New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02
The Coming 7o70er
THESE TIMES

,orf mind seeing it in the faces of the old
rSo who have tried and failed
NV" -, don't expect in the faces Of the young,
% lovers life, the careey glad the joyfully rebeious
v.v Caygn has just his commission at Patts-
sng rood-natured Harry! e..
u.-v used to be pro-German
pa he denounced England for causing the war
", Subtless. stll is at heart.
aT America decided to make democracy
+, ss.ed Harry what he would do
Enlist" he said
.pu | wondered
81 tnow he said YEARLY "but what the hell you do?"
The answer by the way, to all of life's riddles
What the hell can you do?)
,..,o Jones is now in the Naval Reserve
Chsrle once had ambitions of being movie star.
w. woke me up morning tell he had interviewed
Theda Bara.
,.ow Charlie yesterday;
U. hasn't any ambitions
W must realize how childish his early dream,
p, he realizes also that oil childish
% fighting for democracy" asked seriously wanted to know
Charlie shrugged his shoulders.
.ob rats he said "But-wel the hell you do?"
s Young salesman my fathers place the other day.
80 70 induce him to Law in a supply of Christmas cards.
aBeeye e' said War there's gonna be some
demand this Christmas
THEY'LL send EN- to the soldiers. :"
tibet he was right at that.
wishing Merry Christmas to a man trench may be absurd,
Hooked the salesman over somewhat contemptuously:
The world going smash and he was selling Christmas
And then got the Guilty Feeling:
How about myself?
On the dav that Harry Cayg would into action should prob
ably Go slangy Horace translation,
Or maybe a serious sonnet
But as began to reason the Guilty Feeling passed:
After all whether did these things
Or had been drafted in the meanwhile
Or enlisted for Red Cross work,
What difference would 1t make?
there
1us how Wells got religion:
He saw the truth-that nothing mattered,
Not Wells
And was afraid of it.
Even as Mr.. Drifting was;
Both Of them afraid to it through
Sohe made himself God in his own image.
And because he had part of the truth,
He didn't make his God All-Powerful.
He made Him a struggling God,
God who fought against Circumstances and and
Mr. Wells
But because the public dcmandeh the happy ending
And Mr.. Wells afraid of the whole truth,
This God would win in the end
There was an educational" film showing how they caught fish:
Thousands and thousands them hauled up by the big nets
And they Topped squmed like crowd during the SUBJ
But after while they stopped squirming.
Plain as day they shrugged their equivalent for shoulders and
asked,
what are you going do about it?"
A few though kept struggling till the last
And some Of these managed to eyade the net:
They jumped out Of only fall second that had been pre-
pared for just such emergency;
Some took mighty jump and landed the deck OF the
Where they would have been dumped, anyhow
The poor fish," said to the girl beside
Iddnr; I was thinking that this was Life
And all of poor fish,"
Even the few who struggled
Oh, well, .
Looks as though the Giants cnhed the pnnant doesn't it,
MORRIE.
We cannot agree with Morrie That all poor hsh
open to doubt The sea- as well known contains JustaSeooo
fish, and many that unlandable.
Speaking of poor fish, is any poorer than the German carp
NAPLES
From, "Tnnrcssions" by Beatrice B. Bernheiml
Nepoitan. Cosmopolitan city on the bay 49,, aau
Whose bs are varooed boats sail all the oaF'
crowd who love their fun ana aue"''''
Their music memory ever aiVer'
Thy busy streets with iosng of hawkers and OF e
pretty girls and noisy boys and many hoay mehdeS
DIV their trades filth with vim; and by he a ~
raptuous gaze turned the many mower S'SiS