Show what sa wi thinks co b b 2 about the place of radio ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA deke aylesworth says radio can never displace newspapers deke is with roy howards newspapers now and naturally care to have his job shot out from under him by a loudspeaker most of us feel that way about our jobs unless we happen to be working in in some state institution such as a penitentiary radio never can displace newspapers any more than milk tickets can displace milk the newspaper reader chooses what he pleases from the days coverage gratifying obituary notices of people he like convincing I 1 n g statements from financial wizards explaining pla ining why his investments turned sour after hed bought them on ad irvin S cobb vice vc e of aforesaid wizards and about once in so ott oft ten exciting special articles about the hope diamond or the william desmond taylor case or the lure of mr robert taylor but the lis tener in on radio must accept what somebody else already has predigested which puts him in the same class with tapeworms tape worms so long as you cant wrap up a picnic lunch in a radio or us use e s short hort wave sets to line pantry shelves with well have newspapers thanks deke im working for a string of newspapers myself th the leagues new head TAKE back all I 1 ever said about ithe I 1 the league of nations being as futile as a fly swatter in a saloon brawl the league has a new president the aga khan who has the largest private income on earth because edans regard him as divine and pay for the pr privilege v olten often going hungry I 1 in n order to do so and he certainly is qualified to head a society dedicated to peace he never parted from any ot of his wives except with the utmost harmony well to celebrate his election the aga khan gave the most gorgeous banquet ever staged in geneva 1500 bottles of champagne and pounds of caviar thus did the league justify its right to existence there were but few flies in the ointment ethiopians delegates were either deceased or missing the league having drawn the color line so to speak which was more than mussolini did when he wiped out their country last year delegates likewise were absent being g mostly dead or else fighting fl one another 0 sick calls de luve OBRIEN the actor tells this PAT one about angrish an Irish cop at the crossing who waved a car containing three priests to proceed after the stop signal had gone up and then with harsh words checked another driver who sought to follow along too but you let that other car with those three clergymen in it go through protested the halted one they was on their way to a sick call stated the officer now wait a minute said the citizen 1 I happen to be a catholic myself and I 1 know about those things who ever heard ot of three priests going on one sick call for a moment only the policeman hesitated then he snapped say young teller feller tell me this you that knows so much did you never hear of a solemn high sick call french slickers OLICE are still trying to round P POLICE up the slickers who in one day raided twenty nine banks scattered all over france this reminds a fellow of 0 1931 when the bank examiners were coroners simultaneously sitting on the mortal re remains mains ol of an even larger number of american banks the main difference being that these french banks were lifted lofted looted by outside parties according to dispatches this job was accomplished through fraudulent credentials for strangers presenting forged drafts but I 1 beg leave to doubt that part remembering when I 1 turned up at various outlying points over there with proper identifications and a perfectly good letter of credit what excitement then on the part of 0 the cashier spade beard and what deep distress tor for the president trellis whiskers and what stifled moans from the board of directors assorted beavers when finally they had to fork over why you can wreck a perfectly good bank here in less time than it takes to get a certified check for less exchange cashed in a french provincial bank but should it develop that any of these recently stolen francs were vere earmarked tor for payment to us on account of that war debt brethren that would indeed be news IRVIN S scoba COBB g service |