Show I y I I LETTER TO THE EDITOR EDITO R A little while ago a well-man well and like business-like gentle gentle- gentlemen gentlemen men dropped dro ped into our midst and let it accidentally be known that t his appearance here was for tor the purpose of constructing pump houses along the proposed oil pie line He admitted that he represented one of the largest pump companies This admitted connection lent respect and I dignity to the project and he immediately went about setting up an organization of men lucky to be first on the inside and con con- contracting for materials Some of I these fortunate men quit humdrum hum hum- humdrum drum mediocre jobs to be super super- superintendents superintendents or foremen His or or- or organization i was like the Mexican I Ican can Army more Army more generals than privates Rooms Booms wore were rented at quiet tourist homes for his army I of supervisors rs Bus lines were e iz I I organized g to carry a s 's workers er ere to various stations From r rs rt the t size SU SUps ps I of his operations it was s obvious VI I that there would be pump houses hou es I about every two miles and I enough force to push the oil nil around the world and back into the ground This writer writE with visions of f fat material sales was to locate this philanthropic bene bene- benech benefactor factor in f ch this who vicinity 1 was s as a s very v well rl busy ba bas ban as s in n man manin the field passing out plums or picking pick pick- picking ing suckers So during my first trip into nat Salt Lake f ea a hurry up ln call l was made at the Salt S Lake City office of the pump company I illusions of business The Theoffice Theoffice office was surprised at the news and shocked to think that such sucha I a project had been started in their playground unknown to them It just wasn't fair and they seemed hurt Telegraph wires began to warm up and some of the boys went looking for that nice new boss DOSS he wasn't to be found Maybe he didn't like the climate Poss Poss- PossIbly Poss Poss- Possibly he be remembered that he had forgotten something at home Anyway he evaporated Faces began to redden but not from sunburn The checks written bythe by bythe I the prolific prolific gentleman were closely scrutinized and found tobe to tobe I be not so good They wouldn't hold water but were somewhat elastic and good anywhere but at the bank We have since been Informed that our financier was tapped on bythe the shoulder in Denver by bythe the FBI or maybe a talent scout for the booby hatch Anyway he he was wad taken out of circulation Things Thins have down a little since and some of the boys have put away their and gone cone back to their old jobs which were not so bad after all The next t tt time a glib lib stranger t n and comes co into I town t and antie tries to sellus sell us a live dinosaur or the Echo Park Dam we had better make sure than he has a sales license N LISCOMB |