Show UTAH VERSE A column featuring poems by utah writers extends a hand to all aspiring poets contributions published or unpublished are to be sent to our poetry editor anna prince redd 1076 ast I 1 center street provo utah all manuscripts should if possible be jpe rewritten pe written single spaced for long and double spaced for shorter ems on good grade type paper pape r and a self addressed stamped envelope enclosed for the return of unaccepted manuscripts no payment will be made on either amateur or professional poetry printed in this column that grand old country doctor by edna S dustin what has become of the one horse shay and old do doc brown of yesterday he was the saviour that led the way that faithful country doctor he lived before Past eurs keen stare caught microbes mic robes crawling everywhere and surgery safe through listers care that grand old country doctor aw s he made new roads in snow and rain A he forded corded streams did not complain when patients paid in spuds and grain that trusting country doctor no nurse to ether no soothing pill to help him out when folks took ill hed amputate alone with skill that brave old country doctor his worn out bag would always have A sugar pill a homemade home made salve he pulled their teeth helped bossy calve that kind old country doctor he gave advice in family rows hed even stick the bloated cows and tell you how to raise your sows bows that wise old country doctor hed w work ork and study night and day that he might fin find d a mearion means or way to save the lives 0 of f all each day that loyal country doctor sixty years have passed away how medicines advanced today for science who has paved the way that grand old country doctor edna S dustin is a member of the salt lake chapters Chap chapter terl league of utah writers a writer who sees homely truth and expresses it in a humorous philosophical way that makes one think of the late harrison R merrill so well loved by people of the west she has published widely throughout the state in the utah magazine and the improvement 1 pro era perhaps more frequently than in some of the other magazines but all utah editors are well and favorably acquainted ath her work she sells nationally as well membership in the league of utah writers is based upon publication in ather state magazines as well as those of our own state these publications are spoken of as na C ional onal public publications publication atio ns though publication in our own s tate state magazines is national in scope also utah magazines are national publications to writers of colorado and other states its just a way of differentiating sales out of state with what is commonly spoken of as local publications i or home sales like the old saying that the grass rass is greener on the other side of the fence so a writer write r feels when lie he makes sales outside of his own territory even in magazines of less excellence ANNA PRINCE REDD |