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...Theopold '25, members of the Class Committee, are in charge of the arrangements. They have announced that numerous informal baseball games will be played and that a series of athletic and semi-athletic contests will be run off. There will be obstacle races, three-lagged races, sack races, potato races, and other tests of skill, strength, and agility...
Recently, an episode in the West showed that the farmer is just as difficult to advise as the investor or stock trader. The Department of Agriculture, after an investigation, reported that the decrease in potato acreage would amount to about 6% this year...
This was not at all to the liking of C. W. Peterson, manager of the Farmers' Produce Association of North Branch, Minnesota. Mr. Peterson wired the Department of Agriculture, anent the oncoming 1925 potato shortage, to "keep your mouth shut." Afterwards, in calmer mood, Mr. Peterson explained that no insult to the Department was intended, that his frank advice arose from the farmers in his vicinity promptly planting so many potatoes that a 10% increase over 1924 was now imminent...
...buttons to preserve the international amenities when at one fell blow they are violated without pomp or ceremony by a pictorial incitement to popular mutiny. It remains a shining platitude that all the efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face of the deft strokes of irresponsible, irrepressible caricaturists and others. Charles Dickens, to use the words of Carlyle, caused "all Yankee- doodle-dom" to blaze up "like one universal soda bottle," when he ventured to criticize some aspects of 100% American democracy. Such...
...Irish jokes and parodies, the ones worth mentioning are: the imitation headlines under "The Day"; the "Boston Society Page in Fifty Years," the most consistently clever and almost brilliant contribution; the "Life of St. Patrick," which is good only in spots; and "Abie's Irish Potato," which is saved from brutality by several original lines...