OF THE PAST A}TDPNESENT NEFI.,ECTIONS
by
ABISTODII'{OSKALDIS
NEFI,ECTIONSOF THE PAST AND PNESENT
Today I feeL ltke
stretchlng
under a p3.ene tree
Sea,
gaslng d,ovrnto enJoy the aaure and. blue l{ed.lterranean
the Alpe tr{arltlmes, Veeuvlo, Lyoavettos d.oes not natter
glty
$ee or 1ts pearl,y claughtsre,
fl,atness
groat
I an stuok here
Hetre uy son was born and here
l1etropo11c....
and here I have epent nost
some of uy best frlend.s
llne
the
ls reLleved by some.anorphoue sky-
screpers and the aharelns Pal,lsedee.,.. ln thls
le
But, aLas! I an ln New Ysr k
o r A e g e a n Seaer .,.
where lte
It
or Taygettos.
whlch morrntaln or voLoano aB long as lt
on the l{ed.lterraneen Ad rl a tl o
to look at
or the rlght
around. to the Left
then turnlng
snd
o f n n yc o n e o l o u e l l f , c " , . . .
I l.anded here over forty
mod.errr etand.ard.e, but qulte At fourteen elrteen
a, mqnagsr of a vast
or Luck....
by aooldent,
savese Turkey and et
eonnerolaL onplre
wae by elrcumstanoes
ln Egypt..,,
rhtoh
we oalL
$o, rhen I am on the croertroade, ard'
I have to nahe a deotslon, Ey lnstlnct
grown up by olrounEtarlooerrrr
I ras s ref,ugee fron
Ae I setd. Juet now, lt Klsnet
Jrears &So, a merc ohlLd by
aa I wae ln the late
guld,od. rc and not 4y 1og1e....
l916le,
In Egypt,
Just
uy UneLe Enrmevlus]happcned to get sl.ek, etlil,
stnce no other
menbsr of ny fenLly
could sgbstltute
for
2-
hlm, I was sent to charter varlous
tobacco pl1es,
the Kal-dls FrBres dealt Belng by myself, I d.evel-oped.lnto No t th a t
our shlps,
to collect
and. pay for
and shlpwrecked wheat that
charcoal
ln at that wtth a lot
tlme. of money at ny d.lsposal,
nanhood.mueh earl-ler
I n a tu re d slnce thâ‚Źh,..
age.,..
than my norrul
I never d.ld,
renalned. as my frlend,s and frlend.ly-enemles
tell
I alway s me, a
c hl l d r o f a t b e st rrchlld.- llke' r . . . I had no tlne nally
pl-anned...
for
archaeologloal
stud.Les as I or1gl-
However, I was fortunate
to vlslt
Calro Museumand. glance at the nasterpleces l l m e sto n e , wtth
supervlslng
the ploneer Arab natlonallsts
1n the Flrst
that
to the luxurles
for
the Allles
of thelr
wlth
I wltnessed
of wound.ed.Brltlsh
pald. for
and.
Thls w as
the Galllpoll
Canpalgn
But, what d.td upset me uostly
of the Arablan
and Coptlc worker
own effendlms
One had to retreat
eat and relax... another traln
and very often
fr om the HospltaL Shlps.,.
World trlar. . .
was the nlsery
of course.
, . I came ln contact
scenes of the unloadlng
A u stn a L i a n so l d l e rs,
nlght
and unload.lng of our shlps,
the loadlng
ln the vast Douanee d.rAlexandrle.
a heavy prlce
of granlte,
I was occupled fr om mor nlng untl1
e tc...
the ghastly
the
ln comparlson
and the forelg;ners,
to the European Quarter to
Once when f changed ln Benha to board for
Ismalllar
hours because the fl1es
orl the Suez Canal, I starved covered the food of the fLlthy
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l 1 ke a bLack cLoud.,..
r e sta u ra n ts,
A s so o n a s n y Unele r ecover ed., I r etur ned. to Athens .,. H ere th e V e n l ze l l sts
and the Royallsts
whlch was alread.y sufferlng
natlon
dlvlded
by a heavy load. of over
Greek refugees from Turkey.,.
