1919

Newsreel XX

Oh the infantree the infantree

With the dirt behind their ears

ARMIES CLASH AT VERDUN IN GLOBE’S

GREATEST BATTLE

150,000 MEN AND WOMEN PARADE

but another question and a very important one is raised. The New York Stock Exchange is today the only free securities market in the world. If it maintains that position it is sure to become perhaps the world’s greatest center for the marketing of

BRITISH FLEET SENT TO SEIZE

GOLDEN HORN

The cavalree artilleree

And the goddamned engineers

Will never beat the infantree

In eleven thousand years

TURKS FLEE BEFORE TOMMIES

AT GALLIPOLI

when they return home what will our war veterans think of the American who babbles about some vague new order, while dabbling in the sand of shoal water? From his weak folly they who have lived through the spectacle will recall the vast new No Man’s Land of Europe reeking with murder and the lust of rapine, aflame with the fires of revolution

STRIKING WAITERS ASK AID OF WOMEN

Oh the oak and the ash and the weeping willow tree

And green grows the grass in North Amerikee

coincident with a position of that kind will be the bringing from abroad of vast quantities of money for the purposes of maintaining balances in this country

When I think of the flag which our ships carry, the only touch of color about them, the only thing that moves as if it had a settled spirit in it, — in their solid structure; it seems to me I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice and strips of blood spilt to vindicate these rights, and then, — in the corner a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these things.

Oh we’ll nail Old Glory to the top of the pole

And we’ll all reenlist in the pig’s a — h—