| Show what co hinks bb 07 bout making 1937 A sate safe year ANTA MONICA CALIF SANTA S this time last year we were all dedicating ourselves to a crusading campaign to make 1936 a safer year for motorists we were going to cut down the volume of traffic disasters going to reduce the appalling mortality toll which had marked the preceding so what year roff 1 well heres what the end of 1936 showed an all time top for deaths on the PU public alic highways roughly ily or approximately more than in 1935 so now well pious irvin S cobb ly resolve all over again to do something about this hideous destroyer which kills by the thousands and maims by the hundreds of thousands and makes our fatalities and casualties in the world war seem by comparison p puny uny and what will come of the renewed agitation the national safety council will wage a gallant hopeless fight various local organizations and civic bodies will do what they can newspapers will rail and statesmen will deplore and the ghastly record of slaughter will keep right on mounting the value of experts T HEARD a supposed expert ad a director bound for africa to shoot a big game picture that practically everything about his kit was wrong except possibly his rear collar button it reminded me of the pampered millionaires son who was heading for the arctic circle he called in a veteran of polar expeditions and told about his outfit all went well until he started describing his parka its fine he said made of sealskin and the hood all fringed with wolverine and one moment said the professional is the hairy surface of the pelt worn next to your body no said the youth the fur is outside of course all wrong pronounced the critic thermal demonstration has proved that to conserve the bodily heat the hide should be turned so the fur is used as a lining and the smooth or naked side is exposed thus cutting the wind the youngster burst out laughing have H ave I 1 said something to excite your mirth demanded the specialist oh not at all said the amateur 1 I was just thinking what a darned fool a buffalo is 0 0 0 americans in england D excitement has been caroused Ra tv aroused roused in the british isles by the discovery that yet another member of the royal f family amily this time its the young duke of kent not only shows a regrettable tendency t to 0 enjoy himself as any normal natural healthy youngster might but what is even more distressing has lately been seen in the company of an american woman oh these pestiferous yankee women in spite of all that can be done its almost certain some 0 of f them will witness the c coronation oro nation and several thousands of them will break their girlish necks trying to do so militarizing Militar izing chec the C C C 0 representative NICHOLS of ROk rv oklahoma lahoma is trying to accomplish something which should have been done long ago hes preparing a bill to make military reserve units of the C C C boys which would mean discipline and morale for thousands of young americans and if needed would provide the nu nucleus cleu of a trained citizen army seems to me there is every reason why congress should enact the legislation not as a warlike gesture i but as a peacetime peace time move for national defense and national protection ti on but watch the professional pacifists paci fists fight it professional paci fists being well meaning folks who believe in santa claus turning the other cheek and the beautiful if slightly impractical theory that a white rabbit will be perfectly safe among a pack of greedy coyotes actors trading careers HALFWAY HALF U ALF WAY across the continent actors who have succeeded in hollywood and are headed east cast hoping to break into the legitimate stage on broadway pass actors who having succeeded on broadway are heading west hoping to break brea kinto into the movies in IU hollywood lywood it is a two way traffic which grows heavier all the time thus we see how human hopes are uplifted and how curious a thing is human nature not to mention human ambition also its good for railroad travel but if the jaybirds jay birds suddenly decided to trade their nests for woodpecker holes and the woodpeckers fell in heartily with the idea we superior creatures could laugh at feathered friends for being such idiots IRVIN S corn U service |