a nllllon
the Gr ee k
Itlost of ny chLLd-
hood. frlend.s had â‚Źione to Anrerlca and I d.ecld.ed to go there, I couLd not stand the parental
too.
havlng tasted
a totaL
guldanoe anymore and,
lndependence ln the Land of the Nlle,
I wss d.eternlned to proceed to Boston through New .York Clty 1n splte
of the opposltlon
of my entlne
famlly.
tr0nly shepherd.s and farmers go to the States[ parents
eaLd.
rrHowcould^ you nake a llvlng
rr.Nou are not used to
ltrtt
rrWeLL, I w111. try
wlthout
workLng.
I wlll-
gold.en pounds comnlsslon
nanuaL work
they ad.d.ed...
and., lf
I have enough cash to carry
fron
ny
are unbearable,
condltlons
me through
study. rr
a year or two
for
I had. earned a thousand
from the partners
of the $hlp-
w r e cke d . w h e a t.a n d " I. oone!.d.er ed, then as I et1Ll d.o tod.a y , thls
sum as a hug;e f ortune. . . Belng uprooted
horlzon, elther
from our hometown wlth
weaLth and. cosmopoLltan galety,
lts
open
we nere not happy
ln Leevos or ln MytlJ.ene, where we sought and. f ound
ref,uge from the blood.-sta1ned. hand.s of the crlmlnal FulI asphyxlatlng
of adolescent
v16our,
soon we reaLlzed
was the atmosphere Ln herolc
Turk... how
but poor Greece
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r.,
A natton
wlth
refugees,
was not as d.esperate as
banks and. Ilfe
and Engllsh
forced mass exodus
of thls
of the vlctlms
wlth
the nuLtltude
o ir
$ u r e n e rg l e s d .emsndedout} et.,.
we dld. fln d a 'Cashlngton, of George
Lucklly
by d.ecldlng to come to the country
J effe rso n
a n d . L l n co 1n...
At flr st
where nanual
for
farmers and. sâ‚Ź&nâ‚Źrl...
at flrst
seemed.l-ogloa1 to me but,
surprlse
that
I was as strong
the average worklng
Theee argunents
soon I dlscovered
and even far
labor
Amerlca
ltnrnlgrants...
supreme Among newly arrlvlng
ls the ld.eaL country
we.s shoeke d...
ny famlly
How could. I earn my L1v1ng ln a country relgns
food aLone,
enough to have some lnvestments
slnce most of us were fortunate
rellef
lmposslble
And, we wer e not content wlth
t o fe e d . th e m & 1 1 ,..
ln Brltlsh
ls
lt
nay try
and. cLothee no rnatter how hard lt
shoes
shores wlthout
lts
nany of then reachlng
populatlon
to lts
to be loaded. wft|r 3t+f6ln ratlo
stronger
to ny than
nan ln my UncLe Ernmanuelts OLlve O11 t{1L}
!n Preveza where I wouLd. }lft a nd . to ss th e m w l th o ut
str aln
I was Ero!{|ng so strong wlth
15O-1b. bags fuLl- of ollves lnto
gr lndlng
the
soccer,
stones...
footbaLL and oarlng
So I declded to follow
t ha t a t L ? I w a s 1 -82pound"$...
ny
land.ed ln the summer class.natee to Boeton where they flrst '191-5. The onLy lnpedlment now was the lack of lntellecof tua] then,
envLronment among the plaln comLng from Alexandrla,
as a oornqLsslon from the sale Engl-lsh Artqy...
lmmlgrants..'
