{"id":9570,"date":"2023-07-31T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2023-07-31T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T05:00:00","slug":"improved-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/improved-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-07-31\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, July 31, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Inventive genius undertook<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To make our labors lighter.<br\/>The oldtime way mankind forsook<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For methods much politer.<br\/>With speech and print we made in vain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our protests and predictions,<br\/>So now a cannon\u2019s mouth we train<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To utter our convictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Unto the future of the race<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We turned with deep reflection,<br\/>And bade eugenics take the place<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of natural selection.<br\/>Such problems are dismissed offhand<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With confident elation.<br\/>You simply press a button and<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exterminate a nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, July 31, 1915. By Philander Johnson. Inventive genius undertook&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To make our labors lighter.The oldtime way mankind forsook&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For methods much politer.With speech and print we made in vain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our protests and predictions,So now a cannon\u2019s mouth we train&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To utter our convictions. Unto the future of the race&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We turned with deep reflection,And bade eugenics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}