Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those who, by gross exaggeration, are elevating the present food situation from a serious condition to a terrible famine may justify themselves under the theory that only by frightening the people with dark fears will the people do as they should. That rule is supposed to work well in the nursery, to guide children in the path of duty. But no prophecies that "the famine'll get you if you don't watch out" may be used to instil fortitude and determination into an intelligent nation. If we as a people need such methods of comprehending the necessary, then...
...those who shelter dark fears that our nation with difficulty may raise a national army of five hundred thousand men, whose fortitude is equal to the task which must be done, it may be pointed out, unless someone has been deceived, such an army might be raised overnight from only those who are most eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost...
Inspection day bears as dark terrors to the mind of the brave soldier as the first day of school does to the conventially unconventional bad little boy Last week, overcome by the agony of being looked at, one man in an unnamed company fell over, presumably from stage-fright or weakness of the knees, although the later diagnosis was unpatriotic German measles. Seeing him, in the next company men fell over by flocks. It is recorded that one corporal gave the command "Follow me!" and proceeded with appetite to bite the dust...
...friendly reminder we might point out that in case Germany by some dark mischance should invade our shores, the home guards would be classed as franctireurs. So that same warwise power saw fit to regard the Belgian uniformed and governmentally recognized Gorde Civique, subjecting all that fell within her hands to the German jury of justice, which is eight men, more or less, casting ballot by rifle volley...
...marks the recurrence of that day which we have set aside for fifty years in memory of our gallant dead. The whole people with universal remembrance pays honor in its utmost to those who so freely died that their nation might remain unbound and undivided. They made the last dark sacrifice of life that this generation, and generations whose immensity we may not know, might enjoy the liberty and the strength of the great republic they had loved...