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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941.
In Our Time
BY FERN MUESCHKE
(Editor's note: This is the second prize winning poem in the Carruth Poetry Contest.)
1
... then in September, 1939,
The radios started screaming—
Started screaming, and growling, and groaning,
WAR! WAR! WAR!
And life in our time
Was vastly changed.
Oh, we kept doing the same things,
We joked, and sang, and danced;
We went to our offices, our schools, and our churches;
Sweethearts made love to each other
Under the same moon . . .
But life in our time
Was vastly changed . . .
Changed in a thousand ways—
In the way people listened to a newscast.
In the way men looked at those "Join Now" posters in front of the Post Office.
In the way boys went to work in airplane factories,
In the way housewives, panic stricken, bought sugar,
In the way the National Guard drilled,
In the toys for sale at the Five and Ten . .
And the way we felt was changed . .
Changed in a thousand ways—
In the way we felt when we were alone,
Or sinking into sleep;
In the way we felt when we watched newsreels,
Or rode in streetcars;
In the way we felt when we prayed . .
Life in our time Was vastly changed.
II
The radios screamed, and growled, and groaned . .
They are marching on Poland!
The Poles valiantly defend . .
The Polish army surrounded . .
Bombs falling on Warsaw!
Warsaw . .
Poland . .
No more appeasement!
No more Munich!
No more peace In our time.
War in Finland!
War on the North Sea!
War farther south, down near Gibraltar!
Submarines sighted off the coast of Ireland!
A passenger boat hit by torpedoes!
Hundreds of lives lost on the Athenia!
Athenia . . .
Lusitania . . .
The Maine . .
Norway invaded!
Oslo taken!
Fifth Column activities . . .
The Trojan Horse . . .
Narvik . . .
Quisling . .
The Hindenburg Line!
The Maginot Line!
War of Nerves!
An official communique stated late today . .
According to a dispatch fresh from London . .
Fresh from Berlin . .
From Paris . . .
Denmark has fallen!
Holland is invaded!
Belgium's king surrenders . . .
Fighting on the French frontier!
Fighting on the Lines!
Fighting on the Hindenburg
And the Maginot . . .
The French retreating!
Prisoners taken!
Refugees dying all along the highways!
May, 1940 . . .
Paris . . .
France . . .
The Battle for Britain has begun in earnest!
Bombs fell on London again last night!
General evacuation!
The men escape Dunkirk!
Bombs fell on London again last night!
Buckingham Palace hit!
Blocks of homes in ruins!
Men, women, children spend the night in caves!
R. A. F. retaliates!
Bombs fall on Hamburg!
Bombs fall on Berlin!
On Birmingham and Leeds!
Bombs fall!
And fall . . .
And fall . .
World War II starts its second year.
Many killed and wounded in last night's air raid!
Blackouts ineffective against incendiary bombs!
Most of down-town London is in flames this morning!
The historic old Guildhall lies in ruins!
Gog and Magog cannot be found . . .
Business as usual In our time.
Starvation faces Europe, torn and bleeding—Shall we help Belgium? Holland? France? Give Britain our destroyers! We need those bases! Billions and billions and billions for defense!
The thousands of men drafted by Selective Service!
The grocery boy is going, and the history teacher . . .
A college boy's arrested for not signing up.
The National Guard left in January . . .
Down to Camp Robinson,
For a year's training.
For a year. . .
Watch out for sabotage!
Lock up those blueprints!
Rush those munitions!
Join Now! Join Now!
The Selectees are going
Down to Camp Robinson;
For a year's training.
For a year . . .
Bundles for Britain!
Aid for the Greeks!
Rush those munitions!
Lock up those blueprints!
Look out for sabotage!
Business as usual In our time.
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(continued from page one) mediately in front of the museum's doors.
The ground floor of the museum will contain several dioramas, which are being painted and mounted by Bernard "Poco" Frazier, instructor in architecture and design. Walter Yost, fine arts graduate student, has painted backgrounds for many of the exhibits, showing the animals in their natural surroundings.
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