Judge — June 30, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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eminators of Joy ELL, they are here. As this is written JUDGE does W not know how many of them have assembled, but His. Honor is certain that a sufficient number of the Ameri- can Press Humorists are on hand to make their annual conven- tion an event. Perhaps it will be the event of their convention history. In other years, when they have met in other cities, those cities have bodily assumed a receptive mood and showered honors upon the Humorists, collectively and individually. New York is polyglot, cosmopolitan, huge in area and popu- lation, and thus will not permit the Humorists to vary the detail of its habit. It swallows hundreds of thousands of strangers every day and never suffers indigestion. Yet those of its inhabitants who sense the presence this week of the Humorists and are fortunate enough to come in contact with them are favored beyond the imagination of the millions of others who will pass by on the other side never dreaming of what they have lost in human experienc Happy indeed are those who know the Humorists are in town! An industrious and zealous local com- mittee of members has planned a pro- gramme for their visiting brethren this week that ought to give them pleasure and something of mental profit. Their ex- periences here will not freshen their wits, which are always acute, but they must be impulsed to new angles of thought, and the great public will also gain in the premises. Those who are entertaini them have provided, perhaps without knowing it, for a quid pro quo of joy that they may well hand down at least to their immediate posterity. It is reasonable to assume that some of the Humorists here this week are greeting brethren whom they have not seen in years. Old fraternal friendships are re- newing, and new friendships are making. Those outside the charmed circle may not Engaged Youngman—Good-night, dear. I sha‘n’t kiss you on account of my cold. His financee—Don't worry about that, Percy. I can pass it along. you know. know what this means to those within it. While these philoso- phers of happiness steadily entertain the public, they are mo: joyous, most spontaneous, most lovable when they forgather. To them an annual meeting is something to look forward to with lively expectation and backward upon with memories that never fade. Welcome! Sixes and Sevens BOUT the only one who can sympathize with the present day feelings of the goose that laid the golden egg toward the little old brown hen is the ex-President escorting his successful rival down the Avenue to be sworn in. ms S etary Houston says the high cost of living is “due to a combination of circumstances.” Then—if the Sherman anti- trust law is any good—why not indict the circumstances? & The New Orleans States hears that “in this war the American soldier will be armed to the teeth.” A lot of good that will do, with the teeth interned at Oyster Bay— and the eye-glasses, too. * There is not a man on God's green earth who wants to be taxed. I have not found a man in this House that is not willing to put a tax on somebody else.— Representative Fordney, of Michigan. Well, what would you expect to find in a great popular representative body like Congress? 2 Recent announcement that Ambas- sador Willard was about to retire caused considerable regret—though not, of course, as if it were Jess. 2 The man who put the sense in censor- ship isn’t bragging of his job so that you'd notice it, comicbooks.com