The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-31

turned loose enough oratory W III
about nine gas balloons. But OF the
subsequent and incidental remarks
of another man, an awkward, shy
man from Illinois, who had spoken
Just two minutes, it said. The
President was also heard briefly.
The applause was formal and scat
tering."
Prejudices of Critics.
OFTEN, 'twould seem, the pro
~ fessional reviewer makes up
his mind beforehand that he
doesn't like you and behaves ac-
cordingly.
A friend sent me clipping from
a small city-it dealt with the open
ing of the picture, "Everybody's
Old Man." The writer was quite
severe in his analysis. He didn't
like the film. Passionately, ne
didn't care for me.
The joke was that the theater
where the picture was to have been
shown burned down just about the
time the paper went to press, and
the picture wasn't ever shown In
that town. G ~
The next best illustration of the
point I'm making dates back years
ago. was discussing various nov
elists with that gentle wit, the late
Oliver HEREFORD.
collie" 1 said, "what do you
think of So-and-So's books?" my
dear Cobb" he softly murmured,
something / once wrote about him
in a critical way-so prejudiced
me against the man I could never
bear to read any of his books"
Self-Anointed Dukes.
nut here we're waiting for that
~ Spanish baron and that French
count back in New York to form
the mother branch of their Noble
mems club for the protection of
holders of genuine titles in Amer
lea and, presumably, as a guar
antee to our own homegrown heir
esses that, when they marry for
eign princelings or what not, the
goods will he as described. There's
been a lot of title-legging, you
know.
AS soon as the organization gets
started we're going to open the Hol-
lywood division. Since only the au-
thentic nobility may qualify, it's
figured that the active roster will
be confined to very limited group.
The State of the Nation.
LAR be it from me to turn alarm
L list right on the heels of the hot
wave, but I feel it my duty to warn
my fellow-Americans that this frag-
lie and crumbling republic is
doomed. That is, it's doomed if
you can believe what comes out of
our sainted political leaders in the
way of predictions.
Hark to the quavering chorus
which already has started up: A
crisis exists. Every professional
crisis-breeder in the land openly
admits it. I can't remember when
a crisis wasn't existing. But they
come larger in campaign years. We
are facing dread emergency
which has had no parallel since the
last occasion when we faced a
dread emergency. This very hour
the nation totters on the brink of
an abyss. 5il.l
Miracles and MisdemeanOrs.
ONCE upon an early time there
~ was a man so holy that even
the wild creatures would not harm
him. He drew a thorn from the
paw of a tame lion and the CRATE
full beast followed after him. So he
became a saint.
Only the other day in a court in
Tanganyka, which is in Africa,
black mana savage by our def
nitions-was on trial. 1t seemed
the lions were raiding the stock, so
the native authorities set traps for
them. The accused found a lion in
one of these traps and made a lad
der and went down and helped the
great brute to escape.
Being arrested, he explained SIM
ply that the lion was his friend. So
they fined him $3.50. In the olden
times it was miracle, Nowadays
it's a misdemeanor.
IRWIN s. COB8
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