Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-13 | Page 18 | More Truth than Poetry

, y j More Truth Than Poetry By JAMES J. MONTAGUE MERELY A CHANGE OF METHOD. Where's th. man you used to im at v.ry country fair. Who wrought Strang spalls With peas and shells And fllmflammed all ths rural swells. And ogled all ths jrustte ballssi With glancss dbonnatrT Tou cannot find him any mors' In Quoqu. or.8mlth.rw Fork . H. . gone to start a bucket shop la llttl old Nsw Torkl Whsrs's ths throa-card. monts man. who with th clrcu cams, . Whoee fingers, deft At subtle theft, Th. rustics ot th.lr aah bereft As they dlscovsred whsn h. left And closed his crooked gam.? No longer with th. circus now, Hs-wsndsrs up and down " Hs make. mor. In th. bucket shop lis run In Gotham town! Where s th. rh.p who porches ajtaxbodl amid th. Mlddl. V'Mt, Who stol by night 'Th widow' mil ' Or any sum h. found tn sight ' And took surreptitious flight To obviate arrest? The ptepU of th. Mlddl Wert . No more their pursM miss He's go to run a huckst shop In th mstro polls! i r HE NEVER HAD A .CHANCE. A New T rk waiter said he lost In Wall etrVet 137. SOS. whch he had saved from hi tips In seventeen seven-teen year. H must hava been a waiter tn a lunch wagon. FAIR EXCHANGE. Th Tictlm play th. bucket shop whll. th bucket shop works ths victim. enough. ; ; . W (rust this present nonstop erase won't lead any statesman to stsrt a nowatop war. STRATEGIC POSITION. ''..' Too often big buelnesa Is not sure whether the government I standing behind it tn order to boost tt or kick It. ' (Copyright, 1121, by lh Bell fiyndloat. Inc.) ' e