Rudyard Kipling released Debits and Credits. It contained the following poem.
The Vineyard
1
At the eleventh hour he came,
But his wages were the same
As ours who all day long had trod
The wine-press of the Wrath of God.
2
When he shouldered through the lines
Of our cropped and mangled vines,
His unjaded eye could scan
How each hour had marked its man.
3
(Children of the morning-tide
With the hosts of noon had died,
And our noon contingents lay
Dead with twilight's spent array.)
4
Since his back had felt no load,
Virtue still in him abode
So he swiftly made his own
Those last spoils we had not won.
5
We went home delivered thence,
Grudging him no recompense
Till he portioned praise of blame
To our works before he came.
6
Till he showed us for our good–
Deaf to mirth, and blind to scorn–
How we might have best withstood
Burdens that he had not borne!
It was interpreted as a criticism of the US's late entry into World War One, which it seems to have been. The bigger question may really have been, however, why the US would have had any reason to enter World War One but for German naval actions on the Atlantic.
Jelly Roll Morton released Black Bottom Stomp.
World War One German ace George Meyer was killed in a motorcycle accident.
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