Judge — May 21, 1927 — page 12: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUDGE AIG Gentlemen of the High Hat Club! As I stand before you on this auspicious occasion, and look around at your bright, cheery faces, my heart overflows with happiness at the thought that this great and glorious organization has at last been launched upon the high s of time and my only regret is that I cannot break a bottle of champagne over each and every one of your heads! + up to and including this happy (?) moment I have been a blithesome, carefree lad with time and more or less, mostly less, money to burn, but now, my good friends, I awake to find my- self up to my neck in Local High Hat applications! . . . In the words of the great philosopher (his name escapes me at the moment), I certainly started something ! But fear not, lads, I am a man of vision and one with both feet on the | ground! ... I will carry on!... at a conservative estimate I ] would say that already there are | around ten thousand said appli- | cations piled on my mahogany desk and I was expecting to take a little vacation! . . . so be pa- tient, Brothers! You will be taken care of as rapidly as pos- sible and if some other bird in your town should get the Local — [NA T= H. W. L. also suggests that we have High Hat cigarettes and matches and even have pipes made with High Hat bowls! . . . the match idea is easy, and I think Dunhill, or somebody like that, would make such a pipe for us, but the cigarette idea sounds kinda wet. fp Hat Club job, don’t be d—remember that all we to go by in our selection is your questionnaire! ph Some skeptical guy wants to know if the Cluk the real thing or just a lot of hooey... . Well, if he’ll drop into this here now office some afternoon around five- thirty and watch me _ wading through applications he’ll know different! “Fuzzy” W. of Princeton, no less, suggests cutting a high hat shape out of court plaster and fp Several suggestions have also come in, and here they are for what they’re worth. . . . H. W. L. of Dartmouth thinks the Club ought to have regular colors and suggests a black hat-band with a green stripe and a thin white strip in the green stripe . . . it sounds good and the green stripe is certainly appropriate! Be it known then that these are the official Club colors! sticking it on the arm, so we can be easily identified when we're all tanned up! Get your best gal to do that, Fuzzy, but that’s no stunt for a club of real he-men! a I suppose all this sounds as if I didn’t take the club idea very seriously; but no kiddin’! I’m enthused no end! ... if we can get a million good eggs together, just think what we'll be able to do! . . . We can have our own club-houses, we can even run our own Night Clubs, and think of the money we'd save, and we might even be strong enough to have the Prohibition act repealed! comicbooks.com