No, I don’t think I ever hurt any man’s feelings by my little gags. I
know I never wilfully did it. When I have to do that to make a living I
will quit. I may not have always said just what they would have liked
me to say but they knew it was meant in good nature.
I never go to Detroit that I don’t spend an entire day out with Henry
Ford and I don’t suppose there is a man living (barring the owners)
that have told any more jokes on him than I have.
I liked President Harding. You see I had met him, and I don’t believe
any man could meet him and talk to him and not like him. Why, I said
after first meeting him, “I thought I would be scared when they took me
in but he made me feel just like talking to some good old prosperous
Ranchman out home.” That’s why I can understand him wanting to meet
as many people personally as possible, for to meet him meant another
friend.
I only hope our Future Presidents can be gifted with his Sense of Humor
and Justice.
He was a mighty good friend to us Theatrical People; he was a good
friend to ALL kinds of People.
For he had the right dope after all. Everybody is JUST FOLKS.
HE WAS A REAL HONEST-TO-GOD-MAN.
WHAT WITH FRUIT JUICE AND CONSOMME, IT WAS A WILD PARTY
[Illustration: IF MR. FORD HAD BEEN ELECTED WE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE
MOUTHPIECE OF THE ADMINISTRATION.]
WHAT WITH FRUIT JUICE AND CONSOMME, IT WAS A WILD PARTY
The _Illiterate Digest_ is a weekly publication, devoted to straight
reading matter. We have no picture section and I doubt if we will
appeal to over 1%, of the Public as the success of a Publication is
based nowadays on the amount of Pictures and Advertising that they have
in them. Of course, all our news comes by Radio. But The Digest is a
tried and operating Paper. In fact we are old timers in the field. This
is our 4th issue and we have just bought out and combined The Weekly
Blowout, a paper that was sponsoring Mr. Ford’s Detour to the White
House. After his famous announcement that 90 per cent of the People in
this Country were satisfied, why, The Blowout couldn’t withstand such
untruth. Had Mr. Ford gone through and been elected why The Blowout
would have become the mouthpiece of the Administration. So, while not
crowing over the misfortune of a Competitor, we were able to procure
the Title of said Paper as soon as it had lost the chances of getting
our Government run as Mr. Ford would have run it on a “Tighten a Bolt
as it Goes By” system. Now The Digest and Blowout combined, is looking
for some other likely Candidate to boost. We have even got down to such
sore straits that a Populist would not be overlooked.
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