Show what G cobb about at amt the plight ot of spain VERLY HILLS CALIF B BEVERLY in the bloody task of utterly destroying herself spain cannot complain that she she lacked for hearty coop co op aeration on the part of some of her sister countries openly or secretly half ot 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 ul ill fated land will vill be a burying ground and d a desolation A fellow gets to to wondering cri cring why this or that government chooses for an emblem some noble irvin S cobb creature when the ae turkey buz buzzard or the grave rob bing hyena would be so appropriate fierce winters and devastating floods be us here on this side ot of the water but at least we have been spared the affliction ot of having tor for our next door neighbors certain nations Hid kidnapers ransoms ITS TS all well enough to pass an a act et making payment ol 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 be and can you see any american jury condic convicting ting those parents the author of the law is no doubt wellin well in tensioned ed but there is another law called ed the law of human nature which most surely would defeat his his purposes by the way a person who should know what hes talking about tells me that three out of every tour four known kidnapers during recent years have been ex convicts with records as repeated offenders so instead of trying to penalize agonized parents for obeying a natural instincts instinct how about a sn snappy appy little law to curb certain parole boards which seem to delight in turning em out as fast as the courts can clap em in optimism de I 1 LIKE the spirit of a gentleman in new york who started dredging operations in east river he set out to dig a minimum of in gold and silver from crom the ooze and to date has salvaged 96 cents two rusty trying 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 was on the french riviera one n 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 was still there waiting tor for somebody who was in in the market tor for a secondhand tunnel south american explorers F RECENT years those hardy 0 OF adventurers who set forth to invade the last great unexplored area interior south america seem to follow a regular routine to with wit as follows first they start off second they get lot lost third they are rescued but it save wear and tear and nervous strain if the rescue expedit expedition io n went on ahead so it could get settled do down wn in camp all nice and comfortable and be waiting for the explorers when they staggered in exhausted from toting all those in exhausted from toting tons ot of material tor for future lecture tours the modern discoverer is gallant but apparently has no more sense ol of direction than an egg beater and seemingly could get lost on top of 0 a marble top table or possibly the tropic sun has an addling effect on the human brain anyhow since nearly always he is in an intact state stata when rescued this would seem to indic indicate ate tat fiat the head hunters of the amai ama jungles are now getting fussy about the types ol of heads they collect the charms of music A to a medical lessor fessor in pennsylvania samples ol of whisky when subjected to a musical sound treatment tor for seven hours bours produce a liquor which equals one that has been aged in wood tor for at least tour four years but why get excited about this ive knori certain brands of classical music which in one evening have aged a grown man to a point where he figures the present ch christian era ra must be about over r only a few weeks ago being softened by the spirit 0 of the approaching holidays I 1 suffered myself to be lured to a chopin recital and got jammed in and escape and finally staggered forth into the night feeling that methuselah had little if anything on me arvin S COBB Q service |