Life — March 1, 1923 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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Gettysburg Up-to-Date ERE’S the President’s ad- dress,” said the busy City Editor. “Looks pretty dull, but of course we've got to run it. Better mark it First Page Rush and shoot it into type with some good snappy sub-heads.” The star copyreader of the Morning Whiz understood. In less than no time he had carried out in- structions. The story appeared in next day’s Whiz as follows: Geityspurc, Pa.—President Lin- coln addressed a large gathering here to-day on the occasion of the dedica- tion of the soldiers’ national ceme- tery. He spoke as follows: Recalls Birth of Nation Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this con- tinent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposi- tion that all men are created equal. Asserts Strife Is Acid Test Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that na- tion, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. Sifts Causes of Death-Toll We have come to dedicate a por- tion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. Administration’s Policy Vigorously Defended It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. Status ef Ground Unchanged by Ceremony But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract, Pledzes Faith in World's Memory The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Would Make Pact Binding on All It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished An Old Italian Garden work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. Says Nation Must Rally to New Effort - It is rather for us to be here dedi- cated to the great task remaining be- fore us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people (Applause), for the people (Cheers), shall not perish from the earth. (Prolonged applause.) F. W. “My body is in the valley,” sings one of our younger poets, “but my soul is among the mountain tops.” Apparently one of these sad cases of a poet being unable to keep body and soul together. Roundel Cues passing fair; but so de- mure is she So quiet is her gown, so smooth her hair, That few there are who note her and agree She's passing fair. Yet when was ever beauty held more rare Than simple modesty ? What fostered charms with virtue could compare? heart and maiden Alas, no lover ever stops to see; The best that she is offered is the air. Yet—if the passing mark is minus p= She’s passing fair. DP. The Canadian border is only an “imaginary line,” and the bootleg- gers apparently have no imagination. comicbooks.com