Judge — June 23, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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The American Press Humorists EW YORK entertains perhaps five or six hundred con- N ventions a year. Some of these conventions would crowd a smaller town to suffocation, and block the wheels of industry for the moment. But in New York all conventions are but incidents of every-day life in which millions seethe and perspire, intent upon their millions of aims, It should be different next week, and no doubt it will be differ- ent, for the American Press Humorists will be in town. Com- pared with other conventions the Humorists are few in number, but Personality is writ large on this body of men and women who entertain the world week in and weck out, year in and year out, indefinitely, and who meet once a year, now in one city and in elsewhere, to greet one another, renew old acquaintance, and make new friends, Collectively the American Press Hu- morists are known as “the blessed bunch.” And blessed they are, for in this guild of good fellows and fair women there is a fraternal feeling that exalts no one among them nor lets the most modest feel slight. It embodies a brotherhood more real than any other known among organizations of men and women. It is always changing in personnel, for Humorists bow to the muta- bility of life, as other mortals do. But the noted who have belonged and are now gone are replaced from time to time by new- comers who are winning their way, and the spirit of the body never changes—the im- pulse to true fellowship and rare friendship which the passing years renew and keep ever potent. Fortunate indeed will be those persons who may meet the Humorists individually or together during this week of annual re- union: for those who come in contact with these rare souls will discover personal veri- now. Student Quacks in arithmetic, Bill ? Student Chirps—Fine, ties that social conventions cannot sophisticate, and human na- ture unspoiled by any of the influences that work inst its genuine demonstrations. The Humorists are always them- selves because they are philosophers, and nothing petty or sor- did can prevail against their common aspiration to be honestly happy and to disseminate happines Sixes and Sevens riotic goats are requested to register their infirmities with the pure food bureau, so as to tate the detection of the spurious butter. ander Bannwart, th Senator Lodge punched, ted in the army. We move that the “bone dry” laws permit the Lodge punch to continue to be served. 2 _ Kaiser Wilhelm, the papers say, still employs an Amercan dentist. Wants one crown that will last. 2 A resident: of Oyster Bay—no, not that one!—says it is better to raise oysters than vegetables. Neither crop is what Oyster Bay raised in 1912. 2 The Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, and anyhow it isn’t so breezy in the safe deposit box, where the lamb puts up nowadays. * Daniel Webster, when he said “ Always room the top,” didn’t imply that statesmanship has rooms tu rent in the top story. Or did h How you getting along a You pay no war tax on the fortune I'm in long division ; you'd have made if the market had behaved. ea th 3 comicbooks.com XUM