Word: civility
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...expert opinion, the present conflict will be over in two years and possibly sooner. Then either the Allies will triumph and the German menace will be permanently overwhelmed, or Germany will triumph and her menace will be a menace thrice increased. In the latter case, the utterances of German civil and military writers, as as well as her past history, teach us what to expect. And even in the event of an Allied victory, a shifting of alliances and new complications may bring us into war. All pacifists do not hold uncompromisingly to their theories whatever befalls; witness Norman Angell...
...civil service system, pure food and anti-monopoly laws, rate, railroad and anti-discriminatory regulations all need true and staunch men to uphold and develop them in the right direction. In the foreign service men who are educated and versed in foreign languages are needed as ambassadors, ministers, secretaries, and consuls. In state governments we are passing through an era of constitutional conventions. Various changes are urged as more adapted to our present-day conditions, while in city government we note a determination to concentrate power so as to have fewer abuses and to know whom to blame...
Among his many other activities Mr. Bonaparte has been a member of the National Civil Service Reform League, president of the National Municipal League, and trustee of the Catholic University of America...
Fostered by the tradition of the Union Army in the Civil War, a confident feeling has grown up among the people of this country that a large army could be raised in a short space of time. General McClellan's army of the Potomac in 1862 in trying to advance averaged one mile per day, while one day the whole army retreated five miles to meet its provision train. In 1864 Grant had a body of seasoned men who accomplished something by one kind of fighting...
...calls for them. If the call should go out today, we would do well to have a million soldiers in 1918. No doubt our resources are great and our patriotism unbounded, but an untrained citizen is not a soldier as was proved by the first three years of the Civil...