The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-01
THE KNIGHTS or FRERD0A

written during the war, and dedicated to
0aasraI Pershing's tToops).
For freedom our soldiers have gone Into
columbia's champions there they shall BE-.
Like tbs knights medieval Who welded the
For lsaiss they loved, 80 for dear Liberty
Our beyg in The battles their bravest shall do
Tho sign OF their lady the stripes and the
o honor the men Of the Red, White and Blue.
Svsst Liberty's lovers who dght In her wars.
They remember tho women who died in tho sen.
When the vessel gigantic with hundreds went
And saint edith the nurse. whom the Hun
cruelty
For hsr Kindness must martyr; she wsnt to
crown. >ssq.~.
And then men in the trenches can never forget
The Belgian victims Of outrage and wrong.
sThe world wen make safe for all womsahood
yet"
Say these knightly contenders, the gallant,
The strong.
The lists they have entered for Liberty's sake;
Their lady she is, and her colors they bear.
The deeds they shall do will make tyranny
quake, ea,5
These knights Of today. without blame. with
out fear. @ -
For women who suffered. for women who died.
Our boys shall avengers and rsscuers be;
And the Virgin OF Freedom in them shall have
pride, 81
And the wronged ones of Europe their 81
viors shall see.
L'ENvOI
Then honor the knights who have gone into
France,
Whose lady is Freedom the one they adore:
O sharp be each bayonet, Lberty's lanee.
That woman's oppressors may cease ever
more. e. W. 8.
AFTER casual first reading the foregoing
lines brought to mind.a long paragraph B. L. T..
once addressed to us which wound up with:
Moral: Always be timely, unless you are writ
ing literature" But a second thought con-
WINGED US that It will be we'll for many to read
them and remember the feelings that filled our
hearts when they were written and to remem-
Der that thousands OF those same knights OF
freedom" never came back; while many more
who did are now bitterly disilusioned con-
corning the democracy they fought to save
AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING WHILE
SHE READS THIS!
Sir: Why not be original and start q series
Real LIFE? Let.me kick OF with the one about
being married, having wife and still buttons
missing of your shirt. M c. r.
WE have q prsmonition that M. C. r. has
started something While space is yet avail
able We may as we'll add our own contribution
to Nv. X. ]. T. A. F. i. r. L."-getting up at 8
a. m. to get the boy a drink and stepping ON a
cluster of marbles. What robs this joke of
its humor is the fact that it wasn't US that
got up but it WAS US VINO earlier neglected to
gather up the marbles).
FROM story in The Argus we clip this
musical note:
"Do-te-la-sol- fa-me-ra-do"
Probably we know less about music than
anyone you might mention, but We believe those
syllables were set down by the man that hath
no music in his SOUL
TAKE it from Wilbur Glenn voliva, over
seer of Zion City, 1T pays to be good" He is
the absolute monarch OF Zion, its people and
its industries, from which an income OF $780,
900 year Is derived. Even such a deprayed
being as a colyum conductor could be good
for $4,000 year.
LIMERICK NO. L
CAS- completed by its author. A. NJ. 81
Let me say, Odeekay. if may,
That tho plan to give Mack q play day.
Will not work. for the wight
Must guess right or write
EITHER WAY HE MUST SWEAT
| FOR HIS PAY
ANOTHER good guess gone wrong! Well
we didn't miss it SO far, at that. The idea. as
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