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Show about Scotch thrift was not prompted prompt-ed by any protest from the Scot themselves. They have never regarded regard-ed thrift as a joke and therefore have never been perturbed by the levity with which it is treated by less enlightened peoples. The purpose of , the Boston ban is to protect the pub- lie from the tiresome reiteration of a thread-bare wheeze I This raises a question about other i time-worn wise cracks. Without the necking and the prohibition jokes, j there would be no excuse for the col-I col-I lege funny-papers or the sophisticat-' sophisticat-' ed satirists. Par the words "bilge" , and "Bible belt," and the young j very young intelligentsia would have nothing to read. I Let us hope this Boston example j isn't going to spread too far. San j Francisco Chronicle. MENACE TO JOKESMITIL i It is quif,2 unnecessary to explain ji that the action of a Boston broad-!! casting station in barring the joke 1 |