Show what V I 1 L 0 thinks about the cultural expansion ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA what a war it has been for ed education uca tion they were savages ruthless and very ignorant but now they know about the armored tank and the screaming shell and the admirable flamethrower flame thrower which cooks the flesh besh on the living bone they were isolated dat ole long distance gun she ahe sho kin find y you 0 u wherever wha rever at all she wants la Is you home address they had bad barbaric pride the breath in their black st nostrils but poison gas would be the cure for that foolishness like foxes boies they den in the earth the scout plane spies epics on them and a nil the bomber plane comes and makes irvin S cobb scrap of their bodies like lions the naked spears men advance the machine gun levels the ranks down flat like moles the fugitives burrow under the mud walls so with his high explosives the white man blasts them out verily there Is no excusing any race however remote however backward for failure to share in the cultural beauties of this modern civilization joe robinsons elegance joe robinson Kobl somewhere S SENATOR lit in arkansaw dear sen I 1 hear some borne of the boys are agin you for reelection because youve been guilty of spats in the first degree it if your home folks predicate fitness for office on ruggedness of feet primo carnera camera Is their man but if 1 they want brains at the other end to balance the load I 1 insist youve youre got the credentials I 1 know how bow youve suffered you put on spats and just about the time you quit being self conscious the weather turns warm on you still a more tolerant day Is dawning why the first erst time I 1 wore spats in paducah I 1 needed pollee police protection it was a good thing tor for me I 1 a yankee and on down in the tall timber my wristwatch wrist watch was mistaken for a handcuff with a time lock on it I 1 reckon they thought I 1 was a fugitive from a vassar daisy chain now just around every corner Is a service station a beauty parlor or a country club and that mind you wh where ere once when a boy came of age they had to run him down with dogs to put plants on him so cheer up tip sen at least they prove a monocle on you yours sympathetically cobb A week of peace TV THE sentimentalists amongst us athe the peril of the moment Is that we may run out of 0 these something or other weeks you know weeks dedicated to hay bay fever or sanitary plumbing or ankle length union suits or anemic armenians Armen ians you see we only have 52 weeks to start with the surest way to spoil apolla a good thing Is to overdo it that also goes for salad dressings four plus pants rice pudding and the young thing who puts so much make tip on her eye lashes she looks as though she were peeping out through two buttonholes in an old plush vest any party could gain a lot of votes by inserting a plank in its platform calling for just one plain old fashioned week starting without excitement cit eft ement on a monday and ending very quietly the following sunday 0 a tugwell and native son U T he hauled oft off and made that speech recently professor tugwell was leading the brain trust with the title of chief lobe ile he may still be that but just the same if I 1 were tug well I 1 believe id follow the advice which the fire department prints on the theater programs look about you now and choose the nearest exit speaking of vanishing species whatever became of the pedestrian classes in america you know people who went places by the quaint old fashioned process called walking today the population seems exclusively to be made up op of two major groups those with cars who are riding and those with thumbs who crave to do so and speaking of traveling ive discovered what in the modern sense of the term Is a true california native son eon A native son Is a fellow who has hit 3 been here long enough to sell his trailer 0 0 two promising Pro actors actor Y BUDDING ambition to turn na MY actor has had a boost A young fellow who I 1 predict will yet get somewhere tome gome where in this business if he be keeps on trying was over here and after dinner this party whose name dame Is charles chaplin gave an imitation of a buzzard lighting alongside a sick horie such judges as claudette colbert and edna may hay oliver agreed that as a buzzard he would fool any living creature except possibly another buzzard but talk about acting now by special request I 1 played the principal supporting role that of the horse and tle the sheer artistry of the performance gave delight to one and all so now rim im convinced my future is assured if only we ive can cal get somebody to write a show with a part partin in it for a sick horse IRVIN S COBS COBB a 8 north american newspaper Paper Ali lanot loc le |