Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-27
Tom Days Column


OUh fflGaOb GOE1As
whenever IT'S saturday and CIedp-ap
Week Is through
IKE to tcdlk on Chestnut street to see
tchdt ne,cs Is neto5
Because knolo IN, bound TO fnd some
dead fies IN the ointment.
That Is TO SAP, I'm sure to feel sense Of
disappointment
AT hoto my telloto-citisens had failed TO
do their duty
To clean up all the uoliness an fu the
tot0n tcith beauty;
An u there's one thing IN this tcorld that
0ives me jon, my brothers,
IT'S feeIin' disappointment at the careless
ness Of others.
Indeed Cif you can understand a phrase
so double. .joiRtedD
I'd sure be disappointed II wasn't dis.
appointed.
An am not the onIy one so minded
mores the pitvi-
For there are lots of others tOho tcould
hate TO see the city
GroiU suddenly so beautiful you'd hardly
recognize her,
or probably mistake her for a price burg
of the Kaiser.
10 icouldn't be ike home at all II Penrosc,
let as sdU
should keep his otUn derned SidetCdlk
clean an less attention pap
To chuctin' mud an brickbdts at the
Wares across the tCdy.
10 couldn't be like home II these Athletics
or the PhiHieS
Should clean up cuerU game they played
tchy, gosh! tre'd hare the toiliieS,
An all my gambling friends icould ldy
their bets an make slaughter
An gather coin enough to do the decent
thing theD ouohter--
inuite me- of of Chestnut street to hare
cr-Sodd tCdter
A score or more hare in mind toho
ought to do that same,
But Just these teto, as clean.up men, are
quite enough to name:
c. clinton, Billy Connor Frank o'Don-
HeH, Or. Munyon,
Ire. cobb. p. Staples, Charlie Beck, b.
George and Damon Runyom
Nor tcouM this little burg of ours be quite
the homeHhe place
II all the tcdrring elements cleaned ap
the Transit case,
agreeing on each single point, for good,
beyond a doubt,
An ledvin0 not one blessed thing for folks
to talk about.
I'm strong for Moderation aud the clean
sers get in Dutch
with me, If in their frenzy they 90 tCipin'
up too much;
An so I'm glad on Saturday, 1Chen Clean.
up Week is through,
To tCdlk on Chestnut street an find that
not much netcs is netc.
CTRANGE We worried those lines out
~ of our system yesterday on the train,
that terrible all.day train, from Erie to
Philadelphia, and when we got to our
desk last night we found this in our mail:
l wish that l were bossing cleanup
week in this here town, for if 'twere so
/ know a dozen guys or more I'd clean up
good. There's one who on the phone says
l am looking well, and two or three who
come and take my time when am busy
and when I'm lonely never come around.
And there's the wop who says 81 seen
yer just after you have walked with
Auntie on the street" and the architect
who asks for sixty alternate proposals,
and the sick golfer and the golfer whose
home course is the best in the world and
he who learns a new way to grip his club
every weekend and can smoke only one
brand of cigarette and discovers tho ulti-
mate cocktail every week. and the
sports writer who has an interview
with Connie Mack every day, and the one
who "stages" every old event. but say
I'm not writing your whole column. so
just add Bryan, Penrose, Rapid Transit
the Public Buildings the telephone serv-
ice women's suffrage and multi.colored
shoes, hoorwalkers, long grass on golf
courses weather reports and yourself and
let 1t go at that. S. =. Q. r.