Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 211, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 24, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an end'
less chain: —
And the rounds are drawn, and the rounds are fired,
and the empties return again;
Railroad, lorry and limber, battery, column and park;
To the shelf where the set fuse waits the breech,
from the quay where the shells embark.
We have watered and fed, and eaten our beef; the
long dull day drags by,
As 1 sit here watching our "Archibalds" strafing an
empty sky;
Puff and flash on the far-off blue round the speck
one guesses the plane —
Smoke and spark of the gun-machine that is fed by
the endless chain.
The ammunition carrier is only a link in the
great war machine, but he is as vital a link
in the chain as the man who goes over the
top. And back of the ammunition carrier
comes the ammunition maker and the rail-
road worker and the thousands of varieties
of war workers until it all comes straight
home to the individual man and woman
I am only a cog in a giant machine, but a vital link
of the chain;
And the captain has sent from his wagon-line to fill
his wagons again;
From the wagon-limber to gunpit dump; from
loader's forearm at breech
To the working party that melts away when the
shrapnel bullets screech.
So the restless section pulls out once more in column
of route from the right
At the tail of a blood-red afternoon; so the flux of
another night
Bears back the wagons we fill at dawn to the sleep*
ing column again—
Cog on cog in the gun-machine, link on link in the chainl
„ t GILBERT FRANRAU
who helps save the necessities of life and re-
frains from wasteful spending in order to
help our fighting men. Every link in the
fighting chain, every cog in the war machine
must be of the strongest steel. Every heart
must be steel against waste these days. We
are all part of the great battle—let us each
do our part and make it a great part.
Let us buy the Bonds we
know they want us to buy!
This Space Subscribed to Winning the War by
Frick-Reid Supply Company
DRUMRIGHT, OKLAHOMA
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Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 211, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 24, 1918, newspaper, September 24, 1918; Drumright, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc148579/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.