Evening star., 1937-06-12

the Herald Tribune right, letting Mr..
Pepys 60 just - he was about to make
= visit to the Queen"
Yes indeed. One can imagine what
Mr.. Pepys, in his modest way. would
have made Of it. The original, one
seems to remember. wrote in cipher,
for his own amusement only.
A MOTHER item Of possible interest
to Washingtonians crops up on
New Yorker's editorial page. 1t says:
"A gentleman reports that, motor.
ing through the spruce little town Of
Salisbury. Conn. he came upon .
stretch Of highway under repair. The
work WAS going forward quite briskly.
At . pace which would have surprised
him II he hadn't seen In the middle Of
the road . sign reading: This Il Not
. W. p. A. Project
1t reminds the reviewer Of An idea
put forward last Summer by . mem
Der OF The Star stan, after he had
returned from q motor trip in Pennsyl-
vania. He said that he could hardly
drive for the number Of Men Work
ing" signs which he kept meeting. He
would slow down and creep cautiously
around the curve. expecting to see
gangs and gangs Of busy toilers, only
to find the empty highway staring him
mockingly in the face. After q while
he remembered that 1t was, Of course.
campaign year. He suggested that the
signs be changed to read, Democrats
Working. Proceed At Full Speed"
But nothing ever came Of It. some.
how.
IN THE current American Csval.
cade the aforementioned Mr.,
Pepys, r. P. A. or Franklin p. Adams,
has the following list under the title
Of Il Don't Believe It."
The characters In this book aso
imaginary"
Regardless Of the tact that I an
. Democrat-"
Regardless Of the fact that an
Republican"
We're not rainng any salaries this
year. old man"
Il have to quit early. win o lose"
Hes not IN the club, ma'am."
1T Isn't the money: IT'S the prin-
ciple Of tho thing"
Il never miss line you write.s
| We did $4,000 on the week"
1T rained every Sunday for 10
weeks"
|CAvA1cADE also has this little
poem about . well known phiIoso-
pher:
'MAHAT1xA oANDH.
"A pair OF teeth, . pair of specs,
A dkhrag round hts middle,
He sits among the rubbeEnecls,
The little Hindoo rtddle.
His chest Is bare, hs lives On ar:
No food u to his liking.
Though England treats him foul or
fair
Hes always hunger striking.
He squas outside the county IAN.
Upon . mat well tested,
And fondly dreams some ether
To get htmssk ARRESTED. ,c-
While HuropeS leaders. fancy free,
Yell 'Wari' until they're blotto,
He merely murmurs. Step on me-
A most successful motto.
"A hundred million hng,dd Kinds
Lie down when he commands It.
Let Britain hiss. 7 say. what's this?'
But no one understands IT.
"Oh Gandhi- man, your plan wfll span
Our earth, already dizzy:
Then every Red Will 90 to bod
John Lewis, please get busy!"
The author Is Wallace Irwin.
IN THE current Forum, Ernest A.
Hooton writes an apology for
Man" which turns out to be rather
miniAtory than apologetic. He sees
the race, through Its efforts to con-
troll nature and itself, preserving the
unfit at the same time that, through
wars, 1t eradicates the fit. He gives
a new twist to the social conscience
theme-or better to say one that is
unpopular. 1t IS apparent, be says,
in the light OF the evidence
that modern man is selling his biologi-
cal birthright for q mess Of morons.
that the voice may be the voice OF
democracy, but the hands are the
hands Of apes"
Hard words these, In . day given
over to adulation of the incompetent
and philosophy which demands that
the fit support the unit. But Just
possibly worth thinking about . little.
Anyway, there 1t Is.
THE evergreen Peggy Hopkins Joyce
has her picture in two current
periodicals. One Is Cavalcade. which
puts her IN . group Of formerly fa.
nous people, under the heading Of
AS They Are Today" Others In the
group are Eddie Rickenbacker I'm top
hat, looking very spruce, Molla Mall
lory, Alvin York, Ben Turpin, Ty Cobb,
Ann Pennington (now in buresque),
the Tahnadge sisters, Elsie Janis,
Benny Leonard, James Cox and Jim
Thorpe. They are all to be found
somewhere, says Cavalcade.
! The other magazine which finds Q
place for Miss Joyce Is Look, which
Uses her photograph in series Of pic.
lures devoted to the divorce question.
Apparently the editors feel that such
career as hers ought to be mentioned
IN connection with the subject. How.
ever. on the same page, Is the photo
graph OF . cheerful looking woman
who has been married seven times, q
gloomy one who has tried 1t II times
and = positively radiant one who has
had II husbands in all. One won.
ders why 1t Is that Miss joyce holds
the record, tn the popular minds, Of
many times married women.
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