INFINITE PROHIBITION

Many people agree that prohibition is a calamity, others are satisfied with calling it a mistake, but all unite in saying that the federating features of the whole situation is in the fact that we are still able to laugh about it. But we must not laugh at it; in order to be effective the calamity must be complete. The country should bury itself in gloomy meditations; to make fun of in is but to sin again. Our Director of Information of National Prohibition Headquarters has made the statement that prohibition jokes are to be suppressed, with the theatres as a starting-point.

Not that anyone would object to the exit of the very sad prohibition jokes--but he resents the implication that he may not make such a joke whenever the spirit so moves him. Humor, however, is irrepressible; and the ridiculousness of the plan itself causes the prohibited to chuckle. As a contributor to the New York Times has pointedly asked, "will we have to have still another law prohibiting jokes about the suppression of prohibition jokes?

We leave it to the mathematicians with their slide rules to figure out whether the problem can be solved this side of infinity.