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Show a ' BEVERLY .IIIW.S. Well all I know Tt Is Just what I read In the papers, and what I get through the mall. Arthur Brisbane and I have been having a good naturod kidding through the papers about Russia. Arthur Ar-thur kinder believes be-lieves that Russia should be recognized, recog-nized, and me I dont know whether they should or not. Lors, thats a Diplomats Dip-lomats business not mine. I am not get-Lin get-Lin k ..Diplomatic S wages. I am only getting acting wages. 1 But thats got nothing to do with It, i what I am getting at Is the Interesting jt letters this fellow Brisbane writes. I I am going to show you one he wrote , me that I Just got. S My Dear Rogers: I Now that 1 have established your I credit as a mult-mlllionsaire, and that you have destroyed mine by making '. me out In the public prints as destl- :f tute, which by the way I regret to say is an extremely accurate description, ? let us talk seriously about Russia. i This country including its brightest, ' intellects, even your own, fall to ap- ! predate the Importance of what Is i going on In Russia. You know that when Louie the six-i six-i teenth came back from shooting at Fontaineblcau on a certain 14th of July he wrote in hi diary, "Rein," meaning in the French language, "Nothing." He hadent shot anything, and he simply wrote down that noth-, noth-, ' lng had happened. BUT that was the 14th of July on which the Bastlle was destroyed, and later as a consequence of that "Rein" day, they Just casually - . chopped off his bead. The King of Persia asked, "Where .is Greece?" and said to his royal remembrancer, re-membrancer, "Remind me sometime to go. down and destroy that littla , -' Country." His descendants learned ; -about. Greece when Alexander came ...from Macijooula with 20,00,0 .nnl ----"-sent-hfnY flying" to His death, went through his line of war Elephants and took his Country. All of which leads up to the fact that Will Rogers should study and analize, and understand Russia, not dispose of It with a wave of a band, like some foolish Wall Street Broker who buys Kerensky Bonds and bellyaches belly-aches because they are not paid. We dldent pay the bonds Issued by the South. I have no doubt that the Russian experiment will fail eventually, being based on pretense of unselfishness and brotherly love, which have no ex- lstence among human beings. But its experiments In industry, in world competition ,and efllcincy may cost some of the old Capatalist civil- V izatlons dear, if they ignore it. Alex anders Empire fell, dwindling down to the Cleopatra and Mark Anthony foolishness, fool-ishness, but nof until he had put an end forever to the old Persia. So you ought to warn your readers to not underate Russia. Many years ago when you was a little Boy (Thanks for that kind compliment Arthur), I told Klaw, Erlanger, Frohman and Brady that someday Movies would sweep the country and be In every town. They thought I was crazy. Well look and see. - ' Now you take old Cato with his "Carthage must be destroyed" and keep saying every day at the end of your "piece" in diamond type, "Watch and beware of Russia." This Is talked into my phonograph In my automobile on my way in from Long Island to -New York, hence the length. Yours sincerely, A. Brisbane. , Now wasent that a line letter. You if- know he is a great fellow. And he is sincere about this Russia thing too. He does know enough about it to know ' : that they are going somewhere, and we better watch out while they are on - ' ' j the way. I think on the other hand that he has kinder been Propagan-dered Propagan-dered on em, and he has perhaps got the brighter side, for they were a pretty pret-ty sceiy looking outfit when I visited them In 1926. But all that Cato, and Carthace. and Persia and Greece, and Macdeonia, and Louie the sixteenth, six-teenth, and "Rein" and all that was lost on me. He was getting a long - .- way from Russia telling about all those old Birds. But the Rascal can ft quote anything. And I guess he is right, anyhow I havent got time to look it up, any man as high salaried and busy as he Is, that will sit down and take his valuable valua-ble time to write my stuff for me, 1 am not going to find any faults with It as to facts. 1 will dissagree with him every day If he will write my article ar-ticle for me. Anyhow if I ever answer him, I cant talk about those old fellows. fel-lows. I will have to refer him to Senator Sena-tor Grundy, Al Capone, Tom Heflin, Aimee, and Just the ones that 1 know. - y But anyhow Arthur, I am much tf f obliged to you, and will take care of jri Russia from now jn. '."A O 1930, McNaugbl Syndicate, |