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THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE

Englishman and a Jew and an Irishman got wrecked on a desert island. Now you boys just stop me if you ever heard this one. Well, it seems these three fellows—

But say, before I go on with the story, I think you gentlemen might be interested in hearing just where it was that I heard it. As I say, we were on this fishing trip—

And I've traveled all around, and I certainly have seen a lot of the world, but I guess I'll never have a better time than I had on that trip. Here's how it all came about.

It happened I was attending a meeting of the Americanization Committee of the Zenith Chamber of Commerce. And say, whatever other honors may come to me, I want to tell you that I'll never take greater pride in anything than in having served on that committee, and when the Chamber of Commerce informed me that I was appointed to it, well sir, do you know, I felt like saying, "Boys, I don't know that I'm worthy of