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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.

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