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Show what (of)fr IrtVlVthinks about: The Campaign Blues SANTA MONICA, CALIF. What with Roosevelt taking over the ancient Ham-iltonian Ham-iltonian theory of centralized authority and Landon promising promis-ing to restore the Jeffersonian nrtaciple of state sovereignty the campaign is In high. What with Farley undertaking to organize the Negro-voters of the north for Roosevelt and the otter side claiming to be hopeful of carrying car-rying Florida with the aid of white votes; what with Andy Jackson turning over in his grave and James G Blaine stirring fretfully under the sod, it seems the most appropriate appro-priate campaign selections would be for the Democratic orchestra to render "John Brown's Body" and the Republican quartet to sing "Bonny Blue Flag," with special emphasis upon the stirring line, "Hurrah, Hurrah, for Southern Rights, Hurrah!" . Doping the Geegees. DESPITE revelations that some of America's most prized race horses have repeatedly been doped, one of the state racing boards reinstated rein-stated a trainer found guilty of this foul and crooked cruel practice. So our commissioner to the interna -tional antinarcotio conference at Geneva Ge-neva is disgusted. Maybe because I'm hopelessly old - fashioned, I still prefer that a horse should b e trained on the turf and not at a drug otnrn- Nowadays the Irvln S. Cobb J i fellow who prowls the paddock just before a race is liable either to go to sleep suddenly or go to bucking. It depends on whether the geegee he sniffs has been drugged to lose or drugged to win. Hollywood Dog Days. TOURISTS to the Hollywood sector sec-tor come during a dullish interlude. inter-lude. The diary of Miss Astor has been closed, and the next chapter in the love-life of John Barrymore has not been opened. It might be said for Miss Astor's output, before the court shut it off, that it was well-written and caused the public eagerly to await further disclosures. Certain parties may have gone out of town, but they all left word where the paper was to be sent. Hereafter, for a series of such purely personal confessions, It might be well to begin each installment in-stallment like this: "May it please your honor and my precious pettykins." Praising John Hamilton. I HEARD John Hamilton speak to a selected group of his own folks, and please don't laugh when I say that the individual he most reminds me of in engaging personality, In sound sense is the rival national chairman, Jim Farley. Without comparing these two as to past records or future prospects, I figure they're temperamentally alike in various ways notably In not getting unduly excited or nastily vindicative. In his talk Hamilton did not declare de-clare the American flag was in danger, dan-ger, did not Implore anyone to save the American home. He didn't call the Republicans saints; didn't call the Democrats knaves or Idiots. He didn't claim for his side a monopoly of patriotism. Quite calmly he told his hearers what points he thought should be stressed by his party in this campaign and poked fun at himself while poking fun at the other crowd. . Congressmen Versus Taxes. AGAINST my better judgment, I'm trying to be cheered by the announcement of the present majority ma-jority leaders in congress that, looking look-ing forward to the next session, they behold no new taxes ahead. But, after election, when the lads look closer, they'll probably be able to behold quite a few. That's why a balanced budget is I like the idea of santa claus something some-thing everybody talks about, but nobody ever expects to see. Excepting Ex-cepting when a campaign is on and the voters are sort of flinching their galled backs under the load, a favorite fa-vorite pastime of legislators, wherever wher-ever found, is thinking up more taxes to go along with the taxes the've already thunk up. They resist the craving for just so long, and then they notice some previously overlooked dollars hiding behind the baseboard, and then well, you might hire a henhawk to guard your henhouse, but could you depend on his word? IRVIN S. COBB O Western Newspaper Union. |