New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
[Staf Correspondence

ROLLING ALONG WITH THE LIB
ERTY BALL, SENECA FALLS, N. Y,
April 12.-For all the mechanical mis-
fortunes which have overtaken the
Liberty Ball on the first quarter Of it's
50Omile 'cross-country roll between
Buffalo and Broadway, it is not the
ball but those light-running Uncle
Sans who were it's original through
fellow travellers that New York will
be scanning the horizon in vain for on
May 4.
This is contrary to all expectations.
But the ball, Samless from day on, is
the survivor of the red, white and blue
combination. 1t rolls on and will keep
rolling on until New York is reached,
just as surely and inevitably as this
third Liberty Loan, which the big ball
it achieves it's three billion dollar goal.
New York or bust!" was the early
motto of the ball. To-day it's Dust,
but keep a-going!" That is the slogan
of the Boy Scouts of New York State,
to whom finally have been granted the
full honor and the full responsibility
of rolling the Liberty Ball.
Twin Sans Get Through
The twin Sans, in their own phrase,
have got through. They were left be-
hind this morning For them no more
shivering in their Fourth Of July
pants; no more frozen roads to be
traversed; no more snow nor rain nor
hail to buck against. They have been
divorced from the third loans payroll,
but all in all they are just as we'll
satisfied to have it so
Those charming illusions of spring
in the open, which lured them forth
from thrice comfortable New York;
those youthful dreams of twittering
birds, of buds and blossoms, of sym
of shirts leeved picnics under green
trees, of arboreal beatitudes marvel
lous and endless that it would be al
most criminal to take pay for straying
amid, have all been shattered
First disappointed, now dismissed.
the Sans are returning tonight on the
cushions from Geneva and the rough,
real thing to the cinema world from
which they were borrowed.
Geneva, 122 miles from Buffalo, and
five days out at the rate they were roll
ing the ball, was as far as the weather.
beaten uncles got. There they re-
NAMED this morning, safely sheltered
from the heavy snowstorm, when their
scout successors moved the ball off for
Waterloo and Seneca Falls, and there
tonight they entrain, the great adj
venture prematurely ended for them.
And now the Liberty Ball is the Boy
Scouts SNOWFALL theirs. Any touch of
professional Professionalism has been re-
moved. 1t is pure and unadulterated
patriotism which now keeps the ball
rolling.
Boy Scouts Real Patriots
What stanch little patriots the Scouts
have proved themselves. At every few
miles along the road bands of them
have been waiting in all sorts of
weather with flags and flies and drums
and fingers itching for chance to grip
the rope They have taken the hard
ships in trudging dozen miles or
twenty through snow ard mud and
ploughing into icy winds. Far from
complaining or Sinking, they have
gloried in their individual tastes of
what those bigger Scouts, the good
Scouts with Pershing, are living
through and dying in beyond the water.
All along the Liberty Ball has been
their ball, anyhow, so the complete
honor which now falls to them is al
mighty we'll deserved
The Sans were just part of the