Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-31 | Page 6 | Truth About West Learned

TRUTH ABOUT I II I LEARNED WEST LEARNED r Fears calS of Bandits Snakes and Tarantulas Fail Faill to Materialize By y EDWIN GREEK GRIER President Greer School of Electrical l and ind Automotive Trades Chicago It is outrageous lying the deliberate stuffing of automobile tour tour- tourists tourIsts tourists from the effete east enst with Hh Ith a pact pac pack of the most fantastic yams the ic- ic leI westerner mer can can Invent Each I season s sees secs formidable r additions d to roc ISy the stock and an increasing SI supply of new victims gullible beyond human comprehension I BANDIT nA DIT FICTION An j Interested group gathers and the fireworks f commence Brother h he b is gravely informed you you sure started for the the sight ight place You'll be a new man when hen you jou ou reach rench Los Angeles that Is lowering his voice olce mysteriously if you get there alive I What do you mean Jones' Jones dor dor- dormant dorI dormant mant fears flare Into a ft bright flame brother that's what I I mean mean his new friend whispers hoarsely The bandits are out If Just an ordinary I man Id I'd were mans e u advise i you jou to turn right r back k They They're re rerunning running wild in fn New Mexico SELLS SNAKE S KE ROPE ROrE Beyond the quicksand country Jones ran into the reptile one struck Awe he sat at the feet of a storekeeper r who Initiated him l Into I WI a k the terrors of o the e rattlesnake k country u beyond By way wa of tuition he sold Jenes Jones a horsehair rope to stretch about his camp at night This kept k pt the the- rattler from climbing into his bed Rattlesnakes filled d his dreams and waking making moments for two days then faded before a a. graver menace Jones met the met the sage who Introduced him to the the- hairy Miry tArantula The tarantula has hu figured In so many detective murder stories where its Ils bite causes the decease of the victim that It U Is Ua Isa a sure-fire sure hit The description of Its appearance Is always ague vague enough h to cause the sucker to shy violently at every eHry spider he meets thereafter FAIL TO COME tE TRUE John Henry Jones piloted his ma ma- machine machine machine chine out of the Mojave with a grin grinon on his face The press ter ter- terrors terrors ter- ter terrors that failed to materialize had broken the ba back of his credulity He was still grinning when hen he surmount surmount- surmounted ed Cajon pass and started the quick descent toward the distant orange groves of California He had lost the New York air Some of it had hady V y- y been scared out of him in the Kan Kan- Kansas Kanas Kansas sas as New experiences dropped bits of it along the roadside The rest of It had been baked out In the des des- desert ert He was now bringing the vision of new life painfully acquired back bac c to earth In fact he was In a fair fairway f fairway way of b becoming a westerner Nevertheless It is a terrible gaunt gaunt- gauntlet let to ask any man to run Some Some- Something Something Something thing something serious ought to be bedone bedone bedone done about It I