Just before he left the Federal Building, John Allen asked one of the deputy marshals what case was being tried before Judge Mayer. (It was the case of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.)
“I noticed a man and a woman and I wondered who they were. What did they do?” he asked.
“They are anarchists and they are on trial for urging men not to register for the war,” the Marshal replied.
“Those are the kind’er folks who are responsible for boys like this one of mine gettin’ in trouble,” John Allen observed. “We don’t have folks like that down our way.”
CONSOLING INFORMATION
Mrs. S. Kensington—“We have such good news from the front! Dear Charles is safely wounded, at last!”
HE WAS ALL RIGHT
Doctor—“Why were you rejected?”