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Show WHlLILLla BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know is just what I read in the mail. Cot an awful lot of Birthday Greet- ings couple ot 1c j a;: :.m ;q A CE;,nE'''-'.'iOr Trc CLD SC--COL Tn c'C1 OF 70 SAH-' weeks ago. I was kinder letting ( the thing slide " by, and had even 3 forgotten it, but they wont let i you. They want to remind you bow old you are s getting, and too 'you would b e surprised at the amount of people peo-ple that was born on that very day, Nov. 4th, '79. Along on that date in 7S), must have been quite a day for births. But I was mighty glad to hear from all of e:n, and we can console each other on reaching such a ripe old age; 1 am going to start in demanding de-manding a little more respect. You take a dignified fellow thats arrived at ,ri5 years of age, and "Hello, theres Old Bill," and "Look at that old guy Rogers over there". Well thats all got to stop. From now on there is going go-ing to be some "Mr Rogers" used. .My hair is arriving at a sort of a blend that it deserves respect if nothing else. A greying head Is a mark of respect in any land, so you guys cut out this rough uncouth stuff. You are speaking to a gentleman gentle-man of the old school. The school of 79 sah. One fellow was telling me, "I think you are kinder spreading some propaganda prop-aganda to get in on this old age pension." pen-sion." You know they are going to have that. Thats going to be the very next thing. It advocated by practically everybody and it would be the grandest thing we ever had. It would be a great mental relief to millions and millions of old folks. There is nothing more terryfying than that thought of facing the future fu-ture with nothing to carry on with. I dont know where they will get the money. Take it out o increased income tax, ah, there is a thousand taxes that other countries have that we haveut touched yet. Why a match, and a salt tax In many countries are the biggest things they have, India almost has war with England every year over the salt tax. And Luxuries? Lux-uries? Why we havent started taxing tax-ing them yet. But I dident write this to get started off on any economic eco-nomic theory. I havent got any, but I sure do want to see an old age pension, if we have to print the money for it. Here is a letter from Rex Beach. Rex lives down in Florida, and in addition to being one of the most constant best authors in America, he is an expert farmer, got a great celery cel-ery plantation, does it scientifically. Rex and Professor Hamilton Holt of the famous Liberal College. Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. Rex is an old Alumni. They want to give me a degree, (a kind of a non paying old age pension). Now what in the world would I be doing with a degree? de-gree? A lot of guys that earned em dont know what to do with em, much less me that wouldent know what one was. They gave Fred Stone one. Well he deserved it. I can think of a hundred reasons why he should be knighted. Talked Finnland the other night, and here is a lot of nice letters. Those Finns are the most appreciative apprecia-tive people, in fact all the countries are. Here is a banker, J. Rowland, fronl Youngstown, Ohio, who wrote before this last election and says that it is Roosevelt and not the bankers that are in the "Dog House" as I said. He knows more now that he did before November 6th. A note from Sam Fordyce, St Louis pet politician. Amon Carter of Ft Worth Texas sent me a saddle from some South American Republic Re-public on his flying fly-ing trip clear around South America. I hear the next Democratic Demo-cratic Conven-t Conven-t i o n Is to be held in Dallas. I am glad to hear It. She deserves it. Its a g r e a t I l. Amon will I.-. japs go back to South America. Govenor Rytti of the Bank of Finnland, is in this country, and wrote and thanked me. Charley Wagner, my old concert manager, has got the itch again, thinks the Country is ripe for one of those long winded concert tour talks of mine. No, I am going to let the country alone. Its had enough trouble without me adding to it. Thanks for the offer, Charley. Thanks for the wire, Malcolm Stevenson, Ste-venson, the international polo player play-er Here is one telling about the record of the American Airways, from Los Angeles to Ft Worth, and from there to Chicago, with their first new Douglas. They ramble, those babies. I also have the good news here of the terrific hit Fred Stone made in his new show in New-York. New-York. Things are looking up since election. 1 tell you If they would just quit having those things we cever would have hard times. ig !9j(, ,1i.Vu.f) Syndicate. Inc. |
