I believe then, personally as well as professionally, in the importance of the part to be played by honest laughter in making life easier and, so, happier. “My son,” says the proverb, “get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.” That is, a sense of proportion which is, again, merely such a sense of humor as will enable us to see ourselves as others see us, a faculty that we are fast losing—how fast is evidenced clearly by the fact that while we were never more ready to laugh at others, we are rapidly losing the saving grace of laughing at ourselves. The heterodox trend in modern art, music, and drama is, like the politico-economic ideology it reflects, entirely devoid of humor. The Pagan philosophy of an earlier heresy was based upon the statement, “Tomorrow we die.” But, it advocated on the way the policy of eat, drink, and be merry.