Show 01 0 1 More Truth Than Poetry J J J I By JAMES JA ES J J. J MONTAGUE A VANISHED RACE i iI I miss t the e ghosts that ye year r Cut up their horrid capers t t Whose dreadful doings would appear In all aU the daily papers S They filled d the tho milk man with alarm At two o'clock each morning S Th They frightened folk foIl upon the farm With many mahy a grisly warning J S r t Where are are they they now Where have theY fled Bey Beyond nd this earthly portal It cannot b be that they are tre dead dead dead- For spirits aro are Immortal S They haunt no more deserted cots Or more pretentious quarters No more they walk Want through vacant lots Pursued by keen reporters I They came in troops a year ago They rattled farm h house use latches t i t S They figured wandering to and fro c In all the tho news dispatches Through flimsy fleeting midnight mists them v vAnd Psychologists Psychologists' pursued And many leading novelists oJ t r- r Went out and Interviewed them 3 And now they're gone no more mor they loom With phosphorescent features p f. f S STo To frighten pe people in the gloom Gaunt terrifying creatures S No more about them do we see seo l I In any any dally daily story S Ive I've come coma to that it must be S That ghosts are migratory S OLD STUFF I 1 S The expression It fill itil will come out right In the wash was thought up before the days of laundries STRANGE Russia anti anil are now the only really p peaceful peaceful peace peace- ace ace- ful fut countries in Europe HARDLY POSSIBLE There There Thero are ro many people in in this country who would favor the appointment of a n. commission to fix fixa a fair fall pi price ice for foi liquor I AN EXCEPTION The go getter go-getter is the man who gets the money mone- except in Germany Copyright 1923 by the Bell Dell Syndicate Inc l S S S1 5 l' l 1 S r J t S 'S tt c S |