THE LITTLE WHITE RIBBON

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 403, 18 February 1929, Page 14

THE LITTLE WHITE RIBBON

ADAPATED FROM THE “UNION SIGNAL” I With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley.) Our bonnie White Ribbon’s come to our town to stay, To brightly clean our ideas up and brush the clouds away, To tell us what we ought to do and how to keep alive— Why, it’s jes’ full of good things to make a union thrive. An’ it’s the very bestest thing, when you’ve nothin’ else to do, To set down in your easy chair and read it through and through. Folks around the whole world it tells us all about. And the little White Ribbon Is the Best Thing Out!

Onc’t there was a union that took it not at all - Said it didn’t need It, an’ didn’t feel no call. An’ it kept-a-gettin’ weaker and a-shrlnkin’ every day Until it turned up missin’, for it jes’ shrunk plumb away. They seeked it in the nieetin’ place an’ in the dally press. They it all around the town an’ everywhere. ? guess. Rut they never found a trace of it not anywhere about. It didn’t take The Ribbon. So it Jes’ Died Out!

An’ once there was a union, they took it every one, Yes. every single member underneath the shinin’ sun. They didn’t only take it, but read its message, too, An’ that sturdy little nion. how it grew and grew and grew’. An’ finally got so very big they had to rent a hall To ’commodate th«* |>eople an’ mak: room for one an’ all. \n’ if you are a-wonderin’ how it all came about. Jes’ read the White Ribbon An’ you’ll Soon Find Out! An’ w'hat I want to say is when you’re feelin’ mighty blue. An’ things all look so very black you don’t know what to do, An’ you think the whole world’s growl n’ worse r.iid worser every day. An’ all your little efforts is as good a* throwed away. You’d better read the Ribbon, an’ you’ll quickly change your mind For thir good old earth is busy leavin’ Satan way behind, An’ what is sure a-helpin’ to bring it all about Is the little White Ribbon, The Rest Thing Out!