| Show what 05 CO bb 01 thinh S a bout shaw comes through H HOUSTON TEXAS I 1 always said there was only one living person who could convince me that george bernard shaw was not the smartest man in the world and that person would be george bernard sil shaw aw and by gum he lid did it for tills this admirer he began the disillusioning job the last dinst time he was over here telling us so frankly what a ailed 11 ed us and on the present trip lie already has finished up tip the contract when a man no matter how great he was in the past deac reaches es the p point 0 I 1 n t where he mistakes rudeness to ills his hosts for proof of ills his own irvin S cobb brilliancy instead of just bad manners well to me one of the most distressing sights on this earth is that of an extinct crater still trying to be the flaming volcano it once was only for westerners westerner WHAT HAT I 1 ask you Is the use of being a consistent old line republican back east with tine banking connections when all youre permitted to do as tile the other fellows start drawing their hands for this years big game Is to fuss with the discards why lots of us can remember when it regarded as fatal to the presidential ident ial lal prospect of a bright member of the G 0 P younger set if he happened to reside on the wall street side of the allegheny mountains in fact quite the contrary now it seems theres a rule that only wes westerners berners may look longingly toward the white house without bein being accused of trying to peep in the deck before the deal valuable advice Tf TODAY ODAY I 1 ran into my old and w wise I 1 se friend bassett blakely Dl akely he stuck to the cow business whereas will rogers was weaned from it IL otherwise otheral se these S southwesterly ranges miff might lit have produced one more corn fed philosopher humorist with a national reputation tation during the depression bassett tried to borro borrow vv a sizable sum from a gentleman with a well earned reputation for frugality it was a forlorn hope no stated bassett emerging from the interview he let me have any money but on parting lie he gave me free of charge some beautiful advice bassett my son he said never feed your stock dry fodder in windy beati er I 1 did that in march of issa and one shuck blew away on me longs long machine endures endure AKE CHARLES LA I 1 mean no L LAKE disrespect for any mans memory but for most anyone of us who ever ta tasted sted success the verse that was written about little dog rover might serve as an edit epitaph aph while he lived lie he lived in clover but when he died he lied died all over I 1 would have said that huey longs machine being essentially a one man machine would start falling failing to pieces before ever they buried him but it yet endures and is powerful and right or wrong it functions people here still believe in ills his policies still perpetuate ills his organization still endorse his big designs most dictators bitter cup of defeat while they live here Is one who from the tomb looms almost as tall as lie he did when he walked in the flesh A admire such a mans record or despise it nevertheless you have to take olt off your bat to a personality that can project itself back across the grave thearo all ranches ut in california every patch of 0 OUT ground where things grow regardless of size Is a ranch so far as I 1 know there are only two farms la in southern california ones a lion farm and the other Is an ostrich farm I 1 look for the day when a hollywood scalp specialist will refer to his establishment lish ment as a dandruff ranch in te texas aas which we just left behind us nearly everybody la is a rancher ran dier too or used to be today were in the in land nd of tile the planters and it if we kept going bearing north tomorrow wed be among the farmers the so called gentleman farmer as we know him back east cast flourish anywhere down here there are show places aplenty along tills this louisiana c coast but they A built for show places they were built for homes bomes IRVIN S 0 ser service vica |
