Show GillilAN SAYS HUMOR OUSTS CAlAMITY HOWl Strickland Gillilan the author recommended recommended rec- rec humor as an antidote to calamity ca- ca amity lamity howling during his lecture before before be- be fore the Bonneville club and he proceeded pro pro- pro pro-I to administer liberal doses of his own prescription When he sat I down after aCter an hour the applause was prolonged and h hearty arty Mr Gillilan recited several severa of his verses told many humorous stories andin and andin in many instances swung his hearers from the humorous to the pathetic side with great skill shill He told or of his first experience In writing verse when he was a cub reporter on a Richmond Ind paper He composed his first I poem Off Again On Again Gone Again Finnegan after watching two I Irish section hands at work and listening listening listen listen- I ing to their conversation Mr Gillilan asserted that many busl- busl I Iness ness men have a line following their name In the directory purporting to be I their business but he stated slated that their real business was their theli home life and the intelligent caring for their chill dillI dill dill- l I dren |