Judge — August 6, 1927 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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your own retinue listens, I. im- agine you say, “This decoration business is a lot of horse harne st” It is, if one thinks of a gross of medallions given to fliers for flirting with mermaids in mid- ocean, Now a bit of © ed gold hangs on your neck. You know it’s all bologna! You are getting a slice of the phosphorous hypocrisy that is diplomacy. As one Black Shirt to another you accept. You say you will always wear it. I know you won't. It would look funny at the theater. And what will your Broadway and mine say? You tell the grateful. Ambas: This is ador you are a solemn occasion. But you will kid right in the center of ceremony! You must have your laugh. So you say. “I’m glad I don’t have to - dues to belong!” Whereupon Black Shirts again raise right arms in most silent homage. It wouldn't be like Mussolini to fill public coffers by collecting dues from decorated personages. * * * Aside think cha from all this, Jimmie, I you are a colorful little eter. I like your intentional staccato; the fecundity of your phrases. I am for traditional decorum in government but as a showman you put the dramat into a routine business. In the last analysis, solidity of thought and showmanship, make public men, The statemanship of a Balfour is barren when shorn | of its element of drama, typical Policy All for One An Advertisement of American Telephone and Telegraph the A SLEeT storm descends, carrying down trees and wires. A wind turns out- law and blows down a pole line. Or-some swollen river rampages through a circuit of destruction. But wherever angry nature attacks the Bell Telephone Sys- tem there are repairmen trained to meet the emergency, and everywhere trained in the same schools to the use of the same efficient tools. Supplies of sur- plus equipment and materials are kept at strategic points whence they may be rushed by train or truck to the devastated Throughout the Bell System, Company ail construction and prac- tice are standard, so that men and supplies, when necessary, may be sent from one state or company to another. There are twenty-five Bell Companies, but only one Bell System—and but one Bell aim and ideal; stated by President Walter S. Gifford as: “A telephone service for this nation, so sible ‘ar as humanl e from imperfections, id delays, and enabling e anywhere at any time k up a telephone and ta yone else anywhere else in this country, clearly, quic and at a reasonable cost.” pos- errors ar any to to What docs not travel far if personality stirs not public imagination. A joke is trivial, but, nevertheless human. You make government more pleasant. My hat is off to you, Jimmie, because as a show- man you tread the light avenue of Humor. Believe me, affectionately, Your humble servant, Macro Gonzaey Puts - Calls lisp ayneceet May be utilized as insurance to pro- to suppl ce of stop o other important in Circular J. S. H. WILCOX & CO. ablished 1917 Inc Broadway »rporate: New York | comicbooks.com