Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...baseness of a narrow-minded prejudice. Let us remember that misguided and barbarous as the Germans appear, they are, after all, of the race from which we all spring. They undoubtedly have violated many of mankind's sacred laws, but they are human. When, crushed by the burden of insuperable odds, they shall finally turn their faces toward an honest peace, we must be ready to do our part in seeing that a decent consideration is given their proposals. In preparation for that time, we need not hurriedly condemn their every utterance. We should do better rather to maintain...
...repeated too often that no demands, however great, made on us left at home can equal the sacrifices that those who have answered the call to the colors, may be asked to make. Therefore, anything we can do to lighten their burden we should feel it a privilege...
...commander of Camp Lee writes, "Such men, and we have thousands of them, certainly deserve to have their if troubles and worries occasionally erased by such recreation as the theatre furnishes." This movement is distinct and apart from the Y. M. C. A. The latter has enough of a burden of its own, and yet nobody will deny the need of the theatre in our camps...
France could be much speeded on the road to normal conditions if the strain of rebuilding were shifted to less tired shoulders. It will be hard enough for her to return to every-day social and economic life without the added burden of having a large part of her territory to rebuild. Our cities, which will never feel the strain of war to such a degree, can rebuild the devastated towns with half the effort it would cost the French. The results would be immediate and lasting...
...place, the money borrowed will be utilized in buying the essentials of war; supplies formerly consumed at home will be diverted to our army. In the second place, a debt will be incurred which in the future must be paid to the holders of bonds. In so far a burden is placed upon the next generation. Non-bondholders will be forced to pay up just what bondholders will receive. Some obligation for the future is inevitable. But although Liberty Bonds are a convenient method of financing the war, they fortunately go far from accomplishing that ignoble "shifting of the burden...