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Show SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Maybe the English have the right idea. The Reds spout as they please so long as they stay off the radio and take it out in spouting. There's a story in point: In ttito Pnrt where f ' the crack-pots and clack-jaws speak their pieces, an Impassioned Im-passioned radical Is In full eruption. Being Be-ing a hater of kings, he would drive the royal family fam-ily forth and set fire to their official London residence. A heckler quarrels with the orator ; the crowd loins In, Irvin S. Cobb about equally divided, trouble Impends. Im-pends. A large calm policeman plows through the jam. "'Ere, now!" he commands. "All them as Is going to bum down Buckingham palace form on this side, please. All them as is not going to burn down Buckingham palace kindly form on that side." When you start people laughing at an agitator you've killed him colder than though you used an ax. I wish we'd club in and laugh some of our half-baked Communists Commu-nists to death. Rise of London Boom. AS ONE state delegation after another swings toward Lan-don, Lan-don, his campaign managers are as optimistic as a seed catalogue. To be sure, taking the first heat doesn't necessarily mean your nag will win the county trophies, but it certainly will cheer up the stable-hands stable-hands and sometimes starts a stampede for front seats in the grand-stand. For once in G. O. P. history the rank and file shun a brother from the Atlantic seaboard as though he were a pestbouse. At the ensuing convention it looks as though all the easterners will get will be the seconding-the-motion concession. And yet I can remember when, if you called a fellow a Wall Street Republican, you didn't have to smile as you said it. War Debt Specter. piVE and a half million European 1 troops are drilling and seven million mil-lion more are practically ready for service, more by one million and a half than there were in 1914, when the last big mess broke out Those Americans who are bein grievously taxed because the powers pow-ers won't pay back what they have owed1 us since the armistice for refinancing and rehabilitating their own lands and that, one way or another, includes every living soul in this country are invited to save up these statistics for use next time they meet one of those gentle souls who'd cancel these mountin-foreign mountin-foreign debts. Not war debts, mind you, but peace-time rlpht So let's call them by their right name as we sing: "I didn't raise my dough to arm a soldier-but by goilv that's what happened to it." Idlers on Relief. AT LAST we know wherein the League of Nations really functions. func-tions. It keeps a good set of statis- mLni's t,,at In the -4.000,000 unemployed, and of this total more than half are in th-United th-United States. Since we are speS ng more government funds to a d he idle than any country, can it be there are persons among w Kkmf'rf ,s, n iJec2 to taking regular jobs? unuxrtaMng I m g0 no. to f , question to some WhocS Utv who, if he's following tJVl custom will be whiling n v Z on that's bc.V nSS TTT ,Kentucky Colonel. christen, ," to P'oli. iy-n FooF- "oners baianced , tMs Nobod; t.kos S 8,,,y,M tlcs-wo worif . UW,,y 0ur tl- ns the weg,t of 1. 1 ,:,,os', "J""Ke," ,.,ui V:s w,la called 'or." and aU Z os "1),,'-""'.llcally "1),,'-""'.llcally won, 1 f Us of ''"vlng .so ,,, , ' ' 011 '"'I'ount 1(oor fe,C.' ''''.'Hu-ations. f'i'uM his ll'e'r h 'HMl,,; t- |