Life — November 8, 1917 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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That Book of Martin’s (Just Out) It has remained for an American writer to record the emotions and reactions of America gradually getting into the world war. This has been done by Edward S. Martin. Nobody else has done it. Nobody else could do it as Martin has done it. Who is Martin? The man who writes the editorials for “Life’’—known all over the country, and in Britain and Canada and recently in France, as the sanest, most humorous, most unprejudiced observer of affairs in America. Ask the man who reads ‘‘Life”’ regularly if this isn’t so. The name of this book is “The Diary of a Nation.” It is more than a book of history, al- though it is all that. It is more than a book of current events, extending over some three years when we were “ getting in’’—although it is all that. It is more than a book of “observations,” which Martin himself calls it—although it is all that. With a vocabulary that combines clarity and humor to a remarkable degree, this book lifts up the soul of America into the clear light of day. It reveals us to ourselves. If you are an American you must read that book. You will learn more about yourself— as an American—than you ever before suspected. i is published by Doubleday, Page & 0. Price $1.50. 1 wrote this advertisement. I have been reading everything that Martin has written for years, and I know what I am talking about. Thomas L. Masson. “EC RSE” Sweet Alice, 1917 Oo": don’t you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown? She danced with delight, she motored, she golfed, Each day she wore a new gown Sweet Alice is now Over There, Ben Bolt, Where the torn and the battle-wrecked moan; Forgot is her butterfly life, Ben Bolt, But oh, how her wee heart has grown! Edmund J. Ki The Girl Behind the Gun HE war will not be ended in a short time unless by our efforts—the con- tinued and concentrated efforts of both our men and our women. We have an army of women at home, as well as an army of men in the trenches and training camps, and the girl behind the gun has as good fighting blood as the men whose labor she supplements. This success of the great struggle in which we Allies are engaged depends much upon the work of the women, Look a tional League for Woman's Service is doing! Up to the present time one thousand and fifty wom en have been organized and trained for canteen work in New York City alonc sometimes being called for duty at four o'clock in the mornin Five thousand New York women were furnished by the League for tak ing registrations for the census. They have done clerical work on exemption hoards, have worked inde’ bly in hos- pital and clinical work, and have raised an incredible amount of money for the Red Cross and the Liberty Loan. They have knitted millions of warm sweaters and stockings and mufflers for both army and navy. They are supplying every transport with magazines, tobacco, ciga rettes and chewing-gum. Over four hun dred New York women are enrolled in the New York City motor service. Six hundred and twenty women are teaching and demonstrating food conservation. Many others are teaching home garden- ing and all branches of farming. In forty-one states and over seven hun- dred cities there are branches of the National League for Woman's Service, which are duplicating and supplementing the work done at the New York City headquarters. 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