U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [34]
"I'm stuck on you," she said. "You make a lot of money
-79-and come back and marry me.""By gum, I'l do that," said Mac, and he walked off with tears in his eyes and feeling very good. He was particularly glad he hadn't got the clap off that girl in Seattle.
NEWSREEL VI
Paris Shocked At Last
HARRIMAN SHOWN AS RAIL COLOSSUS
noted swindler run to earth
TEDDY WIELDS BIG STICK
straphangers demand relief.
We were sailing along
On moonlight bay
You can hear the voices ringing
They seem to say
You have stolen my heart, now don't go away
Just as we sang
love's
old
sweet
songs
On moonlight bay
MOB LYNCHES AFTER PRAYER
when the metal poured out of the furnace I saw the men running to a place of safety. To the right of the furnace I saw a party of ten men al of them running wildly and their clothes a mass of flames. Apparently some of them had been injured when the explosion occurred and several of them tripped and fel . The hot metal ran over the poor men in a moment.
PRAISE MONOPOLY AS BOON TO ALL
-80-industrial foes work for peace at Mrs. Potter Palmer's love's old
sweet
song
We were sailing along song
on moonlight bay
THE CAMERA EYE (7)
skating on the pond next the silver company's mil s where there was a funny fuzzy smel from the dump
whaleoil soap somebody said it was that they used in cleaning the silver knives and spoons and forks putting shine on them for sale there was shine on the ice early black ice that rang like a sawblade just scratched white by the first skaters I couldn't learn to skate and kept fal -ing down look out for the muckers everybody said bohunk and polak kids put stones in their snowbal s write dirty words up on wal s do dirty things up al eys their folks work in the mil s
we clean young American Rover Boys handy with
tools Deerslayers played hockey Boy Scouts and cut figure eights on the ice Achil es Ajax Agamemnon I couldn't learn to skate and kept fal ing down
-81-THE PLANT WIZARD
Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in
Lancaster Mass,
he walked round the woods one winter
crunching through the shinycrusted snow
stumbled into a little del where a warm spring
was
and found the grass green and weeds sprouting
and skunk cabbage pushing up a potent thumb,
He went home and sat by the stove and read
Darwin
Struggle for Existence Origin of Species Natural
Selection that wasn't what they taught in church,
so Luther Burbank ceased to believe moved to
Lunenburg,
found a seedbal in a potato plant
sowed the seed and cashed in on Mr. Darwin's
Natural
Selection
on Spencer and Huxley
with the Burbank Potato.
Young man go west;
Luther Burbank went to Santa Rosa
ful of his dream of green grass in winter ever-blooming flowers ever-bearing berries; Luther Burbank could cash in on Natural Selection Luther Burbank
carried his apocalyptic dream of green grass in
winter
and seedless berries and stoneless plums and
thornless roses brambles cactus ---82-winters were bleak in that bleak brick farmhouse in bleak Massachusetts --out to sunny Santa Rosa; and he was a sunny old man where roses bloomed al year
everblooming everbearing
hybrids.
America was hybrid
America should cash in on Natural Selection.
He was an infidel he believed in Darwin and
Natural
Selection and the influence of the mighty dead
and a good firm shipper's fruit
suitable for canning.
He was one of the grand old men until the
churches
and the congregations
got wind that he was an infidel and believed
in Darwin.
Luther Burbank had never a thought of evil,
selecting improved hybrids for America
those sunny years in Santa Rosa.
But he brushed down a wasp's nest that time
he wouldn't give up Darwin and Natural Selection
and they