Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-27 | Page 13 | Meadow Lark Trills Message of Spring to Cheer Salt Lake in Grip of Winter

T Meadow Lark Trills Message of Spring To Cheer Salt s- s Lake in Grin GriD of Winter Note to City Editor Just to keep the record clear In Incase Incase incase case theres there's a complaint I impersonated im im- impersonated im- im personated you today I Just before the deadline when you were so busy correcting those errors In my mv c f copy Py- Py a lady called up to broadcast over the telephone telephone tele tele- phone the notes of a meadow meadow mea mea- dow lark outside her window I I thought the editor of The Telegram ought to hear this she said Harbinger of spring and andall andall andall all that you know I shouldn't have done it I guess but I just couldn't resist saying I was the editor You dont don't hear a meadow lark speak to you over overe tie the e telephone every day She said Just a minute now and evidently put the telephone out the window The teletype machines machines machines ma ma- chines were making quite a racket and the news editor was yelling I pretty loud at the copy desk but butI I did hear a chirp sort of a teakettle teakettle teakettle tea tea- kettle business I told her I couldn't be sure which was the bird chirping and which her steam radiator wheezing so she put the telephone outside again and sure enough there it was clear as a bell Well Vell sir I dont don't know know when Ive I've had a thrill like hearing that meadow lark over the telephone I guess it compares with the time last fall when a guy seeing we carried a picture of a carrot that looked like the Great Stone Face wanted to know if wed we'd care to o otake take a picture of two peas in a pod Im I'm sorry I did this Mr Editor Editor Editor Edi Edi- tor but I did want to win that gold star this week The woman wouldn't give me her name but she insisted it was the first sign of spring or something REWRITE MAN NO 7