Show what 5 co b b wt chinks aks about the plight of spain spahl EVERLY HILLS CALIF bin BEVERLY in the bloody task of utterly destroying herself spain cannot complain that she lacked for hearty operation cooperation co on en the part of some of her sister countries openly or secretly hall half of the great european powers are contributing to the bloody ruination so that when the finish comes have spoils or dubious prestige or both and that ill fated land 1 will be a burying 1 ar P I ground and a desolation A fellow gets to wondering why this or that government chooses for an em blem some noble irvin S cobb hh creature when the turkey buzzard or the grave rob bing hyena would be so appropriate fierce winters and devastating floods may be curing us here on this side of the water but at least we have been spared the affliction of having for our next door neighbors certain nations ransoms kidnapers ransoms ITS all well enough to pass an act making payment of ransom to a kidnaper a criminal offense as though heartbroken parents would hesitate to pay ransoms to get their babies back no matter what the penalty for so doing might bet be and can you see any american jury convicting those parents the author of the law is no doubt wellin well in tensioned ed but there is another law called the law of human nature which most surely would defeat his purposes by the way a person who should know what hes talking about tells me that three out of every four known kidnapers during recent years have been ex convicts with records as repeated offenders optimism de I 1 LIKE the spirit of a gentleman in new york who started dredging operations 0 ns in in east river he set out to dig up a minimum of in gold and silver from the ooze and to date has salvaged 96 cents two rusty frying pans and a penknife and is still probing for gorgeous optimism I 1 can think of but one case to match this I 1 iwas was on the french riviera one summer been shifting the railroad tracks along the grand carniche Cor niche this left a disused tunnel so week after week a bearded gentleman sat at one mouth of the empty bore with a sign over his head reading this property for sale when I 1 left he be was still there waiting for somebody who was in the market for a secondhand tunnel south american explorers 0 F RECENT years those hardy adventurers who set forth to invade the last great unexplored area interior south america amer ica seem to follow a regular routine to wit as follows first they start off second they get lost third they are rescued but it save wear and tear and nervous strain it if the rescue expedition went on ahead so it could get settled down in camp all nice and comfortable and be waiting for the explorers when they stag staggered gere d in exhausted from toting all those tons of material for future lecture tours the modern discoverer is gallant but apparently has no more sense of direction than an egg beater and seemingly could get lost on top of a marble top table the charms of music II ACCORDING A to a medical P roa fessor in pennsylvania pen samples of whisky when subjected to a mus musical eat sound treatment for seven hours produce a liquor which equals one that has been aged in wood for at least four years but why get excited about this ive known certain brands of classical music which in one evening have aged a grown man to a point where he figures the present christian era must be about over only a few weeks ago being softened k by the spirit of the approaching in g holidays I 1 suffered myself to be lured to a chopin recital and got jammed in and escape and final finally ly staggered forth into the night feeling that methuselah had bittle if anything on me IRVIN S COBB copyright Berv lc 9 |