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MOSTLY COMMENT Mayor Harrison lightly reaches out a Hearst-stained hand and points to Alschuler as the best man for the short-term senator ship. Alschuler was very decisively beaten by the- people in his race for the nomination for governor. Why should he be made an United States senator? Apparently, the best reason the Hearst-Harrisonites have to offer is just that Alschuler WAS beaten. Which is our idea of no reason at all. The social register discloses the alarming fact that there are more female sassiety butterflies than there are male. My, my, my! Some of those debutantes may have to marry a man who works for his living if they want any man at all. Blithely Trilby Thompson meanders around our fair city and occasionally pulls off a hold-up, while the police watch him with a' health)- regard for their own skins. It is to be hoped that Judge Jesse Baldwin will order an entire recount of the vote on state's at torney. Some of the plain people are right curious to know who actually was elected. John Maynard Harlan has spent a good part of his life talk ing against recall of judges, and being a living argument for the recall. If ever the police capture a real auto bandit of the sort that kills, I the city could replete its empty treasury by exhibiting him in a dime show. A slant at the Hoyne-Cunnea recount results is enough to con vince any man that the duty of an election judge depends on who got him the job. Doc Kirby, our well-known pri vate banker, says he contributed $500 of the money he looted from his bank to Peter Bartzen's cam paign. Andy Lawrence put Bartzen in the discard by supporting him. What's Kirby jumping on him for? o -o WHAT'S THE REASON?- TH ffeM, Puzzle: Why will a girl with shapely limbs always choose a Highland costume to wear at a fancy dress ball? (P.S. The answer is a knees-y one.) o o Ships will be towed through the Panama canal by electric lo comotives running on each side of the waterway.