Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Humbly we beg to submit that the times have somewhat changed. The sturdy farmer so longer defends his one man castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well...
...present is a foretaste of the future. Nine o'clock was well enough in April. Seven o'clock serves in May. How will five o'clock be in June? In July we may arise before the farmer, beating the sun up at three...
...lives on a farm be encouraged to return home as soon as is practicable, provided his services on the farm are needed; and that any student who does not live on a farm but is qualified to do farm work be encouraged to offer his services to some reliable farmer, or to join an agricultural camp...
Paris is said to have been startled by the audacity; but why, if Parisians have faith in the star of Joffre? This select lot of land, scarred by trenches and craters, but still prolific in the hands of the intensive farmer, is French soil again. The buildings, it is true, have been shot to pieces and the trees, if there be any left, are blasted by shell and gas and may never leaf again, but one may till and sleep there in security unless the Germans "come back...
When attendance at camps such as these is made obligatory for the young men of the nation, when the farmer's boy and the banker's boy, the son of the brakeman or mill worker and the son of the manufacturer or railroad president, the college boy and the public schoolboy rub shoulders together in military training, share the same dog-tents and recognize the equality of obligation that rests upon them all, the fibre of democracy in this country will have been immeasurably strengthened...