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‘Patriotic Portraiture ’ Cont. from Page 1


The interception of this trans- mission was viewed as a decla- ration of war on the United States. Germany had also resumed its policy of unrestrict- ed submarine warfare, claiming they would sink any ship with- out notice or warning, even if it was a merchant ship. This led to Europe’s final break with the Central Powers.


There were several u-boat attacks on American merchant ships and President Woodrow Wilson requested Congress to declare war on Germany, which they did on April 6, 1917. It was an overwhelming victory for the president, as the House approved the resolution with a vote of 373-50 and the Senate voted 82-6 in favor.


As our government became involved in the war, the presi- dent put out the call to support the war effort, as every able bodied American male was called to action, via the draft.


Our beloved country was now at war.


We were told as a nation, it was


Day Our Daily Chuckle


Give Us This This week, a compendium of wit,


wisdom and neat stuff you can tell at parties. Enjoy!


The Art of Diplomacy


A guy was getting ready to tee off on the first hole when a sec- ond golfer approached and asked if he could join him. The first said that he usually played alone, but agreed to the two- some.


They were even after the first few holes. The second guy said, "We're about evenly matched, how about playing for five bucks a hole?" The first guy said that he wasn't much for betting, but he agreed to the terms.


The second guy won the


every man, woman and child’s patriotic duty to support the war effort, by any means neces- sary through military service or homeland support. The word was spread throughout our nation by the use of sensation- alistic newspaper headlines, radio announcements and Patriotic posters.


Citizens were called upon to purchase War Bonds to help support the war efforts abroad and at home. Hearing the radio announcements and seeing the posters gave Arthur S. Mole an idea.


Born in England in 1889, Mole was an English commercial artist and photographer, who had immigrated to the United States in 1901 at the age of twelve, because his family fol- lowed the teachings of Dr. John Alexander Dowie. Dowie who was a Scottish-born Christian communal utopian, established the city of Zion, Illinois, in 1901 as a call to “Salvation, Holy Living and Divine Healing.”


At the time the Moles arrived in Zion, the tabernacle which could house a congregation of 10,000 people was being built. That church was where Arthur


remaining sixteen holes with ease. As they were walking off number eighteen, the second guy was busy counting his $80.00. He confessed that he was the pro at a neighboring course and liked to pick on suckers.


The first fellow revealed that he was the parish priest.


The pro, flustered and apolo- getic, offered to return the money.


The priest said, "You won fair and square and I was foolish to bet with you. You keep your winnings."


The pro said, "Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?"


The priest said, "Well, you could come to Mass on Sunday and make a donation ... and, if you want to bring your mother and father along, I'll marry them."


••••• DEAR ABBY:


"I have always wanted to have my family history traced, but I can't afford to spend a lot of money to do it. Any suggestions?" Sam in California.


Mole later met John D. Thomas, who was the director of the choir at the time. Thomas later became Mole’s choreographic coordinator and collaborator for his living por- traitures.


One of Mole’s first living por- traits was of Dowie, who was immortalized with a nimbus in the shape of the circular walk- ing path of Zion Park. The large choir and the vast num- bers of the church congrega- tion provided a ready-made resource of religious bodies to stage his first of many group portraits.


Later on, after the war, in July of 1920, Mole and Thomas returned to Zion to compose and photograph The Zion Shield.


Mole’s photographic composi- tions are extraordinary enough, but when one thinks of how he produced these images on such a grand scale, using the limited technology of the time, it’s sim- ply amazing.


Using only his 11 x 14 inch view, portrait camera, Mole staged his series of photo- graphic spectacles in which


DEAR SAM: "Register as a Republican, and run for public office." Abby


MURPHY'S OTHER 15 LAWS


1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.


2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.


3. He, who laughs last, thinks slow- est.


4. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.


5. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.


6. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.


7. Nothing is foolproof to a suffi- ciently talented fool.


8. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting some- thing right, there's a 90% probabili- ty you'll get it wrong.


9. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end-to-end, someone from California would be stupid


thousands of living bodies were choreographed into the patriot- ic symbols of our national com- munity.


In these elaborate tributes, tens of thousands of military troops and other groups were rallied together to form the patriotic symbols, emblems and military insignia of our country. The massive and artful, birds-eye view point of his end product was nothing short of spectacu- lar.


Mole and Thomas would spend a week or more on preparations for each photograph. The process began by tracing the desired image, or symbol onto a ground-glass plate, which was then mounted on Mole’s cam- era. With Thomas positioned on the ground, Mole was high atop an 80 foot tower. Using only a megaphone and hand gestures, Mole would position his helpers around the field, as they nailed the pattern outline to the ground using miles of lace edging. A pole with a white flag tied to the end was posi- tioned at the furthest and most remote points of the outline,


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enough to try to pass them.


10. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.


11. The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those, who got there first.


12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.


13. Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.


14. The shin bone is a device for find- ing furniture in the dark.


15. When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of twelve people, who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.


Eve’s Side of the Story


After three weeks in the Garden of Eden, God came to visit Eve.


‘So, how is everything going?' inquired God.


'It is all so beautiful, God,' she ‘Chuckles’


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