Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-03-01 | Page 6 | The Call of the Wild

The Cell of the Wild WE ARE beginning to resllxe what is resulting result-ing In London, and other overcrowded European Eu-ropean cities where claustrophobia may be mora prevalent than wa suppose, from American rodeo exhibitions and the showing of filmed horse operas portraying romance and adventure adven-ture In our wild open spaces. Impressionable (iris overseas arc being seized with the Idea of riding the range, toying with lariats, yelling "Ylpee-e-" and discarding' skirts for chsperajos breve with flowing goat fleece and the gay passementerie passe-menterie of aborigine silversmiths. They yearn to be cowgirls, free souls out under the stars among the cacti, in the saddle riding hell-for-leather after potential steaks and pot roasts. Many of them are doing something about It There was Mile. d'Estourne, who wrote to a Wyoming postmaster to put her In touch with a rich unmarried rancher. A Dublin girl wrote to a senator to ask the prospects of getting on aa a hard girl on "some ranch where there arc young cowboys anS Indians." Maria O'Leary of Middle, IS, who asked Mayor Erwln to land her a Job as a cowgirl, writes now that she is In communication with J. E. Belcher of Mineral Wells, Texas, and that "my thrills have already begun." Latest applicant to Mayor Erwln is Miss L. the wild west and love seeing picture of it" wanting the real thing, a job on a ranch. "I don't want to become a Hollywood cowhand," she says in her letter. The thing seem to be taking on epidemic proportions. But haven't these girls longing to be at homo en the range got their mayors mixed? After all, Vtah has only on "cowboy mayor." We haven't the slightest suspicion that Mayor Erwln is trying try-ing to born in on any fame belonging to another. Tentacles THE continuing story of polios graft in Ban Francisco has afforded many horrible examples exam-ples of what should not happen in cities. To other municipalities it should be a tipoff or warning, and If the cap fits, don't wear it, but get a new one. Here's the latest: A policeman is in the dock charged with accepting a bribe from a woman operating a disorderly house. A state's witness against the policeman refuse to testify.- The witness had admitted to the prosecuting attorney before the trial that he had offered the bribe in the woman' behalf. Before the trial the policeman police-man admitted that he had accepted it But now the witness Is mute. "The tentacles of the underworld are too 'long and too strong, your honor. They have reached (his witness, and he no longer is any good to us." It was the prosecutor addressing . the court, hi record cleared. That is what happen in cities where administrations ad-ministrations permit the underworld to organize, organ-ize, gain power, corrupt officials and defect justice. San Francisco is far from being alone in suffering. It is not so much slang as an apt figure of speech to say that the country is lousy with cities similarly afflicted.