New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
The Coming ower
ANOTHER WAR BALLAD
I'm reply to Flaocusl

as a volunteer
In the war that was raging overseas and
he says was raging here:
| read of his tribuatons, of tho misery
that he knew,
Of the shock that was caused 10 his high
strung soul by Dangerous Dan Mesrew.
Well, FIaccus suffered, have no doubt.
but never his tender hand
Lay bleeding and torn from tho stab of a
thorn called The Rose Of No Man .
Land"
He mentions the gloriousnc.s of war. and
how he knew it was He'll.
When they billctted him in Ithaca at a place
that they call Cornell;
He speaks of Service stripe he wears for
the suffering he went through
from the poems Of Robert Service, and The
Shooting of Dan Megrcw."
But what can he know of pcrdition's depth,
or The heights whereon WE stand,
Who swallowed the curse of the Red Cross
Nurse; She's the Rose of No Man 5
Land"
Now, it mustn't be thought that didn' love
the trim little figure in blue.
might even say in general way that |
tell in love with two
But the song was terrible SANDER they
loathcd it as much as l.
And if ever the author should cross our
trail we swore that VIC d ruin the guy
Well, Flaccuss quarrel is picayune, minute
as grain of sand
And Dan Mcgrcw" was pikcr to The
Rose Of No Mans Land. J.R. O.P.
I've have never seen The Dayton
News nor The Marion Star" confesses
Jay +. House in The Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger. owe should esteem it a
favor If some friend would send US
copy of one or both. We are curl
Gus as to the kind the people of Cen
trail Ohio are taking nowadays" Well.
II they are taking what is advertised
In Gov. Cox's Dayton News of last
Wednesday, they are taking Bro-Feren,
Excelento (for kinky hair), Arvon,
Phelactine, Laxa- -Pirin, Leonard's Ear
OH, Aspironal ("Better than Whisky
for Colds and Flu"), Tona-Vin, Ton
slime, Beecham's Pills, Foley Kidney
Pills, Mayr's Remedy, Vinol, Dreco,
Vola-Sol, Mi-ONa, Sorbol Quadruple.
Hyomei, Chase's Blood and Nerve Tab
lets, Eckman's Alternative Acco, Vita
mon, Var-ne-sis, Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets. If they are taking
what is advertised in Senator Har-
ding's Marion Star of Tuesday, they are
taking Dreco, Mayr's Remedy. Light
ming Hot Drops, Hpyo-C Cod, D. D. D..
Bear Oil Trusler's Rheumatic Tablets.
Haelanol, Hyomei, Mi-O-Na, Vitamon
and Mentho- Sulphur.
1t is almost impossible to decide
which of two candidates, whose chief
concern appears to be the health of
the public, to vote for
yesterday we referred to Ted Rob
inson's "Pipings and Pannings.p Don't
ask for it. Ask for "Piping and Pan
ming" by Edwin Meade Robinson.
Among other verses, it has these:
MAKING MYSTERY
The man that fixed my typewriter, he showed
me what was wrong
He fixed the little dingus that had botber.d
me long
lie strengthened out doodad and he +;ob+
ened up a screw
And the old machine made music as it did
when it was newl
1t took but fifteen minutes to adiust tho
twisted gear
And | had tinkered vainly with the thing
for half a year;
voiced my admiration, the man picked
up his hat
Il wish that could learn" said go ex
up things like that"
The man that fixed my typewriter he frank
ly answered. why,
lts something any one can do-you've only
got to try
You keep this oiled you keep that clean
you give this screw turn.
Do thus and SO and t'other and that's all
you've got to learn
Now sit and write a line or two and 900
how smooth it goes"
So | sat and wrote a jingle. which is eas;er
than prose.
And l wrote that young mechanic wor-
shpfuly sat
MY gosh !" cried hc "I wish that I could
do stunt like thatr'
| did not answer honestly, as he had done
IT'S something any one can do-you've only
got to try
You scatter accents evenly, and give your
words a turn
Do thus and so and tother, and that's all
you've got to learn"
| did not answer honestly to him--but
what's the use?
He has explained his trade but still it's
cryptic the deuce.
So let me think that fixing up machinery
is hard
And will still pretend that it takes brains
to be a bard
Just as we were writing the pre-
ceding, along came Jimmy Montague's
inst volume, "More Truth Than
Poetry" a book of high reliability.
Jimmy's satirical stuff is his best,
though Irwin Cobbs preface singles
out THE Sleepytown Express" because
"a