Youth o' the Year 67 Unfinished 69 Paid in Advance 70 We Rode at Night 71 Now--and Then 73 Understood 74 The Christmas Spirit 75 The Reason 76 The Modern Way 77 Because----! 79 That Smile 80 The Gift of Gifts 81 The Neighbors 82 Uncle Bill's Idea 83 'Lizabeth Ann's Picture 85 The Small Boy Explains 87 The Bold Lover 88 Imagination 89 Willing to Trade 91 The Lonely Child 93 Th' Little Feller's Gone 95 The Fisherman's Son 97 The Dog Confesses 99 Br'er Rabbit in de Bresh Pile 101 When 104 WITH THE COLORS THE COLORS It isn't just colors and bunting-- The red and the blue and the white. It's something heaps better and finer,-- It's the _soul_ of my country _in sight!_ There's a lot of ceremony 'bout the Flag, Though many half-baked patriots believe Salutin' it and hangin' it correct "Is only loyalty upon the sleeve." But we who work beneath the Flag to-day, Who'll honor it--and die for it, perhaps-- Get a slightly different view of the old red, white and blue Than is visioned by th' criticisin' chaps. It isn't just for decoratin' things, It isn't just an emblem, clean and bright, No matter what its "hoist" or what its "fly," To us it means our country--wrong or right! The sobby stuff that some good people spout Won't help a man to understand this view, But: Wherever that Flag goes, the man who follows, _knows_ That a better, cleaner citizen _goes too!_ It's not just a banner to look at,-- For which we're expected to fight; It's something that represents _freedom;_ It's the _soul_ of my country--in sight! LOYALTY This is no time to quibble or to fool; To argue over who was wrong, who right; To measure fealty with a worn foot-rule; To ask: "Shall we keep still or shall we fight?" The Clock of Fate has struck; the hour is here; War is upon us now--not far away; One question only rises, clarion clear: "How may I serve my country, day by day?"