Show 1 More Truth Than Poe Poetry oe z ry j 1 I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE I WASTED WARNING To mislead our youth we have lately been told Is wantonly woefully wrong The genius al alone ne Is permitted to mould The music and words of a song Why lead the Illiterate fancy astray When only the mentally fit Can fashion t the e kind of a rollicking lay lay That will ill make a great popular hit hit X I Though salesgirls and waiters walters and messenger boys Are at work on the praise of the charm Of various streams and the glorious joys Of life on the clover sown clover sown farm tarm How little they know of the things that they sing Though their souls may be wholly sincere How can they expect that their product will bring bringA A fortune Inside of ofa of-a a year ear The good and the wise have haie united at last To bring these young persons to see That great reputations may not be amassed By a a quivering tra la They are told to la laykoff Off ff of or the musicale musical stuff And the tear pulling g ditties to shun Until they have gained education enough To ITo know how chow the thing should be done don And yet does the y youth uth j Just st as s he lie lea learns In a grade school to write his own n name me Discover that daily he inwardly Inwardly- yearns writers writer's fame For Tor a popular r song And so he writes songs and were we're f forcers forced to admit For candor and honesty's sake That the worse it Is written the bigger the the hit His production I is likely to ma make e A UNCONGENIAL L. L We Ve wonder how Mr Ir Bryan will enjoy a Demo Democratic I cr cratic tic convention at at which he lie Is only an unofficial observer A AXIOMATIC The new nev senator from Minnesota has never a a. session of the senate Magnus l cannot be J minUS LUCK LUCKY FOR US r rAll All Englishmen cannot write hooks books which accounts accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts for the fact that we do not have to build more more lecture platforms in iii this country j Copyright 1923 by the Bell Syndicate Inc r I |