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...propaganda for his release, twenty-five celebrated literary men have contributed to a volume in his honor. When all is said and done, we usually consider creative thinkers best qualified to judge human motives. These writers range in variety from the undoubted Americanism of Percy McKaye and James Whit comb Riley to men of the fame of Barbusse and Wells. Again, about a million American citizens thought enough of him to vote for him for the highest office in their gift. Now we reach a question of Americanism. Personally, my Americanism is of such a kind that I prefer...
...fancy, to any deficiencies in this year's board, but rather to the limited opportunity offered by the subject of this latest Lampoon. There is too little variety--after all when one has amusingly pictured and described a "Practical Canary Bird Feeder," or has devised a "Combination Comb and Worm Kit," one has sufficiently treated the usual contributions to "Popular Mechanics." To fill a whole number, then, involves some repetition, and, perhaps, at times some tedium for the reader. Of course an excursion into the advertising pages of the model offers the jaded Lampoon contributor one more field for jesting...
...ideal craft with which to comb submarines is now being constructed. Henry Fond, otherwise known as the manufacturer of popular automobiles, has become a ship-builder. On his ways at Detroit he has already laid the keel of a future terror of the seas. Since the Government found that Ford could turn out a most capable though small model of a normal-sized auto, it has requested him to devise a destroyer on the same principles. These boats will be completed as rapidly as possible, probably...
...compilation of the list of alumni and students of the University who are now engaged in the service of the Government, the War Records' Office has relied solely on voluntary statements from the men now in the army or navy. It would be impossible for the office to comb the records of the million or more men now in the military and naval forces in order to obtain the necessary information concerning those who have been connected with the University. Through every possible means, however, the War Record Office is requesting men in service to send to Cambridge reports...
...blankets, or 2 blankets and 1 comforter; 1 undershirt; 2 prs. socks; 1 shaving outfit; 1 face towel; 1 bath towel; 1 Small Arms Firing Manual; 1 Manual of Interior Guard Duty; 1 tooth brush; 1 cake soap; 1 comb; 1 pr. shoe laces (extra) 1 pr. shoes; 1 rain coat (optional). No other articles will be taken. These articles will be securery tied by each man in as compact a bundle as possible, and each man will attach to his-bundle a linen tag giving name and company. The bundles will be placed on the ground under the supervision...