Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-22 | Page 4 | Rippling Rhymes

Rippling' Rhymes fi By WALT f.iASON. fl Vm-rrrr"""1" 1 i.-T-r TOURISTS. The statesmen and the scholars, of ' war-lorn Europe say, "Wo must havoi Yankeu dollars to shoo the wolf away.; So let the tourists travel, and hlow in' bucks and crowns, and tread our. bloodstained gravel, and ace our shat-j terod towns. They give us all '.he willies, those Yankee tourist mobs, j the rubbernecks and sillies, tho schwolnhunds and the swabs. But wo must have their boodle, and so we rise and wail, "Hurrah for Yankee Doodle, and for the caprle's tail!' " Tho tourists will be flocking for many years to come, to scenes that oni-o were shocking, where shrapnel used to hum. Through region.? grown historic his-toric tho frowsy bunch will tread, and say, "Alas, poor Yorick!" abovo the hero's bed. Whore onco somo dauntless creature fought on. though' shorn of hope, tho dowdy old maid teacher will read her guide book dope. Where soldjors used to hanker to gain tho hero fame, somo corn fed Kansas banker will ply his snapshot game.. Where once the armies wallowed in mud and bloody foam, on soil tnat should bo hallowed, the rubbernecks will roam. And if old Europe bleeds them, and slings them till they're blind, the while she pels and feeds them, 1 really will not mind. i