Show what cobb thinks about yesterdays literary lights HOLLYN HOLLYWOOD the other day finley CALIF peter gunrie passed away thirty years his articles meant each week a go i T roar of joy as wide as the continent ti his afis books sold enormously his coull country try properly acclaimed him greatest satiric humorist t yet ni ill its a venture not one in five of the on com ing generation ever heard his name and we thought the fame of mr doo joy was eternal J vary mary johnston who wrote some ol of the most distinguished novels of her time also died recently in the papers I 1 saw she rated only a b brief rief paragraph slower than americans to give their love to man or woman tie the english remain in sentiment entime nt wedded to tie the idol from then on the marriage between popularity and nd merit lasts ats till death doth them part but we 14 1 4 a 14 e who elevate a favorite to a pedestal overnight ailt forget that favorite 1 overnight W we made an ardent sweetheart il an sai bride but a impetuous irvin S cobb most inconstant spouse si simplified revenue bills C is wrestling with the new dew simplified revenue bill having baving simplified it down to a mere sixty odd thousand words about the length of a fair size summer novel but the plot la 19 different and having made its provisions so clear and lucid that you may read it backward or forward you seem to get practically the same result either way so could anything be fairer than that it may yet be necessary to call in professor einstein to elucidate st it if he can explain his theory of relativity and the probes professor sor still asserts he can he might be willing to tack tackle de the job where the leagues headed TS SPITE ot ol chats happened lately one ofie persi persistent last ditcher and for lorn lora hoper among the british diplomats insists the league of nations to quote his own words Is a going concern yes tes but where makes me think of a little yarn a man told me fifteen ot of us he said were waiting our turns to buy tickets one hot night at grand central station all at once a gentleman far over tak en to in alcohol forced his way to tc the head of the line using his head to butt with and his elbows to paddle with and emptied his pockets of some small change and slapped it down on the shelf bhelt and yelled gamme a ticket to buffalo this all the money you gott got demanded the man behind the wicket a yes why you cant go to buffalo tor for a dollar and forty cents well where can I 1 go then said the stew and with one voice all f fifteen of us told him G man hoovers efficiency YU cant help liking the fellows style of repartee and a person named hoover doing ing to justify his hanging on with this administration or words to that general effect says hays senator Mc mckeller Neller of it old tennessee brightly 1 toe massa murmurs J edgar reach 1119 S tor for his hat and handcuffs all ali nt be gone long boss and inside of 0 a week or two he drifts in strum wing ng a plantation tune on his G string and by gum it if he towing a whole less ess of public enemies what I 1 call an apt retort or 88 the purists would put it a snappy comeback yellow public enemies is it has turned them from bravos into quivering wre fetches bes who cower it in hiding biding like mice behind hand a wainscot who flinch like trapped rapped rabbits when smoked out it who whine like whipped cur dogs for a chance to plead guilty can n it be because instead of courteous but inexperienced local officers they fay now face trained man hunters huntera hod rather destroy such human vern alu than eat cat pie or Is it because instead ead of go going ng to trial in state courts where unscrupulous shysters shy may trick ed jurors into showing mistaken inerny rcy and where even though COB VIct el theres nothing ahead worse than temporary temporary tep detention in some criminal addling retreat with sentimental med ulers ta to pamper them and mush mind ru ta parole boards waiting to free them tow 1 they y get a full measure of stern justl i ustice from federal judges IRVIN S COBB r copyright service |