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...major points out that in the origin of the salute there was no hint of the servility which some raw recruits have foolishly read into this important feature of military etiquette...
...have seen war stripped of its garnishings, ineffectually try to stem the tide of current opinion. Nothing but time and suffering can do it, and how intensely painful the realization is going to be! We will find that, though we are sending to France armies of the finest raw material, there are others of just as good courage that will struggle with and against them...
...cause, there are several reasons why all right-minded people should put all the money they can spare into Liberty Bonds. To insist on spending it for some thing which one does not really need is to bid against the Government for the man power, the fuel and the raw materials which it so much needs. All our money should be spent for something which is really needed either by the individual or by the Government, in order that all the man power and resources of the country may be employed where they are needed...
...have the chief responsibility for increasing the output of tonnage. Great Britain is already working at top speed, and is also handicapped in the importation of raw materials. We have unlimited resources for making ships and must use them to the utmost. The Shipping Board is working for four million tons this year and with its new organization and wide powers ought to approximate this mark...
What interests us is the fact that Germany will now be able to import raw materials of every kind and that she will shift at least a million men from Russia to the other fronts. This means a tremendous addition in power to the offensive which is bound to come this spring,--it means that the German pressure on all fronts will be greater than it has been since 1914. Our answer must be immediate; we must do more than balance the Kaiser's hordes. The less we think and sigh about poor Russia, the sooner will be brought about...