Egypt wlth
$e5OO. !n ny pocket
of shlpwrecked, wheat to the
$o, I toLd my parents
!{ere not ld.eal-, I would return
I was rLch
lf
by the tlne
the aond,ltlons the Flrst
World
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WelLr Xoll cannot convlnce your parents
tfar was termlnated,..
arguments
on ar1 unknown Journey, rro rnd.tter,how nany favorable you dlsposâ‚Źrrr
a,s a steerage pessenger on the S.S. Clty,
New Iork
lf
on the western
these twenty-four
hours proved'
home.
then I would return
Sure enough, I salLeA of my feLLow-
slxty-flve
and, to ny amazenent, at least
were weLL nannered. young'men lnterested
traveLers
and. phlLosophy,
ny future
that
among people lnterested.
exper lenc eg
W el1, DS futur e
were not dl.sappolntlng
However, llx greetest and reachlns
ln Amerlca,wouLd. be
one can work a few hours and
o f the tlme...
on the l-and. of the d.ollar
1ng Patras
l,lfe
dlsappolntment
on that
cane after
bralns
wlth
Thelr
sole concetrn was to save so they could etther
to send. all f an l l l e st
thelr
leav-
thotlghts.
abstract
d.ld. not burd.en thelr
to the beautlful
scorer
l4oet of the poor Lmmlgrants
Boston.
there
qulckly
and
[n metaphyslcs and., slnce the country
and. the lrages hlgh,
s t u d .y th e re st
ln ped.agogy
and. some of then ta]-ked even on poetry
$o I feLt
palnttng.
!.s rtoh
rrPatrlstr, bound for
over ln Patras
stopplng
but,
shores of Greece.r,and., lnposelbLe,
I shouLd embark
t{e had. reached an agreement:
return
lsLes and molrntalns of Greece, of,r
savlngs for
of thelr
the ameLloratlon
p o ve rty.
Those who phl}osophlzed were not the usual lmnlgrants farms and. flshlng
1n ny steerage who Leave thelr
nets to come to rlch
happened to be flf,teen
eompartment pasturesr
Amerlcai
there
grad.uates of the Patmos and Samos
6
$enlnary
who, lnstead. of belng ordalned. as prlests,
t o co n e to A me rl e a and seek thelr
C yp ru s.,. too,
T h e y w e n t on str lke
other fl fty
for tunes.,.thâ‚Ź
were C1vlI Servants of Hls Malestyrs
Imperlal
d.ecld.ed,
Colony of
and they wer e flr ed....Bo
d.ectd.ed.1n a group to come across the Atlantlc
a s fre e n â‚Ź rr...
they ,
and l-lve
I see them som etlmes her e and ther e,
1lk e I
do ny own fellow-Atarneanso t{hen from tlne patrlots
ln the polyglotld
a refugee. stranger
I vlslted.
ny frlend.s and. coo-
New York Clty,
belng ref,ugees
at home ln New Ydrk, where everyone seems to be
they feel
rest
to tlne
Even the Anglo-Saxon at nlght
seems l"tke a
when the commuters evacuate the Clty...
Llke the
of the Greek-Amerleans they formed. a benevolent Soclety
the Atarneus
and gave each year a beneflt
perfornance,
usually
golng on ln at Paln Gard.en. These gatherlngis are stlll ". New York Clty and the most backward the town of orlgln of a Greek-Amerlcan the strongest
as a rule
Ours belng more or l-ess cosmopolltan exlste
ls hts $oclety.
wllted
away and lt
onLy on paper norr. I seld.om meet any oo&patrlots
klnd of artlBtLc
unLess they possess some
curloslty..,
The other d.ay I met Father Arsenlos of Byzantlne
Icons and Mosalcs,
had abandoned Journallsm toLd. ne thet
at an Exhlbltlon
Thls large beard.ed.prlest
and was ord.alned as a prlest,
he was happlly
raarrled but late1y
He
hls wlfe
asslgned. the care of h1s chlLd.ren to a nurse and d.eclded to
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d.evote her entlre
tlme to .â‚Ź.g.!ESgSg. rrlfond.erfulrrr I ea1d. to Father Areenlos...
be glad. thst
she choee s fenaLe professLon. rl
rrl t l s n o t s or tt Ar lsto... fortune
she lnherlted
publloatlon the solpsore
lt
of a l{agaelne, to d,o wlth
my wlfe
wll*s naturaL
$he 1s lnvestlng
from an Unole tn Alabam,
to beoone a couturlere, that
cal,Led. EXQUIfIITE.
the Magaslne.,. &t flrst,
for
for
the s 6aLL the
t'What have
I thouEht ehe wsnted,
and. that
le why I reflected.
a wonan to be a d.ressmker...
