The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-14
War SONGS

4 sympathetic English observer rep
resents IN az struggling almost fever.
ishly to produce phrases about. the
war" He gauges us al feeling quite
"out Of the running while We haVs no
catchNords. ana this Is seen ia hnrt
out national pride. ..rhere Il no co,,n-
try so we'll aware Of Its special sift4 In
speedy and pungent cbaractetisatioh..
he says, admitting that our slang has
AN epigrammaticai TOUCH The tate
we are found to dread IL ITO be left. he-a
hind by those countries WIN, whatever
their qualities. are not to be compAretfss
with OURS ''in swIftness, in contlens6.
ton. and description In the London
Daily Chronicle he reviews our efforts
up to now. with 'officialdom as well 90
the public and the newspapers All
working hard" Thus:
The most prominent recruiting ap-
peal. pasted in hinge letters on the
hoarhtngs. ID rs follows:
It's not the man who cheers,
But he who volunteers.
To whom all honor Is due,
Get In line; get gun.
"1he newspapers are torturing them-
selves as 10 the pnt name for the
American soldiers. They want some
| ting appro1ilnating 10 the British
Tommy Many s,,ewessinns have he.r.l
MADE. One Is that they .shonld be
| Gated ietidies. resnnasseIt title
which keeps In mind the services fssli
ambitions IT Colonel Roosevelt. No
Gently this has heen anpt,lAnted by the
name Samnees. derived. OF cs..lsse
| from the national figure .Uacae Sam.
4 Neither has made hit. thon.:h some
or the papers are persevering with the
l latter. There was I: little shock The
| olner day when IL was cabled that
| 'Sammee in rural districts OF ls,,;i:4.,u
meant silly, stupid. even something
| pertaining TO the village idiot. Strong
minded journals thrust the suggestion
aside. however. and persisted withe
Sammfes. One ingenious corre-
spondent has put forward the Joint
NICKNAME 'Sasnrnce- Ted. bnt .scorn
has been poured on him.
Not less strenuous than the search
for names and phrases has been that
for a popular song which shall equal
our "Fipperary or Keep the Homes
Fires Burning Here. too, there has
been no absolute success hitherto. FIX
perfmenta are still going on IL the
theatera and music halls. Perhaps the
most popular to the present is Good
by. Broadway; Hello. France Re.
cruiting automobile vans with dozen
Or more soldiers pull up at a crowded
centers like Times Square or Madison
Square, and the lads In khaki roar out
the chorus through megapl10ues to the
people who gather round The words
run thus:
Good by. Broadway: hello. France;
We're ten million strong.
Good by, sweethearts wives and moth
| ers:
| 1t won't take MS long.
Don't yon worry while we're there.
It's for You we're fighting. too +h
So eood-hy Broadway; hello, France, =.
We're going to square our debt to
| you
1T goes with a swing and dash, and
sounds a good deal better than IL reads,
Another one of the recruiters song is
Where do we go from here The
chorus Is as follows.
Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here
Anywhere from Harlem to Jersey
City pier.
When Pat would spy pretty girl he'd
whisper IN her ear,
Oh JOY. oh. boy. where do we go from
| here
''The peculiar excellence OF this as
war-ditty. 1t will he observed, like
| that OF 'Tipperary,' It's complete irrele-
1 vance.
!, What is entitled the official re-
crniting song has the following lines:
It's your country it's my country
, With millions of real fighting men
It's Your duty and my duty
To speak with the sword. not the pen
| II Washington We're living today.
, With sword in hand he'd stand up and
Il say:
T For your country. and my country,
I'll do it all over again.
| TT may not be very good poetry, hut
the sentiment Is beyond dispute"