"O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL"

"It's a great world if you weaken just a little" is undoubtedly one of the pernicious phrases which indicate the nation-wide slump in morals, the fearful after-math of the War. It wormed its way in to the unsuspicious midst of the Lampoon and the latter, suddenly becoming aware of this monster in a pill-box, has cast it forth with just indignation. The president in his statement certainly makes the spot on the Lampoon's scutcheon larger than it really is. To say that it had "maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations" is almost equivalent to saying "Have some coffee with your cream". Surely in this case the "cream" is rather an exception.

And even if Lampy has rambled occasionally from the straight and narrow path, the best of men have their slips. Bunyan's Pilgrim missed his way more than once. Everyone has been certain that the sheep would eventualy return to the fold and everyone will readily forgive the soot on its wool. Even if the circulation does fall off, Lampy can rejoice that it is a cleaner and better sheet.