Show sn about the drift of scotland MONICA C CALIF SANTA 0 so high an authority al aa the associated press gives out a dispatch stating that scotland is drifting toward towar d america at the rate of eight feet a year this would be an n excuse for the u to Is say y that the scots always elways had a reputation for tor being close and now are becoming still closer to me though the irsel main question I 1 s whether scotland is going to bring en england gland glaid along with her among themselves at least the scots have always had the reputation of at bringing england along through the centuries and if you dont believe it aik irvin S cobb any true scot H he e stands ready to offer sup supporting 91 dates names and statistics by the way ive noticed gotlie done one outstanding difference between the two greatest groups odthe of the celtic race to an Irish mans face you can joke about ire ireland land and he remains calm but dua fv poke kafun fun atan at an individual irishman ind and you are hunting tor for trouble and probably will saon soon be hunting for a doctor inversely you may jibe a scot and get away with it but just say the least little thing in derision of his native land and better start running 0 so cabled modern art T GUESS I 1 must belong to a most ancient species indeed an al almost vanished species its true im not quite old enough to remember when they shot indians where the city hall now stands and peggy hopkins joyce was called love apples but I 1 do date back to where a painting was expect expected ad remotely at least to resemble the object it purported to re represent 1 I lived through the early stages of the ahe artistic revolt primitives post impression ests cubists dadaists and s so 0 on without ever becoming reconciled to the prevalent idea that a canvas apparently depicting a bundle of laths baths orning coming undo undone was supposed to be a nude ladys portrait or that a spirited rendition of a yellow cat having an epileptic fit in amess a mess ot of tomato soup was an italian sunset lately ive seen examples example of the latest school the surrealistic school and it if the practitioners of this form of beauty ari are artists then im a kind faced old swiss watch mender actually giving certain of thise these geniuses medals whit what they ought to give emis em is something somei for their respective livers undo uncle sam the spendthrift WELL ELL we were good fellows while we had it we we destroyed our forests result up water courses we indulged in an orgy of so called reclamation schemes t to 0 drain ua unneeded needed swamplands thereby destroying the breeding grounds and the natural resting places of emigrating wild fowl so that the once vast flocks anegone are gone probably forever we wasted our herit heritage age of wild game formerly a great factor in food supply aside brorn being a source of healthful joy to gunners we needlessly polluted our streams but were a resourceful race give us credit tor for that now through speed madness and drunken dil driving ving were preying merrily on human life its getting so that the citizen who insist on dying a natural death instead of waiting tor for some mad wag of a road hoi hog to mow him down can be regarded only asa as a spoilsport cruelty to wild life women are almost S SOMETIMES as inconsistent as inen men which is a frightful indictment to bring against any sex As a boy I 1 remember men ber being severely lectured by a lady for r robbing birds nests a lady whose nodding hat was crowned mithat with at lea least st tour four stuffed meadowlarks meadow larks A few years ago I 1 saw women prominent in humane movements and good deeds like that woman of the scriptures who was called dorcas saw these women wearing the smuggled and forbidden al ai crettes of bf the snowy heron even though they must haye known that each pitiable faithe feathered ibid wisp meant a cruel murder and a brood of fledglings dg left to starve I 1 still sei see these aigrettes aigret tes being worn against the law of the land and the greater law of common common humanity Andon and only li lately a at t a meeting to forward the prevention of cruelty to dumb beasts I 1 saw wimin women swathed to their earlobes ear lobes in furson furs of mink and otter seemingly they had forgotten that the animals whose pelts they wore had died in steel traps by slow degrees of infinite torture or maybe they care IRVIN 8 COBB co Fer service vici |