The Washington times., 1920-02-22
When jay-walkers park in the street,
And joy-riders think them their meat,
The traffic cops task
Is more than he'd ask,
Since man can't with Argus compete.
The
Winner
Of
Limerick No. ID

Argus, IL may be remembered, was
a giant who had a hundred eyes. SO
that he could look In all directions.
He was a traffic cop on the high
way leading up to Mount Olympus.
He wasn't a particularly amiable
Individual, as it happened, but he held
down his particular corner effectively
until one John @. Hercules, gem
eral rounder and all-round sport OF
that day, drove past his signals with
"a twin-six chariot and hunted him into
kingdom come.
The coroner's jury brought in a
verdict of justihable homicide.
Lots Of sBad Actors.r
That, at least, Is probably the way
the traditions of 1920 A. d. will have
it when the fables of ancient Greece
get mixed up with the fables Of the
present day.
There were a lot of bad actors in
the time of Argus, SO that part In
forgotten in the popular mind. The
idea Of having eyes that could look
ND and down Fourteenth street and
up and down Pennsylvania avenue at
one and at the same time wink at
pretty chambermaid in the New
willard and a stenographer in the
District building, appealed to Mrs. F.
L.. Smith, HOG Twenty-second street.
and made her the winner OF Limerick
No. IA.
Mrs. Smith is a dainty war bride.
A year ago she was doing war work
near her home in Chesham, Bucking-
hamshire, England. Mr.. Smith, now
a clerk in the recruiting division OF
the Navy Department, was a chief
woman in the navy, and was sta
toned for a time in Gresham on spe-
cial duty.
They married last April and in
June they came to Washington.
where they are located in a tiny
apartment that Mrs. Smith keeps as
neat as pin.
Dream OF the Future
Here they dream Of the future.
Both of them have been writing lin
erick lines since early in the con-
test. Every day she gets a copy of
Tho Times at the house and he at
the newsstand, where he goes at
lunch time, and they have a pretty
rivalry as to which can write the best
line before they meet at teatime.
Then they go over the days contest
together and send in the best two
lines they can devise.
I'm ever so pleased" said little
Mrs. Smith. when her good fortune
was communicated TO her last night
I'm glad IT was you that got 1t and
not l." said the young husband.
As to what they Will do with the
hundred dollars-well-they find use
for II.
It's a funny thing that the limerick
ors who were Knocking" the hard
working barber the other day, all
seem friendly to the big bluecoat
who stands guard on the corner and
changes his sempahore when a green
driver mistakes the signal
Few Upkind Words.
Very few of the hundreds OF con-
testants had an unkind word to say
for him, and II you saw traffic offi-
GERS in the last week with his right
ear burning red, II was because OF
tho nice things that had been crowded
into lin, rick lines. There was the
unusual grist OF drawings, too. They
depicted cops with their hair bristling
in apprehension as newspaper read
inR pedestrians cbalantly strolled
into the path of oncoming specdsters.
He needs brains as big as his
feet" rhymed Raymond v. Ryan. s2t
Seventh street southwest whose con-
tribution stood second with the
Judges.