National Affairs: A Joke

Mr. Justice Sutherland was to have been entertained at dinner by the alumni of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity at the University Club in Washington. The dinner was cancelled at the last moment because the guests objected to the form of the invitations. Each invitation was issued in the form of a summons to which was appended a list of interrogatories dealing with the Volstead Law: "Have you a supply in your cellar or other place of concealment? . . . How much do you intend to bring? . . . Etc."

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