The Washington herald., 1918-01-31
The Sportlight
Flanders Fields.
By GRANTLAND RICE

Flanders Fields.
In Flanders Fields the peoples grow
Between the crosses. row on row,
That mark our place, while in the
sky
The larks. stin singing bravely, fly ,
Unheard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived. felt dawn, saw sunsets
glow,
Loved and were loved. and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you. from failing hands. we throw
The torch; be yours 70 hold Il high;
II ye break faith with US who die
We shall not sleep though poppieS
blow
In Flanders Fields.
Lieut. Col John McCrae Tin Puneal
The Living Answer.
Sleep, Dreamers. sleep. in quiet con-
tent
Through all the peace that you
have drawn,
Until wars final fame is spent
Above the silent fields Of dawn:
Its crashing answer on the foe;
Sleep. through the dreams that you
have earned
In Flanders. where the popples blow.
Sleep. Dreamers. sleep. In endless rest,
You who have reached the Final Inn.
Where poppics crown each silent
crest
Between you and the battles din:
Sleep. Dreamers. sleep. dim wrath by
wrath.
And hold this message for yourt
Dead.
The living will not break the faith :
They owe to those who've gone
ahead.
So let the poppies bend and sway
Between the crosses, row on row"
And when light sends another dsv
From flaming dawn to sunsets
glow,
Or when the darkness gathers deep
Where yet the living guard their
shields,
Let peace eternal crown the sleep
That holds your dreams In Flande?s
Fields.
what Training Does.
when this fellow reported here
remarked the battery commander. I
wondered how he had ever been pass
ed. He was stoop-shouldered and
thin-chested. He was drawn into a
half knot through rheumatism. You
could see that he had never taken
any regular exercise or had ever eaten
proper food. ! never had an idea he
would last two weeks. And for the
first two weeks he came pretty near
fading out. And then he began to
straighten up a trile. He began TO
get his chest out. his shoulders back
and his head up. And when this be-
gan TO happen he could see for him
self that he was turning back into
a man. That was two months aSs.
Today he is a Good soldier. in EoSd
condition. clear-eyed. clear skin, cred.
and on the job. War kills quite "
number Of men. II isn't a very good
thing taken as a regular dose. But
don't forget that it takes many a
weakling and half-man and makes
him over. II all war ended with the
training a man receives it would be
one OF the great things OF civiliza-
ton"
As to Feet.
The foundation Of a house o.
building is. on the average, at the
bottom. One rarely sees a founda-
tion erected at the top. In the same
way the foundation OF an athlete or
a soldier is composed mainly Of feet.
The man who knows how to take
care of his feet, whatever the game.
is two-thirds across. Bad feet have
ruined many a ball player. stopped
many a football star and ended the
career OF many a tennis player. And
the soldier who doesn't know how
20 take care of his feet Is verginE
upon a total loss. But as the foot
is such lowly, humble part OF the
body or system, It receives very lit
tie attention until Il is too late.
Or. as Edgar Allan Poe might
have said:
The bean may be useful,
The body be neat,
Rut fbe p1are fO start hu11dfnr