Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 September 1918 — Page 5
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i am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain:— And the rounds are drawn, and the- rounds are fired, and the empties return again Railroad, lorry and limber, battery, column and park To the shelf where the set fuse waits the breech, from the quay where the shells embark. We have watered and fed, and eaten our beef the long dull day drags by, As I sit here watching our "Archibalds" strafing an .empty sky Puff and flash on the far'off blue round the speck one guesses the plane— Smoke and spark of the gun-machine that is fed by the endless chain.
The ammunition carrier is only a link in the great war machine, but he is as vital a link in the chain as the man who goes over the top. And back of the ammunition carrier comes the ammunition maker and the railroad worker and the thousands of varieties of war workers until 'it all comes straight home to the individual man and woman
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Cr~, by Gilbert Fr*nk»u
Let us buy the Bonds we know they want us to buy!
This Snace Subscribed to Winning the War by
TERRE HAUTE PURE MILK & ICE CREAM CO. INDIANA CREOSOTING CO. TERRE HAUTE WATER WORKS CO., BEASLEY-DOUTHITT—CRAWFORD AND BEASLEY
I am only a cog in a giant machine, but a vital link of the chain And the captain has sent from his wagon-line to fill hi§ wagons again From the wagon-limber'to gunpit dump from loader's forearm at breech To the working party that melts away when die shrapnel bullets.screech.. So the restless section pulls Out once more in column of route from the right At the tail of a blood'red afternoon so the flux of another night Bears back the wagons we fill at dawn to the sleep' ing column again— Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chain!
who helps save the necessities of life and refrains from wasteful spending in order to help our fighting men. Every link in the fighting chain, every cog in the war machine must be of the strongest steel. Every heart. must be steel against waste these days. We are all part of the great battle—let us each do our part and make it a great part.
GILBERT FRANKAU
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