Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1917 — EPIGRHYMES: [ARTICLE]

EPIGRHYMES:

I tried to write a funny verse about the. present war; . j • I tried to be facetious, tried to use mixed metaphor and coin some slangy phrases that would make us feel less blue, but say—the stuff I handed out would kill a kangaroo. For WHERE’S THE sense in running, like a COWARD, from the fact THAT Home’s foundations, peace and love, WOULD straightway be attacked, if there existed many men who did NOT DARE TO FIGHT FOR what our country stands today—the Greatest Human Right! Of course it does no good to try to frown the hours away—to deprecate all pleasure and to hush the kids, at play; but when this war is mentioned, it seems > infinitely small to talk in flippant terms, or e’en, perhaps, to talk at all except to plan how we can use our bodies, brawn and brain to serve Our Country in her war to win World Peace, again. Today the words of Scott apply: The Good, the Great, the Grand should perrneate our every thought concerning SUCH A LAND! Robert RusselL “Where’s the coward that would notdare to flght for such a land.” wvvvvwwwwwwww (Copyright, 1917, by Int’l Press Bureau.)