Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-06-15 | Page 2 | Page Southwick! Butterflies and Bees Drunkards

Page Southwick Butterflies and Bees Drunkards 1 OMES now a new violator of I COMES the prohibition law in Utah V and one that it seems impassible impossible impossible sible to prevent from becoming becoming becoming becom becom- ing intoxicated Not only that but this violator of the law i is the tho poor little hard working ever toiling bee which is the state emblem and coupled with him or her is the beautiful beautiful beau beau- yellow swallow tailed butterfly Attention of one of the state of officers officers officers of- of whose business it is to see nee that the prohibitory law is enforced was directed dire ted in a letter suggesting that the tha author of the bill notified so that the inebriety of the busy bee and the beautiful butterfly be be stopped by legislation of some kind The Tha letter points out that coming with the early dawn the bees ben seat themselves within the crimson calyx of the tho poppy blooms and imbibe the juices of the poppy until they ar are overcome by the tho deleterious effects I of the beautiful flower They be become become become be- be come intoxicated and are no longo long long- er able t to o maintain their seats seab or footings but lay upon their backs I in in a beastly state of intoxication and wave their legs and feet in disgraceful disgraceful dis dis- graceful defiance of the neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- neighbor neighbor- hood and contrary to the peace and of the state The yellow tailed butterfly does I Inot not seek the tho bloom of the crimson I poppy but resorts to the bloom of I 1 Ithe the blue annual larkspur From the nectar which the beautiful butterfly secretes from the pretty blue blossom blossom blos bios I som corn it like the tho bee becomes intoxicated intoxicated and disorderly The writer of the letter suggests that something be done to stop unseemly unseemly un un- unseemly seemly conduct upon the tho part of the busy boa bee and the tho beautiful butter- butter fly