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Show ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS. Well all 1 know is just what I read in the papers. Here was an Interesting iuill& null was just lately completed. com-pleted. That fellow fel-low that drove that herd of rhcindeer clear across Alaska, moving them for domestic animals to tribes away up near the Artie Ocean, he drove em from some place away down ill .-kiusuck LU Jllt)L a niblick shot from the North Pole. He was over five years making the trip. I think he had about three thousand thou-sand when he left, and he raised as many as he lost. And he got there with more than he left with. He was one whole year just getting over one mountain range and river. It will keep those people, Esquimos, away up there from starving. Will give them a start in raising these wonderful wonder-ful animals. This lellow that did this was over seventy years old. His drivers used to come and tell him we are lost, and he would say you can see me cant you, well then you are not lost. There used to be some wonderful cattle drives from Texas to Montana, Mon-tana, Wyoming and even to the Canadian Ca-nadian Border. But not a five year I one. These old Rheindeer cow boys did-ent did-ent go on a horse either. They go afoot, or on skeis, or skates or something. some-thing. You know those guys throw a rope too. Fred Stone was in Greenland Green-land and he saw em. Its a long rawhide raw-hide one, and they just bundle it all I in one hand and throw It out there like throwing rubbish out of a window win-dow and then commence to hauling in, and they say they are awful apt to have rheindeer on the end of It. I never have been to that Alaska. 1 am crazy to go up there some time. I would like to go in the Winter, when those old boys are all snowed in, and I could sit around and hear em tell some of those old tails. They have lied about em so much now that I bet they can tell some good ones. They do a lot of flying up there. There is some crack aviators. Wiley Post went back up there this last Summer to visit one of em that had helped him out, and they went hunting hunt-ing in a plane. Fred Stone and Rex Beach have been up there a lot, but I nevei did get further north up that ivay than about a block north of Main Street in Seattle. I was telling you all away back days ago about me going with Charley Char-ley Chapliu to hear a debate between Will Durant, that wrote the wonderful wonder-ful book the Story of Philosophy. He is just one of the finest fellows you ever met. He made the same trip across Siberia into Russia that I made. He was debating with an Englishman Eng-lishman named Strachey. This Stra-; Stra-; chey was a Bolsheviki, but he was j very fair in his talk, and it was a ! brilliant thing to hear. Debates dont settle nothing, but they are entertaining. enter-taining. Proposing something in a debate is just about like writing a letter to ! your Congressman, nothing ever comes of it. The debate was called Americas Way Out and It was right up Charleys alley. You know that Chaplin just reads that deep economic eco-nomic stuff all the time. He told me quite a bit about his new picture that he is just about half through after six or eight months actual work on It, and two and a half years prepera-tion. prepera-tion. It sounded awful funny, and I 1 bet is. No he is not doing any talking in ' it. Lots of sound In It, but its action is in pantomime. If a man Is the great panto- mimlst in the world, and can make you understand under-stand anything he wants too by action alone, why should he talk. We dont go to a big concert to hear John Mc Cormack talk. Ilia medloum of expression Is song. Besides It -vould be a dissapointment to mil-ions mil-ions If Chaplin talked, every Nation tinder pictures him as being one of hem, and if he talked he would be i dissapointment to them. They vould want to hear him speak In j 'beir language. No sir, let Mr. Chaplin alone. He knows what he Is doing better than my one person 1 know of. He knows bis career, and he knows his art. Thats the trouble with most of us, ve gab too much. We are blathering ill the time. We write too much, we 10 everything too much. We are Just 1 Nation that cant do much motler-ting, motler-ting, but we have lots of fun. Every-.idys Every-.idys getting lots of education, but obody dont know much. Every tlmt ve wan to run a man for some hit: ob, we pretty near go nutty trying i think up somebody, but any Conn ry that is seriously debating paying man as much to not work as to ork, why we are unique anyhow. WIS. Mc.'eflti Syndicate. Inc. |