Show W TM buz about ota U S lags behind H HOLLYWOOD CALIF what I 1 saw at the national air races in los angeles set me to thinking its a dangerous thing thinking is and nearly always upsetting to the peace of mind im thinking that na no longer is the navy our first line of defense nor the army the second line im thinking that the chief peril and the chief security from that peril I 1 I 1 is in the air now and of all the great powers we fer are re the most woefully aay behind in the matter of airplane protection it would take us two years too to make our air force irvin S cobb as strong as it was four years ago it would take infinitely longer than that to make it as strong as the present footing of any country which conceivably might attack us well we could always lock the stable after the horse was gone if the stable been blown flat rules for long life A JAPANESE doctor has landed with the word that by following a few simple rules a fellow lives to be years old he say but I 1 figure this a applies only to those of us who never motor the principal rules are to sleep on a hard mattress with a metal pillow and learn to wriggle like a goldfish whether in time the beginner sprouts gills and a fantail is not stated but it sounds plausible ive already spoken to a tinsmith about a pillow and on awakening this morning made a few experimental wriggles my intentions might fool some people but I 1 dont believe fool a goldfish unless led hed been drinking or something im afraid my finning was faulty besides I 1 feel any too dignified greeting the dewy dawn by behaving war names confusing NOT nor OT content with coining eighty or ninety separate different and confusing names for the opposing forces in spain the correspondents have gone and up a plum bran new one extremists maybe though the point is well taken the dispatches dispatches Is patches would seem rather to indicate that quite a number of persons over tere have lately shown a tendency to verge toward the extreme and picking out the various parties mixed up in the french political mess another tough job only today I 1 ran into this one left centrist I 1 must say its discouraging just when by following the news from paris im beginning to get the reds unscrambled from the pale pinks and the mauves malves from the helio tropes and the holy rollers from the merry widows to have this added complication bust right in my face looks as though ill have to start it all over again how to reduce EVER since the day when I 1 was known among friends as thyroid deficiency irvy the human detour ive fought the losing fight against overweight but now ive found the absolutely certain cure for reduction I 1 its ts working in a moving picture with little jane withers when she sets the pace you can track yourself back home by your own perspiration another engagement with janie and I 1 could be rented out as my own living skeleton has memories of valencia I 1 1 T TS hard to concentrate on pen nant fights in the big leagues when we read of war racked spain with already dead I 1 hope the lovely old city of valencia has escaped the common ruin in seven years ago I 1 was traveling around and about over three continents and at every stop had listened morning noon and night to the song valencia 10 so a friend and I 1 made a pilgrimage to the town in which presumably the thing originated and valencia turned out to be the he t one spot on the map where nobody had ever played that tune tun e or su sung ng it or hummed it or whistled it or 0 r even e V en heard of it it t was indeed a relief so we stayed a week the sher sherry and egg before luncheon was also quite uit good all but the egg aggi IRVIN S COBB 0 Sor vIca |