Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 25 | More Truth than Poetry

I I 1 More Truth Than Poetry J JJ jL J L J By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE J JAN AN IF FOR STATESMEN If you ou can force lorce the Idle rich to loan us The money that they draw from mart and mill null Providing thus a way to pay the bonus And leave a little something in the tho till If It you can make the Income taxes lighter Not in the course of ot time Ume but right away So that next fall our prospects will be brighter Of or holding the predacious wolf at bay bay bay- If you can just adjust the rate of wages So every man may draw what pay he likes Thus making us secure through future ages From lockouts trade disputes and strikes If you OU can solve b by legislative action The question Js Is Is this nation wet or dry And nd solve it to the publics public's c satisfaction lon lonSo So that it will not plague us by t and id by b- i t If It you ou can calm all tumult and commotion By uttering a wore word of stern reproof To states across the eastern ocean And still keep us untangled and aloof It If you OU can build our trade and fill our c coffers And seo see that all the poor are clothed and fed ted r Despite tho Jibes and sneers of Idle scoffers Who Tho still sUII rush In where statesmen fear tear to tread tread You might assume that a deU delighted nation Would lift lilt their voices and their hats In air all EI Elect t you as their head by acclamation And seat you in the tho presidential chair You might assume that by the proletariat You'd be bo regarded as the candy kid Like J. J Augustus Caesar In his chariot chariot- But you'd oud be wrong old te fellow w. w Jf Jt you did lieS AMONG THE MISSING It begins to look as S It If tho the Potsdam Old Home week would have to be bo hold without Grandpa Ito IIo- WISER In This country has hos a bill bili against Germany of ot m moro nothan re no than a a. billion dollars but it will not collect till tin she sho gets some real money mony to pay It with THE ONLY REFUGE We 0 can eee see no reason why Amundsen wants to go to the North Pole unless he is Js sick of being surrounded with Cooks Cook's tourist on all an his travels THE MAIN THING Congressmen do not seem to care COre who Wilo make tho the laws as long as th they y get tho the committee appointments appoint appoint- ments Copyright 1923 1023 by Den Bell Syndicate Inc Ine L i dm i