Show I r- r More Truth Than P Poetry etry I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE AGUE INVITING TROUBLE The Irish Free State has made application to Join the League of or Nations Were We're glad we do not have ha to to wrestle With International disputes Were We're glad were we're not Lord R Robert Rpbert bert Cecil Nor in iii the king kind of or Belgium's boots Content we are to live Jive sequestered And say Though statesmen The Th row and fuss tuss league of or nations shant shan't be pestered By Py tips from us us But now our silence mu must t be broken Lest harmony be tossed tosso away A A word of ot warning must be spoken Or there will be the deuce The to pay Turks and Stays Slavs can be united The Tho Spaniards and the Portuguese By soft persuasions may bo ho plighted To live JIve In itt peace The Japs Taps will 4 sheathe their And shining sabre sabres cease their of ot Banzai B To live in concord with their neighbors If It pro It they may gain thereby And even overt In due season For peace may be a- a supplicant supplicant- The Russ Rues can be convinced by reason reMOn- The Irish cantWe cant cent We Wa Mt hold 1 them high In admiration A t. t 1 i their tempers tempera may be short They Tuey are a a. gr great at and glo glorious ous nation nUo But peace baa has never been their forte torte Soft Sott words hold hod not their fists In fetter And if Ir the world the league would win To general concord It had better Not let them In IN lN PERIL The first thing Senator Lafollette knows he will be be adjudged be judged adjudged in itt contempt of ot the world court THE ADVANTAGE OF WEALTH Henry Ford is going to try to burn coal twice That Is what money will do Most rost of ot us cannot afford to burn It oven even once POETIC JUSTICE A A seizure and law applied to unclean books will wUl at least get a lot of or bzook borrowers In Into o trouble RENDERING THEM VALUELESS Those SILENCE gns ID iu Pullman cars care are al always ali al ways placed where they cannot be seen by toy the engineers of ot yard engines in the stations Copyright 1323 1923 by the Bell Beil syndicate t |