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...After studying the world's cab-riding habits at some length," announced Tomo-michi Tanaka, a bristling, bossy little ex-lieutenant general of the Japanese army air force, "I find that Americans and Europeans like to ride up front. This is a sign of higher culture. They don't like to see the rear view of the sweating driver. In the East, due to low culture, passengers ride in back. In Siam, for example, so low is the culture that the law forbids push-type cabs for fear the passengers will be assaulted by the drivers...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...
Swift Lathers, whose Mears, Mich., Newz is the smallest (four pages, 5¼ by 7¼ inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray...
...northeast shore of Lake Michi- gan they say (some Indians do) that there is a drum of the Manitou that sounds whenever the Lake takes a life. If so, the Manitou's drum sounded 52 times one night last week...
...violated the Constitution four times, he or she is proved to be an habitual criminal and should be segregated from society to prevent the production of subnormal offsprings."* It appeared at least possible, however, that Mrs. Miller would not spend the rest of her life as Convict No. 1289. Michi gan's Governor Fred W. Green has already expressed the opinion that the "habitual criminal" act is somewhat drastic in its application to liquor law offenses. It is also thought that the Michigan Legislature will amend the state prohibition laws to give such offenders as Mrs. Miller a loop...