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-Richard Armour, Ph. D.

Richard Armour is professor of English at Scripps Col_ lege, who made a speech recently to the National Council of English Teachers in convention. He talked on the need for humor and laughter in the teaching profession, and it was then that he uttered the words that head this piece. ***

He told about the fine Englishman, Lord Grey, who declared, at the beginning of World War Two, that the lights were being turned out all over Europe, and that "perhaps we shall not see them again in our liietime." Said Doctor Armour: "That was Lord Grey's viewpoint; but I say that the lights may be extinguished, but so long as laughter remains, then* survival is assured.,'

He said: "Laughter is going out in some places in the world, and when laughter leaves, then there is no encouragement, partcularly that rarer kind that is self critical, laughing at yourself. This is the kind that keeps us cut to size and reminds us that we are human. This kind of laughter is practiced least of all in regimented countries that are Communist or Fascist.', +>F+

He continued: "It is practiced least and feared most by the totalitarian leaders, for they know that laughter will expose them as human beings and bring them down from pedestals upon which they have set themselves as gods. Let us be grateful that our self critical laughter is our heritage in the land that knew Lincoln and Will Rogers.', r<{<*

And he told about the time he taught literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany, during the first years of Hitler's dictatorship. He said: "Those students never smiled."

Those students would :"J., *h".,. l.oghed at the following gag: One student said to snqfhsl-"flow are you feeling this morning?" He answersd-"pins." And the first said-"Then why don't you notify your face?" d<**

It is said that the most successful ambassador the United States ever sent to Russia was the late Elihu Root. Not because Mr. Root was a fine, top-notch American and sfafssrnsn-vrhich he was-but because he never smiled.

BY JACK DIONNE

And the Russians, who never smiled either, took a great fancy to him.

This might be a good .i;. i" hunt up the most unsmiling American of diplomatic training, and send him to represent us with the Kremlin. The be-whiskered bozos who would banish freedom from this earth, might take a liking to him as they did to Root. Will Rogers, were he alive today, would make a great ambassador anywhere but in Russia. Not there. Will smiled and laughed much of the time. **t<

It was a highly respected thinker by the name of Lord Byron who said: "Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence." ***

-True diplomacy, some wise man has said, is deciding which way God's going, and then getting things out of Ftris way. *** ft is reported that there is a sign in a Del Rio cafe that reads: "If you want to feel young, associate with young people. If you want to feel your age, try to keep up with them."

"Farm Surplus Report Shocks Eisenhower." So reads a newspaper headline. Well, how do you think the rest of us taxpayers and high*price food buyers feel?

And, discussing the nrrn l."l of fiving, the well paicl welder was heard to remark: "After you figure food, and clothes and rent I've only got about fifty bucks a week left for the necessities of life, and half the time they ain't hardly fit to drink."

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And, speaking of the high cost of living, they are telling about the luckiest oil man on earth: he drilled for oil and hit coffee.

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Want to know what's the matter with this country? Read the following news clipping from the Wall Street Journal, and you'll know: "Buckwheat cakes make fewer appearances on American plates. The 1953 buckwheat crop a bit below 1952, was less that half the L942-SI average. The old-time buckwheat pancake was almost all buckwheat flour; today'" f"I have less than ten percent."

There you are ! There's your answer ! Can a people who have forgotten the joy of eating buckwheat pancakes,