First War Correspondent—“Did your dispatch get past the censor?”
Second War Correspondent—“Only the part that wasn’t true.”
“Well, isn’t that all your paper wants?”—Life.
CHANCE TO GET EVEN
“Footlyte actually seemed pleased at leaving a $300-per-week theatrical engagement to serve as a $30-per-month sergeant in France.”
“Why not? Three dramatic critics are privates in his company.”
THE WAY THINGS LOOKED IN 1916
“Before I left the United States,” said Col. George Harvey in London, “I agreed with a Columbia professor who said preponderant power in men and money was bound to win the war; but now I have a stronger argument—one which fell from the lips of a recruiting sergeant in the Strand yesterday.
“‘Don’t you want to be on the winning side?’ said the soldier to a group of civilians who he was suggesting should don khaki.
“‘How do you know ours will be the winning side?’ asked a prospective recruit.