Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-06-10 | Page 4 | More Truth than Poetry

o" . More Truth Than Poetry By JAMES J. MONTAGUE 1 A WATCHER OP THE SKIES. A time there waa when Unci. aA'hll. plodding down tha lanea. Full frequently would cock hla eye Aloft for aeroplanee. Car they were veiy new and strange. Bome ten years hack or more. And every tlma they came In range He'd gape to aea 'cm aoar. Hut later, when aerial mall Flew dully o'er tru farm. To atatid around and watch It aall Foon lost Ita .ajiler charm. At dawn and duak acroaa tha aky. The whining monatera aped, Quite unobserved by t'nel. HI, Who n.var ralaed hla heed. But now all work around tha lot Our relative disdalna. a ' His reason being that haa got To search for aeroplanes. In haste he turka his meala away. Ha very seldom alee pa, But on tha roof, by night and day, An eager vigil kepe. For aeroplanee are laden now a With hootch from Montreal, And HI haa made a aolemn vow That If a plane ahould fall On any portion of hla land. Or tha adjacent road, 11a will not fall to be on hand So ha can claim tha load. CYNICAL. Wa know a bachelor who aaya that tha only sold light la tha light that Ilea In woman a eye.. INEVITABLE. It beglna to look aa If th. bootlegger, would eoon be peddling coal aa a alda Una. A TRIFLE BEHIND THE TIMES-According TIMES-According to Commissioner Kniight. tha laat crime In New York waa tha crime of "71. APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE, l.uthar Burbank has not yet aucceeded In producing cantaloupea that taste Ilk. cantaloupea. iCoairrtabl ma. ky tha Bail Syadlcata. In a.)