| Show what thinks coo bb about the plight of 0 spain B BEVERLY beverly HILLS HILL S CALIF in the bloody task 0 of utterly ater destroying herself spain cannot complain that she lacked for hearty operation cooperation co on the part of some of her sister countries openly or secretly half of the great european powers are contributing to the bloody ruination so that when the finish comes have spoils or dubious prestige or both and that ill fated land will be a burying ground and a desolation A fellow gets to wondering why this or that government ament chooses for ann an em eem blem some noble irvin S cobb creature when the turkey buzzard or the grave rob bing hyena would be so appropriate fierce winters and devastating floods may be curing us here on this side of the water but at least we have been spared the affliction of having for our next door neighbors certain nations kidnapers ransoms ITS all well enough to pass an act making payment of ransom to a kidnaper a criminal offense as though heartbroken parents would hesitate to pay ransoms to get their babies back no matter what the penalty for so doing might be and can you see any american jury convicting those parents the author of the law is no doubt wellin well in tensioned ed but there is another law I 1 called the law of human nature which most surely would defeat his purposes by the way a person who should know what hes talking about tells me that three but of every four known kidnapers during recent years have been ex convicts with records as repeated offenders so instead of trying to penalize agonized parents for obeying a natural instinct how about a snappy little law to curb certain parole boards which seem to delight in turning em out as fast as the courts can clap em in optimism de D I 1 LIKE the spirit of a gentleman in new york who started dredging operations in east river he set out to dig up a minimum of 4 in gold and silver from the ooze and to date has salvaged 96 cents two rusty frying pans and a penknife and is still probing for gorgeous optimism I 1 can think of but one case to match this I 1 was on the french riviera one summer been shifting the railroad tracks along the grand carniche Cor niche this left a disused tunnel so week after week a bearded gentleman sat at one mouth of the empty bore with a sign over his head reading this property for sale when I 1 left he was still there waiting for somebody who was in the market for a secondhand tunnel south arneri american can explorers OF F RECENT years those hardy adventurers who set forth to invade the last great unexplored area interior south america seem to follow a regular routine to 0 wit Us as follows first they start off second they get lost third they are rescued but it save wear and tear and nervous strain if the rescue went on ahead so it could get settled down in camp all nice and comfortable and be waiting for the explorers when they staggered in exhausted from toting all those tons of material for future lecture tours the modern discoverer is gallant but apparently has no more sense of direction than an egg beater and seemingly could get lost on top of a marble top table or possibly the tropic sun has an addling effect on the human brain anyhow since nearly always he is in an intact state when rescued this would seem to indicate that the head hunters of the amazonian jungles are now getting fussy about the types of heads they collect the charms charmis ot of music II A ACCORDING to a medical p professor in pennsylvania samples of whisky when subjected to a musical sound treatment tor for seven hours produce a liquor which equals one that has been aged in wood for at least four years but why get excited about this ive known certain brands of 0 f classical music which in one evening have aged a grown man to a point where he figures the present christian era must be about over only a few weeks bei ago being ng softened by the spirit of the ap approaching holidays I 1 suffered myself to be lured to a chopin recital and got jammed in and and finally staggered forth into escape the night feeling that methuselah had little if anything on an me 11 11 VIN S colm CUI U wu v u vl |
