Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1918 — True Meaning of "Boomerang." [ARTICLE]

True Meaning of "Boomerang."

Boomerang has beaten all records of words turned Inside out. The term does not convey thb Idea of retribution, as the boomerang returns not at the thrower’s peril, but to his further use. No Australian would make that blunder. Colonel Miles, the allied expeditionary forces’ chief chaplain during the war, used the term right when he declared: We are your boomerang, flung out by you to conquer a continent and now returning to your feet for another throw. __-