| Show fri nv M 10 0 obb ab about deporting alien criminals Crimi nils ANTA MONICA CALIF s SANTA it be lovely if the other states not to mention the federal government followed the example set by the governor of new york ile he commutes the sentences of for eign born long term convicts so they may be eligible for parole not mind yu you to go free and sin in some more but to be turned over to the port authorities for immediate deportation por tation that is it would be a lovely idea I 1 if f only we could coul d b e sure that these e s e sa same e criminals wo ul t come slipping back irvin g S cobb in again the present immigration law was devised as a barrier to protect decent citizens both native and naturalized against the human scum of the old world but it appears to be more like a sieve if we may judge by the hordes of non desirable aliens who somehow manage to get in and stay in and even go on relief missionaries from china F FROM ROM neiping a group of believers in the doctrine of confucius are sending missionaries to the united states weve been sending out missionaries to their country for centuries but that should dare to try the same thing on us well a white horse of a yellow color what if not content with seeking converts these interlopers interlope rs inculcated among us certain phases of their heathenish philosophy such as teaching young people consideration and respect for their elders and showing that rushing about in a frenzy does not necessarily indicate business energy and that the natural aim of man is not always to worship speed and up to ta thirty odd thousands a year to die by it and that intolerance as between betge en religious creeds invariably proof of true piety and that minding ones own affairs is really quite an admirable trait vanished americans TS exciting to prowl among the ruined cities of the first americans who scattered into the twilights of antiquity when the christian era was still young they were our oldest families older than even old southern families and who ever heard of a new southern family or even just a middle aged southern family but afterwards its confusing to read the theories of the expert researchers searchers ers who have passed judgment on those vanished cliff dwell ing peoples because few such lear learned r 1 ed gentlemen agree on any sing single 1 e point there is one very eminent authority who invariably insists that all the rest of the emin nent e n t authorities are absolutely wrong about everything he is the mr justice of the a ar unemployment statistics ICs J RANKS HANKS to bright young bureau brats in washington we know how many goldfish are hatched every year and what the gross annual yield of guinea pigs is and the exact proportion of albinos born in any given period but it never seemed to occur to anybody to compile reasonably accurate statistics on unemployment yet with depression behind us and business up to boom time levels its estimated that between eight and nine million people are out of work not counting those on strike and judging by the papers there must be a couple of million of them f apparently the more prosperous we grow on the surface the more dei plo rable becomes the status of those off the payrolls it p make inake sense or anyhow there was a a time when it have made sense this curious situation puts a fellow in mind of the old old story of the chap whose wife had an t operation ve ration and every day when he I 1 called at the hospital he was told the patient showed improvement one morning as he came cam e away weeping he met a friend A row hows the wife inquired the latter she ashes s dead P tm s so 0 sorry said th the e friend what di did d she die of t improvements said the er IRVIN S COBB Q service |
