Williston graphic., 1918-03-21
Keep the Home Fires Burning.
Keep the home fires burning
While your hearts are yearning;
Though your lads are far away they
dream of home.

dream of home.
Just little while the Minneapolis Tribune these
words the call of living mother to other mothers whose
the the firing lines Today the singer of the
is deadvm of German air the words Of the
millions
Till radiant figure Of the smudge of
battle and over the top leaving
memory message keep bearing its sacred enonder
of cheer and and hope and duty The feet Of marching
hosts will swing bravey to its Countless fredes will
be vibrant with the sentiment it speaks.
Guilbert Ford American wrote the
and forth work inspiration might do Into
it she had the golden stands mothers love- Out of it
she hoped might flow that something which the of
mothers heart She could not bear ride warshp and
this of her b the she loved and prayed
for seemed pebble cast into the of human feeling and so
the force set loose has been felt in dozen lands
Mrs Ford and her crippled smothered death the
has crashed through the roof of the house.
the devoted mothers pea keep the
Home Fires Burning" The song had lips
short before the cruel of fate befe them The home
fires at that went out almost in twnkng but the
neghbors have reared here shrine eonate remembrance
Mother had their best light with cheer gloomy
world To the living they have left legacy that Teuon stroke
destroy because it Of loves cherished mponderabes
The boys out there the rough Of the dream indeed
yst be under the stars beneath midday
whichever it be it challenges tie and shells that
roundabout is wonderful meetn love there with
its renue and hope and pride and comradesh
"Keep burning" The injunction has
many and from but has
had wider deeper reach than THAT contained in Mrs tords
Here peculiarly the womanhood Of the
Allied but its appeal to and everywhere
whose loyalty underad with righteousness Soldiers sing the
song IT'S best setting for them
between the of carrying on when the
thought twixt home and trench cleaest
visualize the fighting hosts rayng from hill and
gen city hamlet the lost palladium of mems rights
They catch Of the souls of millions
spirit the will ALL if need be- to restore Christen
dom its boons They enon mothers wives and sisters
hold back their when home ties breaking when the
by and when drums beat the of the forward
They adure that the thnodes Of aching hearts be lost
the CHEEKY They offer this balm for sorrow
this this spur hope this incentive to prayer
There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining;
Turn the dark cloud inside out till the
boys home.
They may snspired but they have the
magic that touches chords to human breasts hey go
home and the do the sinner and
the saint in time when the very air is surchageo VIII" longing
and alarm.
keep the home fires burning"
The American people answered the appeal little while ago
when they millions to the Red Cross the T. M
A. the Knights Of Columbus and the Y w. g. a. Inc MISSION
of these tending the fires and ana
in The Of civilians hundreds ana tou
sands miles vgant to see that they shal
not out where the Lares hold communion 1t coss hea'y "
stoke the es but the return in and
hoo dis worth than all the money In the world
keep the home fires burning"
Unless that thing be done winning OF tne war WI" DC no
better losing be- The play of American knit
ting needles and the spirit of Mrs fod song
Every fold of bandage loves answer to the Every
wife mother or babe is con-
ession of faith that veal of homeless PACK OF eh
fight for honor and justice and humanity. ,..,.
bomb has sienced the lips Of the SINGER ou' as o' ~
the The crppng the sons OF moes lar anu oe
but the mothers Of like those Of England are oaVe re-
solved
Keep the home fires burning"