New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
Miss Beulah Morse Speak.

Il had corn frltterS and nice round
steak),
always know them by the sound they
make.
rushed right out-well, say it didn't take
Me long-and right above the big elm tree
saw the airship. plain plain could be!
Straight up the valley was the way he went,
On toward New Milford, steady as a
string;
He took the State road as a mark, guess
Just like hawk that never flaps a wing,
He sailed and sailed. l heard the engine
sin8
Till the machine became tiny dot
That sometimes seemed to be there, some
times not.
They say some folks in Salisbury saw him
Above Bear Mountain, too. or SO hear
They sent out parties searching all the
woods;
But it's wild country, with no houses near,
And hard to get through at this time of
year.
They'll not have much except wild-goose
chase,
Admitting for him in that awful placei
They had flyer at the Danbury Fair
That took folks up at so-much for the ride.
My nephew urged me to 60 up; | said
mo, sir" l said, you'll not get me inside
One of those things. Our family all have
died
Respectfully, not like holy show.
On top Of hill, with some one they didn't
know!' G. S. B.
1t is reasonable to suppose, DR.. Will
lam j. Mayo believes we believe
anything he does,-that the next gener-
alton will live from fifteen to twenty
five years longer than this one; so if
your prospective grandchildren ever
think of going in for the profession of
column conducting, tell them, at the
start, that it won't be like the good cid
days Of 1919, when colyumst could
expect to die at the age of eighty or so
and really quit work.
Speaking Of service stripes. this How.
itzer Of Hilarity fired it's first New
York shot fifteen years ago this after
noon. The subway had just started
running, Columbia had a football team
you would buy luncheon for 15c., and
1 Theodore Roosevelt was about to be
elected President.
Gary is a monster because he won't nego.
tiate with Foster. whereas longshoremen are
fully just fled in drawing q line against Vac.
carelli. It's a free country, all right enough
No injunction is issuable to compel any one
! to be consistent.--The Tribune
An ex-soldier who heaves Il rock at
the police trying to keep order in the
vicinity of the Lexington Opera House
is red-booded patriot, whereas an ex-
soldier who hurls a stone at IL policeman
trying to keep a Socialist orator from
speaking is merely Red. 1t is, as The
Tribune so truly says, free country
q. r. c.
Prof. Broun's observations OH the
dulness of radical propaganda coincide
generally, with our own. Art and prop
aganda are parallel lines of endcavor
like Labor and Capital. The most read
able Of the social propagandists is II
G. Wells, and the less propagatious he is
the more readable. We prefer THE His.
tory of Mr.. Polly" or "Kipps" to twenty
of "The Undying Fire"
The h. c. of leather and its relative
impermanency were not unknown to the
author of Hamlet" who, Faro points
out, in Act I, Sc. 2, has "a little mouth,
ere yet those shoes were DID,"
In response to the annual request
from the Dartmouth Alumni Association
we arc backing Cornell for Saturday.
game.
Commercial candor. on package of
books Printed Matter. Keep Drv.
From Dr.. Frank Crane"
It's longshoremansthat has no turn
ing. r. r. A.