The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-08
BRITAIN'S DAY.

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This is the day America sets apart
to celebrate in Britain's honor. The
knot is tied; feuds are forgotten and
nations speaking the same tongue
are welded together for all time
The English speaking race is to have
an unsullied escutcheon.
1t may be that America in the es-
tablishment OF her independence
severed herself from the mother
country and was the recipient OF
aid and sympathy from France,
therefore her heart in this great war
today is with France. This IS why
| happened to read an expression
from an American returned from the
front. 1--WE BY the timely aid OF our
millions saved the day. Here's TO
the Allies, and next 10 America,
France and her valiant soldiers.
There is not home in France but
has lost father, son or brother"
This is a little disturpinp, but we
become a little more complacement
when we know that today in the
schools, children are being taught
that these millions were in the main
transported by British aid, and in
that line OF khaki stretching across
devastated France, were 4 million
more under the Union Jack than the
Tricolor. And Britain could not
light concentratedly. Tor her forces
were in British East Africa, British
West Alica, the CameroonSr at the
Suez, Salonica. Palestine. Mespot-
amia, as well as protecting the iron
tiers and her ships patrolllng the
seas. saving it tor neutral nations
and guarding her lar distant shores |
Ones love Tor ones country IS
part of ones existence, and whatever |
are the nations achievements, we
take them unto ourselves, ior We are /
her children. Therefore, one may /
be pardoned ii they swell with a lit
tie pride because Britain has done /
her part.
Was not the Mesopotamia tri-
umph colossal in its undertaking and
can one conceive anything more
OF intrepidity and re
sourcefulness than the transplantlng
to oriental waters, little crafts.
meant only for the fresh water bap
tism OF the Thames, the Ganges and
Irawaddy;
The fight that wrested from Ger
many her colonies, was not only a
victory, but 4 diplomatic
one. when the enemy OF sixteen
years ago, are her generals today
the heroes OF this campaign. But
there are some knots in the lions
.ail-the Dardenelles. However,
here was unfurled then another
;tandard-that OF the Anzac, which
made Austraia's fame. These men
we're from the Empires back blocks,
some $4,000 strong and in that brief
were numbered 'LOOO
lead.
Long ago wrote a poet
let they come back to me,
come with their brave hearts beat
ing
-onging to die ior me.
Ne the gray, old, weary mother,
amid northern waters.
OF the sons of Britain what more
oul-stirring story, than that told .
yhen taken prisoners, they chose
ather to face the firing squad, than 7
work. in the munition factories.
Then the day came-THE DAY
hat one misty November morn
.hen the German fleet came out
o surrender. Now with what vim
hall be sung-north-and-east-and r.
outl-"Britannia, the Pride OF the "
)cean''-"A fleet in being had done g
S perfect work" Quoted from a l
Jew York paper. p
While now an American citizen II
bsolutely and convincingly, yet IN t'
ne thing shall | be forever British,
hat is. in my hatred for the Ger P
IAN nation; there l am inexorable. 81
or never shall | sail the seas and i, !.
OF be haunted by the horrors OF u
)15. 1915, 1917 and 1918. The sight n,
every patient woman's face, under u u
cap. Shall recall the death OF Edith H. Il
aytn. Md then l am a woman, ] !"
1me OF people whose men are ~
liyalrous. When | think OF the -, II.
omen OF Belgium and France, at -, 20
lie mercy OF the Hun-God, | pray ~,
may never forget.
If the question is asked, who won n,
Ie war, let the answer be IN the N
under OF silence that greets us; he
r the graves do not give up their S.
,ad and neither do the dead speak m
Mt there they lie in their narrow ut
,ds-millions-let us keep our taith
ith them. III
and the poppies bloom in Fland-
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rdmore. December !, 1918.