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This page combines editorial content with advertising. The main article celebrates the American Press Humorists' annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee, listing prominent humor writers and describing their social events. The text honors deceased members (Robert J. Burdette, George Fitch, Cy Warman, James Whitcomb Riley) while noting new talent continually joining. The accompanying image titled "Doing 'the Impossible'" is not a political cartoon but **corporate advertising** for American Telephone and Telegraph Company. It uses the classical reference to Alexander the Gordian knot as metaphor: just as Alexander solved the "impossible" knot by cutting it, AT&T claims to overcome telephone technology's obstacles through "vision and unrestricted initiative." The page reflects early 20th-century American optimism about technological progress and corporate achievement. The humor writers' celebration and the telephone company's self-promotion both emphasize overcoming challenges through American ingenuity—a common theme of the era.
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The American Press Humorists HE annual meeting of the American T' Press Humorists at Nashville, Tenn., daring the week of October 2-7, was one of the most enjoyable in the history of that unique body. In entertainment it perhaps sed all former experiences, although wo cty in which the Humorists have met kas shown any lack of appreciation of its guests. | . . That the public loves its humorists and de- lights to show its affection in every possible way has been de monstrated during the four- teen years of the organization. Baltimore, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, Detroit, Peoria, nd, San Fre in entertaining the writers who steadily con- tnbute to optimism. In recent years the or- ganization has lost se yeral notable members by death, among them Robert J. Burdette, George Fitch, Cy Warman and James Whit- comb Riley, but new men are constantly coming into the fold, and though the places of the famous who have departed are vacant, many Humorists in the organization are winning note through their daily contribu- tions to joy, their books and as platform estertainers, cach showing a happy indi- viduality. To those of the Humorists to whom South- em hospitality was but a tradition this latest meeting was a revelation. Day and night the members were honored and entertained until toward the close of the week they be- man to wonder if hospitality could possibly tave further surprises in store. Among early arrivals on the scene were Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Vance Cooke and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Robinson of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Kiser, M Mrs. Opie Reed, Mr. and Mrs. W Donahey and Ed. Miller of Chicago; Mr. .. H. Gingles and Vill Johnson and J. Howard Johnson of Rockford, Ill.; Charles A. Leedy, of Youngstown, Ohio: and all were greeted by the local member, Dickson Mer- nit, and his aides, the newspaper men and other leading c of Nashville. The first day’s entertainment included a nde in autos to Camp Fort, Mint Springs, sear the Kentucky-Tennessce line, a dis- tance of fifty-odd miles, where the Humor- Sts and their friends were regaled with a ‘ypical Southern dinner, set by their host, Col. Joel B. Fort. On the way they stopped u Springfield, where a theatre full of loca! admirers awaited them. Here they were welcomed by Hon. J. E. Garner and Lem F. Bell, and could not get way until Ted Rob- rote Charles A. Leedy and Edmund Vance Soke had given the audience some idea of real humor, ; The dinner at Mint Springs was voted the st the Humorists had ever absorbed. Col. Fort extended a hearty welcome, and announced that he was the original woman Suragist of the South, a political aberration, %s it was locally regarded, that introduced to a lunacy inquiry, from which he The Gordian knot is the ages-old symbol of the seemingly impossible. Alexander the Great gave it a place in legendary history when, unable to untie it, he cut it in twain with his sword. This famous incident of antiquity has its modern counterpart in the real work of the men whose vision and un- restricted initiative brought forth the great Bell System. -In the development of the telephone, one Gordian knot after another has been met with. Yet each new obstacle yielded to the enterprise of the tele- phone pioneers. Every difficulty was handled with a will and a courage which knew not failure. Impossible” Man's words have been given wings and carried wherever his will directs. Electrical handicaps have been over- come one by one. The feeble current of telephone speech has had a way hewn for its passage through all physical impedi- ments, until the entire country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is within hearing of a child's faint cry. This record of the Bell System for past achievements is an earnest of future accomplishment. New prob- lems are being met with the same indomitable spirit, which guarantees a more comprehensive as weil as a more perfect service. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One System Universal Service IAMONDS <x oie Seer Al fcecontcracres es yee teeed Bs fe'sale of ¥ 2°3 per cont hune Mo. 32 M's tree. UL DIAMONDS SENT ON APPROV. ‘Onier any diamond from oor cetalogur: we will send Cccher artocle Tnamands fend for out Catator 2&4 Maiden Lane, Mew York City Since 1851 se ar.choice Rejames Shirts [ comicbooks.com