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ISLE OF PINES: American citizens protested because on Lincoln's Birthday Cuban police threatened to arrest anyone flying the American flag. The status of the island, taken from Spain in the Spanish-American War, never has been decided. Doubt still exists as to whether it is a possession of the United States or of Cuba...
What the Ship Subsidy Bill is designed to accomplish is the building up of American steamship lines flying the American flag and employing American officers and men to the end that these all-American lines may be the servants of the American people and of the American people first and foremost. Men and women who have for years voted for a protective tariff on farm products and manufactured goods are today doubtful as to whether they should support a plan for the protection of the American shipping industry when upon its protection at this time depends the future...
...will be sent that auxiliary vessels are absolutely necessary for successful use of our fighting forces in time of war. And it is quite as necessary that these vessels should be readily available. This can only be the case when we ourselves have the vessels under our own flag, vessels of suitable type and in ample numbers. Recent history has emphasized the fact that any form of delay in readiness to attack or meet the enemy in the beginning of the war is not only expensive in men and money, but often fatal in final result...
...final answer to the question can only be found through experiment. Given a trial of the ten years that Dr. Drury prescribes, a great deal towards better understanding of national problem might be accomplished. Certainly the feeling towards the United States in the central European countries where the American flag meant to the children food and care during the years of the war and after, cannot help affecting state policies when these children take a hand in their governments...
...hockey field, and look over the players, or scan the faces in the stands or on the sidelines. How many pinched and starved and ill-clad students can you count on your campus or in your Yard? Go back a few years to the gold stars in the service flag that flew so bravely over your and my Alma Mater. Can we count the number that that "little school" back in England has a right to fly? As you sit down to supper tonight in Memorial Hall, or around the cheerful table in the club or fraternity house, will...