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Show JhJmkd about Streamlined Grandmothers. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. All along I've been wondering won-dering what has vanished from the city landscape. I'd grown reconciled to service stations where blacksmith shops used to be and a beauty parlor where once the livery stable sta-ble spread its fascinating fasci-nating perfumes. So it couldn't be that. All of a sudden it dawned on me. Since coming here I've seen mighty few 1912 - model erandmothers bar ring in the movies, and then, with the 11 """ exception of dear May Robson, they had to wear makeup. We don't so much mind the young girl who has gone prematurely old we're accustomed to her but the old woman who has gone prematurely prema-turely young, so young that she seems to be advertising the approach ap-proach of second childhood by dressing to match it well, that's different. So now I know what I miss. It's the old-fashioned lady who was neither streamlined nor a four-color process. Penalties of Old Age. IF, MENTALLY or physically, or both, a man of seventy has so slowed down he no longer can function func-tion usefully, what are we going to do about Secretary of State Hull and Secretary Roper, and Senator Glass and Senator Norris, and both California's Cal-ifornia's senators, and a sizable proportion pro-portion of the outstanding membership member-ship of either branch of congress? And, to avoid cluttering up the words, so to speak, what disposition should have been made, at seventy, of Thomas A. Edison and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Henry Ford and Queen Victoria and Cardinal Gibbons and Von Hindenburg and Clemenceau and Professor Eliot and Carrie Chapman Catt and Mark Twain and Elihu Root and Melville W. Fuller, just to mention a few names that come to mind? Going still further back, one gets to thinking, among others of Henry Clay and Ben Franklin and Gladstone Glad-stone and Bismarck and Victor Hugo and Alexander Humboldt Open Season on Bears. NEW Brunswick is granting free licenses for sportsmen to kill bears this spring. I regard this as an error. It reduces bears, which are picturesque features of forest life, and increases amateur gunnerr barging through the wilderness plugging plug-ging away at every living object they see, including guides. A greenhorn green-horn might miss a sitting union depot probably would but he garners gar-ners him a guide nearly every time. On all counts, the black bear should have game protection. For every shoat he steals, he eats thrice his weight in grubs and ants and bugs; and he's a fine scavenger, for he likes his dead meat high. Lf he were a veteran member of a Maryland Duck club, he couldn't like it any higher. Even so, he has been preyed on until, in parts of our north woods, he's practically extinct. Yet, next to a Vermont Democrat, he's probably prob-ably the most inoffensive mamma) found in New England. . Tyranny of the Soviets. CEEPING through the Soviet em- bargo on free speech and free press and even free thought, stories came out that the five-year plan shows signs of utter collapse and also that, in their striving for absolute ab-solute despotism, Stalin and his for the moment intimate lieutenants lieuten-ants are preparing to "liquidate" by execution or remove by a wholesale campaign of exile all such of their recent ruthless associates as might, through private ambitions, stand in the way of this latest desperate tyranny. Of course, we hear all sorts of tales about the real inside of the Russian situation, some inspired by hostile prejudice and some by sympathetic sym-pathetic partisans. Women's New Freedom. pVEN in olden days, before they broke loose, women envied us every masculine perquisite we had, except the moustache cup and pos sibly chewing tobf.cco. Since emancipation, eman-cipation, seems like they've taken over practically everything we ever had. The bars are crowded with women, wom-en, and the smoking rooms and the barber shops mid the giimblinf clubs and the prize-fights and the wrestling matches and the political caucuses. If it weren't for thorn the race-tracks and the nil;ht spots would languish and II, cocktail mixers might net an occasional rest Mabye, as a distinguished scientist now arises to proclaim, thev could have excelled us in our ,1,,-,, ,x. elusive fields, onl.v hehn-e this thev duln t get a chance h, proVl. it. n:iN s. cor.n Wi-Mtrrn N.w:,:ll. ,. ,, UMli |