Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-04-30

10 to tadp0lesEwill be
passed.
At least the veter- 1f@
ans have the argument irwin q cohh
of patriotic service on
their side. And isn't It true that to
nearly all Of US has come a new con-
ception Of the national Hgurehead? No
longer Is 1t sQuare-jawed. self-dependent
Yankee Doodle. It's 4 generous, jolly
smiling Santa Claus bringing free
checks for everybody; that Is, free
until the taxpayers start paying the
bill.
OefyIno the Almighty.
FOLLOWING the example set some
years ago by a certain famous per-
sonage. a cock-sure infdel made 4
speech lately, defying God to smite
him dead on the spot 1t seemed, first
on, a very sound idea, but nothing
happened. 50 the gentleman took this
for proof there was no God and
went his way rejoicing.
Some look on this as blasphemy. but.
granted that every man is entitled to
speak his opinion on religion, I'd call
1t pure gall. Think Of inviting the Al
mighty to suspend the entire cosmic
scheme while forging a thunderbolt to
abolish one solitary copycat Of an
amateur Ajax. Would you call out the
standing army of the United States to
kill a cockroach?
Lady Killers
IT HAS been In print SO often you
= must know 1t by heart, yourself :
At sight of her recreant gentleman
friend, the poor bruised butterfly felt
a great sense Of her wrongs-the
wretch wanted to 20 back to his wife
or something equally dastardly-and
the next thing she knew she was hold
Ing a smoking automatic that acct
dentally happened to be In her hand
bag along with some lipstick and 4
recipe for fudge; and he was deader
then the prosecutors chance of con-
victing her for the killing. But just
prior to that Everything went black
before her eyes," There's one detail
which never varIes-that going-black-
before-the-eyes business.
1t was In the case they tried re-
Gently In New York. It's n this latest
case at Chicago. IT'S q sore affliction,
always marked by total lapse cf mem
DRY and frequently coupled with tenn
porary insanity, but It's certainly nne
for craftsmanship. The lady scores a
perfect bull's-eye, invariably. I wish
! could 60 blind to order that-a-
way. I'd be the best quail-shot that
ever came out OF Kentucky, instead
of the worst.
BrawIs In Hollywood.
NATURALLY, I have hot southern
1 blood, which seems to be the hot
test there Is, although down home l
never noticed 1t. But up north, II
trouble impended, people would speak
of my hot southern blood when all the
time l thought I was having a nervous
chill.
Being thus all hot-blooded up l
adore fighting, II somebody else does
1t. Since our movie heroes always
stage their combats In some utterly
secluded spot, such as a cafe or a
night club, l hurry hlther and yon
hoping to be present when ar emblt-
tered star satisfies his honor by bounc-
ing a special order OF sweetbreads un-
der glass with mushrooms-twenty
minutes, 30 cents-off some rivals
classic profile.
But it's hard enough for me to get
in touch with a waiter, let alone q
good p~late-tossing contest. Today the
war correspondents report two brisk
battles on the Hollywood front, and
I'm absent, as usual.
In the main bout, both gladiators
were script writer's, p~roverblally a
tigerish breed. Believe 1t or not, a
Mr.. Riskin tangled with a Mr.. Rus
kin, the presumption being that one
of the gentlemen regarded the other
as a typographical error.
English Reds Again.
COMMITTING printed here recently
- about the way the English handle
their reds and plnks prompted an Eng
lish gentleman to write giving further
details.
'Twould seem that over there all
public servants, including, notably,
state-paId school teachers, must swear
to uphold the crown. which means they
cannot preach communism to their
pupils without violating a solemn oath
and, II caught so doing, they lose their
official heads %instanter. Moreover, no
avowed or suspected agent Of the
Soviets may use the radio to preach
the overthrow Of the existing govern
ment In favor OF the Russian plan.
In other words-forgive the pun.
please-Britain never shall be Slavs.
But, on the other hand. Americans
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