Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-03-03
GASOLINE.

lRx 1. c. Burton. FIN Motor Aae.l

(By j. c. Burton. in Motor AGED
Being a ~paraphrase of Rudyard KIP.
opening sentence of a dispatch from Lon
don, which read: Tommy Atkins, should
ering a musket instead of swinging a
swagger stick. has formed an alliance
with the motor car and in impending bat
Ties to be fought by British troopers there
viii be frantic calls for Gunga Dins that
carry. gasoline tanks instead OF water
bags
In the conflicts past and gone
War lords placed dependence on
The steel from which tie bayonets were
forged,
And in trenches flowing red
Dum-dum bullets run of lead
Made q sick'ning feast on which the War
beast gOrged:
Blu in Europe's bloody hour
There's a new and mighty power,
In Napolennic times quite unforeseen,
Now a factor in the field
Where Death claims it's blighting Yield.
Ally of the blood-mad hordes is gasoilhe.
Made from rotting dinosauri gasoline;
Used by women to go shopping.
Also where carbines are popping.
IIigh test, sixteen-cent a gallon gasohhe.
When the dust-gray foe is massed
And the frontier line is passed.
You must get your .cattcr'd troops 'here
double-quick
You can shout till hell is cool
y III II dIINa HoliCJit ihi "
But no animal on earth can turn the
trick.
There's a call for men rom Liege
Mothers kneel and pray to God to inter-
But the minions of grim Mars
Mobilize the motor cars
And the spirit that they praise is gas
oline:
1t is gasoline.
Blood of motors. hope of monarchs. saso-
Little priced when used for pleasure.
But when armies clash a treasure.
Taking men to fight and perish, gasohhe.
For one hundred miles or more
C,aul and German splash through gore.
Madly coveting the crimson marx OF
uhlans Charge with frenzied shout
And the French are put to rout-
Panic sweeps along the banks OF river
There's a call for supreme speed,
For a cool man there is. need.
n to curse Pierre and rally heel''s
And though thirty miles away.
He can ride and save the day,
If he quits his horse and takes TO gas
though your odor's far from perfume,
When the front rank starts stampeding.
Neither Oaths nor orders needing,
You are called TO stop t1lc Iiol, 6oSo'ihS
Mic the din of changing steel
Scores Of German heroes reel.
BY tomorrow widows tears will HOOD
the rhine
And where bits of shrapnel rain
BY the silent heaps of slain :.
You can trace the course of Europes
murder line.
There a wounded trooper falls.
Observation-Disclosures.
Racked by pain and crazed by horrors
he has seen.
But with agonizfng breath
He shakes off the clutch of Death
Quick! The stretcher. ambulance and
gasoline:
1t is gasoline.
English petrol or French essence. gaso'
line:
In the fighting you're a wonder,
But you're greater yet, by thunder:
Saving kids from being orphans gasoline
BY Perceyal Gibbon in Golfers.
A Protective Revival.
From the Youngstown Telegram. :.
Observation-Disclosures bought a sui
If armor at a sale of antiques.
Phyle-I didn't know he was a col
lector.
"He isn't. He bought the thing TO
protection"
For projections"
Exactly. A lot of amateurs pla!
golf on q course ne 10 obliged to pas
IN his way to work and he IL afrai,
Nyf-- A1A Me- Tho AS,1n~ ho1 lie So