New-York tribune., 1921-09-23

THE KLEAGLE

nave Dcen nome and IN his bed.
He wouldn't 60 to school or work; he
gambled, stole, and lied;
No one could do thing with him, no
matter how they tried.
The neighbors said that Bill was
doomed, to prison sure he'd go;
That hanging was too good for one
whose habits were so low.
But Bill persisted in his ways till he
became u man,
And now he is KIeagle In the Ku
Klux Klan.
When war broke out Bill lodged the
draft and hit the slacker's trail
To safety and the shipyards, where he
pocketed tho kale;
While other men and better men were
risking death in France,
Bill took his ease and called them
boobs for taking such a chance;
But when the war was over and the
armstice was signed,
sturdier patriot than Bill no one
could ever find.
He called himself 100 per cent Amer
ican---
And now he is Kleagle in the Ku
klux Klan.
In no uncertain terms Bill vowed that
he was one who stood
For lynching every brute accused of
wronging womanhood.
"Our manhood is on trial." said Bill:
"thc women we hold dear
Shall never know dishonors stain or
shed dshonor's tear"
While Bill was spilling cloquence and
sweat from all his pores
His wife was taking washings in and
scrubbing neighbors' floors.
Said, Bill, 1--WE need to organize and
have common plan,"
And now he is Kleagle in the Ku
Klux Klan.
While others worked with head and
hand, Bill only worked his jaw
About the workers wrongs and how
there ought to be law
To keep the foreigners all out, who
worked for half the pay
OF native born Americans and took
their bread away.
He .growled about the government,
twas in a rotten fix
Through letting Europe's scum come
here and mix in politics.
Bills vote was always to be bought by
any crook who ran,
And now he is a Kleagle in the Ku
Klux Klan.
MORAL
Mind everybody's business and leave
unturned no stone
To further civic virtue-don't bother
with your own.
Cry loud against conspiracies and
wrongs that others do,
But stifie your own conscience-don't
let 1t worry you.
Just follow Simpsons pattern in every
way you can,
And yow may be a Kleagle in the Ku
klux Klan. MICK.
While reading Mr.. A. S. M. Hutch
inson's "If Winter Comes"-as, indeed.
in "Once Aboard the Lugger -" "The
Clean Heart" and "The Happy War
rior"-we commented on the hendec-
asyllabic, at times, cadences Of many
passages. Somebody, it appears, has
sent Mr.. Hutchinson these animad
versions, for he writes: "You state
your wish to hear my explanation of
why my prose sometimes seems to 20
Into verse. l don't mean it to; but
III tell you what happens. When I'm
writing I do sometimes get visions
which come to me, or rather elude me,
singing. l try, most desperately, to
catch them and fix them as they sing.
It's painful! I twist in my chair and
the sweat runs off me and every now
and then I will catch a word as it
sings and stuff it down. l apologize.
but there it is. dimly see the thing,
and if I had the power to express it
as sec it it would be reckoned pretty
good. But I haven't. So l just grab
what l can, and there's no other pos-
siblc way of grabbing it but in the
song as it sings"
Its not fun, I promise you," Mr..
Hutchinson goes on. "But next time
it happens l shall be able to kill it
stone dead. 1t will come singing
around and I shall catch it a swat
that will knock it silly. You've given
me the weapon. I knew the poor stuff
might be called this, that, or the other;
but l never, never knew (till you said
so) that it was hendecasyllabic. Hen
dec-a-syl-lab-ic! That's done it. That
would kill anything. 1t would blow
up battleship, let alone me. Next
time one Of these darn passages of
mine suddenly flies off the tip Of my
pen and twinkles away in elfin song,
and me left clutching, 1 shall say,
"Here. Quit fooling. You hendeca-
syllable -----!" That will bring
1t to earth with dull, sickenine thud.
Yes, see it all now. In the travail
of my writing have been
A youth who bore mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device
Hendecasyllabic!
"Yours, F. P. A., hendeeasy syllabically.
"a. S. M. HUTCHINSON.v
A large number of the members of
DR.. Straton's church apparently think
that minister's place is in the home.
nor will he "edit" it or
garole it in any way.-From the May
Ioff -