A war profiteer was showing a visitor over hi? ncwly-acquircd country scat. At last they came to an avenue of young elms. “ These ’cro heliums,’’ ho cried, “ ain’t they fine trees? Kr «ourse, I'll never got the benefit, of them. 1 planted them for the benefit of my posteriors!” Whereupon (lie visitor quietly .-aid, ” What a mistake nor to plant birches,
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Evening Star, Issue 24137, 6 March 1942, Page 1
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