Show ELMER ON MORALE AND BALONEY 1 I am for or mora morale e building declared nimer elmer Twit twitchell chelf well known philo philosopher s opher horseshoe pitcher and stam stamp p collector today morale Is important to in any scrugg struggle le three cheers for or all we can get but noth nothing Is breaking my morale down just now like some bome of the baloney being spread by alle alleged ged morale builders mr air twitchell was more disturbed than ban usual the q quicker u ick we get the phony phon clem element nt out of this abts morale stuff the better belter he be resumed pounding a table at the moment it Is the race track people who are pretty close to tops in overdoing this angle I 1 like racing I 1 hope the war wont stop it but it gripes me to listen to a continuous stream of bunk about horse tracks being of primary importance to the war effort you would think from some of this stuff that the war and the windows were linked in the all out defense effort 1 I listened to a broadcast after a big race in florida the other afternoon and immediately after giving the payoff prices the broadcaster went into a spiel on the importance of the eight race program to ultimate victory it lacked only hearts and flowers by a string orchestra it was the crowning peak to a lot of similar that has been coming from the racing interests for months and it is doing the morale building business no good baat give me a day at the races when I 1 have been working hard and am feeling blue I 1 yield to no man in my love of the thoroughbred I 1 find a peculiar attraction in the window I 1 love the soft whispers about the good things coming up I 1 can even stand all those photo fin ashes but dont doii t give me that stuff I 1 about the being of such vital importance that the american peo pie will never be able to bear up through the war without them I 1 theres a limit it Is now predicted that it may be necessary to ration mens socks the center of 0 minimum worry about this Is in the ozarks SONG FOR TAXPAYERS irving berlin has written a song to c heer up op income income taxpayers taxpayer i it ts is colic called d 1 I paid my aly income hitcome tax today news item hooray hooray hooray hooray I 1 paid my income tax today in acts like this I 1 love to glory at least my friend that Is my story 1 A tax is quite a joy to me I 1 paid it very cheerfully it made me anything but blue I 1 love to come across aez you when im feeling rather sad theres always something makes me glad I 1 love to sing tra la tra loo the minute that my tax is due when I 1 am feeling extra low and down my spirits seem to go I 1 find relief oh many thanks in filling out some income blanks should dark depression oer me cpr spread ad such feelings I 1 know how to shed 1 I ask an income tax to pay and he says okay old irv berlin Is happy too to pay each levy high and new and id be twice as gay I 1 know it if I 1 had all that fellows dough A vaudeville unit Is on its way to iceland it will of course open cold need parachutes for food headline in the N Y times well just take a plain dirigible salad with no fixings the king and queen of eng land have moved from buckingham palace and taken a oat flat what a kick it t must be tor for a qu queen een to be cl close se enough to her own kitchen to smell toast burning remember back when a man ash ashamed amed to allow his children to look at the covers of magazines displayed on news stands asks merrill chilcote el electricity L in private homes in may ay soon be rationed it Is going to be tough to have to turn tura oft off th the e radio when youre not dot listening we went into a res restaurant t one night and found the sugar b bowl owl missing we complained to the head waiter who explained all all the dames help themselves and fill their handbags with it he said we had to cut out the bowls how many lumps shall I 1 bring brine you |