The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-12

pcuueuCe anu we IL UGl
used to having none
at all. AS Demo-
cratic champion, I'd
Irwin s. Cobb come right back BY
pointing out that,
since Puerto Rico would starve to
death anyhow under a Republican ad-
ministration, congress mercifully was
taking steps to let the people down
there get accustomed, by degrees, to
the starvation process.
AS an innocent bystander, though,
about all I can say is that, once the
nominations have been made, it's a.
safe prediction that this summer will
be fair and warmer.
Meandering Revenue Program.
THE members of the senate finance
l. committee-poor things seem to
be going forward with the new rev.
enue program the same way land
crab makes headway-by travelling
backward. At last accounts they were
so snarled up in figures and language
that any minute the rescue party was
expected to rush In with bush-hooks
and chop them loose.
However, out Of the epileptic seizure
Into which these unfortunate patriots
have been enmeshed, one concrete fact
has emerged. There will be slight.
exemption Of dues on the profits of.
corporations making less than $4,000
year. This will be a great boon for.
trunk stores down by the depot, brok-
erage firms handling secondhand rail-
road tunnels and dealers In Brazilian
butterflies.
New Socialist Argument
THE trouble with being a socialist is
n that, no matter what you start to-
debate, you always wind up on the
Tom Mooney case. Or at least, such
was the situation until recently. Now,
for any socialistic argument on any
subject from German measles to the
Great Wall of China, there is a new
climax.
The tenants Of Bronx apartment
house, mostly radicals, held a netting.
and, in accordance with the best rad
ical traditions, drew up resolutions de-
handing that the management do this
and that. Having read the fiery pro-
test, the superintendent addressed the
gathering:
"NOw aboudt not ledding nobody
hang out washing in the Railways
that's reasonable. 1 start beginning
that reform right away.
"Und as to keeping CARRIAGES off the
front fire escape-vell, Wy nodt?
But, say, vot do you suckers TX
pect me do aboudt the Scottsboro boys?"
Sauce for the Goose.
VXTHEN bricklayer feels upset and
w ticks his wife that's temper and
he gets $50 or 80 days. But when a
flicker star goes on a similar tantrum
and wrecks an expensive set, that's
artistic temperament and the studio
gives her some silver fox furs to calm
her nerves.
Thus it goes If a couple in, say,
Peoria, break up, why, then, couple
In Peoria have broken up. But if the
same thing occurs in Hollywood, it in
variably is featured as "nuptial rift"
A lad In Kansas takes his girl to Ye
Olde New Era eatery for dinner, and
what with the blue plate specials and
the tip, the transaction amounts to
$1S0, but otherwise creates no special
excitement either locally or through
out the nation. Let the same thing
happen to couple of the least con-
spicuous of the movie colony, and
20 columnlsts fight their way to the
wire to scatter the thrilling tidings. :,
Choosing a New "Buddha."
EROM the forbidden kingdom of
4 Tibet - although goodness knows
they never had any trouble keeping
me Out-comes word that after two
years search new "living Buddha'
has been discovered. However, we
already have our own grand hammer,
the name being Joe Louis.
The news from Lhasa should give
encouragement to the poor unhappy
congressional committeeman who are
prominently connected with the Town,
send plan who'll condescend to talk
to them.
You may quarrel with the Town.
sendites' bookkeeping, with their way
of handling the contributed dimes of
thousands of trusting oldsters, with
their failure to explain where they're
going to get the billions to pay those
gaudy pensions or how the provisions
of the distribution are to be enforced.
but at least the leaders are too proud
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