Show Meet l the Man Who'll Write a Daily Poem for fOT You I V I I V i V We Ve have with us today today- Edmund Vance Cooke The famous poet and philosopher has joined the staff of The Telegram Salt Lake reades will enjoy the dall daily poems of the author of How Did You Die The Moo Cow and Otto and the Auto His first poem written as a staf member of The Telegram is his greeting to his old friends here and the new friends he Is about hout to make malte- Just Shaking Hands With You Cooke is the author of thirteen books of verse the most famous of which are Impertinent Po Pot ms and Chronicles of tho Little Tot ToL Hes He's known in every city and hamlet hamlet hamlet ham ham- let of the land laud as a poet if not as a plat platform onn speaker reading his own o verses His Ills first printed poem appeared Ina in ina ina a Cleveland paper when ho was 12 years old He was born In Canada winning sufficient fame as a poet to bring him his dally daily bread he worked as clerk in a sewing hewing machine factory Since James Whitcomb Rileys Riley's death Cooke has been recognized a. a as Americas America's foremost living poet of ot the tha child and the home His How Did Dd You Die is the most quoted modern poem Billy Sunday uses uses It in his sermons Ex- Ex Governor Folk of Missouri said I I would rather be the author of How Did You Yeu Die than hold the highest office in tho the land A p pro professor lessor fessor had it sent to all the French I soldiers at the front Cooke wrote it for the Saturday Evening Post in 1902 Cookes Cooke's four children have been the inspiration of many of his verses The Shave Store was written around a chance remark of his daughter after she accompanied him to a barber shop lIes He's a favorite with all children In Chicago ho talked Hn und end verse to school children in a months month's stay under the auspices of ot the Chicago schools thirteen He's Hes crossed the country times on lecture tours and has spoken in every state but one Cookes Cooke's poems are aio collected collect d in thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen volumes A Patch of Pansies out of print Rimes Himes to Be Read Head Impertinent Poems Chronicles of the Little Tot Told to tho the Little Tot t I 1 Rule the House Little j I Songs for Two The Story Club Just Then Something Happened I Lets The Uncommon Commoner Keep Good io d Humored B and A orning's Mail Mall Quite an addition to The Telegram staff dont don't you think Read Just Shaking Hands With You and Where Lincoln Stood and Wheat I and A Valentine to the Devil and to Do Till June June all all poems Which Cooke has just written for Salt Lake readers readers and and say so I |