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When the Liberty Loan was first announced to the public our press with large optimism proclaimed that the issue would be oversubscribed many times in a very few weeks. Were we not the richest nation on the earth, with wealth estimated at two hundred billions? An absolutely inconceivable amount even to the most universal mind. The loan represented a bare one per cent of our amazing resources. The press declared our banks would be crowded with eager buyers...
...clear that without the support of the entire American people, the Liberty Loan may fail. Gradually, through the press of the country and other mediums, this truth is being established in the minds of thoughtful men and women. The question to decide, therefore, is not so much an academic discussion of responsibility, as "Do I want the Liberty Loan to succeed?" Few individuals who profess the title of Americans would answer anything but "Yes," and the only honest yes, when it is possible, means actual, material contributions...
...Roosevelt, as is well known, wields a great deal of political power. And finances and politics are important influences in our American life, even in time of war. It is pitiable that two such leaders should fall at outs and air their repartee through the cold medium of the press...
...also a duty of the signal corps to collect military information, and in the present war, the recording of the pictorial history of war is a function of this corps. An English officer, writing to the London Times, states: 'I am very much surprised to see in the press so little mention of the splendid work of the signal companies. They are called 'the main lines of communication' and over their lines day and night pass a continuous flood of traffic for the hospital bases, ordnance remount, and in fact, every move made in this terrible war is transmitted over...
Forty new books contained in the 1917 spring publication list of the University Press which will be issued today. These volumes deal with a great range of subjects including history and political science, economics, social science, education, law, classics, English, comparative literature, fine arts, architecture, chemistry, engineering, forestry, medicine, physics, philosophy, theology, and religion. Among the most notable authors on the list are Dean Edwin F. Gay, of the Graduate School of Business Administration; Professor Charles Dourier Hazen, of Columbia University; William Roscoe Thayer '81, a member of the Board of Overseers; Robert Howard Lord '06, Assistant Professor of History...