Evening star. [volume], May 11, 1947, Page 2, Image 77

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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WBVOLT. A New York commuter
writes us that he’s been riding the
8:23 and the 5:15 for 10 years now
and is fed up with thrusting out his
commutation ticket, with his photo
on it, to bored conductors who never
look at the picture. Three weeks ago
he cut a picture out of a magazine and
pasted it over his own. He hasn’t been
questioned yet.
Oh, yes —we forgot to mention
that the new picture is one of the
late Adolf Hitler.
HOW’S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR?
by Lin Yu tang
1 he great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.”
—Mencius, (B.C. 372-289)
Dr. Lin, Chinese philosopher, author of
“The Importance of Living,” says:
Modern man takes life far too seriously, and
because he is too serious, his world is full of
troubles. The importance of humor should
never be forgotten. For sense of humor
changes the quality and character of our
entire cultural life.
It seems to me that the worst thing about
dictators is their lack of humor. Dictators
always look so solemn or pompous or angry.
Presidents of democracies smile and the
people like it. They know how to relax and
laugh at a good joke. But the dictator gets
so puffed up with his own importance that
he loses all sense of humor and with it all
sense of proportion. That is how we get
fanatics. Then the trouble begins.
There is a purifying power in laughter —
both for individuals and for nations. If they
have a sense of humor, they have the key
to good sense, to simple thinking, to a peace
able temper, and to a cultured outlook on
the world.
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TUUMPOLOGY. Medical science
has taken great strides in the last
century, but doctors still rely heavily
on the “thump” method. They thump
with their finger at your heart and
lungs and kidneys, and if they don’t
like the tone produced (each healthy
organ has its own special tone) they’ll
probably start X-raying.
As a matter of fact, the thump
method is probably not so old. It’s
believed to have been the invention of
a wine merchant who turned physician
about 1800. The story goes that he
thumped wine casks to see how
full they were, later decided it would
work on human beings, too. It did.
FINIS. We have a report that in a
lonely field in Normandy, there is a
grave marked by a rude wooden stick,
inscribed: “In memory of Maggie, a,
mule, who in her lifetime kicked 1
colonel, 1 major, 3 lieutenants, 11
sergeants, 67 privates and 1 bomb.”
This Week Magaiine
FOR A BETTER AMERICA
WILLIAM I. NICHOLS, Editor
"LOOK OUT FOR THE GRIZZLY!". 4
by Frank Dutrosno
BOUQUET FOR BETTY. 7
by Marjorie Holmos
EMILY POST’S SEVEN SOCIAL SINS.• *
by Jorry Mason
FOOTLIGHTS AND MURDER.10
by O. Patrick
HISTORY WITH A DRAWL.U
by Raft Gibbs
PLUMP LITTLE DUMPLING.1*
by Louis Borg
OH, DOCTOR!.*4
by Manning Long
CAN YOU NAME THEM?.**
by Ray Botkors
Corot by Rickard Miller
names and descriptions of all chiraciaf*.!*
fiction stories and semi-fiction articles In this
magazine are wholly imaginary. Any
which happens to be the same as tb*t otenj
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