TO ALLEN SEEGAR
TO ALLAN SEEGAR, THAT CON
SCRIPT OF DESTINY
(By Joe Lawlor)
E.ver since the Big Scrap started
overseas we have read with great de
votion the sacrifices made by those
taking part in the stahely drama. In
the mind of the writer all have per
formed their tasks nobly but' their
was one youth born with talents rare
who now lies in Sunny France and
may now be forgotten, but who I hope
some day will receive the credit due
him, for his as a rare spirit who made
the supreme sacrifice. I have refer
ence to Allan Seegar, that gallant
American and Harvard graduate of
1914.
Seegar joined the Legion in 1915
and on his 28th birthday when charg
ing'up to the German trenches on the
field of Belloy en Santere his “escou-
ade” of the foreign legion was caught
in a deadly flurry of machine gun fire,
and he fell with most of his compan
ions on the blood stained hut recon
quered field. To his friends the loss
was grievous. To literature, we shall
never know how great.
The writer feels that Allan Seegar
died happily and his death we can
truly envy. Youth had given him all
that it had to give, and though he
would fain have lived. on.thour,h no
one was less world weary than he.
yet with e^e undimm’d and pulse un
slackening, he met ""’c death he had
voluntarily challneged in the cause of
THE CADUCEUS
the land he loved, and in he moment
of victory. Again and neain in prose
and verse he had said that this seem
ed to him a good deatn to di,j -ond
two years of unflinching^ endurance
and hardships had proved that he
meant whathe said.
From his boyhood aovard his om
passion was for beauty and it was in
the guise of romance that beauty re
vealed itself to him. He was from the
first determined not only to write
but to live romance and when fttfe
threw in his way a wor'd historic op
portunity he seized it with deli.gt. He
knew that if death won dis ideal was
crowned forever safe from withering
time.
The writer rom°i:il;'o>us .■Mian See-
gars letters to liis mother priinod -n
the-New York Tim>-s while he was
with the foreign- .o-'on, and what tuas-
terpieces they,were and such a talent
for expressing Uiin-rs as he siw them.
If the reverence was a being who
said, “Yea” to live acepted it as a glor
ious gift and was dete’-mined xo live
it with all his might. It was that con
script' of destiny, Allan Seegar, yet
this is a case if there ever was one
which we may not only say “nothing
is here for tears, but wo may add to
the well known phrase its loss famil
iar sequel;
Nothing to wail or knock the breast
IJo weakness of contents
Dispraise or blame, nothing but w-ell
and fain
And what may quiet us :n a d.carh so
noble
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UPS AND DOWNS.
“Just think of the ups and downs
of - the poor soldier misses today,”
raved the company philosopher while
shoveling coal for the provost. “The
tinsmiths are always up the spout, the
paperhangers and plasterers are all
up against the wall, the sewer digger
is always in the hole while the oyster
dealers are always shelling out and
getting up a stew. Even the poor ele
vator men have their ups and downs
Street car conductors are fare, but
they get too many transfers.”
"And as for business; The coal
business is slack. The doctor business
may be patient, but the undertaker’s
is dead. The carpet business is held
down by tax, and the chair • business
has been sat upon. Only the baker has
plenty of dough.”
“Fellows,” went on his__ majesty, the
philosopher, “do you Tee^that fellow
over there with the white whiskers,
who walks qbout the field so often. He
got those while waiting for his unit
to leave.
“Gosh, some of us have lots of luck,”
he concluded, “but it’s always hard,
—Madison Barracks Barbed Wire.
' OTHERS LEAVE.
The elusive furlough was captured
by a good many of the boys this week
five more leaving for their homes on
Tuesday evening, the fortunate fel
lows being; Hitchcock, Kraznowski,
Gannon, Walter Sullivan and Gilbert
Bently.
AUDITORIUM BROADWAY
Commencing Monday evening October 7 and
continuing every Monday
Everybodys Going to the
LIBERTY
DANCE
BIG JAZZ OCHESTRA
Dancing from 8.15 until 11.30
Gentlemen 50c. Ladies Free
SOLDIERS’ FAVORITE MOVIE HOME
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MONDAY-TUE-DAY OC7-8
We ta\e great pleasure in presenting
\VM. FAUNTTM
IN VICTOR HUGO’S
FES mis^:rai^ei^:s ,
Given under ihz ausyices of (he D. Ji. R.
to supylyfunds for the rebuilding of the
little French village of 7 ilooly
Wednesday Evening October 9th
Maude
Adams
* IN
A KISS FOR
CINDRELLJ
Big Scenic Production
NOTE:-
This is one of
the big events of
the season and
should seen by
every man at
Camp Greene
TUESD vY-WED,\ESDAY OCT, 9-10
MAEOE IvENNEDA^
In a Slide Spiiiiing Comedy Drama
FUIILNl) miSlJAM)
FRIDAY-SATURDAY OCT., 11-12
PEOOV IIAI>AN1>
IN '
BOXNIF AN.NIK I-AVUIF
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