complains about trousers remind him that they dont don't wear em in the Army and Navy either cither The only actual actual actual ac ac- ac- ac talent possessed by many celebrities celebrities celebrities celeb celeb- is the knack of getting their names in the papers If the late William Rhodes Davis the oil promoter promoter promoter pro pro- moter he tried to interest the State Dept in a peace with Hitler were alive would alive would he be in the headlines Whatever became of Verne Marshall the Cedar Rapids editor who said Davis was his backer inThe in inThe inThe The No Foreign War Committee gag One report had him in a sanitarium sani sani- mentally mentally upset etc Joan Edwards says that what the country needs most right now to win the war is a blockade around Japan and fewer blockheads around Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Comes the real blackout what happens to gu guys s carrying torches Nifty crack by a draftee Well s' s long Any messages messages messages mes mes- sages for MacArthur What we wc need too are arc more editors like Jack Carley of the Memphis Com Corn mercial The way he laid iton Iton it iton on that Chattanooga Coo-Coo Coo who patterned himself after Hitler Boy how they are being dealt with |