Butler County OhArchives News.....Arthur Gardner at Ft. Bliss Sends a Poem Paying His Respects to the Slacker December 13, 1917
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Butler County Democrat December 13, 1917
Arthur Gardner, who has a brother in France, and who enlisted in the United 
States Army November 30, 1913, is now with the headquarters troops of the 
Fifth Cavalry at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. He sends the Journal the 
following: 

THE SLACKER

We give our service, you shut off our beer,
But the slacker can drink 'til it runs out of his ear.
We quit a good job to keep you from harm,
And the slacker goes by with a girl on his arm.
He laughs at the soldier, poor unlucky cuss;
You go with a slacker, why ostracise us!
WE are doing our duty; his liver is white;
Yet we leave the streets at eleven at night.
If a slacker can dance, it seems rather hard;
That at all decent dances, the uniform's barred.
We have ? our rifles and taken our places
And we'll go to our death with smiles on our faces.
But this is our honest, only appeal to you,
Until we pass over, please give us our due.

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