Show what 6 b b s coi 1 hii about california condors ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA local naturalists natura lists are all agog over the discovery that the california condor is coming back in numbers to his former haunts just up country from here in fact they are going out of one violent gog right into another because the condor the mightiest winged creature in all north america was supposed to be practically extinct along with such vanished species of native wild life as the great auk the passenger pigeon and the lightning rod agent so now we have set up a new mark for or envious florida to shoot at for while they may have croupiers at Br adleys in palm beach with eyes as keen and bleak as th the e ca condors are an and d real e 1 estate dealers in in i miami as greedy as 1 he is our frustrated 00 0 0 rivals will be put to it to dig up a bird with a wing spread of from nine to elev irvin 5 cobb en feet communists gallant foe LJ ARDLY a day passes but we read in the paper of an account of individual heroism of sacrifice of devotion to duty something which renews our faith in human beings and makes us realize that scattered through the world are splendid souls of whom we never heard before and probably shall never hear again when the emergency came he rose to it and tha ts enough but because in the last few months weve learned to expect it of him im thinking many of us fail to appreciate a recurrent act of gallant service by one venerable enfeebled man whose name is familiar to all christendom from time to time triumphing by sheer will power by sheer singleness of purpose above his own suffering pope pius XI speaking from what soon must be his deathbed sends forth a clarion call for a united front against the growing menace of communism 0 0 waning merchant marines A A FTER weve spent billious billi in 4 is 1 government subsidies trying to build up a proper merchant fleet of our own its just a trifle disconcerting to read that among the six nations leading in maritime shipping the united states still ranks third in gross tonnage fifth in ships having a speed of twelve knots or better and last in ships built within the last ten years but although los angeles is a great port we have no time right now to pester about a comparatively trivial thing such as the threatened of the american flag from the seven seas not while were still so uncertain about who will have the leading parts in gone with the wind to date near nearly every lady in the movie col colony 0 ny has been suggested for scarlett 0 ohara ara except mae west and jane W withers and as for rhett butler w well ell ii it may yet be necessary to cast that role as a whole minstrel first part with an interlocutor and six end men italians in spain IT TT MUST be slightly annoying to 1 those italian soldiers who w were ere flung headlong upon spain to fight in a war in which they had no personal interest when through mistake they are mown down in hundreds by their own troops and then the bewildered remnants rind find themselves in the hands of the opposing government forces who have a reputation for sometimes being a trifle rough with prisoners who whom in they capture still it must be a great comfort to the confused captives and to the relatives of the fallen back home as well to have assurance from mussolini that they are winning the way for fascist doctrines doctrine s until they heard that cheering message those battered survivors probably thought that the had been licked the height of gall A A S J CAESAR remarked at the time all gaul was once divided in three parts but it is obvious that subsequently there was a complete reconsolidation consolidation re when france already in default to us on one little tour four billion debt starts scheming to peddle her newest issue of government securities over here that must indeed be regarded as the height of gal lishness or Gau lishness spell it either way reader come out the same moreover to evade the johnson a act ct she would have american investors send the money to paris a and nd buy these french bonds there this sort of smacks of inviting arr rabbit to 0 come into camp to be massacred instead stead of hunting him down with the dogs IRVIN S COBB service |