"I can't understand this code of ethics."

"What code is that?"

"The one which makes it all right to take a man's last dollar, but a
breach of etiquette to take his last cigaret."


Tom Johnson claims that the oldest joke is the one about the Irish
soldier who saw a shell coming and made a low bow. The shell missed
him and took off the head of the man behind him. "Sure," said Pat, "ye
never knew a man to lose anything by being polite."




EUROPEAN WAR


War is evidently a losing game when it takes a country forty-two years
to pay for what she destroyed in a little more than four.


A dusky doughboy, burdened under tons of medals and miles and miles of
ribbons, service and wound chevrons, stars et al., encountered a
27th Division scrapper in Le Mans a few days prior to the division's
departure for the States.