Mother Goose Rhymes for War Purposes

1918

Columbia, Mo., April 9. — Mother Goose is going to "do her bit" to help win the war. Several of the most renowned nursery rhymes have been adapted to war purposes by G. F. Nardin, graduate of the University of Missouri, and are being illustrated by posters made by students of the Art Department of the university. Two of his rewritten rhymes follow:

Kaiser Bill went up the hill.
To whip the American nation;
Bill fell down and lost his crown.
He stuck on conservation.

Sing a song of thrift stamps,
War bread made of rye
Saving, too, the shortening,
We used to use in pie
Weeping all the porkless days.
And eating meatless meals
It makes a lot of difference,
The way a fellow feels.

Patriotic posters, designed at the university, decorate all Columbia.

—The Ada Weekly News, Ada, Oklahoma, April 11, 1918, page 2.

New Species of Food Hoarder is Discovered

Oklahoma City, March 30. - What the county food administrator's office this morning termed "the most picayune way of helping the kaiser and hurting Uncle Sam" it had heard of in the course of all the food conservation campaign, was contained in these reports this morning:

A considerable number of unpatriotic persons who think the six pounds of flour per month per person is going to be too much of a hardship for them would be flour hoarders, in other words, are making a practice of going among farmers and buying one or two bushels of wheat.

They are usually persons having the use of an auto and after they have bought the wheat, they hunt up some country miller and pay him 25 cents a bushel for milling their wheat. Then, according, to the food administrator's office, thinking they have "beat the barrier," they return home with their flour and add it to whatever other flour they have been able to accumulate.

--The Ada Weekly News, Ada, Oklahoma, April 4, 1918, page 9.