Show im about I 1 growing cannon fodder ANTA MONICA CALIF S to produce this crop takes time and planning first your veterans must grow past fighting age because those who survive the horrors of one war never willingly enlist for another meanwhile be sure the women have been bearing children since children are the seed corn of your future sowing As the newer generation grows up dose it on the old re reliable liable P P P irvin S cobb formula parades pomp propaganda bands and guns and flag murderous preachments preach ments and manufactured patriotism they au all help to fertilize against the ultimate harvesting befuddle the first born on dreams of drunken glory teach him the neighbor over the way is is an enemy who must some day be crushed without mercy make him believe his count rys destiny demands revenge for old hurts reprisals for old losses widened boundaries writ in blood and then in about 20 years you have a nation ripened for ruin a a race of mothers ready to offer the their ir sons to the slaughter its a slow crop but a sure one and highly gratifying to professional sword rat tiers and power mad dictators to profiteers and financial hijackers lets see come 1938 be just about 20 years since the last time the world cut its own throat two faced politicians SOMEBODY says the type of politician who swaps worthless promises before election for the publics confidence and its votes reminds him of janus janus was a god with two faces and the ancients finally got so they trust either one of them but it took them a long time to catch on might I 1 be p pardoned pardoned for thinking of a homelier simile im thinking of the pack rat of this western country the thrifty pack rat slips with stealthy tread into your camp whilst you slumber and carries off something of value but he steal it nothing like that he merely exchanges with you you being asleep at the time he leaves a dry twig behind and totes off a side of meat he confiscates one of your boots but in return confers on you a couple cole of dead cactus stalks his intentions may be honest but there is no record showing where a pack rat ever got the worst of a trade I 1 figure hes part scotch and the profits resulting from his professional dealings certainly may be likened to the career of many a chronic officeholder now flourishing in our midst a a a this man dewey dewcy W WHEN HEN the republicans get out the hound daggs to run down their 1940 nominee they might search in the tall timbers of manhattan island theres a young fellow there the name being dewey and he being kin to the great admiral whose deeds crackled at manila one may day morning like the light aings on mount sinai he comes of old yankee stock he hails from a a debatable state michigan lives in in a pivotal state new york still in his mid thirties he smashed the foulest securest sechrest secure st nests of labor racketeers and vice racketeers in amer ica ica he married a sweet texas girl as southern as they make em her granduncle grand uncle was jeff davis my daddy daddy was jeff davis relative too and this young dewey trained for grand opera speaking of this charm thing think of a president wind up his fireside radio chats singing home on the range yes sir the G 0 P might go farther and fare worse supremacy nordic nordi supremacy events bring to mind a R RECENT little story of some nome years back when night riding patriots in an arkansas county felt called on as a sacred duty imposed upon all true caucasians to put the black brother in his place said place in at least one instance being a colored cemetery also there had been a flood of n notices to vacate sent through the mail to members of the african race followed by unpleasant surprise parties did the recipients fail to heed the gentle warning so the community was getting more nordic by the hour and the sound of the anglo saxophone was heard oft in the stilly night that s the scene and the plot now for the sketch pelageia Pe lagria perkins meets hookworm hostetter hosteller on main street Il hooky looky says pelageia Pe lagria effen you auz V UZ to git a letter frum dese here wite shirts would you do mel says hookworm boy id finish it on the train IRVIN S COBB copyright service |