Judge — October 1936 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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Judge i In Praise of Poesy POET'S watch May be always hock, 3ut you never have To punch a clock. You can serenely Stay in bed And make up verses Out of your head And doze, and jot Them down, and then Serenely go To sleep again » School teachers may Be very fine, But you have to get To work by nine; Stenographers May have a snap But you can’t stenog And take your nap; While buyers for ladic Wear and such, Have to push About too much So Vl recline Upon my spine And stick to this here Metric line —E. J. Advice to the Lovelorn News Item: On the basis of countrywide acci- dent statistics the hazard of night driving is 34 times greater than the hazard of day drivi yours man, drive all you wish in the daytime, It's a four to one shot you will thrive, But according to recent statistics After dark you're in luck if alive. Let the trafic whiz by all around vou, , You've a swell chance to get through its rear, Sut at night-time the e: are inst you, With the odds, if vou p! four point four. So lock the garage when the moon shows its face, Avoid all the hazards of wreeking You will live ninety years ata mild, snail-like pace, And miss out on plenty of necking, ENYING that tney have ruined the Civil Service, the New Dealers point out that when they came into office there was a national emergency For one thing, thousands of Democrats had no jobs, And the citizens of Spain who did succeed in dodging , = . the shells all through the revolution are only going to “/’'m the garbage man, Madam, and In | find them on their tax bills next year take away your little Mary!” comicbooks.com