Even
ls uaklng her own oLotheg reoent3.y.., Wlth a d.eep sl.gh Father Areonloe
better
trYou shoul_d.
tell
you the whole story
For yearCI ehe wrote short too.
nenuscrlpts
nutll,eted
rrNo more of thatn
and. twtoe
she attenpted
the PubLlshers
a
returned. her
by the eclsaorE of thelr
ed,ltors...
nFron now on I em golng to
sald. ny wlfe.
ugg the r..r...r,r..r'.
trl ltad.
Elnoe you are a:n old. frlen0.
storlee
Every tlne,
Long novel,
sald. to nor
$ C tr S I
On S
on otherg. tl ttThe psyohologlsts AtLantlc
oroagtng,
rtt add^ed.gr oo-voyagsur
trceLl ,hcr act!.on revehg@..,rf
ftForget these new prlests, Fapadla (prlest,rs and., bsLd.ee, guooggg.
of -ny f lrst
wife)
rr I eald., ttand. J.et the
have her fun...
tet
who knows, she nay becone a blg
her get evon Journallsttc
. oB
nI hape sorrr h6 eald., hLs Churoh once ln a whlLe...
and. tlnld.Ly 1d,ld.
a.eked. ne to attend
so on a Good. Frld.ay and"
B
J o l n e d . th e C h o ru s o f the Epltaphlan Thr enos"( Ienentatlon) .', ln hls prlestly
Father Arsenlos was very lmpresslve all
and llke
of our chlldhood
I,u'{' '
ad.ventures.
ln our naval
bttles
;X
Onoe ln a bLue moon I wouLd. bump tnto
motlve Itd
hls
caLl hln wlth
BaslL the blgand. wlthout
Llbrary,
of the New Iork
nosed. boy ln the corrld.ors
old nlolcname'
rrCyrano d.e BerSeF&c... rt When he vras young and. sklnny reeembLed.St. Llke a hawk...
ln theoLogloal
and phllosophlcaL
Judge hLm fron
hls
a Babbltt...
If
sartorlal BaslL stlil
and" wlng coLlars
Now that
that
he was gettlng
hed. no boqnds.
Llke
perfectlon
rrBut the horrlble
and stlff
nnnners
d.ressed. lmpeccabLy ae he d.1d hls
lndlspensable
starched.
were hls unlque trad.e ng.rk...
old.er hls
nostaLgla
so ugny others
d.te on the sacred eoll
he had. not burled. hlnse$
books you couJ.d.easlJ.y mls-
1n our hlgh school d.ays, lnclud.lng cuffs
he looked thoroughLy
But now he was proud. of hls nlck-
name and hls AngllcJ.zed nannersr
for
he
Then when we wouLd cal-l hln Cyrano poor Basll
very embarrassed.,.
felt
ln proflLe
John, the Baptlst;
boy.
the dlgnlfled
Angelo and. horseback rld.lng wlth Demetrlos,
any ulterlor
wlth
We dlscussed. stone-throwlng
bQys,
the Turklsh
agalnst
ln
$ometlmes I meet Theoprastos
Theo was a good. flghter
some concert.
r7
we al.ways taLked nostalglcaLly
compatrlots,
other
robes...
of Ionla
for
our home town
he wanted. to return
and
and Aeolla*
Turk d.oes not seem to weaken, tt he
always sald melanchollcal-Iy.
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rrD o n o t g l ve up, Basllr r r
.
I told
r r W holmc m q, the
our own Amerlcan Flag nay chase the Turks
Greek FIag wlth
lnto Asla,,.wh€re
they belong... rt
rrH o w , h o w rtr Basll" r etor ted.... even the Devll
hlln.,.
hel-ps thls
S nCanlt you see tha t
Turk always...
