Everybody is writing something nowadays. It used to be just the
Literary or Newspaper men who were supposed to know what they were
writing about that did all the writing. But nowadays all a man goes
into office for is so he can try to find out something and then write
it when he comes out.
Now being in Ziegfeld Follies for almost a solid year in New York has
given me an inside track on some of our biggest men in this country who
I meet nightly at the stage door.
So I am breaking out in a rash here. I will cite an example to prove
to you what you are going to get. Not long ago there was a mess of
Governors here from various Provinces. And a good friend of mine
brought back to the stage and dressing room Governor Allen of Kansas.
Well, I stood him in the wings and he was supposed to be looking at my
act, but he wasn’t. He was watching what really is the Backbone of our
Show. He anyway heard some of my Gags about our Government and all who
are elected to help missrun it.
So at the finish of my act I dragged him out on the stage and
introduced him to the audience. He made a mighty pretty little speech
and said he enjoyed Will’s Impertinences, and got a big laugh on that.
Said I was the only man in America who was able to tell the truth about
our Men and Affairs.
When he finished I explained to the audience why I was able to tell the
truth. It is because I have never mixed up in Politics. So you all are
going from time to time to get the real Low Down on some of those Birds
who are sending home the Radish Seed.
You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you
got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s
out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep ’em both
out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing
and give him a commission on what he saves us. Put his factory in with
the government and instead of Seeds every spring mail out those Things
of his.
Mail Newberry one every morning Special Delivery.
Speaking of Henry Ford, I see where Uncle Henry has a new Rule in force
out in his Factory where they paste those Knick Knacks together. Every
man working there has to have his breath smelled every morning. That,
of course, seems like a pretty strict Rule to put in force in a So
called Free Country, and it has come in for a lot of criticism in the
papers, but the way I look at it, it is absolutely necessary. Should
a man go to work in there who had had a few strong shots of some of
our National Drinks of today, he would blow his breath on one of those
FOB’S, and blow all the bolts right out of it.
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