Show Ow Sings Praises of Telegram m Ar Artists Editor The Th T Telegram May I write publicly to the thc car car- Way Vay a authors thors of ot Out OUr j V and nd Our Boarding H HOuse use and deI de- de j I pe pond pend d On The The Telegram m getting my mr I message to then them t through rough the Peoples People's Peo Po pIes pIe's Corner I Dear W Williams lU ms and and Ahern Since ce the cartoons by both of you I ar are published by The Salt Lake Telegram I writing to you ou jointly joint ly through the paper Strange Strange- how we wUl will take so much for granted how we will becom J apathetic and indifferent allow people eople to entertain us without ever making the slightest ex exertion to tell them how splendidly they do it ho how much no we feel teel that they are apart a a.- apart part of our lives to our well being beng For fo foUr r- r years I have J been en deferring this letter ietter to toy y yOu u men mep I have wanted to write and tell you that I consider y you u to tobe tobe tobe be two of the best artists of your kind that ee ever lived You iou Ahern have havea a a. composite of the whole world with yo your r Hoople Hoopla and his associates in Out Our Boarding House Not only do lo do you perfectly perfect perfect- ly portray the ambiguity tendency to hyperbolic expression conceit and braggadocio of the entire human human hu hu- hu man race in old Hoople I but you put Into the die mouths of ot the Slims the most original humor and slang I I am wondering what what you finally expect to do with Jason Hoople final finally t taught him to exaggerate Th There re is a delicious irony there that i I doubt even ven you fully realize Williams You h have ve all the perfection perfection perfection per per- of ot expression and detail that Ahern has You maY may excel him with detail for you have larger subjects And of course you have havea a a. larger variety I understand that you have had some ranching It was not necessary to be told for I know that no man could so thoroughly depict the Incidents of cowboy life who had not lived it There is nothing t to be desired in that subject The machine shop crew craw is a a. little better than extra extra- ordinary It is is' is rigidly true to life I r know a good man mane workmen who cUp clip all an your cartoons and carry them to the tho s shop op I can only re repeat repeat re- re e- e peat al nfl all that praise for The rhe he Kids Sometimes yoU jou outdo yourself abit a abit bit but I have never never seen a a. mediocre medio medio- cre era one There is much more that tha I I might s say y but what is the use I 1 could never g give Ve you an adequate id idea a of how much my ray wile wife and I enjoy the products of you gentlemen And we share our enjoyment with others I trust both of or you outlive me me-I me I expect ex ex- to live 50 60 years more VERNON TAYLOR |