New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Ye0=Heave=Ho!

YeO-Heave=Ho!
IT WAS gallant farmer lad
Enlisted in the navy.
"Give me-" said he, "the deep blue sea.
The ocean wide and wavy!" ~
sailors uniform he'd don,
And never would he doff it.
he packed his grip, and soon was on
His way to Captain Moffett
In cap of white and coat of blue
He labored for the nation,
A member of the salty crew
That worked the Naval Station.
He soon became the best of tars,
A seaman more than able,
BY sweeping streets. and driving cars,
And waiting on the table
He guarded gates. and shovelled snow,
And worked upon the highway.
"All lads" said he. should plough the sea.
And would if ! had my way"
Weed-end he took a trolley car,
And to the city hied him,
Alongside of another tar
Who offered for to guide him.
The train rolled DER a trestle nigh,
The river ran below him.
"Well, III be blamed!" our tar exclaimed.
And grabbed his pal to show him.
Yes, dash my weeping eyes!" he cried,
That's water, sure, by gravy.
The first blue water have spied
Since joining of the navy!"
Now, "landsmen ALL" the morals plain:
Our navy still is arming
And If you'd plough the we'll known main,
You'd best begin by farming
Ii you would head tossing prow
Among our navigators.
Get up at morn and milk the COW,
And yeo-heave-ho the 'taters
Do up your chores, and do 'em brown,
And learn to drive a fliyyer:
ana some cay, when you go to town,
You'll see the raging river.
HERE is this fundamental difference
one of many--between Lord Lans-
downe and Woodrow Wilson, reports G. H.
NJ. One begins most of his paragraphs with
"May l." the other with May l not"
Mr.. Bryan is so consistently peaceful that
he does not believe in employing force to
make the world safe for oratory.
A simple way to tell ground glass from
powdered sugar is to taste the stuff. The
glass is little sweeter.
The Chicago Womans Club announces
better speech week, when drive will be
made against the perpetrators of "aint
got' and other atrocities. Young Grimes is
leaving town to avoid public rebuke from
the club ladies.
Mrs. Treadwell advocates "lingles for tho
Jaws" so that foreign born cts may Be
trained to American twists of speech
Come with your jaw jingles, omitting
the picked pepper picking in Peter Pipers
peck.
We wish the Woman's Club would get
after the public speakers who say shs
don't" One orator to whom we. after
fashion, listened t'other day used "he donv
seven times in three minutes.
You must give your money to the Ameri'
can government or to the German govern
ment
mere Is, however, this differences:
Our government will say "Thank you"
Russia's slogan for the week is "Victor
or DEATH"
Next week: "Vladivostok or bust!"
If all the women who want their husbanae
arrested were accommodated, says Judss
Stelk, "a third of the married male pepas y
lation of Chicago would be under lock ane
key every night in the year." Well -
you think of safer place Tor themI
"The army and navy have achieved trs-
mendous things."-Der Kaiser.
Against second-class powers and pssssn-
ger vessels.
When he wrote the phrase. "pitiless pus'
licity" Mr.. Wilson no doubt attached aov
tation marks at each end For, reminos
F. S. r. (and we ought to have remempsEes s.
it), Emerson wrote, in "The Conduct
Life: "As gas light is found to be tas - 49,
nocturnal police, so the nniyerse psdt
~. Ill