While Western Europe was all ablaze during the Spring of 1915, many Americans were tapping their toes to a catchy little ditty titled, “I Didn’t Raise my Boy to be a Soldier” (by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi, of course). This really irked the editors at THE SPECTATOR who let their fingers trip across the typewriter keyboard at a tremendous speed spewing-out all sorts of unflattering adjectives; they even went so far as to rewrite a few verses.
This didn’t bother messrs. Bryan and Piantadosi one bit, they really needed the publicity.
