Show I WILL ROGERS SAYS SAYS-I SAYS SAYS- f I Just want to sight a case what a wrong prohibition coming into a country will do and the pleasures and amusements amusements amuse amuse- ments It will knock knock people ou out of seeing I got a a. friend Bill Rice runs a carnival company i had the first one of these dIving divine g girl rl shows Well he went to a little town in Arizona to play and got and got I all ready dug the hole pOle and put his tank in and was all ready for the water when they told him there that much water vater in the whole country and was just lust about to crab the show when an old saloon man said he could fill it up with corn whisky It would look 1001 like water So they did And that afternoon when I the act went on Bill Bm himself was the first out on the diving board Nobody up to then knew Bill could dive but he sure I did and went off that board mighty pretty but but didn't w. w 4 come conie up So they all an waited and finally ran to the edge and looked over and there la lay Bill high and dry on the bottom Just sucking up the last that was in the tank Now those people away out there if prohibition hid had been in n would have ave b been en denied that exhibition and diving was an awful b big bg novelty to them and it also taught Bill a lesson If lesson if he ever ever went back to Arizona ag again again to to get a bigger I ger tank |