LET US PRAY !

By Jack Dionne

Who are these eager, emotional gents Vho are shouting so loud and so strong, That the panic is over and if you have sense You'll buy, and you cannot go wrong?

Can they be the same who would splutter and choke And put the whole world on the pan; And swear that the nation would surely go broke-? They CAN-gentle reader-they CAN!

And who are these fellows whose faces all smile As prices go up in the air; And point with delight to their big order file And tell us-"Buy now, or beware!?"

Can they be the same birds who cried and gave way Their products for nothing per car?

And swore there was Hell, yes, and naught else to pay? They ARE-gentle reader-they ARE!

And who are these fellows who clamor so loud That Roosevelt has saved all our skin; And shatter our ear-drums proclaiming they'te proudThey voted for him to get in?

Can they be the dizzies who started right in To smother him over with blame; And shout that his stoutness of heart was a sin? The SAME-gentle 1gadg1-1h6 SAME!

And what shall we say of this wonderful thing That seems coming over the land? Will it stick? Vill it hold? Will it grab? Vill it cling? Will it save all our necks? Ain't it grand?

I merely will say in concluding my song f'm prayerfully watching the "dope"; And praying the Lord not to let us go wrongIet's HOPE-gentle reader-let's HOPE!

SUSPENSION OR CANTILEVER?

"Hello! Is this the bridge department?"

"Yes. What can we do for you?"

"How many points do you get for a little slam, vulnerable. and doubled?"

The Willow

I know they call you "weeping willow tree," Yet I have seen your misty loveliness Reach out fair arms, and quiver joyously, To feel the moonbeam's touch of fond caress.

Shaken and rippled out by summer breeze, After a bath in sparkling raindrops there, Your slender leaves are tendrils of soft hairOf foating hair that crowns no other trees.

And still they say you weep, when I have seen You wave, and then draw close your lacy shawl, So that I glimpsed the red dawn's glow between Its silver mesh. So lithe, so curved, so tall, Your dew damp garments sway or firmly cling As though they robed pale nuns whose rosaries swing.

-Ida Norton Munson in "The Rotarian."

The Farm

Every city man believes in his heart that if cornpelled to he could go back to the farm and make a living. He enjoys fooling himself with such a thought. No harm is done, though, so long as he doesn't actually try to make a living on a farm. Those people enjoy farms most, probably, who are not dependent on them for their livelihood.

Yet always the truth remains that the country offers the greatest security to the man of common-sense who will work hard and intelligently and who will be content with simple creature comforts. Somehow, those who live on the land and who plant and tend and reap, manage in some way to keep frorn starving. So the inStinctive longing for land may be Nature's way of showing her children the way to security.-Thomas

Dreier.

Texas Is A Big State

Two natives met on the street in Brownsville, Texas, and this was the conversation that ensued.

"Mornin', Jim."

"Mornin', Joe."

"Where have you been lately?"

"I been up North on a visit."

"Where did you go?"

"f went to Dallas."

"Have a good time?"

"Naw. I just canlt get used to them damn Yankees."

Our Future

There is genius enough in America to evolve and to execute political and economic policies that will give us a future that will, in point of rnaterial well being and social enrichment, far outstrip the very real, if very spotty, prosperity of the past decade. If America does not realize this finer and more fruitful future and begin her realization of it with decent promptness, it will not be because the cards of destiny are stacked against us. They are not. Every card in the deck is in our hands. It is a matter of playing them expertly.-Glenn Frank.

Fast

Lawyer-"What did you say when you saw that the automobile and train were about to collide?"

Watchman-"I said 'That IS a fine car WASN'T it?"'

The Liberty Tree

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.-Thomas Jefferson.

Demagogues

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, and leagues and registers may be very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.-Disraeli.