The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-19
The Spectator
NEVER BEFORE,


over in the State Legislature, when
the House of Representatives is or
ganizing for each session, it is a time
honored custom for a member to get
Up and beg the support of the other
members for his candidate for
doorkeeper, or page, or clerk on tn,
ground that his county has never
made this particular request before.
II this is a good reason, and there
is no denying it's effectiveness, then
the Salvation Army has one more
claim on the attention and support
the America people, for it has never
asked for anything before.
Were this its only reason for sup
port IN its pressing need, it would
have some effect. but coupled with
this, and greater than any other rea
son, is its valuable and untiring WORK
On the battlefrots of Europe, providing
just touch of comfort and convent
ence for those men who have sacri-
feed their all, that others may en-
jay the security which they have will
ingly given UP in defense of an ideal.
To a boy, dying of thirst in an
agony of wounds on the unchart d
desert of pain vaguely outlined as
somewhere in France would yeu re-
fuse drink, and assistance. Not un-
less you are German. We all cannot
help, bodily and physically, the men
in France, fighting our battles, but we
can give them every ounce Of support
we possess. Money disbursed through
recognized institutions. provides that
support. The Salvation Army is rec
ognized by President Wilson, and 9th
er leaders, in its war Work-and, it
has never asked before.
Are you IN American?
tfuMOR.
After all these years of making the
American public hold its sides with
mirth. Judge ingepuously sticks its
tongue in it's chesk, and calmly asks
What is Humor?"
II Judge were a serious magazine we
would take it as a joke but . Judge
is always joking, we must take this
proposition seriously. In the midst
Of its rioutOus testing, il is as in
ccngf GUS for Judge to ask this IN
heard Of question, as it would be for
His Satanic Majesty, Wilhelm II to
stor the fury for a moment and az
GClically demand a definition Of
schrecl1licheit
Fut now that Judge has done Il,
what is Eumor? When somebody
tells a good one. do you stop 10 ana
Use Your feNnSS to arrive at the
psychological or sentimental reasons
Why yop laugh, and then laugh. Not
much, for if you did you would be
dubbed 2 dub If not 2 hone, and people
would be weary how they told jokes
in your presence.
Bumor is as unreasonable as it is
spontaneous. A sedate gentleman, a
lover Of humankind with a sympa
thotic disposition viii go into ecstacias
of mirth if he sees another slip on 4
banana peel. or skid in a bubble of
water and land in the middle of it. !
Having enjoyed his laugh, he will help !
the unfortunate one back to his prope. !
equilibrium. But he has laughed !
probably dropped his cane. and lost his /!
spectacles in his Joyous abandon. Why !
did he laugh? He doesn't know nor !
does anyone else. Others seeing hira |
laugh, though they did not witness |
the cause of his laughter will probably |
go into ccnvulsions also, proving that |
It wasn't the misfortune OF ono I
else that caused it. SO there it goes
When the Judge doffs his ermine
and asks the court to decide what is
Humor, we give it up, and would like |
to know what we have been laughing |
at anyway