New-York tribune., 1921-06-09
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QUIETUDE


The stories that our frantic wise men
read
In the ribbed ancient sands, these mad
old prints
OF yard-long claw or fang, and thigh
bones thick
AS yonder clm-tree where the trunk
dividesl
And their immense confused garrulity:
This emperor, this priest, this age of
doubt,
This age of faith, this pyramid, that
tombl
Who am to believe them, or gainsay?
These negligible forty years my wits
Have reeled before their clamor; forty
more,
1t may be, shall hearken to their
tales.
But one day or another shall cease
TO mock or marvel when the wise men
speak.
No struggle then to be Intelligent
No systems Of divine philosophy
No cruces, burning questionsl No
more care
Whether free verse is fettered prose,
or whether
The chicken or the egg came first from
God!
For all along, Being Of simple clay,
This scurry of great wisdom toward
despair
Has seemed but FOOLS errand; and
in my heart
A secret pulse has throbbed 70 mark
them not!"
LEE WILSON DODD.
Every time you or the low blood
pressured Il. P. A. wishes an uncultural
state to pick on," Joe Dickens wrote
Mr.. Haywood Broun, "you drop down
on Iowa" Our reply to that is that
Joe Dickens is liar, and if he wishes
to know what kind he may find the
qualifying term in "The City" by Clyde
Fitch. We never dropped down" on
Iowa as an uncultural state.
Perhaps Mr.. Dickens confuses us
with the late Mr.. Henry Blossom, of
st. Louis, who-was it in "Mlle. Mo-
diste" had some stuff about the Gull
ture Club Of Keokuk. But most of the
so-called satire against Iowa has been
written by the Man with the Hokum.
who wrote it because Iowa contains
towns in which the sound of ok" occurs.
keokuk, Oskaloosa, Okoboji, and
Muscatine are always good for the easy
laugh.
He was certain, then, that his was
the first white feet that had trodden
that way.-From "Menena," by w.
Douglas Newton in The Century.
The editorial policy now passes into
the hands of others, whom I am sure
will continue this policy.-Morgan D.
Eiite in The Building Review.
man whom bystanders
Fought had been with the doctor
New ork Tribune.
two men, whom it Is alleged,
are implicated in the burglary.-New
York Tribune.
"A few of these, and our blood pres
sure will be too high
IF you want to get rich from writ
Ing" counsels the astute Mr.. Don Mar
quis, write the sort Of thing that is
read by persons who move their lips
when they are reading to themselves"
No. Write the kind Of stuff about
which everybody says, "Of course it's
terrible stuff, but it must be popular
or they wouldn't print it,"
Sport Stuff
Sir: After my first reading on the
Dempsey Carpenter fight, l find that
il either one can knock the other out
IN short order, as the phrase goes, he
probably will be the winner.
BY the way, the followers Of tennis
could save lot Of time this summer
Il you would print general review
which would apply to all matches.
Something like this;
William r. Tilden I'd (William M.
Johnston, r. Norris Williams I'd, Ichiys
Kumagae, Vincent Richards) continued
his fine form In the Umslopogaas open
tournament yesterday when he defeated
5. Howard Voshell OR. Lindley Murray,
| Watson M. Washburn, w. Merrill Hall)
in two out of three sets, scored 6--4,
Is, %. Greater steadiness in the
rinches was the deciding factor in yes-
| terday's big match, the loser showing
flashes of impressive speed, but failing
to find the court when the points were
most needed.
The winner elected to make his fight
chiefly from the baseline, but at times
ne sailed to the barrier with good eff
feet, cutting off his rivals deep, boom
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