Show W r it n gh ciyou t cures for communism nanta ANTA MONICA DIONICA CALIF A tj certain rich man out here rich but indulgent got a letter from his heir a sophomore at one of the big eastern colle colleges the lad announced he had been converted to communism and was contributing to the so what cause caus e bout about it old man the e w arote ote back son you have a perfect right to fol toy low the dictates of f ak your gur conscience but as a 8 cubb consistent communist you naturally would not continue to live on the ill gotten gains irvin g S cobb of a wicked money moncy abber grabber n today I 1 am cutting off your somewhat generous alla allowance you will also vacate the luxurious i apartment you now occupy because im fm not paying the rent of same any 1 longer so go 90 ahead my boy and commune freely with my blessings but from date be about ril all from this end of the line exactly four hours after the arrival by air mail of this ultimatum thenard the hardhearted hard hearted parent got back a rush telegram stating that the young man had been thinking things decided not to take over er and had up the new doctrine the art ta listening E HAD a party at which there WE appeared eared what I 1 may call the dumb poets sam hoffenstein and ogden nash at the studios where both turning out epics theres heres a rule that neither shall burst forth into poetry while hes under contract no thumbing of the harp barp no sounding of the lute cinemas gain is creations loss maybe that explains why they made such good listeners the other night ight and a good listener a loon boon I 1 dont mind being interrupted provided the interrupter chooses the right subject mute and rapt I 1 can harken barken for hours on hours it if someone is talking about me say OT or even reading from my published works but these two minne singers only broke in to ask that the pickled I 1 shrimp be passed or gently to suggest that another little drink or two do any harm ogden nash has attained the highest peak of distinction attainable for a writer his chief imitator has an imitator who is bringing up his oldest boy to be an imitator resurrecting old words W HEN a word gets fashionable especially a new word which some wordsmith thought up right out of his head it gets too doggone fashionable the same applies to old words which have been disinterred from their forgotten tombs ta in the dictionary I 1 seem to see grave robbers prowling through the unabridged starting in at aardvark aard which is an animal formerly common only to africa but not frequently found in crossword cross word and working on a through to a very strong drong beer drunk by ancient tribes I 1 guess those old timers imbibed copiously of the brew and then named it it sound like the sort of word a dead sober party deliberately would make up po do you remember the run intrigued tr tri gued had I 1 never got so sick of a word in my ife and then along came provocative and it turned out to be a pest people went mound around just looking for a chance to work tork provocative into the conversion conversation the only way to lick em was as to pretend to be deaf and dumb and aid now the reigning favorite is allergic folks spout it everywhere whether they know what it means or not I 1 dont mind saying IM n getting awfully allergic to allergic there must be many others like me campaign books deause act T us not cavil too much because high pressure salesmen working on commission have been unloading upon the faithful at fancy prices the gift book put out ty f washington headquarters to pay off s campaign debts in fact 15 cents its worth would cover practical ly v all the cavil I 1 personally have ailed up P in this connection the me result tends to prove the grat vying yag fact that while more demots brats may not necessarily have learned earned how to read and write obviously bously more of us have got money than ana formerly was the case when the t republicans were in power besides think of what the strata strain cud have been upon the poor post mall it if the national committee had been en stuck with all this bulk litera e and congress congressmen nen had started franking ranking copies out to their tats fath with uncle sam paying the blight to yve give you a further idea about this us franking king privilege I 1 may state aie that it was named for frank jesses osse s brother and kemem ber how careless those james boys boyi e with the united states mails IRVIN S COBB 0 service lct |