BY (REV.) T. L. DRURY.
Written for The Troy Times.
To help the boys who go to France
And what we deem is no romance,
But something worthy to advance—
Hooverize!
To make battalions feel secure,
To courage give that will endure,
To keep their bodies strong and pure—
Hooverize!
To keep the Allied nations strong
In all their battle lines along,
Against the powers of hate and wrong—
Hooverize!
For sake of children whom we know
Do suffer in this awful woe,
O'erwhelmed with anguish of the blow—
Hooverize!
For sake of women shedding tears
For loss of former happy years,
Who victims are of awful fears—
Hooverize!
To prove the soul of Freedom lives
In us by sympathy it gives
To faithful service that relieves—
Hooverize!
To prove that we are in the fight
To stay with all our loyal might
For sake of freedom, god and right—
Hooverize!
To show that we do not forget
The nation's older spirit yet,
But on its goal our hearts are set—
Hooverize!
To show we still can sacrifice,
However dear, can pay the price
In loyal service as our choice—
Hooverize!
Let ev'ry woman, child and man,
Now Hooverize the best they can,
So prove the value of the plan
To all the world!
Troy Daily Times. November 21, 1917: col 1.
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