Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-24
Work or Fight

IN France our brave tellows for freedom
And soon ihey'H be clipping the Kaiser.
But vninIu Reu'h strire the portd's
tcron1s TO be rightino I
Unless Toe are honestly Working at
home.
SO phiie zoe arc oorking At home,
This martin zoe all should apply:
For the porker. hard cash
For the shirker. the lash
And death for the alien spy
what is needed in France before ue as
can sag ,oi,h the Huns we are fairly
at grips
Are men and materials plus trunsportd.
Aud that. ,chen zoe come doun to cases,
means ships.
And ,ohile zoe are ,corkino Nth ships
Let all true Americans cry:
For the icorker. hard cash!
For the shirker. the lash! -
And death to the alien spy!
The miners, raiiroaders. the pnddlers, the
The chemists. the molders aud engineers
share
with carpenters, btacksmiths aud all
other craftsmen
Aud phile for the ships ice prepare
We. are bound By this patriot fie:
For the Uorker, hard cash!
For the shirkerIthe lash,
And death to the alien spy
He ,cho ,corks must be fed. so the crops
must be cared for,
Hoed. tcdtered aud tcntched Ger aud
Kept from all harm.
So the rdr that zoe tcd1e and the trork
Ue'pe prepared for
Has its head, front and substance 'truy
doun on the farm.
And so 1Dhile Te tpork on the farm
To keen our firm faith De must try
For the yorker. hard CASH
For the shirker the lash,
And death to the alien spy,
GRIF~ALExANDER.
Shipyard production is doubtless meas
ured with a yardstick.
Eighty-nine ships will be launched in
the United States on July 4. Beats fire.
crackers hollow.
American launching July 4 will total
back of the blow we're handing the
Kaiser.
Every launching is. in a sense, two
base hit. Every time a vessel hits the
water it also hits the Kaiser.
Have a few platitudes with me:
Money isn't everything
The one thing for which a man strives
is the applause of his fellows.
This is true even of the crouch.
In the odd cases where applause" is
not the right word notice" will do. The
case of La Toilette. for instance. He
isn't getting the applause of his fellows.
but he is Thriving on their disesteem.
Ja, hot .l,,,
money won that applause or notice. But
times have changed
Money is still pretty good thing. but
il is no longer the principal thing in life
preservation was the first law of nature
Millions of men less wise have used the
truth to libel their fellows.
It is only sometimes true of the indi.
vidual. 1t Is always true of the race. \
man gives up his life for a friend. a
woman sacrifices herself for her child
| Thousands of soldiers are daily sacri
| ficing their lives for an ideal.
Human nature hasn't changed par
! ticle, but the war has made us see life
| from new angle.
In our democratic way we haves afore
time. been prone to laugh at symbols
We laughed at royalty, forgetting tina
| royalty in some democratic countries
was as much a symbol as the flag. I
| symbClized for the people the Govern
| ment they had set up.
Weflaughed at decorations" forget
| ting that they, too. We're but symbols o
virtues possessed by the recipients.
Perhaps there was occasionally reasol
| to laugh And there isn't much harm II
the laughter when we inclu6e ourselves
From Solomon down we've been pok
ing fun at vanity-which is simply TAX
ing potshots at ourselves.
Call ii vanity.'if you will--but why d
htttt
or their coats?
Personally I think the button an excel
lent good thing--if it means something
He is a poor man who does not try
live up to his buttons.
Or his medals.
All of which is preliminary to unqual
| flied Endorsement of the plan of the ship
ping board tC give gold and silver medal
to shipbuilders who deserve them me
who have new ideas; men who are faith