Show jv about cadou international Four flushing ANTA MONICA CALIF ewhen ij when the german troops marched into the rhineland rhinely nd france was going to fight about it but when the italians moved against ethiopia britain was going to iny voke 0 k e force but when russia poked her snoot into the spanish mess there was going to be armed action by other powers but when japan began to nibble again at china there was going to be intervention but all that hap irvin S cobb ened was that the league of nations chirped despairingly and then put its head back under its wing somehow im thinking of the two fellows who started fighting and when bystanders rushed in to separate them the one who was getting the worst of it yelled five or six of you hang on to that big brute anybody can hold me mel curing temperament JUDGE back east rules that athis A this so called artistic temperament is not sufficient excuse for a so called genius to beat up his bride 1 I tried the stuff once just once but the presiding judge in my case was a lady for years id been trudging as steadily as a milk mans horse whereas being a practitioner titi loner of a creative profession I 1 said to myself I 1 really ought to stage some temperament just to make the family appreciate me so I 1 rehearsed my act and went downstairs one morning and put it on so my wife looked at me across the breakfast table and said 1 I know what the trouble with you is youre bilious take some calomel well what are you going to do when a beautifully staged emotional outburst is diagnosed not as the of a tortured soul but as liver complaint you guessed it I 1 took the calomel and I 1 pledge you my word had an attack since 0 0 0 the laws delays ONCE a massachusetts supreme court reversed a felony conviction because the prosecution in filing the record stated that the crime crime was committed on the fifteenth day of june 1855 but failed to state stafe whether the year was 1855 A D or 1865 1855 B C and ever since then on quibbles almost equally foolish such as a misplaced comma or an upside down period other high courts have been defeating the ends of justice and setting at naught the decisions of honest juries science has gone ahead medicine has taken enormous steps forward but law still rides in a stage chack coach and hunts with a flintlock musket has it ever occurred to anyone that one reason tor for the laws delays is a lack of the thing called common sense dinosaur footprints RACK DACK in 1858 a college professor 11 1 aj 1 discovered sandstone on a ledge in massachusetts a whole batch of im bedded tracks of the dinosaur familiarly known to geologists as dinah just as among its scientific friends the great winged lizard is frequently referred to as big liz at the time the discovery created no excitement merely a slight shock of surprise to the old families upon learning there was something historic in massachusetts antedating the mayflower for the alises ig ats figured those tracks had been left more than years ago and they were suffered to remain nearly eighty years more but here recently it cevelo develops Ps t that hat parties unknown have been chisel ing dinahs footprints out and toting them off this would seem to indicate either that america is getting dinosaur conscious or that dino are operating or both so if a slinky gentleman should come to the side door offering a prime specimen for the pa parlor whatnot dont trade with him reader call the police next time he may c ome come back with a cl dornick ornick off of plymouth rock or the cornerstone of harvard college or the name plate from cotton mathers coffin IRVIN S COBB Q service |