Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-06-19
THE NEW BUNKER HILLS

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soestern hemisphere. If you Wait to shoot
at Bunker Hill you ,oiU neUer kno,0 ,0tat
hit you."-President Rocsevelt)
Bunker Hill may be in Iceland
Boston may be far at sea,
Concord Bridge may be structure
Beyond visibility;
Distance in this war is shrinking
And it quite disturbs our sleep
TO regard the North Church belfry
AS upon the briny deep.
Paul Revere once watched for lam
From a famous Charlestown
shore
But he now needs long-range glasses
That will take in Labrador;
He must watch lot of steeples
On some Arctic stretch of land
And must look for signals flashing
From some Indian coral strand.
Now "the muff1ed oars" must cover
Lots of distance, wild and rough,
And the epic Charlestown rowboat
Must do ocean-going stuff;
Paul was once a local rider
And we owe a lot to him,
But he now must get around more
And must teach his horse to swim!
Now he stands beside his saddle
And he wonders what to do
AS he keeps an eye on Dakar
Trinidad and Suez, too;
AS he watches for new doings
With that classic "eagle search"
He may catch a warning glimmer
From a Madagascar church.
Mystic once was in New England,
But who thinks it there today?
Medford cocks now crow in Iceland
Or perhaps in Baffin Bay;
It was one o'clock, they tell us,
When Paul got to Lexington :.
But the journey was land trip
And was not an ocean run.
1t was two o'clock at Concord
Then Massachusetts place
Not village in the Azores
Or borough near Cape Race;
Then the focks that Paul heard
bleating
We're all f1ocks quite close at hand
Never focks in far-off Narvik
Or some spot off Newfoundland.
Middlesex was then non-shifting,
Not transferable each week;
1t was not in midatlantic
And twas not in Martinique!
Distance isn't what it once was
Now our shores, so we hear,
Can be somewhere close to China,
Crete, Suez or Finistere.
So to wait to "see the whites Of
Hostile eyes brands you dope
Unless you are tensely squirting
Through big Lick telescopes;
So we give Revere the curtain
AS a far out-dated lad
And we shoot his horse quite
blithely-
But it leaves us pretty sad!
The trouble is that too many
Americans think of an unlimited
emergency as meaning tire trouble
during a weekend auto trip, slight
traffic congestion on the way to the
bathing beach or shortage of auto
parking space for the hired hands.
A blackout may be tried in New
York soon. 1t is going to be terri
BILE order for the average New York
err to have to find the delicatessen
and drug store in the dark.
The Nazis have perfected the art
of jumping out of planes, but the
time will come when they will have
to solve the problem of jumping
back.
CANDIDATES FOR THE FIRING
SQUAD
Pm very sick of lots of things,
But of nothing more today
Than golf stars striding four abreast
To the camera mans "Okay!"
What America needs more than
anything else is good fve-cent
dime
Elmer Twitchell can't help Won
dering how long it is going to take
radio advertisers to realize that
nothing loses them more customers
than having the war commentators
abruptly turn from the latest crisis
into spiel on hair tonics, shoe pol
ishes and spinach dressings.
DELAYED IN TRANSIT
Whenever I zoom up an elevator,
get there first-my stomach later!
Lee A. Cavalier.