U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [224]
a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak
hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone
streets stil left in downtown New York,
-105-crying out in a shril soundless giggle:
War is the health of the state.
NEWSREEL XXIII
If you dont like your Uncle Sammy
If you dont like the red white and blue
smiles of patriotic Essex County wil be concentrated and recorded at Branch Brook Park, Newark, N. J., tomorrow afternoon. Bands wil play while a vast throng marches hap-pily to the rhythm of wartime anthems and airs. Mothers of the nation's sons wil be there; wives, many of them carry-ing babes born after their fathers sailed for the front, wil occupy a place in Essex County's graphic pageant; relatives and friends of the heroes who are carrying on the message of Free-dom wil file past a battery of cameras and al wil smile a message recording instal ment no. 7 of Smiles Across the Sea. The hour for these folks to start smiling is 2:30.
MOBS PLUNDER CITIES
NEWSPAPERMAN LEADS THROUGH BARRAGE
it was a pitiful sight at dusk every evening when the whole population evacuated the city, going to sleep in the fields until daylight. Old women and tiny children, cripples drawn in carts or wheeled in barrows men carrying chairs bring those too feeble and old to walk JERSEY TROOPS TAKE WOMAN GUNNERS
the trouble had its origin with the demand of the marine workers for an eight hour day If you dont like the stars in Old Glory
Then go back to your land across the sea
To the land from which you came
Whatever be its name
-106-G.O.P. LEADER ACCUSED OF DRAFT FRAUDS
If you dont like the red white and blue
Then dont act like the cur in the story
Dont bite the hand that's feeding you
EVELINE HUTCHINS
Little Eveline and Arget and Lade and Gogo lived on the top floor of a yel owbrick house on the North Shore Drive. Arget and Lade were little Eveline's sisters. Gogo was her little brother littler than Eveline; he had such nice blue eyes but Miss Mathilda had horrid blue eyes. On the floor below was Dr. Hutchins' study where Your-father mustn't be disturbed, and Dearmother's room where she stayed al morning painting dressed in a lavender smock. On the groundfloor was the drawingroom and the diningroom, where parishioners came and little children must be seen and not heard, and at dinnertime you could smel good things to eat and hear knives and forks and tinkly companyvoices and Yourfather's booming scary voice and when Yourfather's voice was going al the company-voices were quiet. Yourfather was Dr. Hutchins but Our Father art in heaven. When Yourfather stood beside the bed at night to see that little girls said their prayers Eve-line would close her eyes tightscared. It was only when she'd hopped into bed and snuggled way down so that the covers were light across her nose that she felt cosy. George was a dear although Adelaide and Margaret
teased him and said he was their Assistant like Mr. Bless-ington was Father's assistant. George always caught things first and then they al had them. It was lovely when they had the measles and the mumps al at once. They stayed in bed and had hyacinths in pots and guinea pigs and Dear--107-mother used to come up and read the Jungle Book and do funny pictures and Yourfather would come up and make funny birdbeaks that opened out of paper and tel stories he made up right out of his head and Dearmother said he had said prayers for you children in church and that made them feel fine and grownup. When they were al up and playing in the nursery
George caught something again and had monia on account of getting cold on his chest and Yourfather was very sol-emn and said not to grieve if God cal ed little brother away. But God brought little George back to them only he was delicate after that and had to wear glasses, and when Dearmother let Eveline help bathe him because Miss Mathilda was having the measles too Eveline noticed he had something funny there where she didn't have anything. She asked Dearmother if it was a mump, but Dearmother scolded her and said she was a vulgar little girl to have looked.