Show ROGERS ROGER I Ia NEW YORK CITY CITY l 1 used to write writ a good deal about what whet I read In the tapers papers But Dut you know I 1 been reading a lot of ot these other oSher Writes Writers of Sundays Sun Sundays days das and the they write mostly about and they seem leem to b be doing mighty well too I It 11 seems e e m I that a away way b back a c IE In Caesars Caesar's or or ur earl days t there b ere was some old Writer v called Pepy and all he did was Will just write what he did Well he do much but write for tor there much nuch to do in days day Ob Oh yes ea drink Well he had bad some kind of peculiar ways of ot saying things and hIs bis hIss s spelling polling was bad I cant personally stand anybody with bad spelling 1 l am amoU off oU anybody that cant spell Hut But this thia old fellow lellow could make noth noth- lag Ing ng sound good the way ay be he laid it on the be line llo He had bad two expressions and If f he Just ho happened louse them than why Yo hy none of our modern Writers could have hare copied him for all they hey can coo copy him In they just use hese these two lines over again and again and think they are doing a One was I Laye aye late and the ether was Woke betimes Well Nell I 1 am going to do some of ot that Lay hating and Woke b betimes Umes I I 1 will start nn on on mv my my trIo trin pant east from II a couple of at weeks ago The night before 1 I started 1 l Lay Late No 1 J It was two wo nights before 1 J started that 1 I lay late The morning that hat 1 l started I lay layso so late In Tact fact I 1 lay hardly at all I 1 haco haL haG to o catch an Aeroplane that was Will leaving away over oer In Burbank Cal That not Burbanks home Its Jim Jefferies and I l was away out at my little ranch at Santa Santo Monica It was leaving around Five o'clock and aud you cant do much Laying late end And make that kind of at a getaway o wn w. v Burbank and Glendale look mighty II sparkling like from tram the early earll dawn then out over Los Angeles Its spread o out t well you have to look at It by lights to see how far tar It Is le spread put out then out over Los Angeles Then noth noth ing to see till we hit bit Phoenix or near Phoenix where the Irrigation lads lads' start In Those thousands of flat Oat squares are beautiful from the air At Phoenix was met by a band of Citizens that wanted me to stay over or come back to a bl big affair where they were going to have bave 17 rail road dents at the Fruit Shippers Conven tion and they was going to have a Golf Game between the seventeen and seventeen Vice Presidents were to Caddy for tor them That would be notIng not notIng Ing lug new they have been carrying t r flag Bag for lor em all the time Then en cu down over Tombstone Ariz and the next gas s stop was Tuscon Another had some kind of ot a Racket the they y wanted me to top stop over and enter Into loto No it was Douglas Douglas' where this bunch h was It w was as on the Mexican line 1 J have minded Ih thorn there rA men Illen on to El EI Paso raso bad had Lunch changed PRots got there about P P. P M. M about three days ride on the train then started across Texas Now you have bave started something Oh Yes des I 1 am leaving out some of ot these Woke Betimes At each stop atop I Woke Voke Betimes for I l slept all the rest of ot the way Well Welt I 1 Lay late a at BIg Springs and like to not Woke Betimes Be times to see another that wanted to draw my attention to a 15 story brick hotel that 1 J would pass over as we e passed over the town ton on leaving Associated Press man there and he be gO got everything wrong but the name of the T Town n and misspelled It Then to Sweet J My in tn all my dreams dream I 1 bavent i sung that old song since 1920 There I 1 woke betimes and Amon G. G Carter had a special Plane to meet me to take me to Ft Worth For be he want 1 me to have bave to see Dallas Had Iliad a nice night there woke l t betimes met a lot lotof lotof of ot nice folks talk that ft ft sae nu 10 w can candle lIan dle die my little Charity Chary Char i ity tour through i b the State then flew up to Tulsa where DIe net met equally as nice bunch for tor Okla Then drove my DIY Auto 4 45 miles to Chelsea and spent spen the night at my only Sisters home borne saw saw a new Niece baby nice Baby too had bad tiDe flue visit lots of my family Lay Lal late No not there awoke betimes be bey times lines then caught the plane for lor St. St Louis Louie was going to Chicago but just at ar both planes was 1111 pulling out grabbed the one for tor Columbus Ohio and New York Comedians never neTer know what wha they thel are doing take the money monel for tor my fare lare on the plane so 10 everybody bad had to wait walt till they went wen and got the ticket fixed up They will wll trust the Pilots with your life but no not with 19 which was the fare tare to Colum trill bus Cot Got to Indianapolis was met b by some Newspaper friends and Co work era ers of ot the Indianapolis News Talked about Kin Hubbard the late Humorist Abe Martin startle They told me my ml Junk bad had took his old place on the back bac page which It had occupied for lor 2 25 5 years lean Imagine me trying to replace him That would woul be like Clara Bow Dow replacing Mrs Chapman Cato CatL So long I am aD going to Lay late S a I 1931 JI dicu I 1 |