The Holly chieftain., 1918-11-21
Prepared By the YFsvsss County
Council q Dsosass.-
WHAT DID YOU DOT"

AND Siaverys chain forever snap
This question then will come to
you:
In days Of war. what did you dor"
And when the course OF kultured
might
Has been removed from sight;
When savage lust for power has
sped,
With autocrats and monarchs
dead;
When common people have control,
And nations learn they have soul;
What share will you claim as your
OF Liberty? What did you do?
When fighting men come sailing
home
From bloody war across the foam,
(The war of eace-fOrever-mOre),
Their broken bodies, weary, sore
And tired, and solemn faces tell
The story of the wars fierce hell,
They'll sure demand to know Of you
While "over there" What did you
do?"
And those who sleep in foreign soil,
Who east their lives in hell's tur-
InOil-
Their memory'll light the future
years
And take the sting from all our
tears;
And in our dreams we'll see, per-
chance,
Their crosses stand Somewhere in
France"
Poppies will nod and whisper, too,
They did their best; what did you
do?"
Oh, II you fail to do your best,
To prove your metal in the test,
To be q bigger, better man,
And realize "War is Gods plan
To cleanse the universe of sin
And make it decent to live in;"
How are you going to answer true,
When God demands, what did you
do?
An average Of 5000 queries con-
cerning soldiers in the country's
service are received and an equal
number answered each week by the
bureau of communication of the
American Red Cross, the branch
of that organization which endeav-
ors to keep our fighting men in
touch with their families. OF this
number about 10000 are from moth
ers and friends of men in service
overseas, the remainder being from
persons with relatives in the camps
and cantOnments in this country.
An excerpt from "After the War
is Over" by Premier Lloyd George.
Essential Industries.
During the war we have undoubt-
edly discovered that there were in
dustries in this country that were
essential not merely from the COM
mercial point of view, but from the
point of view of national defense
and security. Under no conditions,
whatever 1t costs, should we let
those Industries down in the fu-
ture. There, l think, we ought to
have the most complete agreement,
and I do not dOubt for a moment
that you will get it. The best meth
cd of securing those industries
against unfair .attaEk, against un-
fair competition, the best way In
which you can secure their devel-
Opment and secure that they shall
go On growing and increasing with
a view to the strengthening of the
country, Is matter which will re-
quire the very deepest cOnsidera-
tiOn; and it is q consideration that
no government could possibly avoid
giving to it at the earliest possible
moment.
There are two or three things
Which should like tp say upon
that particular problem. The lon
ger the war lasts the sterner must
be the economic terms we impose on
the foe. And think the sooner he
realize that the better. He is fight
ing in order to impose his own eco!
nomic terms upon the allies. He
will never succeed in doing So AS
far as that Is concerned we must
be in a position to determine the
conditions which we regard as fair
without having them imposed upon
us by the will of the enemy. And II
he goes on fighting, imposing great
er burdens upon us, destroying our
young manhood, and guilty also of
Outrages which shock humanity
and which make 1t difficult to
shake hands with him when the
war is over, the sterner will be the
terms that will be imposed upon
him.