WANT OUR POETS, UNCLE? in South Bend News-Times (South Bend IN). August 21, 1917—
Bewilderness and James Joyce
Uncle Sam is getting up some “camouflage” units of amateur artists. To “camouflage” you fool the enemy aviators by painting a cannon so that it looks like a log, or a log to look like a cannon; or you make a munition train look like a roadway; and so on—the more you make things look like what they ain’t, the more of a “camouflager” you are. The American amateur artist is sure the boy for this job, and we’re hot for “camouflage” to the hilt.
We’d like to ask Uncle Sam if he has any war space for amateur poets. If he has, we know where he can get a fair-sized cohort. Putting our amateur poets beside our amateur landscapists in Europe mightn’t do much for the universal brotherhood vision, but it would create a strong desire for peace.
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