Life — June 21, 1917 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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How Times Have Changed! HE Paul Revere of 1917 dashed down the macadamized road in a ninety-horse-power runabout and drew up before the farmhouse door with a wild shriek from his electric horn. “What's the row?” enquired the sleepy farmer, thrusting his head from the bedroom window. “The Germans are coming!” shouted Paul Revere. “ The plans call for a battle on the banks of the Con- cord River!” “Good enough!” cried the embattled farmer. “I'll get out the old flintlock and the powder horn, and lay for them behind the old stone wall. I haven't missed a squirrel in ten years!” “Flintlock be darned!” shouted Paul. “You'll need a machine gun, a steel shrapnel helmet, a gas mask, car plugs, trenching tools, a trench peri- scope, a range finder, a barbed-wire cutter, three days’ emergency rations, a stock of hand grenades, a grenade belt, four pairs of woolen socks, three rifles, an identification tag, an emer- gency medical ki “Hold on!” interrupted the em- battled farmer, “I haven't got any of that truck! “Why didn’t you say so at first snapped Paul Revere. “Report at the nearest munitions factory and get bus: I'll hunt up somebody with an equip- ment to do the fighting!” With a bang and a roar, Paul threw open his throttle and skidded around the elm tree on the corner, while the embattled farmer climbed pensively into his garments and meditated on the ephemeral nature of military matters. Kenneth L. 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