Show 0 obb r cabout 41 ou U S lags behind HOLLYWOOD CALIF X 1 what I 1 saw at the national air races in los angeles set me to thinking its a dangerous thing thinking is and nearly always upsetting to the peace of mind im thinking that no longer is the navy our first line of defense nor the army the second line im thinking that the chief peril and the chief security from that peril 44 is in the air now and of all the great powers we are the most woefully behind in the matter of airplane protection it would take us two years to make our air force arin irvinS S cobb a as s strong as it was four years ago it would take infinitely longer than that to make it as strong as the present footing I 1 of any country which conceivably might attack us well we could always lock the stable after the horse was gone if the stable been blown flat 0 0 0 rules for long lite life A A JAPANESE doctor has landed I 1 I 1 with the word that by following a few simple rules a fellow lives to be years old he say but I 1 figure this applies only to those of us who never go motoring the principal rules are to sleep on a hard mattress with a metal pillow and learn to wriggle like a goldfish whether in time the beginner sprouts gills and a fantail is not stated but it sounds plausible ive already spoken to a tinsmith about a pillow and on awakening this morning made a few experimental wriggles my intentions might fool some people but I 1 dont believe fool a goldfish unless hed been drinking or something im afraid my finning was faulty besides I 1 feel any too dignified greeting the dewy d dawn wn by behaving war names confusing NOT MOT content with coining eighty 11 or ninety separate different and confusing names for the opposing forces in spain the correspondents have gone and up a plum bran new one extremists maybe though the point is well taken the dispatches would seem rather to indicate that quite a number of persons over tere have lately shown a tendency to verge toward the extreme and picking out the various parties mixed up in the french political mess another tough job only today I 1 ran into this one left centrist it sort of suggests ty cobb in his palmy days covering the outfield but that be because C the french dont go in for baseball they prefer dueling as being just as exciting I 1 must say its discouraging just when by following the news from paris im beginning to get the reds unscrambled from the pale pinks and the mauves malves from the helio tropes and the holy rollers from the merry widows to have this added complication bust right in my i face looks as though ill have to start it all over again now how to reduce E V VER since the day when I 1 was i known among amon P friends as thyi rold roid deficiency ir irvy vy the human detour ive fought the losing fight against overweight I 1 tried dieting dieling and became the best friend the american spinach industry ever knew yet had only to turn my head to brag and I 1 regained practically instantaneously what id lost I 1 exercised until I 1 had the jitters but when id taken off half a pound it bounced ri right ot back while the doctors were reviving me but now ive found the absolutely certain cure for reduction its working in a moving picture with little jane withers when she sets the pace you can track yourself back home by your own perspiration another en engagement 0 argement with janie and I 1 could be rented out as my own living skeleton demor has memories es of valencia T TS hard to concentrate on pen nant fights in the big leagues when we ve read of war racked spain with already dead I 1 hope the lovely old city of valencia has escaped the common ruin seven years ago I 1 was traveling around and about over three continents and at every stop had listened morning noon and night to the song valencia so a friend and I 1 made a pilgrimage to the town in which presumably the thing originated and valencia 1 encia turned out to be the one spot on the map where nobody had ever played that tune or sung it or hummed it or whistled it or even heard beard of it it was indeed a relief so we stayed a week the sherry and egg before luncheon was also quite good all but the aggi eggi IRVIN S COBB 6 service Br lc |