Evening star., 1937-07-01

OF that metropolis. Seems that every
time the c. of c. has another meet
ing the boys vote to move the signs
back another mile or two, so that
a motorist approaching Los Angeles
sees signs claiming the territory for
civilization even before he gets clear
of Tucson.
Wed always thought it funny, bus
not very important, that Los Angeles
was determined to swallow the whole
State of California, If possible but
the national implications of the situa-
ton have been brought home only
this week.
A contingent of California Boy
Scouts who arrived for the jamboree
brought along signpost of their own
and planted it firmly at Seventeenth
and Constitution avenue. 1t reads:
Los Angeles City Limits"
Think somebody ought to go around
and notify Mr.. Roosevelt that he's
mayor.
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Which reminds us that 1Ue Were
a b1t premature in saying yester-
day that the Boy Scouts hadn't
altered things uery much around
here. Went BY the Lincoln Me
mortal this morning, and boy, oh
boy, ho1O things had changed.
The three Japanese tperc still at
1oork taking pictures of the Wash
lngton Monument and the Reflect
ing Pool this probably is ,rorked
out in shifts bet,reen all the Japa-
neSe Uisitors to Washington but
on the outer rim OF the circle
7rere tour or fue Scouts, lined up
NTH cameras, taking pictures of
the Japanese We took q picture
OF the ,chole scene, and Would
hare it to prove this story If the
cat hadn't chased mouse into
Our camera.
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VACATION.
r ENGINEERING the one about the
postman who always went for
walk on his day off, you may ap-
preclate this yarn, which, so help us,
is true. There is in town at present
New York newspaper man who is
spending his annual two weeks rest"
period here. Passes his time away
by attending all the major press con-
ferences, including the President S,
and hangs around newspaper Office
all day long, picking up any avail
able assignments, from obituaries to
murder stories.
Any hours ne has off he deyotes to
reading
POSTAGE DUE.
ELEANOR ROBERTS, amanuensis
to the boys in a local airlines
office here, wishes rubber overshoes
would bounce back like rubber checks.
Since they don't. she has practically
become the Post Office Department
ghdst, haunting Mr.. Farley's plant
waiting for somebody to start up an
auction sale.
Trouble is our absent minded
heroine wore pair of rubbers to the
office one rainy day and put them in
big manila envelope to carry home.
on account it stopped raining about
noon. That afternoon she managed
to get the envelope nicely mixed up
with the office mail, and off it went
to the mail box when the last letters
OF the day were posted Since there
was no name or address on the pack
age, she figures there is nothing to do
but wait about until the post office
puts up unclaimed articles for sale.
Then she will buy 'em in, and 20
bouncing on her way.
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SQUAWK.
II AV1NG nothing else to do these
rainy days, a tennis player we
know is Dragging about his prowress
as reformer of country clubs. He
joined a local club this Summer, and
discovered almost Immediately that
there were no club rules against chill
dren playing in the late afternoon, no
decent backstops on the courts and
no nets worthy of the name. He wrote
raging letter of protest, and to his
great surprise the club Immediately
passed regulations about children play
ing on the courts, promptly repaired
the backstops and bought some new
nets.
He thinks this astounding action,
coming even before his name was
really dry on his first bar check, is
due to one of three things: Power of
the press Che wrote the letter on
newspaper stationary); prompt pay
ment of bills Che hadn't paid any, but
he WILD; his forceful language.
We think it happened because no.
body knew who he was, and the letter
scared 'em.
ADVICE.
As she 1Uas about to leape q Con-
necttcut aDenue hat shop the
other day. lady U11o hadn't been
able to find chnpean funny
enough to suit her, picked up her
o1cn hat, put it on, looked in the
mirror.
The ONLY other customer in the
place, 1Cith Uhom she had been
chatting, happened to turn around
at that moment.
"Oh, my dear" she said, horri-
fed. Don't, please don't buy that
one"
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