Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

pity for him didn’t prevent me from seeing the funny side of it.

     Schweitz insisted that there was only one side to the matter and that the serious side. Finally I began to discuss Jimmy Boyd who is a half-wit, as a comparison, first asking Schweitz if he didn’t laugh at Jimmy as he walked the streets. Schweitz admitted that he did, but went on to say that the two cases were entirely different. I said that Jimmy’smind was deformed and the other fellows face was deformed and asked him what the dif­ference was. He could not think of an answer to that.

About the middle of the afternoon we found ourselves with nothing to do, so after petering around awhile Schweitz and I went for a stroll in the shop. One of the things we wished to see was the new system of hammering tonneaus by machinery. Before it was done by hand. Another was the statue “Justice” being modelled by J.G. Segsman. On the second