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Show ABOUT THIS, f! THAT AND T'OTHER By D. J. G. l-L i J WITH winter Just about gone, times j perking up, prices mining down, automobile season near at hand, the 1 limo for baseball also approaching and everything lining up to make a feller feel good. It renlly seems a pity that In about six months: Men and women will begin to an- nounco that "at the urgent request of i friends" they have consented to per-mlt per-mlt their namo to go before the convention, con-vention, etc., etc. Big, healthy and apparently Ptrong minded men will bo seen at parades and at rallies wearing ridiculous pa-per pa-per caps or carrying brooms urging clean sweeps. Politicians will soo In each Innocent piece of ness some sinister propaganda propagan-da of the opposition which some da-s- , tardly editor has permitted to got Into print Tho handahakea per minute, at the corner "i Twenty-fourth street and Washington avenue will Increase Bteadil each day until election C mdidatee won t know whothor to buy cards without tho union lubH end Offend (ho union men or to have the label on and loso tho Associated In- . dustrles vote. Prominent citizens In Prince Alberts again will try to appear comfortable I ind Interested while forming a back-ground back-ground on tho stage for tho orator of tho day. Worried chairmen will endeavor to decide whether a crowd which willed tho orchestra and half the balcony at , th.- Orpheum for the Ifc8pllvltl rally was as large as the crowd which filled j two-thirds of tho Alhambra orchestra at the IfcDougal talk. Candidates will be dragged down to the railroad shops and the usual claims of having clinched tho railroad vote will bo heard around political headquarters. Sacks and packs of franked matter x. ill mnir. I,..,,. II' . . 1 (..,.... . .l K distributed to long suffering voters who even now don't know what to do with tho waste paper they have on hand. Central committees will have reams of stationery printed and committeemen committee-men will gazo proudly at their names , Hated thereon. Columns and columns of news will be taken up with accounts of Demo- , cratic attacks on Republican, Republican Repub-lican attucks on Democrats and Farmer-Labor attacks on both. A new crop of men and women who actually want to run for tho leglsla- ' turo Will RVpear to tho startled won-, der of th. u ho havu been targets for 1 ridicule and abuse. Dazed persons will wake up some morning to learn that men about whom they have never heard have been nominated for congress or something. some-thing. PRETTY gloomy outlook, eh" Hut there Is one bright spot. Maybe tho women of Plain City will again erve one of their famous home-cooked dinners at some political shindig in that community, and maybe I II be Invited. In-vited. THERE may be some fire below all this smoke In tho form of vaudeville vaude-ville Jokes about poor telephone ser- 1 vlco, but I confess I have nocr .--perlenced the troubles described In thfl Jokes. After several years of i Igden and Salt Lake newspaper experieni t In which the local and long distance telephone plays a big Dart J can'l recall one discourteous word on tl i part of an operator and the lervlct has been faat and carcfuL IF THERE are any tlrod fathers end mothers or distracted relatives or neighbors who doubt that little boys and girls are capable of sitting down QUletl for an hour, let them go to the public library nnd behold a sight that will cause them to marvel. SO MANY derogatory remarks have been made anent Mathlldt MrCor- j mlck because she Is irolnr- tn mnrrv n riding master nearly three times her age that .,ne would Imagine that the riding master was getting everything every-thing and she nothing, unless It be a lemon or a prune But let us look Into this matter. Max may be only a livery stable keeper, but any livery man who can mako mono) and keep going In these motor days must bo qulto a man. Again, Max seems to have made his money without reproach re-proach and he deserves some credit for risking contact with the millions piled up by Cyni McCormlck and John D. Rockefeller and sometimes alluded to as tainted wealth. No doubt Max has said to himself: "Mathllde is a darn good girl I lov her and I'll marry her even If I do hav to accept ac-cept these millions of tainted gold." oo |