U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [346]
And raise our voices high
We'l join our hands in union strong
To battle or to die
FRANCE YET THE FRONTIER OF
FREEDOM
provision is made whereby the wel being and develop-ment of backward and colonial regions are regarded as the sacred trust of civilization over which the league of nations exercises supervising care
REDS WEAKENING WASHINGTON HEARS
Hold the fort for we are coming
Union men be strong
the marine workers affiliation meeting early last night at no. 26 Park Place voted to start a general walkout at 6
A.M. tomorrow
BURLESON ORDERS ALL POSTAL TELE-
GRAPH NEWS SUPPRESSED
his reply was an order to his fol owers to hang these two lads on the spot. They were placed on chairs under trees, halters fastened on the boughs were placed around their necks, and then they were maltreated until they pushed the chair away from them with their feet in order to finish their tor-ments THE CAMERA EYE (42)
four hours we casuals pile up scrapiron in the flatcars and four hours we drag the scrapiron off the flatcars and pile it on the side of the track KEEP THE BOYS FIT
-453-TO GO HOME is the slogan of the YMCA in the
morning the shadows of the poplars point west and in the afternoon they point out east where Persia is the jagged bits of old iron cut into our hands through the canvas gloves a kind of grey slagdust plugs our noses and ears stings eyes four hunkies a couple of wops a
bohunk dagoes guineas two little dark guys with
blue chins nobody can talk to
spare parts no outfit wanted to use
mashed mudguards busted springs old spades and
shovels entrenching tools twisted hospital cots a moun-tain of nuts and bolts of al sizes four mil ion miles of barbedwire chickenwire rabbitfence acres of tin roofing square miles of parked trucks long parades of loco-motives strung along the yel ow rails of the sidings KEEP THE BOYS FIT TO GO up in the office
the grumpy sergeants doing the paperwork dont know
where home is lost our outfits our service records our alu-minum numberplates no spika de Engliss no entiendo com-prend pas no capisco nyeh panimayoo day after day the shadows of the poplars point west northwest north northeast east When they desoit they always heads south the corporal said Pretty tough but if he aint got a soivice record how can we make out his díscharge KEEP OUR BOYS FIT for whatthehel the
war's over
scrap
-454-NEWSREEL XLII
it was a gala day for Seattle. Enormous crowds not only fil ed the streets on the line of march from the pier but final y later in the evening machineguns were placed in position, the guardsmen withstanding a shower of missles until their in-action so endangered them the officers gave the order to fire. WOULD CUT OFF LIGHT. President Lowel of Har-vard University has urged the students to serve as strikebreak-ers. "In accordance with its tradition of public service, the university desires at this time of crisis to maintain order and support the laws of the Commonwealth."
THREE ARMIES FIGHT FOR KIEW
Cal s Situation a Crime against Civilization
TO MAKE US INVULNERABLE
during the funeral services of Horace Traubel, literary executor and biographer of Walt Whitman, this afternoon, a fire broke out in the Unitarian Church of the Messiah. Periodicals, tugboats and shipyards were effected. 2000 pas-sengers held up at Havre from which Mr. Wilson embarked to review the Pacific fleet, but thousands were massed on each side of the street seemingly satisfied merely to get a glimpse of the President. As the George Washington steamed slowly to her berth in Hoboken through the crowded lower bay, every craft afloat gave welcome to King Albert and Queen Elizabeth by hoarse blasts of their whistles
CRUCIBLE STEEL CONTINUES TO
LEAD MARKET
My country 'tis of thee
Sweet land of libertee
Of thee I sing
-455-PAUL BUNYAN
When Wesley Everest came home from overseas
and got his discharge from the army he went back to his old job of logging. His folks were of the old
Kentucky and Tennessee stock of woodsmen and squir-relhunters who fol owed the trail blazed by Lewis and Clark into the rainy giant forests of the Pacific slope. In the army Everest was a sharpshooter, won a medal for a crack shot.