Humorist

In a Heidelberg beer hall light-hearted William Bardwell Curts, 20-year-old American student, indulged his alcoholic fancy by scrawling a humorous verse on the guest book:

The Fuehrer has no wife,

The carpenter has no lumber,

The butcher has no meat--

That's the Third Reich.

Nearby Nazis peeked, failed to see the joke, began to slug, and Humorist Curts landed in the Heidelberg cooler. Shrewdly he wrote to his guardian in California: "The beating I received did me a lot of good. . . . Only through this beating did I really get an opportunity to know the German people. . . . How beautiful, how industrious, how serene it is here in Germany. ..." Again the Nazis peeked and, touched by such sincere repentance plus representations from the U. S. State Department, the Ministry of Justice last week decided to release young Curts after only a month in jail.

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