V.gabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

There'll be "LOTSA" FUN for everyone around here in the next three weeks. Laughs for everyone who likes to fold up his face in a grin.

"LOTSA" FUN is an" ".-" t *, new book of favorite stories that is now in the hands of the printer. It will be ready for delivery between the twentieth and twenty-fifth of this very good month of November.

Three years ago r t,rri"a -i oooo of favorite darkey stories"CULLUD" FUNloose on an unsuspecting world. All I hoped and planned in that book was to give my favorite "nigger" stories to my family and friends. But at the end of three years "CULLUD" FIIN is selling just as steadily as in the beginning. >F**

Encouraged by that success to publish something even broader in the way of laugh-producers, I have been working for a year on another book of stories not confined to the negro dialect. If the world gets as many laughs from reading it as I have in typing and compiling it, it too will be a huge success.

,F :8 rt rt wilt be a more *"rrur"lrrir"Ju uoot than "cuLLUD" FUN because of its much greater variety. The best authority on "nigger" stories I know told me that, to his amazement, he found sixty per cent of the stories in "CUILUD" FUN were new to him. I have no doubt that the most gifted and trained story-teller will find fully sixty per cent of the stories in the new book, "LOTSA" FUN, both new and useful.

Within its covers I have written all of the grand stories I have loved and told during the past generation, save only those darkey stories already printed in "CULLUD" FUN. There are many darkey stories that I have told since I wrote "CULLUD" FUN. And in addition there are Swede stories, Scotch stories, Canadian French (Cannuck) stories, Cajen French (Louisiana) stories, Italian stories, English stories, Hebrew stories, mountain stories, rural stories, political stories, drunk stories, goofy stories, hair-lip stories, stammering stories, and every other sort of story that I have collected and told.

To me this seems to offer a treasure-chest to public speakers and story-tellers, because I have bought every promising book of stories I ever had offered me in my life, and I have yet to secure one that gave rne more than one new and worth-while story that I could use. So a book containing hundreds of stories new and useful, or old and wonderful, should be something of an addition to that quantity of the human race that loves to laugh.

"LOTSA" FUN is O"*, n*r*hed in handsome blue and gold cloth binding, all first editions will be autographed, and orders will be filled in the order of their arrival. I expect to sell several thousand for Christmas presents. Wot a Christmas gift to a laugh-loving person ! 'k**

You can send your order now, and the book will be in your hands by the first of December at the latest. The cost is two dollars, post paid. Send the do-re-me. I don't like to send bills. Just send your two bucks to me care of The California Lumber Merchant, 318 Central Building, 108 West Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif., and you'll get the book hot off the press. You can send in the list of friends you want it sent to, and we'll send it with your card and compliments.

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It means "LOTSA" FUN to brighten up the winter. I have reason to believe that every person who got "CULLUD' FUN loved it. And I believe you'll love "LOTSA" FUN even more. You'll see ! **rk

That's all about the story book. A friend of mine told me he made a tour through the Los Angeles jail the other day, and on the back of a cell, scratched into the metal with some hard, sharp tool, he saw these words, left by some former inmate: "There'll be days, in here, when you think you just can't stand it. BUT YOU WILL." Some philosopher, that prisoner, whoever he was.

Press reports say afr"a Wifri"rl n"rraotph Hearst, multimillionaire newspaper publisher, is moving his residence from California because of high taxes. No use, Randolph. You cannot dodge'em. Go where you will, they are going to follow and catch up with you. Five years from today, when all the social security philanthropies are in full blast, and when we are beginning to pay the bill for the spending orgy of these days, every man will pay at least fifty cents out of every dollar he earns, FOR TAXES. No

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