Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-25 | Page 4 | Romance by Proxy

RO ROMANCE BY PROXY have almost almost almost al- al ALTHOUGH ALTHOUGH ocean flights grown most commonplace lately we still get just about as excited as ever we did when two fliers whom we had thought dead turn up alive Moyle and Allen didn't accomplish what they set out to accomplish Even if they had the tangible value of their achievement would have been somewhat questionable But because they disappeared over the ocean and were given up for lost and then came ame to light after a sojourn ourn on a barren island they hold our interest and we are eager to read all we can about them The craving for adventure is one of ot therace's therace's the races race's oldest and surest instincts Most of ofus ofus ofus us never get much of an outlet for it Shuttling Shuttling Shuttling Shut Shut- back and forth between home and Job we never take any more serious risks than those which rush-hour rush traffic th thrusts upon us wreathed Fog-wreathed islands off the Alaskan coast are arc not for us The adventure we get has Ilas to be second That is why w we make so much of chaps like Moyle and Allen Through them we i have escaped escaped if if only for a moment or so Through them we have been lifted out of the daily routine and given a taste of the adventure adventure adventure ture we dream about They give us back our lost youth youth the the real youth that is an attitude and not a matt matter r of years Each of us has his own shackles and we would not give them up Instead we go adventurIng adventuring adventuring ad ad- venturing by proxy and our spirits take leave of familiar surroundings for the length of time it takes to read a col column mn in the news news- paper