New-York tribune., 1919-02-28
"a Typical American"

lets were good.
"a Typical American"
Sir: typical American is man who
may or may not like beer, whiskey, coffee,
nut sundaes or parsnps, but who feels a
deep and growing resentment toward any
laws that compel him to partake of or to
restrain from partaking of these refresh
ments. He can't somehow mix that with
his ideas of Bunker Hill and Concord and
Lexington A typical American is man
who believes in churches and ministers
and reform movements, but who doesn't
want the churches to rule. He can't see
why a $600.00-a-year Methodist minister
should call him a gutter ,drunkard because
he likes bottle of beer with his rarebit.
A typical American is man who knows
that a popular vote on bone drv prohibi-
tion would result in the overwhelming de-
feat of the Prohibition amendment and
while he, too, is enemy of booze and
the corner saloon, he believes that there
are many ways to control the evils Of
liquor without surrenderng what certain
ragged and barefoot ancestors fought for
and starved for at Valley Forge, namely
personal liberty. A typical American is
man who doesn't find the world any
better in 1919 than it was twenty years
ago in spite of the reformers and preach
ers In short, typical American is one
who will not sing "the land of the free"
with much enthusiasm after July 1st, 1919
A TYPICAL AMERICAN.
When We try to conjure up our idea of
tVnIcnl American obo;o
always to the cartoonist In their lives
and their expression nobody, it seems to
us, is more typically American than Jaw
Darling, Clare Briggs, Tad, Rube Goldberg
and John McCutcheon
Some of us who affect red neckties do
not agree with the characterization of the
Anti-Saloon League measure as "the rank
est attempt to curtail human liberty"
a REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
! saw funny creature scuttlng up the
Avenue;
l really couldn't place it, so that's whv Pm
asking you.
I didn't recognize it, so III try to item
ize it;
Maybe you can localize it. Please advise
me if you do.
It had feather headdress such as once
was comme-il- faut
Among half-barbarous negroid tribes
century ago;
Feathers stuck at twenty angles set with
tinsel and with spangles
And adorned with dingle-dangles bobbino
wildly to and fro.
Across its back there hung askew the pelt
of some odd beast
(Whateer it was, there must have been a
dozen tails at least).
Twas safeguard from the season; it had
neither rime nor reason
Save as foliage to raise feas on or to
give the moth a feast
Around its lower portion, reaching nearly
to the ground,
What seemed single trousers-leg was
tightly swathed and wound
How can l convey a notion of the curious
locomotion?
Nothing yet was seen so gauche on this
old planet, I'll be bound.
Its feet were raised on wooden pegs that
threw them out of line;
Its shoulders seemed to counterfeit KY
phosis Of the spine;
With oppressive scent twas tainted and is
phiz was brightly painted:
Any student here acquainted with this
specimen OF mine? G, S. R.
Announcements The sight of Fl. Grant
land Rice, the old artilleryman, in new
and fairly well-htting blue suit leads one
trained in acute observation to guess that
on or about Sunday, March 9, The Sport
light will resume scintillations.
The athaletic young man is careless. Ac-
cording to a Lost and Found advertisement
in The Times he has lost an "air cushinpn
Other words ending in "cion," ACCORDING
to Orgy, are "cion" and "internecon.~
The craze for remaining streets abates
not. Perhaps the Presidents belief in the
aspirations of the little nations will cause
change in the name of the thorouyhfnre
the White House is on.
To. as you have guessed. Jugo -Slavenue.
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