Iou are dreamlng,
Arlsto. . .ll "No, rror Basll, posslblLtty
that
w&r &gatnst
$ovlet
I d.o not drean at all...there
the lurk Russta,
rntry rermln
d.oes not sentlnentallze
and other anclent
weapons, w111 allow
ln the next $
the way he dld d.urlng the last
orre111 Then our Pentagon, that uses logarlthmlcs
neutral
1s a
psychologlcal
but
strategle
the Greeks to lnvad.e Turkey and stop
the d.escent of the Slave to the blue Med.lterranean Sea. rl BaslLt3 eyes flashed. wlth w l th
lmense
Joy and. respond.ed
e vl d .e n t e mo tl o n,,. rrFron your mouth and. lnto
the ears of God....rt and.
saylng these words he nade the slgn of the cro€s,
whlle on hls
forehead., orr hLs belly
of hls
shouLd.ers, thrlce,
and. on the left
and. rlght
An Ind.ochlnese poet who happened to notlce crosslng
hlnself
stopped. and lnqulred. polltely
lf
sld.es
BeslL we were
d evo te e s o f g e o me trlc slgns... t'No, nor[ The lLttle
we sald both of us slmultaneousl-y. poet Hum Chan of Hoboken, New Jersey,
lqrew ne from hls adolescence, trArlstor I I
sal.d.l
w€ have to go back to terse
geongtry..
"
who
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w111 devour us.fr
othernrlse the coolles hls
ralslng
lnd.ex flnger:
ilGeometry, lt d .l ff l cu l t
fo r
seems slnple'
thlnkrBasll,
fhen turnlng
to BaelL who
of the comlng war, I sa1d...
h1s reflectlons
rt$tmpllclty
That ls the reason why I
ls d.Ifflcu1t.
Let us
Hun Chan has somethlng to lt..,
that
are
thlngs
agr ee wlth Xor r oht poe t of
fully
and. goLden DragorlS...
was absorbed, wlth
but slnple
people to gr asp...t'
th e slnple
fi Y e s,rr I sa l d.,..tr l the slLver
And he added., wh11e
d.raw a llne
from Chlna to Ind la and then extend. lt
Alexand.rla,
and lf
we c&rry
lt
as far
to
as Athens and Rome
we have the answâ‚Źf . , . rl rrHowrtthe sald,
Bas1l,
ilIt
ln obvlous confuslorn.
d.oes not rnake sense.rl ItIf you stop lgnorlng
rrlt does thoughrrr I sald. CLenens, the ALexandrlan, y ou r n e o p l a to n l c
P l otlnus...
Lost ln thLs orlental t he n l t
He unravels and. whlle
the thread., . .
us that
cLearer
F1ot1nus, go t and.
Try to firasp thls
aesthetlc, In fact
than
Clemen s r r t dlmenslon.
has an extra
he ls nearer
to dear Hum,rl
I patted. the shouLd.ere of the absent-
mlnded Ind.ochlnese poet. conelud.ed trlunphantly,
far
to you as d.aylLght...
ttbelng purely
sayln$ thls
Your dar llnS
nystlotsm..,
w 1 1 1 b e a s clear
I contlnued,
who ls certalnLy
Baell ..
seemed"skeptleal,
and I
flClemens ln hLs Stgonata
to be rralve e.nd not self-oentered"
tel]-s
m@.ns to be
;rble
11
to dlscard
They lack the eseentlal-s to begln
cannot d.o that I Bosl!,
overboard. rr tsas11 seemed a LlttLe
d.lsturbed. and. I lnvlted. r r 0ome, com e, Bas l l ,
h ln to B o sto n fo r the Easter holldays.
tA th e n sr o f Amer lca, and be m y guest.r l
t o th e
rrThank you Arlsto. t Attl ca t
Who knows, I nay come to the
o f A me rl ca and Look at your "P11gr 1ns.r l Boston lras then, &s lt
, qulte
you can throw lt
before
You have to have ballast
wlth, ".
people
and. so-eall"ed. slnple
the unessentlals,
a d.tfferent
contlnuea
to be even now,
1s more EngJ-lsh than England. and, therefore, a Med.lterranean ltke
not a place
for
oâ‚Ź.
