Show BELONGS TO WEST Eastern Writers Writer's Definition of Whole Wheat Humor Types Type of Character and Art Artless Arties Hilarity Hilar f ity tty Unlike Anything Put Forward Forwar by European Writers Take as a hint of local character the th newspaper you IOU read as the train crosses Kansas In the Kansas City Star you learn of a Mrs of ot 1 Sabetha who hates bates to drive with th the hood off orr the Jitney It embarrasses me to expose the inner working of ot the machine The of ot a jitney always always always al al- al- al ways r remind me of ot the signs of ot the zodiac The They ought to be COTe covered red up Also of a Salina man who went into a hardware store and asked for a package of small tacks How small the sa salesman n. n The Tho smallest yen have lint Hut the salesman said he didn't have hue that size Will Wilt Whites White's Empo ia a Gazette Gazetti mentions men mea a member of the Country Coun Coustry try club whose thoughts were no so far from business that he wrote a Ii check cheek f for r tore fore dollars and of ot a a. Wichita Wichita editor who Vho has taken to a bombproof to meditate on the frailty of fortune One of ot hl his reporters wrote Ills hiss Higgins after her graduation will de- de vote vote some Iome time to the study and cultivation of voice voids She has given inn he her friends much pleasure along that linein linein line lino In the last two years Which ThIch W wai I all allright allright allright right except that tIle the eld elder r HI Higgini It JI Ita JIa a dead shot hot and the printer set let It U UTie Tie tee Instead ad of The Wichita Eagle gle tells teU of ot an uan on ll young Joung lady observed Prida afternoon walking toward the scales in front of Jack Jaik Spines Spine's clothing store She raised one foot toot cautiously and set lit It Iton on the platform The indicator glided swim swiftly around to fo pounds With an air of disappointment the young lady walked swiftly 8 away evidently evi eyl dently deafly thinking one foot toot enough nough t te t. weigh at a time I do not know that these Item cUpped clipped at random from papers actual I ly read as 18 we were crowing crossing Kansas Kanias will III m mean n anything to any anybody el else or that they prove anything at all writes Arthur Ruhl In Harpers Harper's Magi Maga zine To me there Is lt a n certain artless art art- less hilarity about this kind of ot humor 0 a R kind of whole wheat flavor that Ur is distinctly American and more often found In Kansas let us ua say HOJ than on the i Island land of ot Manhattan A A. Russian or French Journalist wouldn't have Joked in Just that way and one trouble with some of oar our younger Iconoclasts Is that In rebelling against Puritanism and sentimentality th they r sometimes seem to lose los their Americanism without successfully becomIng becoming be be- coming anything else When Thoreau rebelled against conventionality con con- he became more American American Ameri Amen can than ever He Be dug himself in on tn the he shores of f Walden pond and defied d the universe and the was the world made and still makes a path to his hi door loor But when some semi of ot our present day writers rebel against con convention n on they seem to pull their roots out of ot our soil noil and to make themselves m merely relT into rather and sophe- sophe monte Frenchmen Frenchmen and and If n a Frenchman French French- man man Is an anything he Is grown crown up |