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The Booster

The chap who thinks the neighborhood In which he lives is just as good

As any place beneath the skies.

And who will never criticize His fellow men who live nearby.

Nor find their doins's all awry. -

Helps make that ndighborhood of his

As good as he believes it is.

The chap who thinks his own home town

Deserves a laurel leaf and crown And brags about it far and near To.everyone who cares to hear,

And claims there is no place on earth

That has so many things of worth, Makes any torvn that he may grace

A pretty good abiding place. -

The chap who loves each grain of sand

Within his own dear native land,

And is convinced no flag's unfurled

O'er any nation in the world

That has the institutions grea.t

That may be found in his own state, Helps any land r,r'here he may live

To merit praise superlative. -

-Edward S. Snover, Tr.

ILOSOPI{Y

He Gould Tell

The late Ambassador Walter Page was formerly editor of World's Work, and like all editors was obliged to refuse a great many manuscripts. A lady once wrote him:

"Sir: You sent back, last week, a story of mine. I know that you did not read the story, for as a test I pasted the pages 18, 19, and 20 together, and the story came back with those pages still pasted, so I know that you are a fraud and turn down stories without reading them."

Mr. Page wrote back: "Madam: At breakfast when I open an egg, I don't have to eat the whole egg to discover it's bad."

Owned Only Bod R"oods

An Englishman just returned to his native land after an automobile tour of the United States. was asked bv a friend how the roads were in the United States.

"Old fellow," he replied, "the road situation in the States is very peculiar. There's a fellow named Lincoln who owns a lot of roads, and very good ones. And there's another big road owner, some Old Spanish chappie, doncha know, who has some mighty fine roads. There are several oth,er owners of good highways. But there is a chappie over there by the name of Detour who owns a thousand short rcadq all of them in the very worst of r'epair and condition. I really don't see how the American Government allows that bloke to operate."

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RAymond

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