Show 0 ecott adma dma efort in traveling T on a cross L count U prowl two of us invade one of the remotest corners s of 1 I the desert until our car broke down crawled along some ot of the boughe ro rougher anest back ways in crea tion then escaped on what by quaint irony was called an accommodation train over a side spur of a prehistoric railway line when we hit concrete high roads and a air I 1 r conditioned fliers I 1 caught myself saying our forefathers put up with plenty of misery in irvin S aft lik order to move about out and then f Z realized that what we had endured did not date back to former genera eions so soon nave have we grown re cust customer cus tomed orned to luxury wi with th speed ve forget that most of america fifteen filp years ago lacked what we now re a capt as common traveling comfort why less than two decades ago aai for or my sins I 1 rode on a certain jert jerk water railroad in the deep south the last work done on on its tracks was a in 1864 by general shermas sherman he tore em up I 1 made the mistake of trying to shave while en route when I 1 rot got through I 1 looked like one of those german student duelists but nowadays even those who use homemade trailers seem al most happy at times diplomatic busybodies Busy bodies HOLL be the next member of our diplomatic corps to open his mouth and put his foot in it clear up to his hip joint it has been nearly two months now since our ambassador to germany ma ny had a bad dream and before nursie could quiet him was pro claiming that a certain billionaire was willing to put up one of his loose billions to buy a dictatorship for this country he failed to furnish the name and address maybe they got left out of the nightmare hardly had paregoric wooed th this distinguished sufferer back to hush a bye land when our new represent i dative in the philippines began demanding that when it came to I 1 drinking official toasts his name nam must come higher up on the win wine I 1 list or he be responsible for the consequences Howe however the excitement subsided before he could summon the pacific fleet to bombard manila theres a rumor that washington sent him word be worry about being appropriately pria tely saluted be a nationwide tion wide bronx cheer awaiting him on his return home since then theres been a lull and the american public is getting impatient we do so love a free show sho and especially when its amateur night hard bitten females about over certain TW TOURING western estern states where open gambling either is by law permitted or by custom winked at I 1 noticed this generally speaking the feminine patrons are the steadiest drinkers the most persistent gamesters ga the most reckless betters of all and ana frequently their manners are ara the rudest and their faces the grimmest grimmeit grim determined seemingly to disavow i the theory that their sex is the gentler sex on the other hand the men patrons descended many of them from old gun fighters fighters old prospectors old path beders finders grow increasingly docile and sl subdued absorbs absorbing less than their share of the hard hara liquor maybe because they fear ie for 10 left enough there wont be mama and the girls giris and risking their dimes where the gallant ladies plunge with dollars 0 t watching sometimes a fellow processional from th the a VO tw modern modem sidelines gets to long lection of the ing for the bygone days when 93 10 and kipling might have put it ow tact fact almost did a woman was tell tea a woman oman but a good cigar was cents these candid cameras to 0 ov right NCE a citizen had a of of 0 ONCE eject to the publication beats D win torn flashlight view showing his appa app ing his wife or exhibiting out hu his dimitis scar or taking pers or something print began P that was before they wh w olve those ing n magazines for h hai bit fashioned old I abandoned the arld it of reading and writing w queens doing glamorous movie betraying tr bet real good when these maybe the that close ups prove is only paint deep 6 our holds w 0 of f ta thus hus the last strongholds strong 0 liberty C cru one toe time personal pic t used to think a passport passports had was about the frankest intimate thing likeness lik est in the line of x excepting of cou course arse the busness bus Dess but this candid camera ware d una awa which catches you eith rs und erVe of often without your attic k er cr is the most fiendish va v dished au all against our practically privacy IRVIN g S cosa 0 anu service |