Life — December 27, 1923 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Lenind THE “HAIR-GLOSS” BOYS ENLARGE THEIR RANKS. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (As Congress Would Wish It) R. GIBBS: Mr. Chairman, at this season of, if I may put it that way, good will and peace, it seems to me fitting that this body, composed as it is of the representa- tives of red-blooded, one-hundred-per-cent. America, should put itself on record as unanimously in favor of this season of, if I may so term it, peace and good will. I therefore offer the following resolution: Resolved, that the Congress of the United States wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Mr. Gusps: Will the gentleman yield? Mr. Gress: For a question. Mr. Gusss: Does the gentleman wish it understood by the use of the words “merry” and “happy,” words too long familiarly associated with the disreputable but now for- tunately extinct physical condition of alcoholic intoxication, that the gentleman advocates a return to that disgraceful state of affairs so common among our citizenry antecedent to the benign prohibitory legislation now in effect? Mr. Gapss: Mr. Chairman, the gentleman alludes to the present prohibition laws as “benign.” Does not the gentle- man realize that of all the sapheaded, bluenosed, ill-con- sidered statutes with which this country has — Tue Cuarrman: Gentlemen! Mr. Gazss: The gentleman—— Tue CHairMan: Gentlemen will stick to the point at issue and refrain from personal characterizations which, however apt, are foreign to the discussion. The question is as to the definition of the words “merry” and “happy’ in the resolution of the gentleman from Maine. Mr. Gress: I will welcome a definition from the floor. Mr. Gosss: Mr. Chairman, I move to amend the resolu tion by deleting the objectionable words so that the resolu tion will read: Resolved, that the Congress of the United States wishes everybody a Christmas and a New Year. Mr. Crass: Mr. Chairman, I object. These dates of necessity occur in the natural course of the calendar, and I submit that to wish the intelligent voters of this country something that they know of necessity occurs in the course of the calendar is a work of supererogation, because thes¢ dates occur in the natural course of the calendar. I say again, the amendment is supererogatory. Tue CuHatrMan: Objection is heard. on the amendment. The roll being called, there were Ayes, 167; Noes, 365. So the amendment was rejected. Tue CuHarrMAN: The question is on the resolution. Mr. Gress: Mr. Chairman, I withdraw the resolution. Tue CuarrMan: The gentleman withdraws his resolu- tion. It now being the hour for adjournment, the Chair wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Baron Ireland. The question is For the tired city bandit, there’s lots of good shooting to be had outside the three-mile limit. comicbooks.com