Show am oil ah about magazine solicit solicitors ors TEX what H HOUSTON has become of all the struggling collegians ranging in age up to fifty five who used to solicit magazine subscriptions script ions so they could spend another semester at dear old buschwah Bush wah we counted that day lost whose low descending sun find us signing on the dot ted line and some W 3 iss times we got the wrong magazines and sometimes we get any mn mag abines at at an all anu and once in awhile we got the magazines wed ordered anc and then like them but our consolation was that wed irvin S cobb aided all those earnest undergraduates to complete the education for or which they panted as the hart after the can it be that tho the gallant army packed the campuses until vast numbers got crushed in the jam or r is it that many of 0 them are able 9 getting etting too old to travel around lately there has been an unaccountable talling falling off in the business P S I 1 have on hand a complete file tor for 1935 of the northwestern northwest ern bee ralser raiser which I 1 would like I 1 to trade for a ukulele Matriarch ys approach IS SOME OME inspired philosopher and not a woman either declares that th t within a cent century ury women will ao dominate minate every ima imaginable gimble field ot of human endeavor what wha t do you mean within 4 a century if the prophet will leave out the ancient science ot of growing chin whiskers and the knack ot of making a sleeping car washroom look like a hurrahs hur nest im saying that women are already away out in front everywhere since henry the eighth the two grga greatest test kings england had were both queens eliza elizabeth beth and victoria men thought up war and an d improved the art of 0 war and now are hoping to perfect it to the point ot of exterminating the species but in the midst ot of bloody war fares that florence nightingale laid the foundations and clara barton built the structure of mercy by method and lifesaving life saving by skill and tenderness and sanitation banishing sectionalism N ONE stretch of road down 0 ON here and it is not a main trav aled highway and this not ei exactly the tourist season I 1 saw cars bearing license tags of nine separate states ranging from new hampshire and florida to utah and oregon besides one from hawaii and one from puerto rico and next summer texas cars will be boring into every corner of this union and the folks riding in them will be de getting acquainted with their f fellow countrymen and finding out that when you know the other fellow hes not so different after all like most evil things sectionalism and parochial prejudices and with vermont neighbor to virginia and the dakotas talking it over with the carolinas theres seed being sown which inevitably must sprout a finer yield of americanism than any our land ever produced if only we keep the tares of communism and the chafy chaff of snobbery out of the crop only make patriotic service a thing of elbow grease and not of lip movements freedom of the press D DICTATORS invariably cancel freedom ot of the press and curb freedom of education otherwise they rail fail although he uttered the words over years ago governor berkeley of virginia spoke tor for all the breed of political tyrants when he said 1 I thank god there a are no tree free schools nor printing lor for learning has brought disobedience and heresy into the world and printing has divulged them foulness in drama or literature like a skunk penned under a barrel eventually destroys itself by just naturally choking to death on its own smell control of the newest medium or 0 publicity the radio Is easy but information put in type keeps on traveling no people ever stayed free once the press and the schoolteacher had been muzzled IRVIN S COBB copyright service |