The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-14
Initiation Ceremony.

Iak1nE the public into its confidence
the dridlron club openly initiated FIVE
new members into membership. They
Eere L. a. Fowler of the New York
sun, Arthur b. krock Of tho Louisville
Sourler-J ournal, John P. Ryan of the
San Francisco Post. Fred Essarv of the
Baltimore Sun and Thomas ". Bra
many OF the White house offices.
The initiation was to have been con-
Quoted by the federal reserve board
composed or Harry Thaw, David La.
mar, Colonel Mulhall, Jack johnson,
William Sulzer and Charles f. Murphy.
headed by General Coxey, but those
gentlemen fell into general quarrel
when they attempted to hold q meet
ing.
President Kaufman Of the club or.
dered the admission of the candidates
to membership upon payment of their
dues But it seemed they were unable
to meet that condition.
Said candidate Fowler: 1.-THE ad-
mlnistration g policy of "pitiless pub
hcity' has been SO secretive that we
can 7 get any news, and eve lost our
Jobs Asked why, then, they had be-
come candidates, he added: "We re.
he'd on President Wilson. Listen to
what he wrote in The New Freedom >
(Reads): Let there be light. 1t is nee.
tics. They have been too secret; too
complicated; too round about; they
have consisted too much OF private CON
ferences and secret understanding. -
Chairman; Surely you got plenty of
news after that"
Krock; "Not much. Listen to the
order issued by Secretary Daniels:
(Reads) Tho secretary of the navy di.
rects that all articles and information
hA HA - l.. L
fore being given out.
The "Ax of Adlai."
Sweet to the ears Of the hungry Of
ficeseekers were the strains Of -'"La
Grande Duchesse as rendered by the
numerous music committees Of the
Gridiron club. Set TO the old score
was the stirring tale entitled "Ths Ak
Of Adlai." The skit opened with the
entrance Of a winsome lass. She was
introduced as Z" Miss Democracy" in
search of a quiet place to ''tend to
her knitting' She "thought the
but weddings turn the place helter
skelter.' Attended by a chorus of old
friends and poor relations, she sings:
Once I was quiet and subdued.
Not in the best society,
with great respect now am viewed.
A InOQel OF pIoprlety,
Asked what knitting employed her
skill, Miss Democracy replied:
I've just crocheted a lovely tariff BILL
"God bless our home, but damn the In
A civil service examination was held
to determine the fitness Of the many
Democratic applicants for the Job of
one lone Republican postmaster. This
was greatly against the will Of the ap-
plicants, who chanted their dissent to
that famous old air, "Ah, que ] 'aime
leg militaires,
The examination displaced the Re-
publican postmaster, but the process
was declared to be too slow, wherefore
Miss Democracy was obliged TO yield to
the general demand for "the one weap-
on that fills the bill-the az that Adlat
used with strength and skill. and the
curtain fell to this ringing chorus:
Bring forth the cleaver. the ceaver, the
Bring forth the cleaver, the cleaver OF
our slres
Wen drop 'ern and chop EN-.
The one way to stop 'em
That meets our desires
Reference to Roosevelt.
Timely and topical ballads, parodies
on men and things in the public eye,
ljphtened the courses Of the dinner.
Here is verse from "Let Them
Co.:
II roosevelt yearns for the jungle,
Let him go. lei. him go let him so'
II he could somehow get q huncn
tn invite old Huerta down to lunch,
Where the AmaZou's waters how.
Theodore might show
ETuerta where TO go,
Let him go. let him GO let him 20.