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Show ' Harea"Laugh " ' AN IRISHMAN and a Frenchman got into an argument about the total number of beverages, alcoholic and otherwise, in existence. exist-ence. Pat claimed there were 83. The Frenchman Insisted there were only 82. They made a bet. " - "I'll name the 83," said Pat "First, there Is water..;." ' "Ah, you win," the Frenchman Interrupted. "1 had forgotten all about that one." This story, told by Dr. William J. Robinson, Rob-inson, the dean of medical writers, .suggests that the world prohibition movement eventually eventu-ally will focus on France, which probably will be the last of the Important countries to go dry, V ever. M'Oeady Sykes, another able writer, digs up the yam about the Scotchman wh(TC6mplaIh JTnaf neSuIdneverierany real pleasure from smoking. "If I am smokin' my ain tobacco," said Sandy, "I can na enjoy it for thinkln' o' the dreadful expense; and If I am smokin 'a Ither body's tobacco my pipe is packed so tight that It wlnna draw." - Economy is a virtue, but It can be carried car-ried to the point where It takes all the joy out of life. Epidemic excessive economy, born from fear, usually ends business booms and. starts depression. Prosperity Is the result of widespread spending. No ause for fear, as yet. : Continue buying, thereby keeping prosperity pros-perity with us. The wise system is to be moderate, mod-erate, spending to keep business humming, also saving prudently for emergency. The Wall Street Journal says a stock exchange firm wanted an experienced bookkeeper. book-keeper. An applicant, who favorably Impressed Im-pressed the manager of the brokerage firm, was asked what salary he received on his last job. "They paid me 125 a week." "Who gave you that salary?" A bankrupt bucket shop was named. "You apparently got 2i for your work and $100 for keeping quiet," the' manager commented.'' . v ;: . - . The jokes of our generation are becoming editorial'ln nature. Vividly they caricature important events and public trends. We are getting dangerously close to the Intellectual in our humor (dangerous, because intelligence intelli-gence and humor are as difficult to mix as oil and water) but, after all, much of the news borders on" the ridiculous, which makes It the logical target of the humorists. The American Ameri-can sense of humor is becoming higher grade, more intelligent. If you doubt it, go back and try 'to get laughs out of some of the humorists of a few generations ago. |