Worrying Won't Win

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Glass Montague. Worrying Won't Win

I. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS THE CZAR BUSINESS

II. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON SOAP-BOXERS AND PEACE FELLERS

III. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON FINANCING THE WAR

IV. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON BERNSTORFF'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT

V. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS ON THE FRONT PAGE AND OFF

VI. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON HOOVERIZING THE OVERHEAD

VII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

VIII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON LORDNORTHCLIFFING VERSUS COLONELHOUSING

IX. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON NATIONAL MUSIC AND NATIONAL CURRENCY

X. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON REVOLUTIONIZING THE REVOLUTION BUSINESS

XI. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS THE SUGAR QUESTION

XII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS HOW TO PUT THE SPURT IN THE EXPERT

XIII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON BEING AN OPTICIAN AND LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

XIV. THE LIQUOR QUESTION – SHALL IT BE DRY OR EXTRA DRY?

XV. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON PEACE WITH VICTORY AND WITHOUT BROKERS, EITHER

XVI. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON KEEPING IT DARK

XVII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON THE PEACE PROGRAM, INCLUDING THE ADDED EXTRA FEATURE AND THE SUPPER TURN

XVIII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON THE NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

XIX. MR. WILSON: THAT'S ALL

XX. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS THE GRAND-OPERA BUSINESS

XXI. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS THE MAGAZINE IN WAR-TIMES

XXII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER ON SAVING DAYLIGHT, COAL, AND BREATH

XXIII. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS WHY IS A PLAY-GOER?

XXIV. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS SOCIETY – NEW YORK, HUMAN, AND AMERICAN

XXV. POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DISCUSS THIS HERE INCOME TAX

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"People 'ain't begun to realize yet what this war really and truly means, Mawruss," Abe Potash said as he finished reading an interview with ex-Ambassador Gerard, in which the ex-ambassador said that people had not yet begun to realize what the war really meant.

"Maybe they don't," Morris Perlmutter agreed, "but for every feller which 'ain't begun to realize what this war really and truly means, Abe, there is a hundred other fellers which 'ain't begun to realize what a number of people there is which goes round saying that people 'ain't begun to realize what this war really and truly means, y'understand. Also, Abe, the same people is going round begging people which is just as patriotic as they are that they should brace up and be patriotic, y'understand, and they are pulling pledges to hold up the hands of the President on other people who has got similar pledges in their breast pockets and pretty near beats 'em to it, understand me, and that's the way it goes."

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"We've got to allow them," Abe replied. "The Constitution protects them."

"What do you mean – the Constitution protects them?" Morris said. "Here a couple of weeks ago a judge in North Carolina gives out a decision that the Constitution don't protect little children eleven years old from being made to work in factories, y'understand, and now you are trying to tell me that the same Constitution does protect these here loafers! What kind of a Constitution have we got, anyway?"

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