Show c- c q 4 I More Truth Than Poetry J 1 By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE I 0 o 9 A LAMENT Mr Bryan has decided to d discontinue the Commoner Commoner Com moner Most Yost editors will now and then To meet a changing situation j Revise their views on public men Who Vho sally t forth rth to save the nation Today the papers speak them fair i Tomorrow heap them with discredit v Consistency Is rather rare Among the gentlemen that edit One grieves ves In this Inconstant age age i J When fresh tresh opinions spring eternal To note the exit from the stage O o Of one ne unchanging steadfast Journal ince Mn Mr Bryan first first- b became ame A menace to the money power Since breathing wordS word of ot scorching flame fiame He made the wolves of ot Wall Vall street cower He always has been praised d or blamed Called lofty lotty or erratic Ex Exalted highly or defamed In phrases vivid and emphatic But while the predatory press Was urging voters to abhor him Without a quiver aquiver of ot distress The Commoner was always to for him Aye yo loyal was that faithful sheet 11 Its eager fervor un undiminished Though in the pitfall of ot defeat The mighty ty statesman three times Umes finished I i II With all a a. martyrs martyr's noble zeal With all the courage of ot a lion For or bad for tor woe or weal It stilt still was strong for tor Mr Yr Bryan Too bad Its ts death knell now must sound For In this world of ot warring nations Such constancy is seldom found In either men or publications 1 j I AMERICAN STYLE The only legal course for tor trans Atlantic liners s to be to brew it on n board while they are still stUl a s till within the three-mile three limit AT THE PRESENT RATE if It France will only wait walt a little while the German German Ger Ger- man offers will wUl be offers to accept an in indemnity j A MYSTERY SOLVED Too fresh tresh liquor weakens weaken the mind which explains ex explains explains ex- ex plains somo somo of the movie scenarios which are put putout o out ut a short distance north of ot Tin TIa Juana PREPAREDNESS A Judge has held that a a. married man has hu a right to 0 t o carry a pistol It Is about time NOTHING NEW NEWIn In In New Jersey they are making great preparations Ions for tor the annual nonstop mosquito swatting con con- est test suspicious The reduction In Inthe the price o of gasoline by the Standard Oil company looks as it if John D D. and Henry jenry Ford have effected d a merger 1923 by the hell Bell Syndicate Inc I I |