Well, to anyone anxiously interested in dissipating, or removing, the federal postoffice “deficit,” the reading of the publishers’ “F” should be most entertaining. That F of the publishers most certainly presents some facts which any man, unless he is a fool, as some descriptive artist has appropriately put it, in an “elaborate, broad, beautiful and comprehensive sense,” must appreciate. Senator Owen introduced “Exhibit F” of the publishers in necessarily, and of course, dignified form--a form in keeping with the exalted position he holds and worthily fills. Your uncle on the ladder, however, is not, as you may possibly have already discovered, restrained by any code _de luxe_ as to his forms of speech or as to their _edge_. The publishers in their Exhibit “F” show and, as I have said, _show conclusively_, that the advertising pages in periodicals (newspapers or other), are _the pages which support--which pay the bills_--of the Postoffice Department of these United States. I would ask the reader to keep that last statement in mind, for, in spite of the Postmaster General’s voluminous, cushion-tired conversation and automatic comptometer figuring, the publishers furnish ample evidence in proof that the statement just made is safe and away inside the truth. Oh, yes, of course, I remember that Solomon or some other wise man of ancient times has said “all men are liars.” That was possibly, even probably, true of the men of his day. It may also be admitted without prejudice, I trust, to either party to this case, that there is a numerous body of trousered liars scattered in and along the various walks of life even at this late date. So, there appears to be no valid reason nor grounds to question the veracity of Solomon, or whoever the ancient witness was, when he testified, to the best of his knowledge and belief, that all men are prevaricators. However, I desire in this connection to have the reader understand that The Man on the Ladder is of the opinion there are a few men on earth now, whatever the condition and proclivities of their remote ancestors may have been, who have an ingrown desire or predisposition to tell the truth. This view of the genus _homo_ is warranted, if indeed not supported, by the plainly and frequently observed fact that in almost every recorded instance where the truth serves a purpose better than a lie, the truth gets into the testimony. The Man on the Ladder also believes there are men--bunches of men--in this our day who will tell us the truth _whether they can afford to do so or not_. I have given this “aside,” if the reader will kindly so consider it, to the end of calling to his attention two points, namely: First, There are probably just as many truth tellers, likewise _liars_, in the world today as there were in olden times.