Show 0 auml about prehistoric lore EL RIO TEXAS according DEL Dc to the scientists who have a great way of naming earthly phenomena without inquiring into the wishes of the phenomena we are now living in a terrestrial era known as the Hol locene period this will be news to a lot of people who rather suspected we were living through gli a stage which might mi b be called chaos still I 1 Vs its no wonder that the word got around p generally yet be cause this present alto era is quite a young era as eras go merely 1 a few mily lion years ears old which to our true geologists geologist Is the irvin S cobb same as yesterday mention a few million years to him and hell say and just snap his fingers like that I 1 wonder it if the authorities would pardon a suggestion from a poor ignoramus whose acquaintance with geology is largely limited to two of its surface phases namely regular paved roads and those berned detours when we consider most of the humorous illustrations and the M e bulk of 0 the humorous text printed in the average smart magazine of today and the even spicier lines heard in smart modern pla plays s it be more fitting to call it not the holocene but the UD obscene period 0 0 the laws L long 0 njg arm THE T HE long arm ot of the law its its a grand phrase it so mouth fill filing ng so satisfying to the honest citizens soul it conjures up visions of unrelenting warfare against crime inevitable punishment for the guilty its the bunk its the bunk because of crooked lawyers venal policemen complacent prosecutors softhearted soft hearted or corrupted jurors witnesses bribed or intimidated d the laws delays reversals of fair verdicts on foolish technicalities a false sentimentality which forgets the widow and orphan of the victim and thinks only of the family of the killer most often of all abuse of the powers to commute and to pardon and to parole assin the passing years EVERY VERY newborn year is a rosy prospect just as nearly every dying year is a dun colored disappointment but without revived hope what could we look forward to except being measured for a shroud it seems only yesterday when 1937 was busting in a radiant bouncing baby child his arms burdened with promises bless his little soul after several false starts happy days were here again nobody was aiming to remodel the supreme court senator ashurst told us so and he know he secretary wallace slightly assisted by divine providence would immediately have the crop situation well in hand grass would grow only in the street leading to the almshouse the wall street boys were expecting two suckers in every pot and the song of the bulbul was heard in the land ah ab the bull bull gambling houses A ONCE famous cardsharp card sharp not reformed but retired said to me show me a professional gambling house where the roulette wheel crooked where any other mechanical device is on the square where the operatives from the bosses on down wont skin a customer call him a sucker if you want to the terms are interchangeable a and ill drop dead from shock because no such outfit ever existed nor ever will not so long as games can be tricked as all of them can and gamblers are out for the coin as they lucy naturally are and the hand is quicker than the eye which it i is but how about the mathematical percentage in favor of the bank that enough I 1 asked how about the mathematical percentage of crooked law enforce ment officers who have to be bribed he countered theres never enough coming in to satisfy those babies IRVIN IEVIN S COBB copyright service |