Show what CO bb thinks bout about racial hatred B EVERLY DEVERLY HILLS CALIF L it may be old to you but its it s new out here small prussian town turns out tor for gravelin traveling circus fei ferocious ocious lion hon escapes villagers flee madly sinewy stranger grapples with rai ravening ening brute twists its jaws hammers its nose boots it biek back into cage entire community starts jubilation flaps flags flying bands playing burgomaster puts on his high hat special train arranged ran ged tor for rushin rushing tile the 1 hero ro to berlin to be decorated by liehr hitler as reincarnation of ancient nordic demigods demi gods typifying spirit of old german germa n tocks stocks all that sort sorl of thing suddenly hideous discovery is made that strangers background irvin s cobb Is 19 not dot teutonic tile the family name bell being ginsberg celebration called off nags flags furled bands sneak home special train canceled burgomaster has apoplexy and next nest day the local paper comes out with scathing article under the headline jew attacks defenseless lion criminal I 1 lawyers W a funny people did we read eliere in some far off country men who had access to zoos picked the locks on the cages and freed the man eating tigers and the blood thirstiest thirst iest lest wolves and the deadliest poison snakes to go forth aud and kill again wed marvel at a land which endured such a thing cut but when in our own land criminal lawyers truthfully boast that of all tile the individuals charged with deliberate murder whom they have defended no single one ever went to noose or chair and that ever so many more were by their skill saved from the prisons where we are supposed to pen pea our human tigers and wolves and snakes we give these geniuses our admiration mi ration and much flee advertising and young lawyers crave to follow in their Illus tilous footprints we ve are indeed a funny people so funny its hard to decide whether we should laugh at ourselves or weep husbands and wives of matrimony in the news L LOTS now that marriage instead of being in a contract Is a ninety day option A pittsburgh gentleman g gets ets fined for dl inking his ladys face in a simmering beef stew no way to treat a lady or a beef stew take the average lady and would you care for a beef stew flavored with lip lipstick stich eye eyebrow brov pencil and mascara A gentleman chos president of the take a deep breath american creative league or of li harmony armony and music students declares it if ill suited couples learn the guitar happiness would return the guitar he states being the most romantic instrument there Is but once in vaudeville I 1 saw a peevish helpmate crown friend husband with an inlaid guitar and it seem to do him any real good slowing up youth its too late to save the 0 obviously confirmed speed maniacs among the adult population they wont be with us long anyhow and will be e missed ly by but few if any eiery tim time one ile of these madmen madden chizy whizzes es past I 1 find myself saying to the back of his 11 s neck well brother glad to have this glimpse at you probably Iro bably ill not be seeing you again unless I 1 should drop in at t the ile the day you arrive desolation of floods 11 r farst time we went ent to ven venice tuly THE my wife ire looked across the grand canal and said did you ever see anything like it and trying to be funny I 1 said absolutely sol gjika just I 1 like south third street did during the bl big g rise of 1913 1013 if right dow a fellow in a skiff should come ra rowing up to tills this window to collect tile the nater ater rent id swear 1 I 1 was hack back home that seemed a sorry joke as I 1 read of a monstrous aon Luon yellow torrent sweeping down on the beleaguered beleaguer ed lowlands w when heru my people have lived for nearly dearly a century and a half bringing ruin on its crest and desolation in its wake surely nature has been pitiless tills this dust storms storm last bear ear droutha and forest tires fires and smoke palls blizzards and ice packs and now these cruel floods still amid the afflict afflictions lons one consoling thought gleams like a star congress cou gresa will adjourn pretty soon IRVIN S COBB copyright |