Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-01 | Page 12 | More Truth than Poetry

I More Truth Than Poetry. j j ' By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. 'j IT MUSTM SOMETHING. ELtl. Though Hobble Hume was not a man -To take hla r-teaeuree diyly, lie came of a herd headed clan I'ncvmmon shrewd and wily. And when tha highly glfttd Scot Made vera, ta flow and ripple, We may be certain It waa not With tipple. Lord Ilyron aometimea took a drink Ilia bitter lot to soften. Indeed, we have been led to think , He took one rather often. Hut when he tore hla curly lock. To get hi. inaplratlon He ever gut it tmough Intoxication. Intox-ication. . Though Shelley looked upon the cup , Whtn .ad and m.lanchollc, He didn't use hi. evening up In pleaauree alcoholic. Hl sei- eerse. In which we ttt JHK Hla .kill and genlua mingled, Wi ii-v penned when h. Wa. Jingled. And so, though Mr. Quiller Couch Insists when natlona banish . The demon rum and cut out hootch Their literature will vanish; ' And though our poeta may be alow And lacking In ambition, We don't believe It', due to pro- Hlbltlon. FORESIGHT. You never can ttll what may happen, which I probably why Mr. Dempaey haa gone to England, where there are .till a lot ot ehlpyarda a man could g.t a Job In In caa. of war. METEOROLOGICAL NOTE. It will alway be foul weather If Germany and Russia get together. NATURAL INDIGNATION. Mr. Wllsort haa been repudiating Mr. Tumulty. Evidently Evi-dently he at laat made up hla mind to read Mr. Tumulty' biography of him. ICopyrlgtat, lilt, by th. Ball Syndicate, lnc k