New-York tribune., 1918-06-14

People. And the name of this Great
~ People was called the Hundred
Million.
And Somewhere, in the midst of the Land
of the Hundred Million, there rose Voice.
And for Many Days it did speak Strange
Cracking Words. And these were the Words
it Spake
go Hundred Millon,' it said "list unto
mel
"The War ye wage, it should not be- Gott
wot, ye need not heed the Suffering Cries Of
Other Lands! Of what concern are these to
Thee?
and thy Babes and Women, though they
lie beneath the Waves, were they not
Drowned by Justifable Act Of Enemies who
called themselves thy Friends!
"And thy Wise Men are only Money
Changers! They seek to fatten on Ill Gotten
Gains! They alone do make this War! The
wonder is the while they prate of Right
that exc they keep their Faces straight!
"And thy Young Men, o Hundred Million,
will ye send them far afield, yea, even unto
Distant Lands, to bleed away their Blood in
Cause of Righteousness and Right! Nay!
Sit tight upon thine own Snug Shores, and
if thine Enemy do come, then and in that
Event do ye make Faces at him, and there
upon scuttle away, yea scuttle away even
unto the high places of the Hills, the while
he Knocketh the Block off the Woolworth
Building and the Singer Tower and ehtereth
thy Land and sitteth in thy Council Seats
and abstracteth a Hundred Million Gold
Simoleons out Of thy Hundred Million re-
spective Pockets!
Turn ye from Thoughts of all These
Things, 0 Hundred Million, and Soak thy
real Enemy, the perfidious Albons and plot
ting Npponese, who fight with thee now,
and give their Blood and Treasure in HUI
manity's Cause, but mean it not, O Hun
dred Million! 'Tis true, their ships and
men protect thee; but naught but Evils in
their Heart the while they do these Won
drcus Things, take it from me!
'Lo, let Peace be in thy Land, o Hundred
Million, and naught but Peace, cen though
thou Grunt with Shame thercat!
pray not for Victory of thine Arms! For
peace, Peace, Peace alone pray thou, any
old Peace, made anywhere, so be it but
Peace!
And if the Chosen Leader of thy land
set by thee in the Seat of the Mighty to
rule over thee and render Wise Counsel
dotl bid thee Pray for the victory of thy
Dear Boys over there, Delete thou his words
from out his Writing, and Nlout his Solemn
Admonition"
And the Hundred Million did hear, and
Shouted Great Shout of Wrath. and Ran
About, and Picked up Rocks, and tried to
find the Voice; but they found it Not; for
it Hid, in Fear.
AND 1t did come to pass that Great Time
did arrive; for the Hundred Million. in
their wisdom, had set apart, distinguished
and appointed Certain Day in the Year.
which Day they called Flag Day.
And on this Day it was the custom of
the Hundred Million to assemble, and, amid
Much Rejoicing, to raise high Aloft their
Starry Flag symbolic of Freedom, Honor
DeceHcy and Good Faith, and with One
Voice to render Glad Acclaim.
And when the Hundred Million had mot
as was their wont, and were about to
raise high Aloft their Starry Flag, 10! thew
1ound coiled therein a Certain Strange
something, which fell out upon the ground
and lay there, Flat and Blinking.
And the Color of the Strange Sometime
that had lain hid and coiled in their Starry
Flag, was Yellow. But behold! while thew
stood and looked, in Astonishment. the
color OF the Strange Something changed
INTO mingled hues Of Red, White and Blue
SO bright that the Hundred Million were
momentarlly Dazzled, and turned aside
their Heads, and while their Heads wero
turned aside the Colors suddenly became
Red, White and Black; but when thev
looked again, 10! it was just plain Yellow
And the Strange Something had a Large
WIDE Mouth which it did one. And r.
hunched itself, and Sang, and these were
the Words it Sang:
"Over there, over there. Send tho n,o,.l
oehd the word over there, o, Say, can YOU
see, MY Country, tis of thee, 1t was onlv
Typographical Error, anyway. GLORY
Glory, Hallelujah!"
And the Hundred Million did hear md
Tor One Brief Moment paused
me Volce!' cried the Hundred Million.
just exactly the Same Old Voice!"
And then, with One Accord. Yea evor
unanimous, and with Glad Shout did the
nuharea Million raise its Collective Heel
ana oring 1t down, and did Squush into an
unshaped, lnnocuous Mess the STRANGE
something that had lain hid and Coiled in
lts Starry Flag! Just like that! souusb,
mats what the Hundred Million thouob+
about it!
Moral: Go to it, Hundred Million! Flag
Day Squash!
o the Women of Alsace-Lorraine