| Show WLL WILL ROGERS bromir arill BEVERLY HILLS well all I 1 know is just what I 1 read in the papers and believe me I 1 have finally found a paper got something in it its the st thomas mail of the town of st SL thomas virgin islands U SA S A now you might have read in the local press vari references to mr hoovers statement about the condition of the islands after lie he h had ad visited them a few weeks ago now in all fairness to our presidents denti I 1 dont think he meant it exactly like it was reported to have been said he did see that they were in a pretty bad condition financially and he might have in order to stir up a little interest in them and perhaps be able to get them a federal contribution of some kind have thought he was doing them a favor by bringing to the publics eye the fact that they were bad off but at any rate it seems to have had the opposite effect and if you ever paw anyone up in in arms its these Vir ginders in the days davs before america had gone racketeer teer it made rum and good rum it was vas a legitimate business carried on by experts that had made it for generations erat ions then during a time when our ambitions were bigger than our judgment why we thought we should spread out and try and be A nation now there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation its to try and manage somebody eases affairs we are very original nobody else can see things our way vay of course they are wrong giong but bat they just wont be broadminded and let us show era em how they should live during tin thi s expansion we though we ought to have the virgin islands deinart Dei nark 1 I believe it was owned am and we just bought em give em twenty five million dollars but lets get on with the story mr air hoover had just finished a siege with the senate and he needed a rest so he be went to porto rico and also to the virgin islands and then home and made his observations As we land on this lovely afternoon why I 1 am tickled to death to be able to fly and see our absent countrymen and get their reaction on our presidents visit well did you ever see a community mad now you you only think you have you seen a community mad at all till you see the virgin islands talk about the democrats knocking the president well they took me ashore and they said they wanted my visit to offset his so I 1 told em to go ahead and make their rum that there was no reason they should take prohibition seriously just because they belonged to the U S so with a bunch of them we all went and had a nip of rum punch and I 1 dont mind telling y you OU the islands looked great to me I 1 di disagree s a ee with mr air hom hoover ahe they y d aident dar t look near as poor as some parts of our country why there was no bread lines no red cross relief I 1 asked where most of the people were and they said out at the golf course that was the only evidence of poverty I 1 saw for as you know practically all our unemployed are at ours I 1 cure sure like the place and wish d I 1 could have stayed over a few bays met some mighty pleasant folks there it looked like a very happy little 0 community 01 0 till the president hit itsal a tew few marines scathe e r e ed d around but as it was american territory they aident have many Coul dent have been so far beh behind irid tb the times th they had two of my iny pictures t there hl tallies talkies tal kies and one of the them in I 1 badent even seen at home myself I 1 was awful sorry that they ha had d this prohibition thing and quit selling their rum and when I 1 explained to em cm the interpretation that the mainland of the the U S had put on the amendment why they were tickled to death and started right light in to get ready to manufacture on a b big 1 g r scale cale J J gave gae t them Ca caponis capones Capon pones cs address as I 1 w wanted a ted to see ern cm get started with the best folks over home where they could get the most for their product of course they will have to start from the bot torn ra in regard to competition tor for the U S had twelve years of t business start on them but they will be all right now and the e next time a president visits early butterflies migrating north arouse curiosity great curiosity was aroused throughout the valley monday by a northward migration of a strange species of butterflies many inquiries came to the reaper office through personal visits and phone calls and the county agent was deluged with calls it has been discovered that the peculiar insect is technically known as the aphrodite species which is a brown black spotted butterfly not common in this part of the country they were reported by motorists as far south as beaver and as far north as nephi swarming along the highways in countless thousands it is thought that early spring in the southern part of the fhe state matured the butterflies early and they started out on their northern pilgrimage before the season when butterflies are usually expected here says the washington post theres one thing to be s said aid for americas insurgents they ever boasted that heads beads will roll when they come into power maybe not but the voices will continue to roll in the same old way them their product will be making them rich just like chicago or any of their competing centers I 1 am going to have those Vir ginders so rich they will be able to have 20 thousand dollar funerals and presidents ts wont mean anything to cm the acrobat in the circus circus who can straddle a couple of trapezes trape zes ought to make an excellent politician the trouble with most of us is that we forget that the best time to save money is when we are getting it |
