Show c an on Copy for tor This Department Supplied by bythe bythe bythe the American Legion Lellon News New ROAST FOR THE TI-fE PROFITEERS Chaplain of f Columbia University ty Post Poet Brands Graspers as alii Greedy Human Vultures Greedy human vultures and crawling cra Ung ghouls were terms applied to war profiteers by Rev Dr Herbert Shipman chaplain of Columbia un university university uni uni- I- I post No of the American Legion In ID his Armistice day sermon at the the Church Church of the Heavenly Rest Reston on Fifth avenue in New York Doctor Shipman who Is rector of the he Fifth avenue church and an overseas overseas over over- seas sas veteran said that he was bitter against those who out ut of the tile sacrifice s crl- crl fice flee and blood of others have coined dirty money while posing as patriots The he p pastor stor rend read from a po poem m he had written the title of which is 18 The Profiteer It follows You Tou ha hae e decked your frowzy wives with borrowed splendors You have hung your daughters' daughters necks with wIlli stol stolen n pearls Have you thought about the tho other wives the lenders landers Or th the harlots made to decorate your girls You rou have havo fashioned from the needs of sick Ick and dying From the of children pleading for forthe forthe i ithe the right Ready cash today to do your Christmas buying Ready cash to pay your prostitute to to- to night I You have coined your filthy gold rold from I blot d and sorrow There are soldier graves across the field of Franc Franos Whence When the dead through you upon to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow Will rise to damn n your profits profit with a glance j All MI the deathless deeds deed worth doing and worth telling All the things that noble men hoC high and true All but seemed to you for buying and for selling All to serve a greasy human vulture vulture- you youl God Godl That better men should toll toil and sweat and labor Bear the erosa and climb up of pain While the crawling ghouls that spare not friend or neighbor Damn the world to make a crucible forge for ge In If It In blackest hell 0 O Lord there be a blacker If It beneath the deepest pit a deeper pit Not for harlot harlot- thief or coward slacker er But for these that blackest deepest hell hellIs hellIs hellis Is fit Profiteers of very every sort and kind and fashion Where you tread full many other feet fee have trod You rou are ranted ranged against the power of Christs Christ's awn own passion H Here re Behind you walk the searching feet of Old HO |