[PW] my traditional New Year's questions

[Solomons1pal at aol.com]

Colleagues,  

In keeping with a now-ancient tradition (at least five years  old), I ask the 
questions that I always ask early each year:
 
1.  Some years ago, a Congressman's wife, making a campaign speech for  her 
husband, pleaded with the audience to re-elect him, saying "He doesn't know  
how to do anything else!"  Who said this, when, and where?
 
2.  During World War II, members of the USAAF sang a song of which the  
refrain goes, "Fly low and slow, said his mother"  Details of the song,  please.  
Failing that, does anyone know of a source that might help  me?
 
3.  Many years ago I read somewhere the dictum, "We learn not by  experience, 
but by experiment."  Who wrote this?  (There are many  sayings that are 
somewhat similar, but I'm looking for the explicit contrast of  "experience" and 
"experiment")
 
4.  Some writer on the Anglo-American criminal justice system said  somewhere 
that the trouble with it was that it was designed to keep the peace in  a 
sleepy English village.  Who said it, etc.?
 
5.  I've read that there is a Spanish proverb that goes, "Take what  you want 
-- and pay for it."  Is there really such a proverb? (even John  Dyson hasn't 
been able to answer this one, which means it's really tough)
 
6. The literary critic and political radical Irving Howe said, "Socialism  is 
the name of our hope!"  Where, when, etc?
 
   Anyone correctly answering any of these gets a (small) box of  Godiva 
chocolates.  
 
                   Mark Halpern