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Show OCTOBER Though Mexico is bilin' and spllln' for a fight though European countries coun-tries is a-usln' all their might to see which one is strongest and will finally be boss, it teaches us a lesson, for it shows us what a loss there is when nations goto war and, using skill and stealth, kill off their sons and fathers just to gain a little wealth. We're glad we live in old U. S., where every man is free, and where the Eight, Instead In-stead of Might, protects both you and me. And now, though summer's leavintr us to wintry winds and cold, we have our thrice-blessed, cheerful homes to take us into fold. Some poetry, for one who has neither an overcoat nor a shovel of coal. But then poets do not live in realities, you know. Why, we could write summer lyrics while sitting on an iceberg in Greenland and really enjoy It. But we started out to say something some-thing about October. Ootober has a great many things to her credit and some that discredit her. Being neutral, neu-tral, we'll merely enumerate a few and you can place them on the side of the ledger that suits you best. October in history: Chicago's great fire, Mr. Columbus finds America, Erie Canal completed, Theodore Roosevelt born, Marie Antoinette guillotined, Harvard college founded, Halloween.' ' - The month will find Mr. Wilson and the eastern countries still writing writ-ing notes to each other and the pro. babilities are the practice will be continued until one or the other's supply of ink is exhausted. But we "should worry about that. Aside from Halloween, when we may awake to find our homes overturned and the barn moved out into the front . yard, the month holds no alarm for Your affectionate Office Poet Philosopher. |
