Evening star., 1941-09-18


barber, after he has finished cutting
your hair, holds up a mirror so you
can see the back of your neck, and
asks, rs that all right?" What the
devil could he do about 1t If the GUS
toner said mo"
Why there Is such a fuss over tbs
Presidents sons getting a little the
best of it in Army assignments. 1t is
perfectly human for a man to give
his kith and kin full shake. How
would you like to try to name all
the sons of famed industrialists who
moved into key positions after a
week of working from the bottom
up? Besides, what would the news
reels do for shots if they didn't
have James Roosevelt to work on?
1t is James Roosevelt in Egypt,
James Roosevelt kissing a barmaid
in a London pub, James Roosevelt
inspecting the fez of the Shah Of
Persia, and James Roosevelt trying
on new shorts before investigating
the Suez Canal.
If people still test their new cars
by driving them up the steepest
hill in town. There was time when
the first thing the buyer of car
did was to see If she would pull
the main street hill in high.
If children wear what We used to
call draws bodies. Draws bodies
we're cotton underthlngs, patterned
after a vest which had button for
every day in the year on them. The
buttons always turned a sickly yell
low after the first washing.
Why brakemen on trains are
always in a hurry. I have yet to see
one who walked calmly through the
cars of a train. They all seem to
be on the way to prevent terrible
accident.
If Russia isn't sorry that for the
past five years it proclaimed once
a week that it had the mightiest
army in the world. the greatest
stock of mechanical equipment OF
any country on earth and didn't
need a thing from any country to
lick any army on earth. Now that
it needs material with which to
fight, and badly, the Russians must
regret those boasts and the cracks
they took at the capitalstic coun-
tries.
Why airlines allow employees to
tell passengers that the departure
Of their ship has been delayed be-
cause of mechanical trouble. This
does not make for restful flying
even for the most air-minded
traveller. 1t makes a fellow keep
peeking out of the window for
look at the engines and the wings
Why some manufacturers of golf
clubs can't get steel for their club
heads in this country. but have no
trouble in buying all they want
from England,
Why I can't refill a mechanical
pencil.
What keeps Gloria Vanderbilts
hairdo in place. 1t looks like noth-
ing so much as 1t does a ski jump.
If it wouldn't be smart of the
tailors this year to include man
who wears khaki in their list of
the country's 10 best-dressed men.
If there is anything worse than
being shown over renovated farm
house by the owners. You know
the line they hand out-"Here is
what used to be the smokehouse,
but we have turned it into bed
room. This is where the kichen
used to be, but we knocked down
two walls and made a den for
George. This used to be the car
riage house, but we took down the
beams, tore down the walls, put in
an extension and made it into a
ping-pong room"
Why the Senate committee con-
fined itself to an investigation of the
movies. overlooking books, play
wrights, lecturers and politicians in
It's search for anti-Nazi propaganda.
Why not investigate the Presi-
dent himself. He called the Nazis
''rattlesnakes" and that is hardly
q term of endearment.
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