To a newcomer :.t ls l1ke a tomb ln splte proportLons...LucklLy CharLes Rlver
It
than the oesmopolltan New York.
clty
of lts
flne
there was the Boston Commonand the
Basln where we stroLLed and. d.lscussed. all
the
probLens of nankfurd... I enJoyed the Publ-lc Llbrary
and the sermons of
John Haynee Hol-mes at the Conmunlty Church. ny rhetorlcal
pourers d.urlng the questlon
p e r1 o d .s...a n d .r 4 t tl m ee,
and. d.lscusslon
I asked a questlon
or tlao of the
speakers on the Boston Comm911., .
varlous
Once I caused. a sensatlon wlth fo].lower
of 8111y Sunday.
the favorlte other
There I practlced
I askedr
Son of God.?tr Nelther
speaker seemed.to be able
my questlon
to a
trWhy ls Bud.d.habecomlng the Evangellst
nor any
to answer ny questlon
exoept
12,
other
trBt1{'d'hs, too,
who voLunteered, to eay that
a, Jesult
la none
then Jeeus, the uay the Pa}LaE A.thena took the f,orn rsnes but the s&me
of the HoLy irlad.onna.,. Just d.lfferent Bellbre thenrrt he sald,
deLtles...
Hbut wlthout
treservatLons;
and they wLLl guld.e your steps.rl Hy oswe^nlon and. oLose frlen0, becam a Dentlet, osrve
the
Later
the Jeeult
on told
tmages of Buddhs or palnt
rho
Berberellls, that
the artlete
the Mad.ocrnesand the
othere worehlp thcts...
on thc oontrefy
dld. not d,lsagreet @n,
the artlsts
the o*r.#""*
wlth
and. the Jeeult,
of an anolent
he oalnly
$tolo,
saf,d, ttYcgr yogns
uake the lnagcs beoause they are d.lvlnely
lnsplred.. . .It An I.S.ll. rrr3r9ll
afe
nOt
epeaker shouted., tnDonot beLleve ln fetlshes SeVAggg
bUt
added., nGod !.s oplumn and. the Soclal,lsts An Evangellstr ehlef , trled. a.Snostles,
[c3r..rr
mOd,efn OlVl}lZed
ooqhlng
AtXd.r he
applauded.
and. eplttlng
ln hls
hsnd'kersoc!.'eLlsta,
to shout d,own the ohorus of anerohleter
athelste
and thelr
of, $atannr. . rr$etans, Satans,
then ehlLd.ren
Llke by oaIllng
Ae newoosprs to tht s land of Llberty
we' fel"t
!n obeenrtng the freod.on of speeeh and,, turnlng
happy
to uy ooupani*.r,
I SAld, trTh}S 1g Wqrd,effuL...$I9 ghOULd OOne egahxfr...
And we
d.Id cono, egaln and, agalfr. . * aLthqrgh
free
:
hold. your blaephenleS. .. tt
ee I uas on $y o$rn, I nLeeed uy parento
and the lurury
of the European and. Egyptlan
dld. not permlt
any l-ururles
flnances
1lfe...o1lr
I{ere
etc.
such as nald. servlce,
I was &way from hone vehere I used. to curse because the nald" would brlng brother nlght
ny shoes and' ny old-er
me ny sL1ppers., untle to force
would. try
my Aunt Athena,
and. rny rnother, but especlal-ly
argue wlth
to wear at nlght
me f,or not botherlng cuffs,r.so,
coLlar and. stlff
pants at
me to change ny strlped
would'
ny wlng
rrthe punlshment wor1ld.flt
the
crlug. . . l' Here ln Amerlca I had. to brlng washed. and. then nake an extra Chlnanan.
Lucklly
Frenoh Isundry
trlp
I solved. thls
ny dtrty
to fetch
lt
Laundry to be from the
problem by swltchlng
to a
on CoLumbue Avenue near the Baok Bay Statton, La,tvlan
Jew whom I cal"Led.
I{owever, I d.!.d.not d.eprlve nyself
of the necessLtl'es
olrned. and operated
by a cheerful
the rIsrae.llter.*
untll
the glrls
entered. lnto
ny 1lfe.
HY INITIATION fO A}MRICAN GINI,S NARAAGANSETT The excurslon portr
to the Blue HlLl'
Glouchester and. Rock-
d.ld. cost a consld.erabLe amount of money, but not to
enJoy such recreatlons
d.urlng onets early'youth
ls crlmlnal'
to say the least.
