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  GOOD BOY, JOSEPHUS

   "If it is necessary, we will raise and army
of ten million men and have the biggest navy
in the world." --  Josephus Daniels.

(James J. Montaque in the Chicago Examiner, April 23, 1918)
   We used to speake lightly of grape juice,
     We used to take simple delight.
   In saying a man who could clamp down a ban
     On whisky could not make a fight.
   We used to say temperance doctrines
     Would never get anything done
   Toward winning the war, but that was before
     We saw what Josephus has done.

   The navy is out and in action
     With guns and munitions and crews,
   And never a man since the trouble began
     Has moaned at the shortage of booze.
   And many a U-boat commander
     Would have told you the day that he sank
   That a Hun with a bun couldn't handle a gun
     As well as a temperate Yank.

   Today we are strong for Josephus,
     Whatever he happens to drink,
   For we know he will fight like a man for the right
     Till the last prowling U-boat shall sink.
   And if it was grape juice that made him
     So skillful at playing his game
   When yours truley die scribe, gets a bid to imbibe
     He think we'll have some of the same.
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