*I wa.e brought up 1n Greek $chooLs and we never called a Jew and I am glad thet e Jeipl we aLways eal-led. hln an Israellte, and. whlstllng euphonlc the new State of Palestlne ad.opted thle r t lgraeL . rtame of
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The d"ecLaratlon
of war agalnst
Gernany thrllled
Lrnmensely. I proceed.ed to the LocaL Board to reglster servlce,
&s I erpected,
but Lnstead. of belng sent,
Devon, the Board. deold.ed. to asslgn Conpany whlch was manufaoturlng
ne for
to Canp
me to the Hood. Bubber
rubber
shoes for
the boys
l lo ve r T h e re " . .. l l 0 1 r â‚Źr Ther e[. .. and. pleasure
To ny surprlse
I wae placed. between ?O
glrJ,s who were prepa.rlng the so-called
tlcket
for
Departmâ‚Źr?,trr... fhe work aLlotted. to me requlred woekl-y, but l-ucklly had. sufflclent
I flnlehed"
Lelsure
lt
the |tlvlaklns 48 hours
In 2O hours and. thus I
to stud.y or d.o whatever
I wanted. to
d.o ln my spare tlme. I have an affectlon was located.,
for hlatertonn where the factory
a,nd whenever I happen to lecture
ltiasso or Glouchester,
I al.weys vlslt
ln Rockport,
ny chll-dhood. frlend.s
t he re . Sometlmes I get mlxed up wlth Atarneus-Dlke1l
where I was actuaLly
Boston, Watertonn and born,..lt
seons to me
at tlmes ae l"f I were born tn Massachusettsr..so the Bay State
ls to ny earl-y Llfe.
And., lt
ls natural,
slnce
I resLsted^ so much the
crush!.ng po!{er of the new envlronuent, I dld rqster
lt,
cha,nged"that
when l returned
surprlse
fanlLlar
- wlth
f was a sllghtly
all
thi}t
when gradrnLly
changed. young; lna.n.. .
so
to Europe and. Greece, to ny
the economlc advantages of ny rleh
famlly,
-L5
I d.lessvered. that $tates...$herâ‚Ź
noet of atr frlend.s
of Denocr&cy...&rtd frlends
Llve and. enJoy the ben*f,Lte
are the rea]. reLailves.
The war was progresetng reJolced. notlclng
to be away from the Unlted.
wae lnposslbl,e
lt
for
favorab}y
the AlLlee.
novlng
fLags of the battle-front
the Llttl-e
I
ngrthwag,d, toward. Gernany lnetead. of morylng d.olnaword.to the
Poetts fo:ces,
orl the map outsLd,e the Boston
of ny beLoved. Far!.sr
vlolnlty
bulLdlngs.
gJ.ory that
I fel.t a refLeotlve
under GeneraL Pershlng,
pertlclpated.
our Anerlcan
1n thelr
forward. l
pueh.
The onl-y eadness I experlenced. then we'e the news of the passlng of nJr frlend., sorry
that
George Dllboy,
a young nsn d.ted. so ear1y,
Landensn of mlne was prooLalned panled" hJ.s father
I was 8o
helolcally. but
a hero,
I feLt
and. Later
proud that
on I &cgot[poot-
to the Boeton Conmon where he recelved,' lled.al, for
humousl-y, the CongresslonaL
Brsvery
a
from the hands
of Genenrl Edlrard".
One'nornlng
1n Novonber, 1918, or enterlng
Hood I saw
the f3.ags d.lsplayed from the wlnd.ows of the faotory, an ltaLlan
brass ba6d arrlved.
and. we alJ. narched,
thoueands
end. thousands of us, to the Clty HalL of Hatertown, It
seeun thls, was the slgne3. for
vla Farle
and. l'llareelllâ‚Źse -
departlngi
from Groece that
w&g o\rofr
and soon
Mass.
me to paolt for
I had promlsed. ny parents I wou}d returrr
Greece on
as soon as the War
I lrept my promLse.
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